[Commotion-discuss] [OTI-Field] Commotion: now without the paper clips

Georgia Bullen georgia at opentechinstitute.org
Thu Apr 18 15:01:00 UTC 2013


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This sounds great! The paper clip "dancing lights" state (as Jonathan
describes it) was always the most challenging from a dexterity perspective.

If anyone has opportunities to confirm this, please share here on the
commotion-discuss list!

-Georgia


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Georgia Bullen <
georgia at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:

> + Commotion Discuss list
>
> This sounds great! The paper clip "dancing lights" state (as Jonathan
> describes it) was always the most challenging from a dexterity perspective.
>
> If anyone has opportunities to confirm this, please share here on the
> commotion-discuss list!
>
> -Georgia
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Andy Gunn <andygunn at opentechinstitute.org
> > wrote:
>
>> This is a game-changer. We weren't able to do this pre-DR1, so it never
>> crossed my mind to do it with other builds.
>>
>> Amazing find Dan, thank you. We need to do this a few more times with
>> fresh out-of-the-box routers, to confirm.
>>
>>
>> On 04/17/2013 03:33 PM, Dan Staples wrote:
>> > Whether or not we are all insane, that's still open for discussion.
>> > However, I'm not sure whether or not we could have done this pre-DR1. At
>> > least it works now!
>> >
>> > On Wed 17 Apr 2013 09:28:13 PM CEST, Ryan Gerety wrote:
>> >> :-) nice! Were we all insane to be doing it the other way by default?
>> >> Was there a way to also upload firmware? Or only online?
>> >>
>> >> On 4/17/2013 1:09 PM, Dan Staples wrote:
>> >>> So it looks like Commotion can be flashed onto stock Ubiquiti routers
>> >>> using the AirOS web interface. No need for the confusing paper
>> >>> clip/command line method. Just wanted to give folks a heads up, as I
>> >>> expect it will be greatly beneficial for educational and training
>> >>> efforts.
>> >>>
>> >>> I was only able to test by flashing the AirOS firmware onto one of our
>> >>> Picostations, and then flashing Commotion via the web interface. I
>> >>> wasn't able to test an actual stock router, but I don't expect there
>> >>> will be any differences. If anyone has access to a stock router and
>> >>> could confirm this, that would be very helpful.
>> >>>
>> >>> Dan
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>> Andy Gunn
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> Georgia Bullen
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>



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Georgia Bullen
Field Operations Technologist, Open Technology
Institute<http://oti.newamerica.net/>
New America Foundation
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