Anything?

Anyone?

Great news Duane!
Thanks for all your hard work. I haven't seen any more about a way to fund this via donations/subscrtiptions but hopefully there are many like me who will financially support the service.

Great news! With luck, the old service can be back up by 2014.

Great news - the Chumby is a favourite around our house and we'd love to see it running again!

I'd like to add my thanks as well. If there's anything we can do in the community to help, test, code, document, etc. that will help make reaching your goal easier, let us know, Duane.

At present, nothing really. Although I suppose keeping your Chumby online and in use helps provide an indication to Duane of the number of likely users of a revived service.
In the past, there has been discussion of donations and Kickstarter funding. You could review that discussion, including some of the reasons why Duane isn't accepting funds now, at
http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?pid=46438#p46438
http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?pid=46416#p46416
http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?pid=45744#p45744

Well, I've started a schedule where I work on the new Chumby service at least a half hour per day, more on weekends, unless I've got some work-related thing interfering with it.

One of the issues with working with the system is the sheer volume of data - if I make a mistake and corrupt the database, it takes about 4 hours to reload it from backup.

To mitigate that, I've created a new scheme and updated the framework.  The original Chumby system was Rails 2, and had a peculiar primary key system.  I've updated to Rails 4, and created a proper primary key, then wrote a bunch of taks to migrate data from the old system to the new system.  This also allowed me to remove a *lot* of scruff, and merge records, and elevate a bunch of unused and inefficient tables. 

Right now, I have the admin console working, and full widget service working for the 3.5" devices.  I still need to add support for the 8" devices (which use a different protocol), and the user-facing system for device and channel management.

I was at about this same stage a few months back with a Rails 3 system on the old schema, but that was increasingly looking like it was not going to be future-proof enough to deploy.

My goal is to get something up by the end of the year.

Amazing dedication Duane, thanks. I felt a little nutty for just buying another C1, but maybe not so much after all.

@ nathanm- re your edit: Thank God I don't "get" it. Eat lots of turkey tomorrow. Looks like you could use a good dose of tryptophan. Happy Thanksgiving, anyway.

Thanks Duane!

Thanks Duane!  Sounds great.  I'm also looking forward to having the widgets back on my Chumby.

Great news!