Preorders Have Started. (Previously named starts in two hours)

[Luke-Jr]

Linked it in /r/Bitcoin and /r/Pyra.

 

[Caine]

If you're asking for the "reason for transfer", that's given in the awaiting bank transfer mail in my case, though it's called Überweisungsgrund in my mail. It's the same 9 upper case letter code as the order id.

The 9 letter code is the order reference. On the order summary page there was also a 6 number ID at the bottom. The part saying:

Your order ID is: #000000. Your Order ID has been sent via email.

 

[WizardStan]

Not too bad given that the pre-order date wasn't announced very long in advance.

Has it been announced outside this forum at all?

 

[hitbyambulance]

since i have a Craig Pandora IOU (voucher can't be provided yet), should i wait to order until the financial situation sorts itself out?

 

[Seyer_Nairda]

Sigh. looks at the price. Realizes I'm too young for a credit card. Then realizes that my Bitcoin wallet only had like 5 bucks in it. I'll never get to see the Pyra in my own hands.

 

[Agricola]

since i have a Craig Pandora IOU (voucher can't be provided yet), should i wait to order until the financial situation sorts itself out?

Yes. At least 1500 units have to be sold before such vouchers can be used (because it's still a small company that needs a profit margin for their hard work). Look at the lower part of the provided link for source. Or did I understand the IOU wrong? I actually don't know all the different things Craig screwed up and how it was handled since then, it's a way too messy situation for any outsider to understand.

 

[Faust]

Ordered!

But unlike with the pre-preorder, I still didn't recieve any code via mail yet. Has anybody recieved theirs?

The same for me, but for the pre Pre-order, I didn't received any email.

Even if I don't pay the pre-order now, will I keep my number from the pre-pre-order? I mean like paying the Pre-order in one month.

Right now I haven't money, but I want to take the 2 GB 4G unit later.

Edit : answered found in the FAQ, thanks.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

So I was thinking of supporting the 4G model just for "future-proofing". I don't myself really use mobile network in current life situation, and thus was thinking if there is hardware switch to turn it off when not used, or is disabling only done by not loading kernel module?

There's an AT modem command to switch the entire chip off.

 

[slaeshjag]

02:01:39| <phanboet> Total preorders: 134 [88 networked; 4 2GB, 130 4GB] {Stand2GB: 3, Stand4GB: 43, US2GB: 0, US4GB: 24, EU2GB: 1, EU4GB: 63} @ 2016-05-01 02:00:18 CEST

Not much love for the 2GB version.

 

[Alec]

If anyone wants to keep track of the count, I made a quick scraper. I might integrate it into the Pandora Stalker later. Unfortunately, I don't have much time this weekend.

Edit: You can get the current counts from here: http://stalker.openpandora.org/preorder.json

It's a static file updated every 5 minutes, so if anyone wants to make a JS widget or something like that, feel free.

Spoiler: Code

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Public domain

from __future__ import print_function
import lxml.html
import lxml.cssselect
import datetime
import json

try:
  from urllib.request import urlopen
except ImportError:
  from urllib import urlopen


editions = {
  "SE2" : "https://www.dragonbox.de/en/354-pyra-preorder-standard-edition-2gb-ram-pyra.html",
  "SE4" : "https://www.dragonbox.de/en/415-pyra-preorder-standard-edition-4gb-ram-pyra.html",
  "US2" : "https://www.dragonbox.de/en/353-pyra-preorder-mobile-ed-us-2gb-ram-pyra.html",
  "US4" : "https://www.dragonbox.de/en/414-pyra-preorder-mobile-ed-us-ver-4gb-ram-pyra.html",
  "EU2" : "https://www.dragonbox.de/en/355-pyra-preorder-mobile-ed-eu-vers-2gb-ram-pyra.html",
  "EU4" : "https://www.dragonbox.de/en/416-pyra-preorder-mobile-ed-eu-vers-4gb-ram-pyra.html",
}

sel = lxml.cssselect.CSSSelector('p#pQuantityAvailable > span#quantityAvailable')
total = 0
results = {}
for ed, url in editions.items():
  page = urlopen(url).read()
  tree = lxml.html.fromstring(page)
  count = 2000 - int(sel(tree)[0].text)
  total += count
  results[ed] = count
results["total"] = total
results["timestamp"] = datetime.datetime.utcnow().isoformat()
print(json.dumps(results, indent=2, sort_keys=True))

 

[matzesu]

So as my Order are taken i think i can now fell asleep
Good night and hopefully tomorow there will be at least one zero more behind the amount of odered Pyras..

 

[ible]

as of right now:
SE4 43
SE2 3
US4 24
US2 0
EU4 63
EU2 1
Total: 134

[edit] oops, scooped by someone else.

sent in ma money for a US 4GB one. had to login to my bank account using the native language, was experiencing "technical difficulties" in english...

 

[risho]

with the sim cards does it only work with gsm? what size sim card fits? does it work with cdma?

do you have a plan on when you think you will be shipping? i'm definately thinking about preordering but i'm wondering these few things

 

[slaeshjag]

Shellscript used by phanboet: http://p.rdw.se/preorders_counter.sh.txt

 

[Caine]

If anyone wants to keep track of the count, I made a quick scraper. I might integrate it into the Pandora Stalker later. Unfortunately, I don't have much time this weekend.

Let's not put an unnecessary load on the server. An infrequent poll from Pandora Stalker may be ok, but we don't want everybody to have such a script looping on a low delay.

 

[Djoga'Ro]

The 9 letter code is the order reference. On the order summary page there was also a 6 number ID at the bottom. The part saying:

M'kay, what's that reference good for then?

 

[FIQ]

Sigh. looks at the price. Realizes I'm too young for a credit card. Then realizes that my Bitcoin wallet only had like 5 bucks in it. I'll never get to see the Pyra in my own hands.

"only like 5 bucks" You realize that's like €2k, right?

 

[Caine]

M'kay, what's that reference good for then?

Not sure, but my assumption is that the reference is the actual one that matters here and the ID is the regular DragonBox order ID.

I'm sure that ED will clarify once he gets back to the boards.

 

[matzesu]

Seems like lots of peaple wants 4GB..
Our goverment wants to take the 500 € Notes out of services because war against terror,
Hopefully they dosnt find out about bitcoins..

But whe should be save, as our female Kanzeler Merkel said some yeahrs ago "Internet is Newland" ^^

 

[vcoleiro1]

I feel that ED should make it more clear what the final price will be on each options preorder page. As it is now, the only figure you see clearly is the deposit amount (which is not even labelled as a deposit until you get to the More info section).

Actual costs etc all seems to be buried in the More Info section

I can see people coming back later and complaining about all this.


Also, can someone decrypt what this is saying:

"
Order now and receive it...
Between Mi 4 and Fr 6 with UPS Express Saver International

Between Mo 9 and Mo 6 with Signed Mail

Between Do 12 and Mo 6 with DHL Weltpaket International"