[Commotion-dev] Unifying Serval and Commotion Mesh (Paul Gardner-Stephen)

[Eric de Vries]

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone had given some thought into taking consideration the SPAN project as well for a possible merge/converge ? They also have a simple and working UI for (dis)activating a mesh network on Android. 

On Sun 16 Dec 2012 09:07:38 PM EST, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote:
>Hi All,

>From a Serval Project perspective, we see much value in converging on
>a single "standard" SSID (and ideally BSSID) for WiFi mesh networks
>for Serval and Commotion.  The logical choice is almost certainly to
>use whatever values that Commotion uses.

>In fact, what we would like to see in time is that Commotion and
>Serval's Android ad-hoc WiFi mesh management software converge into a
>single thing, and possible a single APK that contains all Commotion
>and Serval functions, or possibly it will be two separate APKs --
>there are arguments for and against.

>But back to the present...

>The BSSID/ad-hoc bug issues on Android phones remains a source of
>intense pain (which is part of why we are working on a "mesh helper"
>device that would basically be a cross between an OpenWRT router and
>mobile phone, that would basically be pocket-sized battery-powered
>WiFi adhoc+AP plus long-range UHF radio).

>So I am not sure that a final solution is possible now, but we are
>thinking about our default SSID for the Serval Mesh 0.90 release we
>are hoping to have out by Christmas, and we hope to continue the
>conversation about converging this all as much as possible.

>Our feeling in the lab here is that until we have interoperation
>sorted out, that we will probably default to a serval-specific SSID,
>probably mesh.servalproject.org, so that it will point people to a
>(yet to be populated) web page where they can learn more.  But for
>0.91 and later, we hope to make moves towards convergence.  Perhaps
>having a short list of configured network names and patterns is the
>next step, but this is all really thinking out loud for now.

>Paul.