I was out in the aquaponics greenhouse, cleaning up after winter and preparing to install yet another node, with a camera or two and some telemetry from the aquaponics greenhouse. Like water temp, greenhouse temp, maybe a fish tank cam in the 1100 gallon koi tank.

I had a thought... With all these nodes I have spread around... How can I measure the relative signal strength of all my nodes at like say the QTH node or maybe the Chappell Hill node? Other than some percentage of link status?

I live on a farm. I have nodes in different buildings, spread around 7 acres. I have questions about antennas and gain – do I really need a BIG antenna way over there on the aquaponics greenhouse? Can I lower the gain on the other greenhouse since it is closer to the QTH and the Chappell Hill node up at 50 ft. covering the country side? The only easy way to quickly compare alternatives (and I have stuff to swap out and around) would be some sort of constantly updating signal strength comparison between nodes since they are all on the same channel.

It's easy to compare various nodes on a wif fi scan – not so much for a bunch of nodes all on the same channel on BBHN!

I think this could be something useful for folks like me with multiple nodes to tinker with and need a quick and dirty diagnostic tool...

Just thinking out loud... Anyone have any ideas?

Bill – N5MBM