March 21, 2010 12:24 AM

I have had my network port for about a week. Today two of the three drives are failing to show on the network. I tried to re initialize by shutting everything down but still only one drive showing. Tried to enter the pogo plugged website but it refuses to let me log in to see if there is any remedy for this problem. Guess it's time to look for another product, since this one is looking a lot like a waste of $80.00.

March 21, 2010 12:28 PM updated: March 21, 2010 4:13 PM

The problem with PlugApps wiki at this time - and the biggest thing limiting it - are the age of the tutorials and the lack of content. Add that the wiki is locked, so people cant contributor or fix errors, and that means the one person who has access is the bottleneck.

Nevermind the fact that things installed with pacman don't work 90% of the time, based on my personal experience. Sure, the mypogo functionality is lacking, intrusive, and the lack of security - port 80 is effectively running a root shell after all - make it something most companies would never want running on their network but if you want to present an alternative the least you could do is provide some basic NAS network capabilities. As it stands, the default installs of Samba, Apache, or ftpd do not even work.

March 21, 2010 1:18 PM

So crimson, am I understanding you correctly? Did you just say that the wiki is not locked, but people simply do not update it? I actually tried to add my experience to it to improve it, but found no edit button.. so pardon me, no hostility intended.

I recently installed a FreeAgent Go/Stardock based system using a 750gig free agent go drive. I did this without following the instructions on the wiki, because the wiki has a few things missing. It was easier for me because I also run gentoo stage 1 installs for fun; But I doubt many noobs have the same experience.

That said, I was up till 5am last night working on this. I love the possibilities of this hardware but I'm not really happy with the "service" part of it as I find the implementation technically sloppy and insecure, not to mention the thought of servers I don't control being able to send commands to a device on a network I had thought I had locked down disturbs me greatly as a parent.

November 22, 2010 9:24 AM

crimsonredmk said: We got the XCE source code put up on http://pogoplug.com/opensource It was GPL'ed the whole time.

Does this mean can we have PogoPlug 2.5.6 with PlugBox Linux? I would like have both PlugBox Linux and my.pogoplug.com since it will best of both world.

November 29, 2010 7:45 AM

The answer is on the installation page for Plugapps. Just need to read it. All the different platforms such as Plugapps(ArchLinux), Debian, Openwrt, etc. require a different bootloader so my.pogoplug.com won't work. If you want my.pogoplug.com and simultaneously add software packages to the built in Busybox, you need Optware packages. Good enough choices. I think for the most part, if you use the alternate u-boot, when you unplug the usb stick with the OS, you are back to the my.pogoplug.com functionality. So if you want, have alternate OS on one USB, and data on another. Then unplug OS USB when you want my.pogoplug.com functionality.

January 4, 2011 4:23 AM

The page was moved when we switched the site to multi-lingual. The correct url is: http://www.pogoplug.com/home-en-developers-open-source.html You can also get to it by clicking on the "Developers" link from www.pogoplug.com site. All of the open source code/credits can be found there.