Buddy Board Mod... This is probably a stupid question but....
With the Buddy Board being open-source, I saw that board schematics, which I'm just an idiot about that, but, what I was wondering is.... It's obvious the Buddy Board with wifi is running a web server and is serving up PrusaLink. That tells me there's probably some storage on that board.
Shouldn't access to the board be open source as well? Shouldn't I be able to ssh into the board (yes, I tried and it just times out)? And if so, why couldn't I just replace the PrusaLink with OctoPrint until PrusaLink gets usable or, at a minimum, maybe customize the page. I guess I just expected that along with the board hardware being open source, it would also allow connectivity to open source update or replace the software. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough, or, maybe I just need to sit in the corner and shut up. 🙂
RE: Buddy Board Mod... This is probably a stupid question but....
Both the Buddy, and X Buddy boards have an appendix,
Prusa generated firmware has to be 'Signed' (OEM Approved) to work with the appendix in position
If you wish to 'roll your own' firmware, it will not be 'Signed' and you need to break the appendix.
which I believe breaks the warrantee on the Buddy or X Buddy board.
so if you want to try and replace Prusa link with Prusa XBuddy hosted Octoprint, then you are on your own...
Another point to consider is, if you modify this version of Mk4 (3.5) firmware, you will need to re work every successive firmware if you want new features. Is it worth it?
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Wasn’t thinking anything that drastic, but it does bring up another question. Why would a web server and content be part of the firmware? Basically, that would be mixing firmware code with a user app. I doubt that’s the case as any http vulnerability would compromise firmware and I’ve never heard of firmware and http content together.
What I’m assuming is that there’s a small storage pool running http services and content and I’m cool if that’s closed source, but I was just interested if we could add our own mods, or even contribute to the project. It can use a lot of help.
RE: Buddy Board Mod... This is probably a stupid question but....
With the Buddy Board being open-source, I saw that board schematics, which I'm just an idiot about that, but, what I was wondering is.... It's obvious the Buddy Board with wifi is running a web server and is serving up PrusaLink. That tells me there's probably some storage on that board.
Shouldn't access to the board be open source as well? Shouldn't I be able to ssh into the board (yes, I tried and it just times out)? And if so, why couldn't I just replace the PrusaLink with OctoPrint until PrusaLink gets usable or, at a minimum, maybe customize the page. I guess I just expected that along with the board hardware being open source, it would also allow connectivity to open source update or replace the software. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough, or, maybe I just need to sit in the corner and shut up. 🙂
This would be somthng to ask the devs on github.
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