[Commotion-dev] Commotion Mesh Panel's menu

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

That's the one! Aka

add-apt-repository ppa:guardianproject/commotion

.hc

On 02/21/2013 10:05 PM, Ben West wrote:
> Hi Hans!
> 
> Looks great!
> 
> I have an Ubuntu VM guest that had been sitting around not doing much, with
> the ultimate goal of letting it serve as a handy testbed for precisely this
> application.  That is, I hadn't uploaded the VM file to
> code.commotionwireless.net yet, since there wasn't much to with it, until
> now.
> 
> Could you confirm this is still the active and up-to-date repo for the
> Ubuntu/debian commotion package?
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~guardianproject/+archive/commotion
> 
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <
> hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> 
>>
>> I attached a screenshot of the menu of Commotion Mesh Panel for GNOME/MATE.
>> It shows the active, selected mesh profile, then also all available
>> profiles.
>>  If one of the available profiles is within range, the signal strength is
>> also
>> shown in the menu, like NetworkManager does.  The Mac OS X menu will behave
>> quite similarly.
>>
>> I'll nail down all the behaviors tomorrow.  But here's the idea:
>>
>> * clicking on an adhoc wifi in NetworkManager that matches one of the
>> profiles
>> will trigger
>>   the mesh association process.  That happens in the nm-dispatcher-olsrd
>> script, with or
>>   without the Mesh Panel.
>>
>> * clicking on an inactive profile in Commotion Mesh Panel will setup that
>> profile regardless
>>   of whether there are any other nodes within range or not
>>
>> * all profiles are in /etc/nm-dispatcher-olsrd. They are added to
>> NetworkManager any time
>>   there is a change in network status, which triggers the dispatcher
>> script.
>> that script
>>   runs as root and automatically does the work whenever its called by
>> NetworkManager
>>
>> * "Show Mesh Status" gives a list of nodes like MeshTether's
>>
>> * "Save Mesh Status As File..." saves a complete jsoninfo dump to a file
>> (not
>> in screenshot,
>>    but it'll be below "Show Mesh Status"
>>
>> Feedback, comments, flames, etc. welcome!
>>
>> .hc
>>
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