[Commotion-dev] Device compatibility for Mesh Tether (and Serval?)

[Hans of Guardian]

On Mar 18, 2013, at 12:35 PM, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Dan Staples
> <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:
>> I can confirm that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus does *not* work for Mesh Tether.
>> Though it appears to work with Serval.
>> 
>> Will Hawkins and I were talking about having a discussion soon to plan how
>> to improve Commotion-Android's adhoc support, now that DR1 is out. There has
>> been past discussion on this list about how Mesh Tether, Serval, and SPAN
>> all do ad-hoc differently, and we should figure out concretely how we want
>> to move forward on this. It would be beneficial to get everyone's thoughts
>> and expertise on this planning. Perhaps we can start a separate thread about
>> that, if you think that's needed.
> 
> I think the best step is to start combining the strengths of each into
> a single dedicated ad-hoc on android application.  That application
> may well be one of the above, rather than creating yet another new
> thing.
> My feeling is that SPAN may well be the logical application to extend
> in this way, and then we all just add hooks in our applications to
> make use of the services that SPAN provides.
> 
> Paul.

Sounds like everyone is in general agreement that we want to join into a single adhoc framework, and that SPAN already has the most framework-like code.  The open question seems to be: who has the developer cycles to take this project on?

.hc



> 
>> On 03/17/2013 04:39 PM, Andrew Reynolds wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for the prod.
>> 
>> The Motorola Atrix 4G on 2.3.6 works consistently.
>> 
>> -andrew
>> 
>> On 03/17/2013 04:01 PM, Ben West wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I've been surfing the listserv archive, and pestering poor Hans, in search
>> of a handset known to be compatible with the Mesh Tether app, and similarly
>> with Serval.  I would like to get such handset myself.
>> 
>> However, since Mesh Tether is known NOT to work with AndroidOS 4.x, I have
>> to locate older, used handsets, adding to the challenge.
>> 
>> Many devices have been reported on this listserv as possibly working.
>> However, I believe Hans clarified that only these devices are known to work
>> fully.
>> 
>>   - HTC Desire running android 2.3
>>   - HTC Wildfire running CyanogenMod 6.1.0
>>   - In general, HTC devices running 2.x (especially the Incredible)
>>   - Google Nexus One (stock 2.3.3), and *NOT* any newer Nexi
>> 
>> In contrast, these devices have been reported to work somewhat, but are
>> expected to be flakey:
>> 
>>   - HTC myTouch 3G (kind of works)
>>   - Samsung Tabs running Android 3.2
>>   - Samsung Galaxy S2
>>   - Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 running stock 2.3.3 (works only sometimes)
>>   - Motorola Droid/Milestone running CyanogenMod 7 (mostly works)
>> 
>> Hans mentioned that although Samsung handsets appear work, and have been
>> tested to a small extent, they are expected to be quite flakey/unreliable.
>> Likewise, the Samsungs require custom kernels and/or custom kernel options
>> specified at boot, correct?
>> 
>> Please respond to this thread if you have successfully tested a handset,
>> and tested it for reasonable duration of time to ensure no flakiness.  Or,
>> please respond if any of the handset mentioned above is incorrectly listed
>> as working.
>> 
>> Ideally, the responses to this thread can be used to better populate this
>> list on the wiki:
>> 
>> https://code.commotionwireless.net/projects/commotion/wiki/Commotion_Android_Supported_Hardware
>> 
>> 
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>> 
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