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cariboulabs / cariboulite

CaribouLite turns any 40-pin Raspberry-Pi into a Tx/Rx 6GHz SDR
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Is this project abandoned? #116

Open codyc1515 opened 1 year ago

codyc1515 commented 1 year ago

Seems to be little to no activity in the past few months and many issues are still outstanding during that time. No PRs appear to be accepted. Mixed reports of some people receiving their hardware.

How is everyone that received their hardware finding it? How long did your hardware take to arrive? Was it straightforward to get started? Would you buy again given the chance?

ImDroided commented 1 year ago

It seems the developer took our money and ran with it. Sure he delivered the board but has been basically a no show for a while now. I mean he hasn't even merged the fixes people have done.

edegraaff commented 1 year ago

is there a complain procedure rwgarding this? In fact what is delivered is not what was prommissed

great9 commented 1 year ago

Yes, this project is abandoned. A fellow crowdsupply backer of this project made some fixes to the drivers and his code is available here: https://github.com/konimaru/cariboulite

meexmachina commented 1 year ago

Hello, The project is not abandoned. We have struggled to run it lately due to a severe lack of time. I plan to get into the many problems soon this week. Thank you all for the input. David

edegraaff commented 1 year ago

hi David would be great if we get the whole working and share it with everyone, i have at least 2 persons in nl that also struggle to make it in a fully working sdr as we are familiar with.like kiwi, rtl, and others. Please keep us updated also on the main projectpage regarding releases, etc...

great9 commented 1 year ago

Hello, The project is not abandoned. We have struggled to run it lately due to a severe lack of time. I plan to get into the many problems soon this week. Thank you all for the input. David

3 weeks later, still 3 months old code. 0 PRs merged, 0 lines of code added, modified or deleted.

edegraaff commented 1 year ago

Hello, The project is not abandoned. We have struggled to run it lately due to a severe lack of time. I plan to get into the many problems soon this week. Thank you all for the input. David

3 weeks later, still 3 months old code. 0 PRs merged, 0 lines of code added, modified or deleted.

Is creates some uncomfortable vibes ...

a-oxide commented 1 year ago

Is there a policy for this sort of thing on Crowdsupply? I feel robbed.

ImDroided commented 1 year ago

Is there a policy for this sort of thing on Crowdsupply? I feel robbed.

You know I'm not sure but I'll tell you what I'm going to start contacting them and all of us should and make sure this dude never has another opportunity to make another product again on there because he's not supporting the one that he already did. We're not asking for much. We're literally asking for the couple of software fixes to get this thing working right? If that's too much then he needs the refund money. I'll gladly send this piece of crap back and buy something that actually works.

edegraaff commented 1 year ago

To be honest, i think most of us have been supporting this project quite some while, and also trusted we get a great SDR. Promisses have been made. I have some respect for the fact chips where hard to get and so on. What realy upsets me is, lack on communication, lack on picking up the issues, the comunity is helping, but some actions should be taken responsibility and/or start a send back program, since it failed. But stop advertising. https://www.crowdsupply.com/cariboulabs/cariboulite-rpi-hat

great9 commented 1 year ago

a simple pull request that fixe the inverted spectrogram consisting of 3 short lines of code weren't merged. what are we talking about here? perhaps the guy has family issues, perhaps he's in jail, maybe he's sick ... but if he has time to comment on an issue on github then he has time to click the merge button or assign write permissions for the repo to another person or change ownership of the repo.

a-oxide commented 1 year ago

My thoughts exactly. On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 11:12 AM great9 @.***> wrote:

a simple pull request that fixe the inverted spectrogram consisting of 3 short lines of code weren't merged. what are we talking about here? perhaps the guy has family issues, perhaps he's in jail, maybe he's sick ... but if he has time to comment on an issue on github then he has time to click the merge button or assign write permissions for the repo to another person or change ownership of the repo.

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great9 commented 1 year ago

this project needs a developer who knows what he's doing and doesn't sell stories. I nominate @konimaru and I think we should all chip in and donate some funds to motivate him to bring us a working driver and software support.

MCKLtech commented 1 year ago

Just chiming in here; I never received my hardware and ordered over a year ago (April 2022). I've requested a refund through Crowd Supply.

ImDroided commented 1 year ago

That's probably a good thing because the developer is proved himself pretty much useless. Unless we get somebody to take over this project that actually knows what they're doing and understands it. It's pretty much a paperweight.. It works mediocre at best when it does. I'm about to contact crowd supply to find out how we can get a refund because there's plenty other projects out there that are a little more expensive than this but they work.. we all just wish the developer would deliver what he sold because I mean honestly the things pretty cool if it would work.

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Just chiming in here; I never received my hardware and ordered over a year ago (April 2022). I've requested a refund through Crowd Supply.

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great9 commented 1 year ago

That's probably a good thing because the developer is proved himself pretty much useless. Unless we get somebody to take over this project that actually knows what they're doing and understands it. It's pretty much a paperweight.. It works mediocre at best when it does. I'm about to contact crowd supply to find out how we can get a refund because there's plenty other projects out there that are a little more expensive than this but they work.. we all just wish the developer would deliver what he sold because I mean honestly the things pretty cool if it would work. … On Fri, May 26, 2023, 7:10 AM MCKLtech @.> wrote: Just chiming in here; I never received my hardware and ordered over a year ago (April 2022). I've requested a refund through Crowd Supply. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#116 (comment)>, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADKXG2KGEDPVGWSYW25GMILXICMS3ANCNFSM6AAAAAAW7EPSK4 . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: @.>

Agreed. I'd like a refund as well.

edegraaff commented 1 year ago

i am also figuring out how to refund, i support al lot of projects this is the fist in 30 years where i see a complete faillure in prommiss, in time ,attention, and drive.

ImDroided commented 1 year ago

If anybody contacts crowd supply and figures out the refund process, please post it here for us.

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i am also figuring out how to refund, i support al lot of projects this is the fist in 30 years where i see a complete faillure in prommiss, in time ,attention, and drive.

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a-oxide commented 1 year ago

I am SOL because I purchased it two months ago. If anyone gets their money back let me know.

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i am also figuring out how to refund, i support al lot of projects this is the fist in 30 years where i see a complete faillure in prommiss, in time ,attention, and drive.

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MCKLtech commented 1 year ago

I received a refund from CrowdSupply. Open a ticket with your Order number, they were very helpful.

codyc1515 commented 1 year ago

This is disappointing. I will take it as given that the project is abandoned.

meexmachina commented 1 year ago

@codyc1515, the code is updating, and advancing. slowly than expected but it does. We pushed major changes to the 'main' branch lately (kernel module, tx side, bug fixes, install fixes for DragonOS etc.). Unfortunately, it takes more time than expected as we do it serial rather than parallelly, and we'd love to get your help, but be assured that each and every issue in GitHub is being checked and we try to make the solution more sustainable than just patching some issue...

MCKLtech commented 1 year ago

@codyc1515, the code is updating, and advancing. slowly than expected but it does. We pushed major changes to the 'main' branch lately (kernel module, tx side, bug fixes, install fixes for DragonOS etc.). Unfortunately, it takes more time than expected as we do it serial rather than parallelly, and we'd love to get your help, but be assured that each and every issue in GitHub is being checked and we try to make the solution more sustainable than just patching some issue...

Completely irrelevant if you haven't shipped hardware to your backers, the people that believed you in the first place.

joyel24 commented 1 year ago

@codyc1515, the code is updating, and advancing. slowly than expected but it does. We pushed major changes to the 'main' branch lately (kernel module, tx side, bug fixes, install fixes for DragonOS etc.). Unfortunately, it takes more time than expected as we do it serial rather than parallelly, and we'd love to get your help, but be assured that each and every issue in GitHub is being checked and we try to make the solution more sustainable than just patching some issue...

You can check and link your repository with https://bountysource.com, to encourage developers to fix bugs or improve things...

mvmn commented 8 months ago

The order option is still open and says will ship in 3 business days. I was foolish enough to order 9 days ago not seeing this issue. Any chances on getting the hardware? Clearly it's not shipping 3 business days.

UPD: finally got an email about the product being shipped today. Had to fill a form for customs prior though, maybe it added a bit of a delay - but I filled it same day they asked me to (over email).

ImDroided commented 8 months ago

The order option is still open and says will ship in 3 business days. I was foolish enough to order 9 days ago not seeing this issue. Any chances on getting the hardware? Clearly it's not shipping 3 business days.

I received my hardware but I was an early backer I haven't heard of any issues of getting people their hardware. I know there was an issue with the hardware that people were getting and I believe that was corrected but I haven't really heard of anything other than a few posts here and there about people not receiving their stuff. Most of us got the hardware but the software was the issue and they've been working on that slowly but steadily.

MCKLtech commented 8 months ago

The order option is still open and says will ship in 3 business days. I was foolish enough to order 9 days ago not seeing this issue. Any chances on getting the hardware? Clearly it's not shipping 3 business days.

I requested a refund from CrowdSupply and they were great, I got it back within a few days. I was an early backer and never got any updates, and never got the hardware. Respectfully to all involved, it's abundantly clear they don't care about this project.

codyc1515 commented 6 months ago

Would you buy it again?

MCKLtech commented 6 months ago

No, I don't trust this team or company. They never reached out when I asked them about my order or from the cancellation. There are better, more professional products in the space to give money to IMO.

PRufener commented 3 months ago

Just a shitty project. Never worked. Neither with Raspberry OS, nor with Dragon OS, nor with Kali Linux. An efficient way to waste your money!