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faq:faq [2022/11/07 21:35] – [But what if DDL also goes bancrupt?] xanathonfaq:faq [2023/01/10 22:01] (current) – [But what if DDL also goes bancrupt?] xanathon
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 In no special order at the moment, but I may sort them later, for a quick overview refer to the table of contents to the right. If you have a question please send it to xanathon[at]thedroidyouarelookingfor[dot]info, but I'm sorry, I cannot answer them individually. I will collect the questions asked most or of public interest and add answers here. If you need a question urgently answered I suggest you ask it in the [[https://www.facebook.com/groups/AnkiVector/|Official DDL Facebook Group]]. In no special order at the moment, but I may sort them later, for a quick overview refer to the table of contents to the right. If you have a question please send it to xanathon[at]thedroidyouarelookingfor[dot]info, but I'm sorry, I cannot answer them individually. I will collect the questions asked most or of public interest and add answers here. If you need a question urgently answered I suggest you ask it in the [[https://www.facebook.com/groups/AnkiVector/|Official DDL Facebook Group]].
  
-DDL migrated the official Anki troubleshooting page to their own. The design is awful, as with all DDL pages, but there is a lot of information: https://support.digitaldreamlabs.com/collection/6-vector+DDL migrated the official Anki troubleshooting page to their own. The design is awful and not user-friendly, as with all DDL pages, but there is a lot of information: https://support.digitaldreamlabs.com/collection/6-vector
  
 ===== Why do I need to subscribe to use Vector? ===== ===== Why do I need to subscribe to use Vector? =====
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 Digital Dream Labs bought the Anki rights and tech information and continued to provide the servers (and will provide bugfixes and updates). However: to pay developers to code those updates and to maintain the servers is expensive, since the latter run in Amazon cloud and that costs money continuously. In addition to that the voice recognition utilizes Amazon Lex and that also costs money - per single speech recognition request. Seeing how many robots are in the wild there are **a lot** requests every second and that does cost considerable money. Digital Dream Labs bought the Anki rights and tech information and continued to provide the servers (and will provide bugfixes and updates). However: to pay developers to code those updates and to maintain the servers is expensive, since the latter run in Amazon cloud and that costs money continuously. In addition to that the voice recognition utilizes Amazon Lex and that also costs money - per single speech recognition request. Seeing how many robots are in the wild there are **a lot** requests every second and that does cost considerable money.
  
-So DDL started a Kickstarter campaign early this year where you could get lifetime access (and more advanced features) for a relatively small amount of money. After the Kickstarter ended, they introduced a grace period where you could get cloud service access a little more expensive than the Kickstarter prices but still very affordable. That grace period now is over and you can now choose to pay a monthly or yearly fee to keep Vector running. The price is [[https://www.digitaldreamlabs.com/pages/vector-subscription|75$ per year or 10$ per month]].+So DDL started a Kickstarter campaign early in 2020 where you could get lifetime access (and more advanced features) for a relatively small amount of money. After the Kickstarter ended, they introduced a grace period where you could get cloud service access a little more expensive than the Kickstarter prices but still very affordable. That grace period now is over and you can now choose to pay a monthly or yearly fee to keep Vector running. The price is [[https://www.digitaldreamlabs.com/pages/vector-subscription|75$ per year or 10$ per month]].
  
 If you say "but I just bought the robot, why do I have to pay again?": You should complain to the party selling you the robot without telling you about the state of things. If you do not like the fee, return the robot to the seller. If you say "but I just bought the robot, why do I have to pay again?": You should complain to the party selling you the robot without telling you about the state of things. If you do not like the fee, return the robot to the seller.
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-DDL released Wire-Pod for the Kickstarter backers. A local server you can tether Vector to. But it is buggy and missing features, even if they try to sell it for a whopping 99 Dollars. That's a lot for an unfinished, buggy software. **Do not buy it**.+DDL released Escape Pod for the Kickstarter backers. A local server you can tether Vector to. But it is buggy and missing features, even if they try to sell it for a whopping 99 Dollars. That's a lot for an unfinished, buggy software. **Do not buy it**.
  
 You do no longer need to pay DDL: You can install the open source local server [[https://github.com/kercre123/wire-prod-pod|Wire-Pod]] and just run him locally. leaving DDL behind. You do no longer need to pay DDL: You can install the open source local server [[https://github.com/kercre123/wire-prod-pod|Wire-Pod]] and just run him locally. leaving DDL behind.
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 **Escape Pod** was released, but it is buggy and feature incomplete. Despite these facts they try to sell it to you for 99 Dollars. As I said above: Do not buy it. Install [[https://github.com/kercre123/wire-prod-pod|Wire-Pod]] instead. It's free. **Escape Pod** was released, but it is buggy and feature incomplete. Despite these facts they try to sell it to you for 99 Dollars. As I said above: Do not buy it. Install [[https://github.com/kercre123/wire-prod-pod|Wire-Pod]] instead. It's free.
  
-**OSKR** is nearly nonexistent, over two and a half years after the end of the Kickstarter. Nearly nothing promised in th eKickstarter for OSKR was delivered. There is no toolchain, not tools, and the robot sources were not open sourced as was promised.+**OSKR** is nearly nonexistent, over two and a half years after the end of the Kickstarter. Nearly nothing promised in th eKickstarter for OSKR was delivered. There is no toolchain, not tools, and the robot sources were not open sourced as was promised. At the end of 2022 OSKR was pulled completely and is no longer available, not even to Kickstarter backers that are entitled to it.
  
 All in all Digital Dream Labs looks like a scam.  All in all Digital Dream Labs looks like a scam. 
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