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Re: Plug: the brain of your devices

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Post by darklajid » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 7:19 AM UTC

DiabloD3 wrote: post #64

samstokes wrote: post #23

This seems like a very ambitious project, which is great. It does seem at risk of boiling the ocean. They're taking on: * NAS device with encrypted file storage and UPNP * setting up a VPN * client software for said VPN on each platform (or at least installers that can configure each platform's native VPN support) * multi-device file sync * whole -device file sync, with client software for each platform, presumably w…

UPNP can be handled by existing Linux UPNP software. There is a FOSS VPN that can do point to point VPN routing, but I'm forgetting the name. FUSE works ona a surprisingly large number of operating systems now (Linux, OSX, Android-fied Linux, Windows), so building a FUSE file system can be done. And as for data sync and replication? CEPH can probably handle this. The software exists to do this, no one has put it toge…

VPN: Do you mean tinc, by chance?

Re: Plug: the brain of your devices

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Post by Groxx » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 7:55 AM UTC

All possible, all been done before in smaller parts, all the UI is not simple, all the side issues / polish are infinite, blah blah blah, it's all true. I totally agree.

If it comes out and it's even half-way decent, I'd buy one. If it's decently usable, I'd buy a few, and send them to friends and relatives. I'd love these, and even with my meh internet connection it would easily keep up, and I'd just have to buy an additional external hard drive every year or so.

Re: Plug: the brain of your devices

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Post by andyhmltn » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 8:18 AM UTC

tantalor wrote: post #104

ulyssesgrant wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the way I see it, it's "impossible" because (for example) if you use plug to keep your music in sync, it won't be viewable in iOS's music app, only through whatever app plug puts together.

What's so special about the iOS music app?

Well, you have to use iTunes to sync music to it. A 3rd party app on the device can't do that.

Re: Plug: the brain of your devices

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Post by sylvinus » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 8:33 AM UTC

pixie_ wrote: post #103

Can we have a discussion about marketing? Like how does this $60 niche product raise $150k in 2 days? Was it hyped before hand? Did kickstarter hype it? Anyone know the details behind their PR?

They are one of the most brilliant tech teams in France, and got at least a good headstart there. Then they did Techcrunch, etc. The high quality Kickstarter page & video certainly helped a lot too.

Re: Plug: the brain of your devices

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Post by slacka » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 8:34 AM UTC

Nate75Sanders wrote: post #40

blhack wrote: post #34

Yes. Store hundreds of movies and hundreds of thousands of pictures on plug and access them anywhere![1] [1]: So long as you have an absurdly fast internet connection at your house, and also have an absurdly fast internet connection wherever you are that you're trying to use this thing...and aren't on an airplane, or in the car, or on a train...which is when you would generally want to watch movies on your tablet.

This is going to become less and less of a problem as time goes on. There was a time when the idea of streaming high quality video and doing so using Flash, at that, seemed ridiculous, but it's ridiculously commonplace, now. I often stream things from a VPS instance to my home via sshfs right now. Doing so over even 3G would work in many cases.

My parents AT&T DSL tops out at 384kbps upstream. This is not an option for them or 1/2 of American with similar "broadband" options.

Re: Plug: the brain of your devices

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Post by Flenser » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 8:41 AM UTC

tteam wrote: post #31

samstokes wrote: post #23

This seems like a very ambitious project, which is great. It does seem at risk of boiling the ocean. They're taking on: * NAS device with encrypted file storage and UPNP * setting up a VPN * client software for said VPN on each platform (or at least installers that can configure each platform's native VPN support) * multi-device file sync * whole -device file sync, with client software for each platform, presumably w…

All these are already done by our Tonido ( http://www.tonido.com ) and TonidoPlug project and it is available and it works.

How do I buy one? I can't see a buy button on any of the TonidoPlug pages.

Re: Plug: the brain of your devices

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Post by rbellio » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 2:20 PM UTC

comex wrote: post #92

rbellio wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like you can just download the client software for free and do the home PC/Router approach without having to use a plug: http://www.tonido.com/tonidodesktop_pricing/

That appears to be a different company.

Ah, you are correct, I can see that tteam posted comments and made it clear that they are not associated with the plug team.

Re: Plug: the brain of your devices

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Post by KMag » Sun, Jul 14, 2013, 1:47 AM UTC

Flenser wrote: post #116

tteam wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All these are already done by our Tonido ( http://www.tonido.com ) and TonidoPlug project and it is available and it works.

How do I buy one? I can't see a buy button on any of the TonidoPlug pages.

I also found it difficult. On the product description page, there's a green icon in the upper-right that says "Get Tonido Plug". That icon is a link to the purchase page.