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This is the kind of problem to have! Too many sales!
Congrats, obviously this is a huge success and speaks to the popularity of OpenPlotter.
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Maybe a pre-sale would have worked better, that way you'd have a very good idea of number that needed to be produced, and the server wouldn't have gotten slammed so hard.
I was out sailing today, so I missed the whole thing. Hoping the US store will get a larger allotment soon.
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Yeah, we will probably do that for the next batch that is on the way.
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2024-02-11, 12:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 2024-02-11, 12:12 PM by Sailoog.)
Thanks for the tips. We use Prestashop at OpenMarine which is also ready to manage large shops and has lots of modules for mailing, campaigns... but the problem is that the hosting is a shared machine in Germany that was not prepared for that traffic and defenses against DDoS attacks were activated.
In any case, this is not our main activity and we do not intend to be a store with many products and customers. I do not think we will invest more resources in the store, we will simply better prepare the strategy for these specific moments. The intention is to stabilize the stock of MacArthur HATs soon so that there is not much or no wait.
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+1 here for the pre-sale approach. Very keen to get a MacArthur HAT / RPi 5 / OpenPlotter install on my sailing yacht!
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A simple solution could be to pick a slightly more unpopular time.eg 5am.
not everyone will set alarm
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Fantastic! Thank you and everyone involved so much for this amazing piece of tech. Very much looking forward to installing the HAT + MAIANA kit
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Alright, thanks for the update -> I'm in the queue, Christmas comes mid-March!
I am a little confused with the IMU. I recently purchased a pypilot hat, (damn, that stings a bit since its obsolete before I put in on my boat -> that's the fastest technology upgrade I have had to absorb -> all for a good cause though!)
Does the MacArthur Hat come with an IMU or do I need to purchase an additional daughter board (or desolder the one on pypilot hat)? The instructions are not that clear to me.