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One of our servers will be undergoing emergency maintenance from 10am to 12 noon PDT on October 16, 2025. During this period, some chumby devices may temporarily revert to "clock mode", but should return to normal operation on their own when the server is restored.

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Nice article on Engadget covering ongoing support for old products, includes Chumby:
https://t.co/PQur1hpB1W

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@substars What's broken on it? Even though that's an Infocast, not something we made directly, I *may* have parts....

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@broadwing Yeah, sorry to say. Fortunately the devices are pretty resilient about this sort of thing, but I'd rather not have downtime at all.

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Our hosting provider is currently having connectivity issues which is affecting the devices. @chumby devices may revert to clock mode, but should return to normal when the servers are back online.

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We're pleased to announce the release of #chumby software for #Sonydash, more info at https://t.co/i5pqJ6J6Fv

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@stefanmehlhorn @Sony You're lucky - some folks could not do that because the touchscreen was also disabled for them. We found a fix.

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We have a solution to the "bricked Sony dash" issue @chumby #unbrickyourdash https://t.co/x1ne2kvXq1

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@joelsef @Sony Please don't accept the update.

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If you have a #SonyDash and accept the 1.7.1604 update, we may not be able to support that dash in the future. Many devices are bricking.

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@aghoshal Why "RIP" though? The service is still operating pretty much as it did in 2011, with thousands of devices still using it.

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@mwickens @jsnell Amazon knows where to find us.

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@chumby servers will be undergoing some upgrades and maintenance from 7/1//2017 through 7/4/2017, so there may be some brief outages.

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@Grakthis @davezatz You said you missed your chumby, and I just wanted to point out that it could work today *exactly* like it did then.

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@Grakthis @davezatz During that time, we kept a clock widget, the alarms and the music services completely operational. Sorry that wasn't enough.

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@davezatz @Grakthis So, perhaps, woke up from a brief coma :)

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@davezatz @Grakthis We ran a reduced service for about a year, but that was three years ago.

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@davezatz @Grakthis Again, don't you have to die to be a zombie? Chumby Industries died, but another company took over. Service has been up since 2006.

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@Grakthis @davezatz How so? Don't you have to die to be a ghost?

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@Grakthis @davezatz What happened to it?