Firewalla Purple SE PreSale

November 11, 2022 18:56
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Thank you all for providing feedback on the idea of a lower-cost purple unit; the temporary name is now Purple SE (special edition). Since this is an existing board, bringing this to market should be fairly easy. So, as usual, we are considering setting up a pre-sale for this unit to give you an extra discount when we build them in bulk.

We will start the presale of the unit on 11/21/2022 Morning 8 AM Pacific Time. Special discount coupons will be distributed the Friday (11/18/2022 Pacific Time). Even if you don't get a coupon, the price will be a nice one, as usual :)

The software running on the Purple SE will be based on the Purple:

Perfect for WAN speeds lower than 500Mbit
No built-in WiFi; can be extended with the Firewalla WiFi SD if needed.
The retail price of the unit is likely 229 to 249 dollars. The pre-order price will be lower.
This unit will have the same capabilities as the Purple, including router, bridge mode, and VLAN support.
2GB RAM, 16GB EMMC Storage, Quad Core ARM Processor, 2x Gigabit Interface
Presale Date: End of November
Shipping date January 20th to March 20th.

To Signup for the presale deal: https://firewalla.com/purplese

Based on the number of signups, we will finalize the presale and delivery dates (and better pricing). Before the presale, we will send you a special discount code to be used during the launch (bringing down the price even further!).

If we do not have enough signups, we may not start this project, so please help us spread the word!

What is Purple SE?

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Firewalla

February 04, 2023 23:59
Are you trying to connect to your RPI4 remotely? or LAN? if LAN traffic does not go through firewalla. If remote, you will need to port forward on the router, not firewalla
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Andy Taylor

February 05, 2023 10:46
I used this guide to set up my RPI: https://peyanski.com/home-assistant-remote-access/

Soon as Firewalla took over, it killed all access both on LAN and remotely and only way to get back in is to remove monitoring.
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Firewalla

February 05, 2023 17:55
Linkly your main router may not be forwarding correctly, can you double check the port forwarding there? Also, the purple se should be a pretty good router (featureful) for slow networks, you really should try to use the router mode.
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Andy Taylor

February 06, 2023 00:50

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Yep works a treat now I've set it as my router, just need to fix a few rules on my network where I've set port forward and had static IP addresses for a couple of devices.
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Firewalla

February 06, 2023 18:43
Great! The Purple SE strength is router and bridge modes :)
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Andy Taylor

February 08, 2023 16:03
Everything working well so far. Just a generic question, I'm using an Netgear Orbi Rbk50 mesh network with a few extra satellites. Should I be turning off monitoring on the satellites and the router? It's set in AP mode. Is there a lot of extra processing done by Firewalla box over the backhaul channels if I leave monitoring on?
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Firewalla

February 08, 2023 17:09
If you are running in router mode, you do not need to do anything extra. It should just work. Firewalla does not touch the backhaul channels.
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Firewalla

February 13, 2023 17:12
Update:

The final shipment of the Purple SE is more likely in early March instead of late February. This is due to the app version 1.53 may need a bit of time to mature on the other platforms.
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Andy Taylor

February 17, 2023 12:57

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Just wanted to say thanks. Been having serious issues with my broadband speed. Using Purple SE in router mode and running speed tests identified that there was an issue with my Virgin Media hub as speed kept dropping on the tests. End result, they upgraded me to a new Superhub 5 and my speed has been solid for 2 days now.

On the back of this, I'd love it if the automated speed test could be set to run more frequently than once a day. Could you open this up so it could be set to run hourly during a set time-range?
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Firewalla

February 21, 2023 19:12
Update:

We are very close to shipping the Purple SE. Very likely to be next week or the week after (beginning of March). App 1.53 will be released to production before shipping. If you changed address, please send help@firewalla.com an email
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Firewalla

February 27, 2023 18:25

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Update:

App 1.53 now released in production mode. Purple SE will be shipping end of the week (March 3rd) or early March 6th. If you need to change address, please let us know help@firewalla.com

Once the unit exit the pre-sale, we will increase the price a little bit to reflect that.
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Firewalla

March 03, 2023 21:55
Update:

Purple SE will start shipping for pre-orders Monday 3/6/2023

Since we made a few (not a lot) extras, we will start selling the units Monday 3/6/2023. The price will be slightly more than the preorder price.
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Firewalla

March 06, 2023 06:14
Update:

Purple SE pre-sale units have already been loaded into our warehouse. It will be sent out Monday, 3/6/2023. (and some may be on 3/7/2023)
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