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

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

Hello,

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Hans of Guardian
<hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>
> 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?

Ah, that problem ;)

We don't have spare capacity right now.  Perhaps this is the kind of
thing we might put a joint bid in  somewhere to ask for some funds to
help?

Paul.

> .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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