Forest, I’ll bet you can offer them for $799, right?
From: Forrest Christian (List Account)
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 2:09 PM
To: af
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] CMM5 controller.. Are you serious, Cambium?
OMG it IS a raspberry pi and a DC-DC converter in a box. (Yeah I know you said
that but the picture definitely drives it home).
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Vlad Sedov <v...@atlasok.com> wrote:
This is a finished product, minus lid (see pic)
Most of the code is just opensource OS for the Raspberry Pi. I imagine
there's a proprietary USB driver for the injector and controller software.. big
deal.
You're already paying over a grand for the CMM5 injector itself.. Charging
that much for what amounts to a glorified homebrew management solution is a bit
insulting.
...and the only reason I opened it, was because something was rattling inside
as we took it out of the packaging. I opened it up to find the 5VDC connector
just dangling, not connected to the Pi. A drop of hot glue could have fixed
that. Hell, I hot-snot the crap out of all my Arduino projects by default, to
keep this shit from happening.
Vlad
On 2/17/2017 10:55 AM, Adam Moffett wrote:
You couldn't write the software for it for $100.
Are you looking at a prototype or a finished product? Link?
------ Original Message ------
From: "Vlad Sedov" <v...@atlasok.com>
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: 2/17/2017 11:53:31 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] CMM5 controller.. Are you serious, Cambium?
No doubt, but for $800, I would expect something a bit more um.. rugged.
I can build this for about $100.
Vlad
On 2/17/2017 10:36 AM, Adam Moffett wrote:
Just like you, they're in business to make money.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Vlad Sedov" <v...@atlasok.com>
To: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com>
Sent: 2/17/2017 10:31:01 AM
Subject: [AFMUG] CMM5 controller.. Are you serious, Cambium?
$700-900 for a $35 Raspberry Pi controller, a DC-DC regulator, and a
metal box?
Looks like OpenWRT-type Linux distro with LuCI web interface, and a
module to control the CMM5.
Seems a bit steep, no?
peace
Vlad
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