I certainly want to emphasize how grateful I am to Duane for his work on keeping my four Chumbys alive.

As much as I might wish that Chumby Inc had found a stable and profitable business model that assured the survival of its service, as well as the introduction of new models on a regular basis, I also know that like with many, many other companies, it just did not happen. So it is time to move on, pick up the remaining pieces, and see if there is a way to assure the survival of this platform on a long-term basis for selfish users like me who have grown dependent on this product, either under a new company and/or an active volunteer community.

If there is some way that people like me whose technical skills are limited, please let us know.

Duane, I know its probably too late for this, but as long as you are working on code on the 8" units -- can you make it possible for them to have an alarm with whatever sound you want (like how the 3.5" ones will let you play a song from the music folder)

totally understood, just thought I'd ask...

While I understand that your going to try and include a clock widget so at the very least the clock will function.  My bigger issue is will I still be able to play music via the USB thumb drive that I'm currently using?  Thanks very much Duane for all your effort!

Stephen

I dont know what good it will do at this point but I made this video i hopes of saving the Chumby network Please share! https://vimeo.com/58569110

Thanks @songmaster!

Thanks for watching @swisscheese! Great username BTW

My apologies if this has been addressed before, but I'm wondering if there will be a way to support Shoutcast streams in the future, whether via a new service or via offline firmware, as I've come to rely on my Chumbies a lot to listen to internet radio, especially old time radio streams via Shoutcast.  I've started looking around at other internet radios just in case, but they still seem to be a bit pricey for devices that can do only some of what a Chumby can do, plus, from what I can see, most of them require you to simply navigate through a system of menus to find stations and don't have, from what I can tell, anything like the search function in Chumby's Shoutcast interface.

I'm downloading Zurk's offline firmware right now to try that out as a backup, should that become necessary, since I love my Chumbies & I'd definitely want them to have at least some functionality, even if it's not all the functionality they once had.  (I especially love the classic "beanbag" model -- I love people who dare to be different & innovative like that!)  I may even try that Octopus thing & see if I can figure out how to use that to use more widgets (yeah, I remember what they were called before the iPad dominated everything!)

@duane please do! that would be awesome!

barnapkins - Excellent video. Thank you for making it.

The forum and wiki are already handled.  Doktor Jones is in the process of migrating it, so it would not be affected by anything that happens to the Amazon account.