Well, I stand by what I said, OpenWRT is not as user friendly as DD-WRT and some features can be confusing, I've used both. Sadly, DD-WRT is not an option for as our chipset partner only supports OpenWRT as the core OS. Technically speaking, we could've removed any user access to OpenWRT and just given you NutsOS, but we know many like to tinker around with more advanced settings, so we left it all in place, for better or worse.
OpenWRT/LuCI is provided as is and we're not planning on developing anything for it, but that doesn't mean those interested can't do so.
The Almond+ is NOT build on the same NutsOS as the Almond. The Almond is MIPS based and runs a very different Linux platform.
Yes, we can port some of the features over and much of it should've been done already. However, we've run into a lot of unexpected issues with the Almond+ platform that has taken up valuable resources from our software team which has lead to them fixing bugs that shouldn't be bugs, instead of spending time developing the features of the Almond+.
Does this mean that we're going to leave the Almond+ as it and forget about it? Hardly. We have a new firmware coming in a little over a week now that will bring the first set of features that should've been there from day one to the Almond+ and we're going to continue to work on it until most of you are happy, since we're unlike to be able to please everyone.
It's easy to make assumptions when you're not involved in product development. We're a comparatively small company with limited resources, we're not D-Link, Netgear or Asus.
As for the beta test and not knowing how to do it, well, we offered beta units, we shipped beta units and had very little feedback, so sadly there was only so much that could be done here in terms of getting additional feedback.
As for the forums, there has been an Almond+ forum for several months, you just had to create an account to see it and this is why we asked everyone months ago to create accounts.
Yes, the Wiki is still a work in progress and will be so for the remainder of the life of the product. Considering I'm pretty much the only one contributing content to the Wiki (again, small team, limited resources), besides doing a lot of other things, I don't have unlimited time to write documentation.
Yes, Almond+ doesn't live up to everyone's expectations, in fact, in its current state, it doesn't live up to my expectations. However, I know that given a bit of time, it will.
Disagree all you like however, there's a problem here: the Almond+ is built on the same NutsOS as the Almond router which came out 2-3 years ago. That means Securifi already has a few years' worth of development in this router OS. And frankly, it's appalling. It's built on top of OpenWRT, NutsOS is really just their fancy UI for it with their own automation stuff shoehorned in. There are HUGE feature disparities between NutsOS and OpenWRT, which means sometimes you have to log into OpenWRT directly to make certain changes that should be doable through NutsOS. Why should people be angry about this? Securifi had 14+ months to get the software right for this router -- and let's be honest, it's just an upgrade of their existing firmware -- and they still screwed it up. There should be zero feature disparities between the two, I was even notified by Securifi support directly that new features will be added in 6 months to a year out. Features that should already be there could take up to a year to implement.
I've run dd-wrt for almost 8 years and it was never as daunting to find things as NutsOS is. I have a decade's worth of experience in networking and never have I found a product more confusing to use. Some features just don't work. Most features have zero explanation as to what they do. Even the support guy told me he found OpenWRT daunting and confusing to use. If your own support team says that, it doesn't bode well for the product that I waited over 14 months to get, even with all the delays.
The whole Almond+ team appears to have not prepared for launch whatsoever. There was no Almond+ forum group prior to release day, the wiki pages for the Plus are nothing more than a quick start guide and explains almost nothing about the "advanced" features of NutsOS, there's no real manual for this thing. They seriously dropped the ball on a product they've been producing and delaying for so long.
