Soap - Multi-network Android-based router

[elcano]

G+ meetup?

Does G+ uses hangouts, or just regular chat?

Past chats organized by Electron work perfect. You can save the chat for others to read (non-registered public), avoid the awkward periods when people are thinking about the new question (in comparison to video conference) and better yet, you don't force people to choose between joining a social network or missing the chat. Keeping G+ as a plan B if chat doesn't work is reasonable, however.

 

[BaduFamily]

what you, elcano, describe sounds very sensible!

 

[damage]

stumbled across this fwiw http://hackaday.com/2014/03/07/soap-the-home-automation-router-and-kickstarter-scam/

 

[BraveSirRobbin]

stumbled across this fwiw http://hackaday.com/2014/03/07/soap-the-home-automation-router-and-kickstarter-scam/

Yup, just one more reason for my opinion stated earlier in this thread.
 
I just don't see how a scammer would NOT jump on an opportunity presented in the form of a crowd funded project.  There seems to be no repercussions, no enforcement, and no oversight.
 
Hmmm, remember that April Fool's post we did on a 'do everything' automation controller several years ago?  Hmmm...(BSR views how to open a KickStarter account)...

 

[Automate]

Their latest trouble is that Almond+ has a patent on touch screen routers. http://www.google.com/patents/US20120239916

In my opinion too many patents are issued for just combining known technologies. But, it still puts a legal cloud over their campaign.

 

[tmbrown97]

Nowadays with connected homes with structured panels, the router is generally out of sight... I've just never seen the point of having it also be a touchscreen (with a tiny screen in a relatively larger package) trying to be everything.

 

[Automate]

The Soap saga continues.  They have not shown a working final prototype or delivered anything from the Kickstarter campaign and now they have started a Indiegogo campaign for basically the same device.
 
I'm guessing they are realizing they didn't charge enough for the KS units.  The vast majority of them went for $150 on KS.  They are trying to get $360 to $390 for the same basic unit on Indiegogo.

 

[Automate]

Can it get any worse?  Both principals of Soap filed for Bankruptcy shortly before starting their Kickstarter / Indiegogo campaigns. http://www.cepro.com/article/both_owners_of_indiegogo-funded_soap_filed_for_bankruptcy_recently