Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Purchase and setup of monitor calibration device

[Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@gmail.com>]

You forgot one important point:
It's a completely open product!
ColorHug is OpenHardware. The software is OpenSource (hosted at github).

Concerning setting up your computer with the generated profile:
I think that should be possible with colord.

Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > You maybe want to have a look at ColorHug:
> > http://www.hughski.com/
> > I don't own one, but it should work just fine.
> >
> 
> I'm still not sure if I feel the need greatly enough to invest in one,
> but this looks like a very nice solution.  They offer a LiveCD which
> you can use to just create an icc file which you can save to media or
> they have a free pastebin-like site that you can post them to for a
> week to retrieve after you reboot into your main OS.  That means you
> can trivially use this solution on numerous computers without
> installing drivers/etc or worrying about compatibility.  I'm sure
> getting it working natively on Gentoo wouldn't be a big deal either.
> 
> For $100 it doesn't seem like a bad deal.  It does look like you have
> to take care of the import side yourself (I've never actually done
> that which is ironic since I've spent the last two years working on a
> system for automating corporate import declarations - I imagine the
> courier will handle it for a fee - I doubt the duties are much).  I
> guess they don't just do what all the cheap Amazon vendors do and
> stamp "gift" on the outside of the package.
> 
> -- 
> Rich
>