Possibly, worth a look. Though think the USB3 may be for connecting it to a computer as an external drive, but to be honest no idea since it's an odd little device.
Good news, it's in the UK at Atherstone RDC, hopefully arrive soon enough.
Not sure about anything with this device to be honest!
I will find out when it arrives and I'll give it a thorough review, then probably brick it installing Open-WRT.
Been stung for customs. That adds £13.58 to the total (£8 handing fee!!).
Anyone else seen an increase in customs charges lately on stuff from China?
I've had many very expensive items slip through without checks or charges in the past. Lately I've had a couple of relatively cheap things (<£50) get charges added.
Not sure if these Chinese sellers have started declaring things correctly and not as £2 and a gift!
WiFi was working fine.
Device is now bricked after I tried to install OpenWRT :'D
I'll have to wait until I'm near my soldering iron to attach a serial adapter and sort it out.
Chanced it. Like the fool I am.
Confident I'll be able to at least return it to the state I got it in though. Maybe. We'll see. Already created a dispute on aliexpress since it wasn't functioning right at the start.
Currently trying to get a refund for the device and using it as a USB drive with a RPi 2 as the USB bit seems to run separately from the network side of things.
I've unsurprisingly come to the conclusion that it isn't the 90s and I can't cope with 100mbit transfer speeds.
I think a RPi 4 instead will be what I end up going for. Gigabit network and USB 3. May as well just order one now.
Running nicely. Wrote a simple little script to rsync over ssh and copy data back to my home server each night. Starts at 00:30 and runs for 8 hours using the "time limit" parameter on rsync. Had a couple of nights where it has stopped early when there's data left to copy, but I think that's probably the connection dropping out and it not continuing. Does the rest the next night so it's not a disaster.
One thing about the "time limit" option is that it needs to be supported at both ends. I wasn't aware that rsync needed rsync at both ends, hadn't really thought about how it worked tbh. So initially the rsync version on my home server was too old and didn't have the new time limit feature. Had to compile from source, but then that worked fine.