May-21st-2019, 05:38 PM
(This post was last modified: May-22nd-2019, 04:55 PM by Armin@netPI.)
Hello Andi,
the post you are referring to is for those customer who want to buy netPI in higher quantities, but not in single pieces. And those units come with no SD card at all. So you have no choice to use our software since you have to take your own SD card in any case.
The decision has been made already that we produce netPI's with unsealed SD cards only in future. The units you know since 1 1/2 years with sealed SD cards will be no more. Those units in stock on Amazon and Hilscher Web-Shop will be sold of course first, since they work fine. But if you buy on Amazon and Web-Shop you will never know which unit you get. This is why today you have to order netPI REV#2 from Hilscher to make sure you have a version with unsealed SD card.
I have the idea to offer to anybody the source code of our YOCTO build receipt to have the possibility to re-generate an own OS image for netPI as we build it ourselves. But this is a long way to that point and I don't want to promise too much. Also each netPI's SD card image is bound to the netPI and its MAC address it was initially running on. And we have a server where each produced netPI is writing its credentials to during production time ... and such a server would also be needed somehow on customer side. And I think you have recognized that the image boots pseudo-secure and each package you want to install on the YOCTO Linux needs to be signed ... so you need it is not so easy.
So the answer today is that nobody has a chance to create a Hilscher image for his netPI. If you have an unsealed SD card from Hilscher (REV#2) with our image on, make sure you make a copy before you try to make any changes ... all 4 paritions that are on the card.
No neither Nginx nor the traffic route has any influence on the speed, it is the SD card. So you need an unsealed netPI.
The relase date cannot be predicted, but next production slot is scheduled in 2-3 month. But then remember that old units are still in stock. The speed of the SANDISK card will be 2-3 times faster.
Thx
Armin
Quote:https://forum.hilscher.com/Thread-INFO-1...ut-SD-card
the post you are referring to is for those customer who want to buy netPI in higher quantities, but not in single pieces. And those units come with no SD card at all. So you have no choice to use our software since you have to take your own SD card in any case.
Quote:Aare you planning to only having unsealed sd-cards in the future?
The decision has been made already that we produce netPI's with unsealed SD cards only in future. The units you know since 1 1/2 years with sealed SD cards will be no more. Those units in stock on Amazon and Hilscher Web-Shop will be sold of course first, since they work fine. But if you buy on Amazon and Web-Shop you will never know which unit you get. This is why today you have to order netPI REV#2 from Hilscher to make sure you have a version with unsealed SD card.
Quote:Would it be possible to somehow install your software onto another (own) sd-card?
I have the idea to offer to anybody the source code of our YOCTO build receipt to have the possibility to re-generate an own OS image for netPI as we build it ourselves. But this is a long way to that point and I don't want to promise too much. Also each netPI's SD card image is bound to the netPI and its MAC address it was initially running on. And we have a server where each produced netPI is writing its credentials to during production time ... and such a server would also be needed somehow on customer side. And I think you have recognized that the image boots pseudo-secure and each package you want to install on the YOCTO Linux needs to be signed ... so you need it is not so easy.
So the answer today is that nobody has a chance to create a Hilscher image for his netPI. If you have an unsealed SD card from Hilscher (REV#2) with our image on, make sure you make a copy before you try to make any changes ... all 4 paritions that are on the card.
Quote:...which might have been a bottleneck?
No neither Nginx nor the traffic route has any influence on the speed, it is the SD card. So you need an unsealed netPI.
Quote:Do you know ~ when it will be released and how much faster it should be?
The relase date cannot be predicted, but next production slot is scheduled in 2-3 month. But then remember that old units are still in stock. The speed of the SANDISK card will be 2-3 times faster.
Thx
Armin
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