[Commotion-dev] Commotion Wireless on Raspberry PI

Thu Jun 5 17:48:04 EDT 2014

I am going to start playing with the new client today. I have a router and
compatible cellphone on the way here for testing.

I got so excited with getting the old code ported to the pi I totally
missed the "no longer under development" part oops :/
While still fun to play with I won't focus any more time on the deprecated
code.

I have only used svn before, so I will need to familiarize myself with git,
but I will keep the list abreast of any progress I make.

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Dan Staples <
danstaples at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:

> On 05/27/2014 03:12 PM, Joshua Besneatte wrote:
> > Thanks! See my replies below :
> >
> > On 05/27/2014 11:01 AM, Dan Staples wrote:
> >> This is really fantastic! It's great to see the accompanying writeup as
> >> well, so others can build off your work. (Also encouraging to see you
> >> used the writeups from Jumoke--one of our GNOME Outreach Project for
> >> Women applicants--as a starting point). I had previously been able to
> >> mesh RPis with Commotion routers just by running olsrd on the Pi (and a
> >> bunch of manual config), but haven't been able to run the full Commotion
> >> client before.
> >>
> >> Were you able to mesh the Pi with a Commotion router, or just other Pis?
> >
> > I do not have a commotion router set up yet. Just 2 laptops and 2 Pis.
> >
> > I had to patch the commotion mesh applet so that I could invoke the mesh
> > status window ( without the patch the "show mesh status" option is
> > always disabled, unless you can connect with encryption, which is
> > impossible unless you are using an atheros chipset ). I haven't posted
> > the patch or the patched debs yet, but it's on my list. Is this
> > something I could post on the GitHub page? How can I get involved with
> > development on the linux side of things?
>
> Definitely feel free to issue pull requests against any of the relevant
> repos: https://github.com/opentechinstitute.
>
> As far as getting involved on the linux client, there's definitely
> plenty of room there. The person who was heading up the work on that
> recently left, but the code as it currently stands (which is
> significantly different from what's available in the Debian packages on
> our website) can be found here, along with documentation:
> https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-client/wiki.
>
> Basically, the new version of the desktop client is aiming to be
> cross-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows), and is written is Python using the
> PyQt framework.
>
> >
> > All of these connect nicely and show internet access on the nodes
> > connected to my LAN. However, when the nodes mesh together, the only
> > node that shows a default route of any kind is the one actually
> > connected to the LAN.
> >
> >>
> >> Some interesting areas for further experimentation might be to see what
> >> changes are necessary to mesh with a post-v1.1 Commotion routers. The
> >> more significant changes since v1 have been deterministic BSSID
> >> generation, IP addressing changes, and ad-hoc encryption[1].
> >
> > I ordered a Ubiquity router and some wifi dongles with Atheros chipsets.
> > I will see where I can get with these when they arrive.
> >
> >>
> >> Another thing that would be interesting would be to compare the
> >> feasibility (and maybe performance) of RPis running the Commotion Linux
> >> Client versus running Commotion-router on an x86 build of OpenWRT. There
> >> is a writeup of the latter from another one of our OPW applications[2].
> >>
> >
> > I will look into this.
> >
> >> Finally, would you be okay if we re-posted your tutorial on the
> >> Commotion blog?
> >
> > That would make my day, if not week, if you did that :)
> >
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> Dan
> >>
> >>
> >> [1]
> >>
> https://commotionwireless.net/blog/2014/01/10/commotion-r1-breaking-changes/
> >>
> >>
> >> [2]
> >>
> http://raniarho.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/installing-openwrt-on-a-raspberry-pi/
> >>
> >>
> >> On 05/22/2014 04:47 PM, Joshua Besneatte wrote:
> >>> Hello Devs!
> >>>
> >>> I have just gotten commotion wireless working on a Raspberry Pi, and
> was
> >>> told on IRC that perhaps some of you would be interested.
> >>>
> >>> I have created deb files and put together a howto:
> >>>
> >>>
> http://besneatte.blogspot.com/2014/05/commotion-pi-build-rpi-mesh-node.html
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://code.google.com/p/commotion-wireless-raspberry-pi/source/browse/
> >>>
> >>> I hope this can be of some use. I saw RPi being mentioned in the dev
> >>> roadmap... hopefully this can help save someone some time.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>> Joshua Beneatte
> >>>
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