[Commotion-dev] Commotion Wireless on Raspberry PI

[Dan Staples]

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?

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].

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].

Finally, would you be okay if we re-posted your tutorial on the
Commotion blog?

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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