Has Pycom given up supporting legacy products?

[jcaron]

@James-Pruet said in Has Pycom given up supporting legacy products?:

Pycom continues to release new products

I’d rather say they continue to announce new products rather than actually release new ones.

https://forum.pycom.io/topic/6929/micropython-version-update/10

[Bettina]

@jcaron Hi James, We have had some issues staffing our support ticketing system which has now been resolved. If you send me an email (bettina@pycom.io) with your ticket number I'll try and push it up the queue.

[James Pruet]

@Bettina I don't have a ticket, I was hoping you'd have developers interested in what bugs users are experiencing by reading the forums and trying to fix said bugs... like pretty much any other reputable hardware/software company.

This still doesn't answer the question though. I'm not asking about ticketing systems, does Pycom have anyone developing legacy products still? Is there a single developer dedicated to GPy or FiPy? Are those projects just completely frozen/dead?

[robert-hh]

@James-Pruet Pycom just announced that they will not sell the legacy products any more after 2022. Support will fade away even further then, I guess.

[James Pruet]

@robert-hh Where did they announce that? And does that mean the whole GPy / FiPy / etc. line is going away or it's being updated and older versions of it will no longer be supported?

[robert-hh]

@James-Pruet The have sent an E-Mail to their custormers. Part of that reads:

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Announcing the “End of Life” of our current portfolio
Since we designed, developed, and launched our existing range of products from 2015 onwards, a number of components used have become / are becoming obsolete. This, in addition to the current complexities with component sourcing means that it is no longer viable to maintain the existing portfolio. It is therefore our intent to phase out the following product range (powered by the ESP32) by December 2022:

WiPy3
LoPy4
FiPy
GPy
L01
L04
G01
W01

Invitation to Last Time Buy
We invite all our customers to place a last time buy order for the following ESP32 legacy products: L01, G01, W01, LoPy4, FiPy and GPy. We will then in turn place a last time order on our factories with a view to supplying these by December 2022.

[James Pruet]

@robert-hh Good to know, thank you. Well, with the OEM modules coming out, I'm ok with this. Hopefully they get back to the firmware side of things with their big OEM push.

[robert-hh]

@James-Pruet The new modules based on the STM controller and the Muarata Radio look like the better platform.

[James Pruet]

Yeah, and micropython is still supported which is nice. I do wonder about power consumption with the 32-bit ARM®Cortex ® -M7 they are using vs ESP32 S3. I also hope this "Device Cloud" isn't somehow forced but just optional (from press release yesterday).

[robert-hh]

@James-Pruet This combination of a STM32 with ARM7 core and Muarata radio is on a Pyboard D-SF6, and works pretty well.