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Any DECT (NR) stuff is super expensive if you build embedded software/hardware for it. It's basically Nordic-only.

Difficult within the EU due to ISM limits.

Maybe ok for your garden camera where the authorities just don't care. But no go for any industrial usage.

That's not controlled, seamless hand-over as we know it from GSM/3G/LTE/5G for 30 years now.

We basically miss all data (received stations/signal levels from both sides, Bit Rate errors, etc.) for making roaming decisions and then to softly connect them to an AP you want them to be on.

Enterprise WiFi is currently mostly "This is a list of APs you maybe can connect to.. have fun.. if you can connect we pre-seeded the AP with some crypto data, so it doesn't take ages to negotiate. Here's your (more or less friendly) disassoc. Fuck off bye."

It does somehow work for stationary setups - but as soon as you have mobile traffic (like walking around or machines moving) with multiple APs the quality hits the shitter brutally.

Currently this gap is being filled by industrial 5G with dedicated frequencies. It's crazy expensive.

You are not missing too much.

One of the core features (MLO) is currently mostly scam. APs/Clients negotiate the protocol (and it shows up in the status) but doesn't it to either increase robustness or bandwidth (by combining/switching between two frequency bands).

Also the driver quality is a huge mess.

(We tested it using the latest generation Cisco Enterprise gear but also with Prosumer stuff like Ubiquiti or TP-Link)

But honestly: we need WiFi-8. It finally brings infrastructure-controlled roaming which is super important for any VoIP service.

No. They have their own API endpoint.

Have a look at Tensorix for EU.

Let me reword this for you: super cheap Asian frontier models can cause harm to your overpriced business model.

Just use an EU- or US-hosted Asian Opensource model. They will spit out everything.

Same. I love reverse engineering embedded stuff.

Even the cheap LLMs are great in doing the awful crud work in the beginning: finding offsets, firmware update file structures, brute forcing checksums, etc.

It still produces a lot of crap in the later steps (understanding the implementation itself) but I'm happy doing this stuff myself then.

A lot of smartphones support raw format.

It's fascinating to see how much post-processing gets done.

GrapheneOS has this.

You can use from EU/US hosters. No need to send data to China.

There are EU/US providers offering Deepseek/Qwen/Kimi/etc.-as-a-Service. With zero ties of their infrastructure to China.

Fully compatible with the well known Antrophic API.

You only have to replace the URL and your key.

A lot of it/infrastructure departments aren't aware that you can use Asian models hosted within the US or even EU.

You can receive a lot of weather satellites with self-build equipment utilizing the tool "SatDump". But: the good old times of 137MHz analog satellite pictures are over. We talking about digital high-rate X-Band stuff (~8GHz) that requires auto-tracked dishes here.

Sentiel-2 data can be pulled for free from the Copernicus service. It's a LEO sat and you often get a picture every 2 days of the same region.

DWD (German Meteo Service) offers a metric ton of data on their FTP Server as public data.

Still the linked article reads like slop

Codeberg ironed out a lot of issues in Forgejo

The problem is that their performance is too far away from the latest generation of Asian models.

They had kept up in the mid-range a few years ago. But this standing is sadly long gone.

If you need a fast Opensource'ed LLMs you can go for EU-hosted DeepSeek or Qwen.

The 841N works with OpenWRT. But AFAIR pretty much an EOL device with not much flash/ram.

> Censys ARC identified 4,148 Internet-exposed hosts that respond to EtherNet/IP and self-identify as Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley. The United States remains dominant at 71.0% (2,945 hosts), with Canada a clear second at 11.5% (476 hosts).

Describe the network security of the industrial automation industry and their customers in a single statement. Lol.

Depends: long distance links with a lot of reliable bandwidth is still very demanding.

Long distance links with only a few bps or kbit/s are a solved problem (LoRa).

Wi-Fi with directional antennas can make long distance links easily.

Just have a look at the European Hamnet network: https://hamnetdb.net/map.cgi - There are a lot of hill-to-hill connections with 60-100km range and plenty of SNR left. Even a few links around 150km.

In professional context these super long links need a very very precise link budget planing to get enough 'nines' in their reliability rating. One of the reasons why you are not seeing them too often.

Wiping out multi-million military equipment with basically a waste pipe that has attached wings...

China like "Let us starve the EU a little bit on all crucial electronics components so they can overthink their decision".

Difficult to negotiate if you are all in on a Asian supply chain to get your stuff done.

Not if you limit yourself to 5pcs.

You need a project pipeline. I always have 3-4 of them running because of the waiting times.