Our lab (Washington State University Smarthome lab) has purchased all models of plug computers made by GlobalScale (eg, the Sheeva, Guru, and Dream Plug). We use them to run OWFS and other middleware at remote sites and send that data back to our central DB. We've purchased 5 Sheeva's, 1 Guru, and 21 Guru's.
The general hardware spec is very good and would be a good match for your application. Unfortunately, GlobalScale's quality control is nearly non-existant. Our order of 21 Guru's (and my 1 personal purchase) experienced 6 RMA-required plugs. Some arrived with an internal rattle; one with defective RAM, two had their ethernet PHY's fail shortly after going into production. GlobalScale has replaced all the failed units so far, but it does take a lot longer than they say, and it did require several "reminder" phone calls. Also note that the WiFi/Bluetooth chip used in the guru is not exactly what the part number claims, and as a result, drivers are a pain and in our experiences for our applications, the wifi chip+drivers was too unstable for use. The guru was a total engineering failure, do not buy. The sheeva was very solid. We don't have many in production anymore, but aside from one PSU failure (our first one), they've all been rock solid. They also include the JTAG/serial interface for initial configuration (its ~$40 for the guru and dreamplug). E-mail me if you want more specific details. Oh, and we run Gentoo on all plug varieties. --Jim Lab Manager On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Peter Hollenbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > Let me know if this is too far off track. > At a remote, unattended site I use gphoto2 to capture images from two > cameras and soon will use owfs to capture weather data. Images and weather > data are posted to my web site (http://www.hbeck.net). Am using openSUSE > 11.1 on a Jetway MB with Via Nano CPU. But no data needs to stay on the PC > as everything is sent to the web site. So it seems a plug or similar > computer with no HD would do the job. On this list I have seen references to > Sheeva, BeagleBoard, and maybe others. I would appreciate any comments. > > Thanks, > Peter > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > RSA(R) Conference 2012 > Save $700 by Nov 18 > Register now > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 > _______________________________________________ > Owfs-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
