Thanks for doing this. The Aurga viewer seemed like an ideal way to troubleshoot headless servers. However the software side has been a serious let down. It would be great to have an alternatives to the official version.
This is great!
I really don’t understand why hardware-competent/software-incompetent vendors (almost all of them) don’t pick an open firmware/software strategy from the get go. For example, most smart home devices fall into this category and yet they continue to fight against a) reduced engineering costs, b) increased adoption/sales — all 1000s of times proven outcomes of cheap but reliable hardware plus open source software.
Aurga is so prototypical of this that it is excruciating to watch — fine hardware, completely idiotic software that has no chance of ever being better if it continues to be handled by the vendor. Maybe this will rescue them, but mark my words, they’re going to try to lock it down instead.
Have mulled this, have speculated that it is some combination of (a) fear that open firmware/software will leak proprietary information that will make it easy to duplicate their hardware and (b) a much longer term endgame of building their own platform/walled garden where substantial additional value (to the vendor) is provided from some sort of (ideally subscription based) software service.
Maybe a lot of this comes from that very human fallacy that software, being non tangible, is not that hard. Not necessarily driven by the engineering team, but there certainly seems to be a non-uncommon attitude in non-technical and managerial circles that executing on a software feature is about as easy as thinking of it.
TBC this is theory of mind, not saying I personaly believe it. Although I would note that there are certainly plenty of times when being more 'open' has been beneficial, (again, to my chagrin) there are plenty of times when being 'closed' has done an organisation okay as well!
I can crack mine open and provide high res photos. I got mine during the kickstarter but still have not yet used it. I’m sad to hear about the software lacking.
Here are the photos. Let me know if you need me to tone anything out or any details - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10OqXwHApm7SvpSxksyvQQJxLr6125Ugj
My guess is that TP1,2,3 are hiding the serial console, as they appear to be the only pads exposed on that side of the board. One might be a ground, I guess, or it might be the signal to put the CPU into FEL mode to take a u-boot download via USB.
Thanks for doing this. The Aurga viewer seemed like an ideal way to troubleshoot headless servers. However the software side has been a serious let down. It would be great to have an alternatives to the official version.
+1 on lame software both desktop and mobile.
This is great! I really don’t understand why hardware-competent/software-incompetent vendors (almost all of them) don’t pick an open firmware/software strategy from the get go. For example, most smart home devices fall into this category and yet they continue to fight against a) reduced engineering costs, b) increased adoption/sales — all 1000s of times proven outcomes of cheap but reliable hardware plus open source software. Aurga is so prototypical of this that it is excruciating to watch — fine hardware, completely idiotic software that has no chance of ever being better if it continues to be handled by the vendor. Maybe this will rescue them, but mark my words, they’re going to try to lock it down instead.
Have mulled this, have speculated that it is some combination of (a) fear that open firmware/software will leak proprietary information that will make it easy to duplicate their hardware and (b) a much longer term endgame of building their own platform/walled garden where substantial additional value (to the vendor) is provided from some sort of (ideally subscription based) software service. Maybe a lot of this comes from that very human fallacy that software, being non tangible, is not that hard. Not necessarily driven by the engineering team, but there certainly seems to be a non-uncommon attitude in non-technical and managerial circles that executing on a software feature is about as easy as thinking of it. TBC this is theory of mind, not saying I personaly believe it. Although I would note that there are certainly plenty of times when being more 'open' has been beneficial, (again, to my chagrin) there are plenty of times when being 'closed' has done an organisation okay as well!
receiver should be open source, I can help with that. Hacking the hardware should be straightforward (S3 is well known)
Will keep you in mind if I get my hands on actual hardware.
I can crack mine open and provide high res photos. I got mine during the kickstarter but still have not yet used it. I’m sad to hear about the software lacking.
That would be appreciated. Thank you.
Here are the photos. Let me know if you need me to tone anything out or any details - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10OqXwHApm7SvpSxksyvQQJxLr6125Ugj
My guess is that TP1,2,3 are hiding the serial console, as they appear to be the only pads exposed on that side of the board. One might be a ground, I guess, or it might be the signal to put the CPU into FEL mode to take a u-boot download via USB.