Source_Code and I met on Discord. We were looking at some of the same things and teamed up after chatting for a little. We tinkered a little at first, and Source_Code built a POC monitoring script that included some of the base helium container functions. I relearned the little I knew re-writing it as a lite version.
We started editing the miner’s sys.config and testing the results with others who were doing the same through github and discord.(You might recall the Helium or your manufacturer’s announcement about returning the sys.config to the form related to the release being run, this was one of the discoveries we made during our first Firmware update experience while tinkering with the miner files and software) This led us to the idea that we could do better than what we had seen so far. One night we were talking about random things and Source_Code mentioned he could fit 5 more miners or something like that on the raspberry pi miners we’d been tinkering with. I think in January 2022 this would have sounded insane to most people, but we’d done so much in such a short time, and Source_Code had produced every time. We’d have an idea, I’d dig up every bit of resources I could find on the subject or code base etc, and a few days later source would bring our idea to life. So, when he said he could do it, as crazy as the concept might have been back then, I had 100% faith he could do it. So, I started searching for a way to bring the idea to everyone and not just a few guys who built it, and the people they knew. We discussed 1000 possibilities, and figured out the ones we could manage to assure we were able to produce the best miner on the market, with the best earning potential for anyone from the new helium user to the experts. I think we tested 3-4 different brand’s hardware 2-3 different OS’s, 3 Lora Module Cards, and quite a few DIY, Self-Built and Forked Firmware packages.