I would be very interested in the Polycom info you have Paul I just found 4 of them on Kijiji and I am  configuring the Pi shortly.

Cheers
Mike

Just wanted to share a snapshot of the mesh as of now. Look at the attached jpg file.

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Hi,

Being a newbie in the network field the answer may seam obvious to all, but I'll post it any way.

I am 1/5 into the recomended book, so I may find my answer there, but as always I want the project to get up and running as fast as possible

I am building a remote node high in the mountains, being run by a battery and a solar power.

I bought a Terracom TCW122B-CM controller to monitor the battery status and temperatures on the node.

I can access this fine on a wired ethernet at home, and over regular wifi connected to the ethernet but under testing with 2 x mesh nodes in the shop, I cannot get an answer from the controller.

I have tried to ping it with out luck.

It has the address 192.168.1.2 which for some reason I cannot reach over MESH.

I hope someone can help me here.

73

Glen LA1ZUA

YES (to both questions)

We are doing that right now on several stations.

At my personal QTH, I have a dish on one and an omni on another (see Menu-APPLICATIONS-Towercam over mesh for pictures).

At a hospital, we have 2 nodes, one with an omni and dish, the other node with 2 dishes, tied together via CAT5 LAN to LAN. Plans are to possibly add a 3rd node for 2 more dishes to reach additional destinations.

Happy Meshing!

KTF

Could i run one antenna port to an amplifier then  to my dish for transmit, and have an omni on the other antenna port? could i run a dish facing north on one, and a dish facing south on the other? so i can cover twice as much area??

SO, with my mesh node running with a 24dbi parabolic dish, lets say i were to get an 8 watt amp, as another poster in this forum did, 8 watts into 24dbi, wouldnt that work out to OVER 6kw EIRP??? wouldnt that cook you like a microwave, or a bird or animal in front of the dish? Im not sure what would happen if there was a neighbor behind me that a bad heart and my dish would be 35-40 feet high, but its still in their general direction. Thanks

It should ping right away. Make sure to set your computer as a static IP address and it is in the 192.168.1.x/24 address range. I normally short pins now instead of JTAG due to it being much faster than a 2-hour load. I am by no means condemning the JTAG route. If you do go that route, instead of flashing the flash chip using a JTAG cable, just erase the nvram and kernel, and then the router will automatically go into TFTP mode for flashing upon it's next power cycle.

I am glad you found it useful. I do agree the Cisco (and Polycom) phones are a pain to figure out how to configure, but once you have one configured, the other ones are much less difficult to do. I do have a video made on how to configure the Cisco 79xx phones along with the configuration files. I also have documentation, firmware files, and configuration files on configuring the Polycom phones too. Once these are uploaded to the website, I will make a note of it here. And also, 2M voice may be easier, but where's the fun in that? :P

73,
Paul, KF5JIM

I tried to short the pins, and will have to try it again I didn't leave it up long enough. Will it ping right away or after the 5 minutes?

I tired a lot of these some months back but never  had a real reason to get this up and going now I do :)

Thanks again.

I have also only read the RFC about multicast over OLSR and I am not sure if it is already implemented in olsrd plugin.

I haven't been working with APRS myself, but AFAIK if you are running APRS on the router itself, it will happily broadcast and re-broadcast APRS messages into wireless segment. And if the neighbouring node is also running APRS, they will hear each other and start talking.

Solution with the tunnels I proposed yesterday is for the case when you must cross several HSMM-only hops to reach your APRS partner or if you don't want to run APRS daemon on the node itself.

BTW, I can see it useful to have APRS relay as a part of HSMM distro. Even if you don't do APRS yourself, having APRS on your node will let you relay someone else's information. And Kristoff if you are into APRS over HSMM, maybe you could package it into a HSMM-MESH compatible plugin so everyone could benefit?

Chances are you did not corrupt the bootloader, as that is hard to do. The easier of the three (CFE, NVRAM, and Kernel) is to corrupt the nvram on the flash chip. A simple shorting of the two respective pins and TFTPing the stock linksys firmware back to the device should solve your problems. Also, remember to leave the device powered on for ~5 minutes after flashing to allow it to fully boot up and do it's thing. Only use JTAG if all else fails.

Take a look at the posts located here: http://www.hsmm-mesh.org/hsmm-mesh-forums/view-postlist/forum-3-firmware/topic-566-wrt54g-firmware-crash.html

Howdy,

Sometime ago before I recently became a amateur radio operator I had a WRT54G. I tried to flash it to DDWRT, but was never successful. I believe that I bricked the unit that I have. I was wondering if anyone has had experience with un-bricking them?

Thanks,

KK4URZ