[DisasterRadio] TTGO boards with Disaster Radio now on Aliexpress

[grant]

Hey Sam,

Thanks for taking initiative on this.

I personally do not have a problem with this idea, as long as it works. I
would like to tag a release (0.0.1?) and provide them binaries so that they
are shipping it with firmware from a particular commit. They should also be
able to flash the SPIFFs with the web app, we could provide binaries for
that as well. Then, you wouldn't necessarily need an SD card.

SD cards need to be formatted to fat32 for ESP devices. To prepare the SD
card, you need to build the javascript app (following the readme
https://github.com/sudomesh/disaster-radio/tree/master/web) and then copy
the contents of web/static (`index.htm` and `bundle.js`) to the SD card.
It's a fairly straightforward process, but I should create instructions.

It's great that they are willing to make a small donation with every sale.
SudoMesh would be the group to receive those, and they do have a bank
account, I would dm Jenny about that.

The one addition I would make to the listing is a link to either the
website, disaster.radio, and/or the github repo in the description.

This group generally operates on a consensus basis, so I'd be interested to
hear what other people who have been involved in its development think.

p.s. I would also be cool to display something on the OLED screen when it
ships, haven't gotten around to that idea though.

-grant

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 9:23 AM <samuk at disroot.org> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Yesterday I emailed TTGO/ Lily to see if in principle they could install
> the disaster radio boards they ship. After a bit of linguistic
> miscommunication they went ahead and did it.
>
> So it's now possible to order the boards pre-flashed here:
>
> https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000396836096.html
>
> I didn't intend to do this without asking the list, so apologies if I've
> overstepped.
>
> If you really don't want to do this, then I can ask them to remove the
> listing. I realise that fully open hardware is needed in the medium term.
>
> They are willing to donate a $1 for every board sold:
> https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/H856d5793d514415187b910e3fd4a3139w.jpg
>
> Assuming you're happy to leave the listing up, where should we send this
> trickle of donations? Do you have a bank?
>
> This does leave the task for the users to configure their SD card, is that
> as easy as formatting to ext2 and copying index.html to it?
> https://github.com/sudomesh/disaster-radio/tree/master/web/static or is
> it more involved than that?
>
> Let me know what you want to do about the listing, and if it stays up,
> where to send the money.
>
> Thanks
>
> Sam
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