Certabo SW for RPi

[Andrea Gatti]

Hi all, apologies if you already know the following - I simply thought it could have been of help:

As far as I understand, Certabo releases their SW code free of charge. I'm aware of the fact that Certabo sells a RPi solution named "Da Vinci". Apparently, the Da Vinci is a customized RPi/Picochess version that runs and connect to their boards, and allows also to play with their wooden boards on chess servers like chess.com, lichess, FICS.

From their website FAQ:

"Q:Can I receive the source codes of Certabo® software and modify it?"
"A:We would be pleased to give! Certabo® software source codes for PI and PC are available under GPL V3.0 license, this means that as buyer and user of the Certabo® platform you have the right to receive them together with the binary code if you ask for them and do whatever you want but under the same license terms. Our software is freerly available on our github repository"

I've found the following on GitHub: https://github.com/CERTABO

Additionally, those of us owning a Certabo board, could ask Certabo for the SW code, which could be partially used for picochess? Make sense?

Again, sorry if all of the above is already known to the developers here. Just thought it could be interested and maybe useful to progress in the developement.

Cheers

AG

[Santiago Torres]

Certabo is not updated according to the newest Picochess versions.  Therefore, it is expected the newest Picochess version is much more advanced in many ways than the last Certabo version.  Also, Certabo works with a different GUI interface which made it different from Picochess.

Hope this help,

Regards,