Did they really think one of us would not have opened the lid?
Can you imagine the collective groans coming from Cambium land today.
There was a disturbance in the force, like dozens of engineers getting
lashed by the tongues of pointy haired managers...
-----Original Message-----
From: Vlad Sedov
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 10:11 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] CMM5 controller.. Are you serious, Cambium?
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" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
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" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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
