RE: o2/Openpeak Joggler

["Gary Tall" <gtcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Simon and all, good feedback.



I have agonised over the Joggler/Tablet device but I've tried one, lets
call
it medium priced, Chinese tablet running Android 4 and its worse than
useless. Whilst it seems a nice enough operating device having to remain
within six feet of my router for wifi to work hasn't given me much
confidence. I'm currently trying to get my money back on it, are there any
"good" brands that can be relied on.



I guess we are spoiled with a number of iOS devices in the house but I
wanted to give Android a go as my daughters phone with it is superb.



Cheers

Gary



From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Simon Haslam
Sent: 13 June 2012 09:31
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] o2/Openpeak Joggler





I've got 2 Jogglers - the main one is in the kitchen and runs Android. I
have my heating controls and house temps on there (via a web page) and my
wife checks Gmail on it. I keep meaning to get around to buying the
squeezebox slave/controller apps for it (some people have done this) but
have another computer in the kitchen which I switch on for radio/iPlayer.
The Joggleris on all the time (the display dims when idle so it doesn't use
too much power) and I'd say it needs to be restarted every fortnight (the
browser dies otherwise).

I've also got one of those little Verbatim Netbook USB memory sticks which
is very neat.

I was running Ubuntu and OWFS on it for a while but the USB stick died
after
about 6 months due to the amount of write activity presumbly. Whilst it
wasn't really a comparable to what I run now I've not had any trouble with
the Android build damaging the memory stick (I've been running it unchanged
for over a year).

The Ubuntu build/discussions are here:

http://www.jogglerwiki.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2
<http://www.jogglerwiki.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=318>
&t=318

(note there is an Ice Cream Sandwich build in progress but it's only in
early stages).

Whilst #50 for a Joggler was a bargain 2 or 3 years ago the only question
in
my mind now would be whether to look at a cheap Chinese tablet and some
sort
of mounting instead - the Joggler is quite chunky.

Simon

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