Well, it's either that or you have to get some other general piece of hardware that requires even more know-how to get up and running, or you have to use one of the node-on-a-phone options, like Zeus or Phoenix, which have their own tradeoffs.
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You still haven’t answered my question. But any way.
I am sorry, I thought I had. Did my response not acknowledge that buying a Start9 is not needed, and that there are other options, it's just that each of those options come with their own tradeoffs as well?