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Securifi Products => Almond+ => Topic started by: byteless on August 07, 2014, 09:01:04 am
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so where is the new firmware which suppose to release yesterday?
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Sorry, I thought it would be a public release, but it was another beta release. If it turns out to be stable, we'll release it shortly and so far it's looking good.
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You should just make your beta firmware releases public. It seems anything with the Almond+ is in beta right now, so I'd rather have a rapid release cycle even if I know there may be other issues.
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I don't mean to be rude here, but I think we are all beta testers here. The product is unfinished. Securifi isn't debating this. We are living with this and if we are still here have accepted it at least to a point.
I say make betas available to all backers.
Do it like nightlies or similar.
I haven't even had mine on in 3 weeks because it just doesn't work in its current state. I would at least test the betas if I had something new to try!
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I don't mean to be rude here, but I think we are all beta testers here. The product is unfinished. Securifi isn't debating this. We are living with this and if we are still here have accepted it at least to a point.
I say make betas available to all backers.
Do it like nightlies or similar.
I haven't even had mine on in 3 weeks because it just doesn't work in its current state. I would at least test the betas if I had something new to try!
That's a great idea. My Almond just sits on my desk, unplugged waiting for a useful firmware. May as well still be in China.
-Jim
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I agree as well. I spend quite a bit of time tinkering with my A+ and would love to test out the beta firmwares.
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We've found a couple of issues that we need to solve before we can release it, but it should only be a few days until it's ready.
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Will the new firmware include triggers for the home automation?
Example, at 9pm turn out outdoor light. At 6am turn outdoor light off.
I've been waiting the whole production time of Almond+ to be able to do that :)
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That's a great idea. My Almond just sits on my desk, unplugged waiting for a useful firmware. May as well still be in China.
-Jim
Are you a troll? This is your only post and you say the router is useless. If that was indeed the case, we should have seen at-least one more post asking for help with the issues you have. I have been using it for a while now and apart from some minor issues and missing functionality i am able to use both the bands successfully with a comcast connection.
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It's possible that he simply hadn't signed up until recently, or had been lurking and seen the multiple threads addressing the router's issues that basically all come down to "try a hardware reset and wait for the firmware" and figured there wasn't much point in adding to the chorus. I only signed up tonight (I had attempted to sign up before, but never received a verification email so I finally decided to try again with a different email address) but I've been experiencing problems for weeks and am about ready to go back to the router that I backed the Almond+ to replace.
Just because a person hasn't had a positive experience doesn't make that person a troll.
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My question is what specifically is the issue that is making the Almond+'s "useless" to some? I have run both the original firmware that came with the device a few weeks ago and a beta since then and aside from features not being available just yet, the router functions and zigbee sensors work in their basic forms on any firmware I have run with a few minor bugs of course. I repeat, not all functionality is available on any I have run but the basics are there which means useless seems like a bit of an exaggeration. I have worked with the Securifi support people on a few minor issues I had and found it was quite painless to get those things fixed. The thing that would be most useful to help figure out why your device is "useless", a person would need specific functionality that is not working which is making it useless for you. At least with a specific issue, the rest of us that have "functioning" devices can provide some idea on what the issue may be or even if the functionality that is not working is even available yet in any firmware. Just a suggestion to try to help.
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My question is what specifically is the issue that is making the Almond+'s "useless" to some? I have run both the original firmware that came with the device a few weeks ago and a beta since then and aside from features not being available just yet, the router functions and zigbee sensors work in their basic forms on any firmware I have run with a few minor bugs of course. I repeat, not all functionality is available on any I have run but the basics are there which means useless seems like a bit of an exaggeration. I have worked with the Securifi support people on a few minor issues I had and found it was quite painless to get those things fixed. The thing that would be most useful to help figure out why your device is "useless", a person would need specific functionality that is not working which is making it useless for you. At least with a specific issue, the rest of us that have "functioning" devices can provide some idea on what the issue may be or even if the functionality that is not working is even available yet in any firmware. Just a suggestion to try to help.
So I will tell you why I am just about ready to unplug my almond+?
1. The hodgepodge firmware doesn't have iptables functioning correctly. Posted here asking what the heck was going on. Silence.
2. VPN isn't working either. I am pretty sure it is related to the first issue.
3. Almond+ screwing up routing of my smartthings hub.
So how do I know it is an issue with the Almond+? I have gotten all three things working perfectly on both a router running Tomato firmware and a different router running DD-WRT. I am not asking for difficult things. Having the implementation of iptables broken is just mindboggling.
I got smartthings working with my almond+ by having the smartthings hub plugged directly into the almond+. If I use a switch, the almond+ is screwing up the routing. Again, how do I know? I take out the almond+, plug in my tomato router, and everything works perfectly.
I totally understand why people are frustrated. I wasn't expecting a router that was perfect, but I did expect some basic functionality that I can get off the shelf to work correctly. Heck, I would have been happier if Securifi had spent more time on functionality that works than the dumb UI overlay on openwrt. I would rather just use the openwrt interface for the "router" capabilities since the almond+ interface has so little when it comes to functionality.
I would love to switch off my smartthings hub as well but like heck I am going to do that when the almond+ can't even handle being a router right now. Add to the fact that a firmware update is coming out that probably doesn't address much of anything and has been on the cusp of coming out for over a week now.
EDIT: I also forgot about my wireless ethernet bridge. The almond+ drops the connection after about 3-4 days. I have been through 3+ routers over the past 6 years and never had the issue. Again, if I put any of my other routers in place, it doesn't happen. No configuration is changed outside of unplugging the almond+ and plugging in either of my other two routers. Everything works like a charm.
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Ok, I'll admit I missed one of your posts and I'm sorry about, but I'm afraid it's a bit hard for me to keep on top of everything that's going on.
Yes, the Almond+ has some flaws right now, but it's software and we're working on addressing those issues in the next firmware release. I can't guarantee everything will be fixed, but if it's not in the next version, then we'll try to fix it in the one after that.
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Any update on the new firmware? I'm using my Almond+ daily, but there are some issues from time to time, specifically with performance that I hope the update resolve.
Thanks!
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Friday this week local Taiwan time.
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Is there a fixes and improvements for the new firmware?
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Friday this week local Taiwan time.
This is great. I just received mine today and would like to add it to my network as an extender but that option isn't available in the current firmware version.