Yes, you'll be able to register your new chumby and add it to your account.

part of the delay in getting the new service going was the time, and great care that Duane was putting into saving the old accounts, and working with a database that had accumulated many years of cruft in the original chumby system.

It would have been a lot easier to to just say "feh" and blow away all the old user accounts and settings (and your list of widgets), and start fresh, but that's not how Duane operates.

I have my own Chumby, but I bought a second one used. I saw in that one were Pandora stations that must have been set up by the previous owner.

Will this pre-owned Chumby suddenly come alive with the old owners widgets and account?

Good to see that confirmed.  I've acquired a few Chumby/Infocast devices during the down time and wondered about this.

The special Internode support was due to a contractual relationship between Chumby Industries and Internode, and special devices were tagged for resale by them to support the Internode systems.  The tag is checked by the software when deciding whether or not to add the music source to the list.

There are two issues:

1) I am not party to the contract between Chumby and Internode so I really can't legally change the behavior.

2) From a technical standpoint, I can't enable Internode on the rest of the chumbys without the Internode music source showing up on every chumby in the world, and this source will only work if the device is actually hosted on Internode's network.

If Internode were to enter into a new contract with Blue Octy, and we were to find another method to restrict the availability of the music source to chumbys where it would actually work, then I would be more than happy to make the change.  However, I'm not sure Internode would be interested at this point.

Hmmm, makes sense - I'll add that to the list of things to do to the Control Panel.

Perfect - that would be great, and hopefully not too difficult to implement.

I'm more than optimistic, as we say down this way "I'm excited!" :-)

Question on this (and other edits).  Is this something we can mount the filesystem as R/W and then edit the file directly on the Chumby instead of having to use the USB stick?  I'm guessing if we edit the file on the system and a new update comes out we may have to re-edit, but is there a more sinister side-effect I'm not aware of?

The /psp directory, which contains most of the settings is ext3 R/W - just be sure to "sync" when you've edited something before rebooting to flush the cache.

In the CC, the firmware filesystems are not remountable as R/W, since they're cramfs.

On the C1, I3, C8 and I8, the firmware filesystems are ext3, so they can be remounted as R/W, edited, then reset back to R/O.  They also have /mnt/storage, which is ext3 R/W.  USB dongles are mounted as R/W with whatever filesystem they have.