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This evening I am happy to report that  VE3NFC Hamilton has now successfully joined the mesh.  This is so exciting!l

Hi Gang,

            I'm starting to poke around in the IP phone world and have purchased a Cisco 7940 SIP phone. My question is this, do I have to have a local PBX or can I contact the ops of an existing PBX I see on my MESH status page (via tunnels) and use theirs with their permission? Any info would be appreciated..

           Thanks!

            Gene N9MXQ

Over New Years and into early January 2016 we had communications with the group in Niagara (VE3XNC - Brad ) .  We now have a very successful 65km link between ve3mis/r mesh site and ve3plf/r in fonthill.

We currently have (at last nights count) 32 nodes on the Golden Horseshoe Mesh.  

This is extremely exciting and we look forward to bringing Oakville back online and also look forward to expanding into Burlington, Hamilton, and Georgetown.  Hopefully Toronto will come onboard as well. 

73, bob  

There is a fairly sizeable event coming up in the fall of 2016 in the Boston area.

I have been asked to help coordinate Ham support and a HSMM-Mesh (BBHN) would be an ideal adder to the event.

Looking for people knowledgeable in BBHN and IP Cameras in the Boston (North) area to assist.

I'm new at BBHN.

Please contact me at [ KB1ZOA at gmail dot com ] if interested.

Thanks

-Mike

I am sure this has been discussed to no end on other threads, but am not finding the answers/directions that I am looking for to my quandary. Maybe someone can direct me to the answers/processes to achieve the following scenario.

I am trying to "sell" our county EOC director on MESH technology and HAM radio in general (no money exchanged, just trying to get them to use our offered services). We have shown him how we have established a MESH network with both IP phones and IP cameras. We have demonstrated the application of having this available at an "incident" where a location can be monitored remotely. I have his interest piqued, but he has posed the following question: Can someone from the State EOC access the cameras to see what we are seeing?

My question/quandary: how would someone outside of the MESH gain access to information on the MESH (cameras, webpages, etc.) if your MESH had a connection to the internet? I know you can get out through the MESH to the internet through that connection, but how would someone get in? Would be a great "selling" point for the county EOC director if I could provide him with this resource.

Is there anybody else in the Chattanooga area who wants to/is working on a mesh network?

my wrt54gs is setup with tunnel client and need a few server connection can anyone help with this  the node is ve6edf-1  i can be reached at ve6edf@shaw.ca thanks for your help

using the instructions above but i get connection refused

using the instructions above but i get connection refused

using the instructions above but i get connection refused

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With regard to a specific build of any HSMM-MESH or Broadband-Hamnet firmware for Raspberry Pi, Pi 2 or Beaglebone black, No version has ever been released.

Talented users have taken each operating system, added the OLSR features and the DNS processes, and done one-off conversions of each of these models. It appears that plenty of horsepower exists even in the Pi Zero to do the same thing.

We don't advocate the Pi or Beaglebone directly serving as a node for several reasons. First, it is not water tight and would need to be in contact with a USB or Ethernet connected access point located high enough to be useful. This presents some problems as you would normally like to have a really strong signal on the node that serves your BeagleBone, PI, etc. such that hop count to that node is very low.

Second, If your mini computer lives up to its abilities, you will be serving up web pages, possibly hosting a file/FTP store, APRS and, running Asterisk and possibly one or more chat server programs. Others add Tickets CAD and locally stored Open Streetmaps to the mix to manage your deployed resources. As you stack more tasks on to the quite capable mini computer, you take away cycles from near real time tasks like Asterisk, decreasing the concurrent call count that can be handled with quality audio.

In addition, 5v power over Ethernet (POE) is even less standard than the 12v used in many setups. It does not port well over a distance due to 5v needing to be not more or less than 5v. Other power is 12v or higher for the Ubiquiti and IP phones, so starting over with voltage doesn't hurt you on short runs and still works fine as the length of your CAT5 grows. It is quite easy to have a solid 5v power source for the Pi/Bone at your operating position and leave the higher power/better antenna job to a POE connected Ubiquity mounted above your head. With native water sealing and POE already handled, it's a snap. Such a host, acting as a mesh node with direct LAN addressing and hard wired to the Pi/Bone and will get premium service to each user.

Nothing here says you CAN'T make the Pi/Bone your mesh node, but why fight all of the above factors just to do it?

Restating the current situation: Broadband-Hamnet does not offer any builds of firmware now or in the past that directly convert any model of Beaglebone or Raspberry Pi to BBHN operation. Users are free to whip up one and share the recipe with others. Our recommendation is to have a dedicated mesh node hard wired to the mini computer over CAT5 cable and give it a solid 5v supply in an area where weather protection is not an issue.