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Ralim / IronOS

Open Source Soldering Iron firmware
https://ralim.github.io/IronOS/
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Add IronOS website link to Firmware #1476

Closed River-Mochi closed 1 year ago

River-Mochi commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

  1. Add a Link to Github IronOS to inform people:

Describe the solution you'd like OPTIONS

  1. Advanced Settings > IronOS Support
    scroll sentence: Go to https://ralim.github.io/IronOS/

  2. Advanced Settings > About IronOS scroll sentence: Go to https://ralim.github.io/IronOS/ for Updates & Support

Or when they use(A/+) to select "IronOS Support" or "About IronOS" words, they see the web link also.

  1. Miniware iron owners most likely know where Github IronOS is because they have to purposely come here to get the firmware to overwrite the default Miniware OS.
  2. Other devices like Pine64 already come with IronOS as default so people do not necessarily know right away where to get support or Updates. Other software/firmware include a link to get updates/support, this is a common practice. Some people reported they never updated Pinecil because it already came with IronOS. We still find people recently who have version 2.14 firmware, having the weblink might encourage more updates which will enhance the user experience.
  3. This quick web link would be useful to all IronOS users. It encourages more people to visit the website where they might read a little about IronOS which is better than not reading any of the documents.
Ralim commented 1 year ago

We dont have the space to add this for the TS80 series of irons and the settings menu is fairly shared. Would be better to ask this to be in the manual with the Pinecil?

River-Mochi commented 1 year ago

I will try again. I have already in past already with no success:

  1. sent email to Pine Store asking for IronOS and/or Pinecil Wiki links to Pinecil sale page (no change happened).
  2. sent message to Gamiee for User Manual change . or if they don't have time, just give me access to the User Manual document and I could make changes to it. I want to add large font weblink and a QR code on front page.

too bad there is no room. worldwide havign the support link so easy to use.

Ralim commented 1 year ago

I would prefer the link be held elsewhere rather than adding junk to the firmware; if its not going to be useful to a majority of users it would be far better for it to be held elsewhere. I also think this is not even strictly an issue of customers not knowing of IronOS (Google makes the finding it easy, and IronOS is mentioned in the sales docs and media around the Pinecil), but more likely an effect of just "people dont update until they have to"