Hello,
GHL has nothing to do with the lack of USB support for Windows emulation on Macs.
Hi Gaël - Respectfully - that was not the insinuation whatsoever. USB on ANY emulated platform is terrible. It is not GHLs fault, but the reality is that the situation it puts Mac users (there are a LOT of us) in an untenable situation.
Also, the more environments you add to support, the more development slows down and the more problems accumulate.
The way forward is a full web multi-platform environment.
Let me address this with my perspective, that I am sure many other GHL users likely share.
1) Firstly, there are only two relevant platforms in home computing. Microsoft Windows and Apple MacOS. Like it or not, the MacOS has a tremendous marketshare. I think it is incumbent on anybody developing hardware/software at this scale to recognize that and develop to support both platforms. There is really no middle ground.
2) Secondly, I would not be going to far out on a limb and say that most of us are not (AT ALL) hoping for a "web platform" environment tied to your (or anybodies) servers. We don't want to rely on an internet connection or worry if the hardware vendor has paid their hosting bill, goes out of business or decides that they need to start charging a subscription to cover the hosting costs.
Moreover (again respectfully) as much as I truly love my GHL hardware, I am not at all pleased with the state or speed of the dashboard or the fact that I have to rely on a hosted server somewhere to see most tracked parameters. It is (frankly) rather terrible. Yes, development and resources cost money but, but the current state of the dashboard is far from ideal and barely useable. Throw 2x - 3x at bandwidth and processing without charging me more, then I may not be so critical.
GHL is working on this. Firmware updating should be possible over the air by the end of the year,
That would be a tremendous step forward that I think would be welcomed by all of us. I don't know how much memory is available on the devices but combining this fact with the "web" based universal app. The control center GUI needs to be hosted from the devices, not some AWS instance. I (to reiterate) don't think most people want to be reliant on an internet hosted resource to manage their local device or see results. I would in-fact purchase a NEW Profilux model if that is what it took to get the added local management and hosed reporting results.
My comments are not meant to be insulting. As you may have learned about me, I speak my mind good or bad, especially when the purchase/investment is as substantial as what I have spent in less than a year with GHL.
The bottom line, I love the hardware and the capabilities and feel that this is the best platform on the market. At the same time I think the control center is a decade or more past its spoil date the dashboard is crippling slow with a UI that is barely serviceable and also from a previous generation of layout and design.
Looking forward to whatever improvements are on the horizon.
P.S. - can you confirm that there is no way to self host a page on the P4 like there was on the P3 - building my own dashboard with the JSON data would solve 70% of my current frustration.
but that is okay - we are getting somewhere!
