On 12/21/17 3:22 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
That is always a problem. And much more so if your product has software
inside. My products I can put them into production, take them out,
advertise, not advertise pretty much on a whim.
When you have software you always have features, oddities, perhaps
bugs, anomalies that need to be hunted down and killed.
Software is born, lives and dies but is never done.
When I was doing software dependent products I spent all my spare time
adding features and killing bugs. I like this much better the way I do
them now...
For me, I don't need it to do everything and the kitchen sink. I can
build logic based on conditions I poll from the sitemonitor and snmp set
actions. For example, the generator controller can easily be duplicated
with existing sitemonitor hardware. It's just a matter of reading inputs
and setting outputs in the right order. I love the sitemonitor for its
simplicity. It doesn't try to do all the things but I can make it be
everything I need.
But I get that most people don't know how to or want to do that, so they
need the product to do it for them with a pretty interface. Which makes
the product more complicated, longer development cycle, more effort to
support, etc.
~Seth
