> In other words, the video says you can simply not connect to it and not use it if you don't want it. He never says anything about it being hardwired to the pa

> In other words, the video says you can simply not connect to it and not use it if you don't want it. He never says anything about it being hardwired to the padframe. I didn't get that impression. As I understood it, the probing and controlling is, entirely, "if you want". However IO via the harness is not optional. As the other user says, perhaps this was not communicated clearly to you, but an intentional bait and switch it doesn't appear to be.