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Homey timeline

honeyhoney Member
edited October 2015 in Archive

While waiting I made this quick interactive timeline to see most of the progress more clearly:

»»» Here is the LINK to the timeline «««


Athom homey timline

The thing is that the mass production is booby trapped (component issues, early failures, tooling issues, etc.) Telling this with many years of experience. Large companies are also seriously affected by these but they have more than one production line and alternative suppliers. Seeing the speed of hardware development (what is not bad for a start-up) the maturity of the software, apps, drivers it is unrealistic to expect the homey before mid December (Kikstarter), January (preorder).
December is one of the worst, the holiday season, burned out people, holidays, long shipping, lost and damaged parcels. Nothing negative, just being honest and realistic.

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  • Fire69Fire69 Member
    edited October 2015

    I'm a pessimist by nature, so don't read too much into this post but...

    What if everything would have gone right with the hardware development? No setbacks with the quality of the enclosure, the corroding feet, the broken leds, ...

    They are still hard at work to complete the OS software and apps for device support.
    If the Homey hardware would have been ready months earlier, I think we still wouldn't have received it much earlier because of the software not being ready.

  • RobinVanKekemRobinVanKekem Member

    If the hardware was perfect the first round, it would have saved testing time.

  • Fire69Fire69 Member

    That's true, but not the 6 months they are behind schedule now.
    (Not complaining, just sayin'! :P )

  • honeyhoney Member
    edited October 2015

    Re. Robin: There is nothing wrong with that. That is typical part of the development process. And things like the rusting legs are completely out of their control. They chose a good looking item and the supplier let them down. The point is that mass production has typical issues as well what they can`t foresee no matter how many testing they will do at this point.

  • honeyhoney Member

    Being late with the software development that is an other matter...

  • RobinVanKekemRobinVanKekem Member

    honey said:
    Re. Robin: There is nothing wrong with that. That is typical part of the development process. And things like the rusting legs are completely out of their control. They chose a good looking item and the supplier let them down. The point is that mass production has typical issues as well what they can`t foresee no matter how many testing they will do at this point.

    Same as @Fire69, not complaining, just an observation ;-)

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