[Commotion-dev] Fwd: [serval-project-dev] Community Mesh project using Commotion and Yun-based Mesh extender?

[Outback Dingo]

Id say for a community based deployment youll get alot more bang for your
buck deploying ubiquiti radios
great power, great price and designed for outdoors.... Weve got a network
in Florida and in Thailand and it
is literally the only brand we buy.


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 3:32 AM, Dan Staples <
danstaples at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:

>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        [serval-project-dev] Community Mesh project using Commotion
> and Yun-based Mesh extender?
> Date:   Wed, 11 Jun 2014 08:48:56 -0700 (PDT)
> From:   Andrew Jawitz <ajawitz at codeforamerica.org>
> Reply-To:       serval-project-developers at googlegroups.com
> To:     serval-project-developers at googlegroups.com
>
>
>
>   Hello All,
>     My name is Andrew Jawitz and I am familiar with some of the
> Commotion devs but not so much with the Serval community.  I've been
> working on a project that seems to draw bits and pieces from Serval,
> Commotion, Dragino and the Arduino Yun.  In fact, its getting hard to
> keep track of which project does what anymore:)
>    Basically, I've been interested in using mesh networking as a
> potential solution to a variety of issues I encounter in rural parts of
> Maine in my capacity as Brigade Captain of Code for Maine, a Code for
> America Brigade <http://brigade.codeforamerica.org> with members all
> across the state.  I originally became interested in mesh as a possible
> solution for tracking public sector vehicle fleets
> <http://www.openvehicletracker.org>, like transit and snow plows, but
> after discovering Commotion, I started advocating community wireless
> more generally.
>    Most recently, I've been getting a lot of interest from various
> officials in my home town of Harpswell for setting up a mesh node on an
> unused water tower behind the town fire station.  Hopefully, this will
> develop into a full fledged deployment soon, but my reason for joining
> this forum involves questions I had about the Mesh Extender.
>    While researching the vehicle tracking app, Itested a vehicle tracker
> using an old WR703n travel router
> <https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=185438>w/OpenWRT, a 3G/USB
> dongle and a GPS receiver.  So I was especially excited to see that
> Arduino was using the same chipset for the Arduino Yun!  While waiting
> for the Yun to be released I looked for ways to flash the firmware onto
> the WR703n only to run into major problems with flash ram.  Then I
> discovered the Dragino MS14 (v2.3) is essentially the same thing only
> with more RAM and GPIOs. This time, the Dragino devs even compiled their
> own version of the Yun firmware
> <http://wiki.dragino.com/index.php?title=Getting_Start_with_Arduino_Yun>,
> which
> can be used to connect the router with a standard Arduino Leonardo board
> to make a virtual Yun.
>    Since I knew the COmmotion routers were also based on OpenWRT my next
> step was to research whether or not the Yun firmware could be merged
> with Commotion to allow an Arduino to function as a mesh node in of
> itself.  Such a device could be used for anything from vehicle tracking,
> to environmental monitoring, to smart grids etc... I learned about the
> Serval Mesh Extender project after seeing this post
> <
> http://blog.arduino.cc/2013/10/11/arduino-yun-as-a-possible-mesh-extender-platform/
> >
> about
> using the Arduino Yun for the Mesh Extender from Oct. 2013, but I
> haven't seen anything since.  Reading through the notes it looked like
> development was focused on using the "Mesh Potato 2" which was awaiting
> release apparently when the notes were written.  Only recently did it
> occur to me that the "Mesh Potato 2" looked an awful lot like the
> Dragino MS14 that I've been working with!
>
>   But enough with my Bio...  Can anybody give me a status update on
> porting the Mesh Extender firmware to the Yun?  Am I correct in assuming
> that the Dragino and Mesh Potato are the same thing?  If so, might it be
> possible to merge the Serval firmware with the Dragino version of the
> Yun firmware as a first step? Furthermore, is the Mesh Extender
> compatible with Commotion?  How crazy is it to strive for a
> Commotion-compatible Arduino?
>
>    If someone can point me to the relevant development forums it would
> be greatly appreciated.  Over the course of my research I've amassed a
> lot of hardware that could be very useful for testing purposes.  I have
> three Ubiquiti devices running Commotion (Pico, Nano and Bullet), the
> Dragino and a Yun running Linino and several older home routers
> including a WR703n, MR3040, RT-N16 and WL-520GU running generic OpenWRT.
> Not to mention a whole range of XBees (series 1+2) Arduinos,RPis and
> RTL-SDR gadgets that could be put to good use.
>
>     Thanks a Bunch!
>    -Andrew Jawitz
>     Brigade Captain
>     Code for Maine
>     www.code4maine.org
>
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