Sunny+Share is a sharing platform based on the concept of PirateBox and LibraryBox.
A few reasons...
- The name... Silly as it might sound, "PirateBox" isn't the kind of thing that attracts "normal" non-hacker types to take a look. It scares them off. In several months of traveling around with a PirateBox based router, not a single person contributed any content to it, and I never noticed any live connections other than my own. Others have reported similar results. The "Sunny" part comes from my intent to run this on a solar power system when camping with a large group. The rest of the name is just a bad pun...
- Updates... The latest PirateBox release is based on a three year old version of OpenWRT with "some backports" from an only two year old version. I ran into several kernel bugs with the version of OpenWRT in PirateBox on a TP-Link WR842 that made it impossible to use a USB->SATA->SSD arrangement I wanted to use for storage. OpenWRT trunk versions as of around 24-Apr-2016 fix the issues, but older releases exhibit various USB disconnect & failure to enumerate issues.
- Simplicity... The tangled series of scripts that make up the PirateBox install & boot process are far more complicated than necessary. Sunny+Share uses a significantly abbreviated startup process & a one-step install (just flash the router & reboot w/ a USB storage device inserted).
- There's talk of Pi? After fighting with trying to get MiniDLNA running without running out of RAM on a tiny TP-Link router, I ran out of four-letter words... Time for some π...
- Did I say pi? I meant C.H.I.P... Yeah. That's my final answer. (Seriously the USB support on the Pi Zero is wrecked...)