since the Chumby servers went offline earlier this year, [Huan] discovered himself with a few of these tiny, extremely hackable Web gadgets lying around. He’s likewise getting tired of his NAS as well as desired a method to sync folders between all his computers. integrate the two desires, as well as you can make a personal cloud with a Chumby, thanks to some assist from the people at BitTorrent Labs.
[Huan] is utilizing BitTorrent Sync for his Dropbox-like server. After producing a webkit interface for BitTorrent Sync, [Huan] packed up his Chumby with new firmware, set up a few folders to be synced, as well as let the Chumby do all the work.
It’s not precisely fast, provided the Chumby’s wireless connection as well as USB 1.1 for an outside disk drive, however it’s more than sufficient to keep your personal job folders synced across several computers. As a bonus, it’s likewise very, very secure, getting around most of the security issues cloud solutions entail.