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Hi Everyone. Sorry for the frustration with this project. I know it's been two years since the campaign closed and we are now 18 months behind our original delivery date. We do have an operational network that is free to receive, but as you may have guessed, there have been many setbacks related...

Yes! You can absolutely build your own PCB, but it wasn't really designed for hand-soldering. It's based on the Beaglebone Black; the AM335 requires an 8-layer board. Although I have not written the IGG update yet, the project files for the compute board have already been posted to Github...

Yes to circularly polarized. Depending on the part of the world, it will be LHCP or RHCP. We may end up having two forward channels with one being very low speed (2.4kbps) and the other being bursty (up to 1Mbps). The bursty one is still up in the air. The low bitrate channel is the one we've...

Definitely coming along! Of course, much slower than what we had been hoping for. We'll be publicly releasing--and open sourcing--the main PCB plans this week. We'll have an update on this to our IGG backers on Wednesday.

Yes, we are actively working on L-band. We'll begin testing in Europe late next week. The frequency will be around 1550 MHz.

Correct, that has to do with how we currently associate metadata with each piece of content that is in the library. We're moving away from this model, as it is too labor intensive. The following is what we are moving towards, which should be available in about a month...

The new firmware update (which is available over-the-air) should correct for the problem you are seeing. We are putting version 1.4 on the data carousel later today and if you leave your Lighthouse on, then it will auto-update. The problem you are experiencing is related to how iOS handles iframes.

Ah....you're use case is just slightly ahead of our development roadmap. We will soon be allowing users to upload content to the Lighthouse over wifi. You can still do that now, but it will require a workaround. By the way, we will soon be releasing the source code for Librarian, so you can see...

I keep meaning to post an announcement here. To clarify, you can't view directly over ethernet; you'll need to be on a LAN if you want the data receiver to act as a NAS. But you can always access the content over wifi (the primary use case). The content that we are sending down is probably not...

Yeah, that's clever. We need to include that in the directions.

As far as I know, Dish and DirecTV operate end to end media services and do not allow 3rd parties to lease channels for free-to-air services. You're right, it would be the ideal, though.

Correct, that is the whole point. We can, however, include a lot of setup instructions on the receiver, which can be accessed over wifi (or ethernet).

spongella Good idea. We had not considered offering much in the way of pointing tools. But I feel that the compass and simple satellite meter doesn't help the first-timer all that much. Can you recommend a satmeter that displays video (to know for sure) that is decent quality and low (ish) cost?

That's exactly the type of feedback I was looking for. Thanks.

Titanium You're right, we can easily just take the signaling information and incorporate that into the display. Also adding that to the list. Question: Does anyone have experience with the Fracarro Penta? Any thoughts? It seems like we'll be carrying more than one type of antenna...