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Re:Introducing the Photon by mark-r on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @05:29PM (#8598700)
How hard is it to reprogram the device to use your own server using that back end? How about if you wanted to do your own back end?
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Re:Introducing the Photon by mcescalante on Thursday November 13, 2014 @11:08AM (#8602247)
I believe that to do this without using any of the existing firmware you would just want to grab a JTAG programmer and flash your own version of their firmware, or a custom blend of something. Flashing it is easy and they've got plenty of instructions on the web.
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Re:Introducing the Photon by middleca on Thursday November 13, 2014 @02:21PM (#8603450)
You can actually do this with a usb cable, or flash your own firmware over the air, you'd only need a jtag programmer if you wanted to replace the open-source bootloader :)
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Re:Introducing the Photon by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @09:45PM (#8599650)
I'm assuming it's just one function call?
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