No problem. Of course you can test peering with me.

Just drop me an email when you feel ready.

Very interesting post, I will try configure like you explain.

For test it, I want know if you are available for link with you my node.

Thanks

Waldek, I have the project of use the two networks: 

-Use Hamnet in 5ghz ( 802.11a )

-Use HSMM mesh in 2,5 ghz ( 802.11g/b )

and suppose is posible make a local link betwen the two networks , with making routing configurations.

Now I am making testings with mesh ( I have the linksys router ) and in a next dates I will buy the Microtik& ubiquiti Hardware for 5ghz, hamnet.

Work in progres...

73's

Hi, I am Miguel, from Spain, in a test phase of my new hsmm mesh node. This is the presentation msg in the forum. 73’s to all members.

I have more doubts, one, is how connect via vpn to the rest of the network of the rest of the world, but Jim K5KTF explain to me, that this are in phase of test  .  I am interested  on this.

I have my main node started for making tests and later I will  put on the roof of my station with  and omni dir antenna for give coverage to my city area.

I am waiting for obtain a second router wrt54gl, for configure it as client ( and connect my laptop ) and test the user access to main node.

But I want ask if it is possible for test purposes, configure a” wrt54gl virtual machine” in my laptop, with is built-in wifi radio, or pcmcia wifi radio hw,  install the hsmm mesh firmware in this virtual machine, and test the client access. ( really I wan use my laptop as a router and pc client ), any ideas? .

Thanks and 73s

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Miguel Bahi Cruz

EB5JEQ Amateur Radio Station www.eb5jeq.es

ECB03KBQ "galaxia5" CB RADIO STATION

Elche Alicante Spain

email & skype : miguelbahi_cruz@hotmail.com

Sysop of

EB5JEQ-1 AX25 Node BPQnet BPQ32 144.825MHZ

EB5JEQ-8 TCPIP Node Ampr.org Net JNOS, 144.825MHZ ( in test )

QRUEB5JEQ Aprs QRUserver ( APRSIS32 )

[Note: See also AC0LV's post ("WalkieTalkie and Androic")  in the 'General' category that addresses this issue.]

I'm a newbie to all this, but my understanding is that you can attach a non-modified WiFi router to a mesh node to create a hotspot from which anyone with WiFi can gain access to the mesh.

Assume you have two such hotspots (at separate locations) on a mesh.  Would that make it possible for users with smartphones (Android or iPhone) to converse between these locations using VOIP programs and their WiFi connections, in the absence of 'regular' cellular service? 

Has anyone tried this?  Is there a particular VOIP smartphone app that exists for this sort of thing?  Clearly Skype uses VOIP (I guess the basic mobile phone does, too!) so it's clearly possible.  But it needs to be peer-to-peer.

It seems that this could be extremely useful in the immediate aftermath of disasters such as Katrina or the typhoon in the Philippines.  If responders have the VOIP software on their phones, they don't need have a radio or to get to a radio, they just need to get to a hotspot. 

To me, if most people already carry smartphones with WiFi capability,  it seems more efficient to spend money creating hotspots than on hardware VOIP adaptors.

Comments?

Well I loaded up the hsmm-mesh but I used the script and it downloaded it all seemed to go well but I have yet to manage to log into the raspberry to configure it? I tried your write up in this thread and even localnode:8080 and cannot seem to get into the raspberry/mesh status page?

Any suggestions? I am hooking an ethernet cable from my PC directly to the raspberry just as I have done with a router.

Sounds like it might have been a fluke and Asterisk failed to start. Did you try an "amportal restart" in a SSH Console? If so, what was its output? How did your setups at your home and club meeting differ? Does/Did your home/club-setup mesh network have internet services made availabe? Did you install the fake hardware clock? Do you shutdown the Raspberry Pi properly through a terminal window?

As these type of things are a case-by-case basis, I would be interested in seeing your log files when this error occurs. You can find your log files on the Raspberry Pi here: /var/log/asterisk/ (that last part "/asterisk/" is a guess. It could be something different/similar).

Sometimes, it might just be easier to backup your configuration files and just re-image the Raspberry-Asterisk package to the SD Card (as that process does not take too terribly long). And afterwords...paying close attention to re-installing the fake-hwclock and properly shutting down the Pi. I have yet to experience any issues when paying close attention to the above items.

Everything has been working fine for weeks.  Have taken the system down and brought it back up on several occasions, but as always happens with a demo, I was going to demo the Asterisk PBX with phones on 4 mesh nodes at a radio club meeting last night.  Murphy raised his ugly head.

The phones seemed to find the TFTP server just fine and configured themselves as expected.  But no cigar.  All phones just gave the re-order tones when trying to dial another extension.

Logging in to the FreePBX Admin program showed a Server Status of ERROR for Asterisk while other servers were listed as OK.

Not a Linux guru, so looking for help as where to turn next.

Again, all had been working just fine until I tried to do a real demo.

Steve G./N4TTY

Can I get two (or more) Mesh-Nodes to establish a link over Ethernet?  The two nodes are on oppsite sides of a building and can't see eachother via RF.

--73 de Doug

All,

  Any BBHN users planning on going to ARRL's Convention next year?

  It would be nice to see a large scale Mesh-Network.

--73 de N1OBU

Ryan:

Code to display GPS coords on a mesh status page is in this article.

http://hsmm-mesh.org/applications-for-the-mesh/145-gps-on-a-mesh-node.html

KTF

When you said: "...OpenWRT, OLSR, and any other pieces..." is there a way to know what's inside the "other pieces" ???

Thanks!

I'm running a mesh with 1 WRT54GL running BroadbandHamnet-v1 and two HSMM-PIs, works great! Just wish that the BroadbandHamnet interface would display a few of the extra details like note position (once of my nodes is mobile and has a GPS receiver).

I also have a good friend who is using a Bullet in his BBHN mesh; feel free to drop in #broadband-hamnet on Freeenode IRC if you have any questions about all of  these compatabilities -- there are a few of us around every day talking about this stuff!

PS: Next time I go up to Huntsville, maybe we can grab a meal. I'll probably be up there some time in December for an interview. I also pass through a good bit on my way to Nashville.

73 from Tuscaloosa!

K0RET Ryan Turner

Marc:

Interesting links, those. Thank you.

A local ham is working with HSMM-PI on PI and Bone with an eye to getting BBHN compatibility.

I have a couple of Bullet2 I would like to get into BBHN service.There is really alot of compatible or nearly compatible hardware around that is perfectly happy running OpenWRT that I would like to do BBHN.

73;

Bob KV4PC

Bob,

Well, then, you may wish to take a look at the yahoo group for NW-MESH, or at a compendium of some of their work at http://nw-mesh.wikidot.com/

This group in Federal Way Washington has ported an earlier version of HSMM-MESH to Ubiquiti equipment in an attempt to gain the advantage of the higher power available from the bullet M2HP.

There is a proceedure somewhere in their documentation for adjusting Openwrt Attitude Adjustment to mesh with their special build for WRT54XX hardware.

Further HSMM-PI is available for loading onto Raspberry Pi or Beagleboneblack, and will work with every usb wifi dongle that I have tried.

Further, one of the local hams in Vancouver, Wa that is also quite adept at linux has made broadbandhamnet and NW-MESH and older HSMM-MESH talk with eachother.

Of further interest to you might be www.hamwan.org

73

Marc

KD7RYY