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Seems quite a lot of us have had the same idea. I keep thinking the Meshtastic network is heading in that direction, maybe Disaster.Radio might have some featu
by myself248 6y ago
Seems quite a lot of us have had the same idea.
I keep thinking the Meshtastic network is heading in that direction, maybe Disaster.Radio might have some features, and generally there seem to be a ton of projects that contain some but not all of the pieces you'd want.
I'm down to build the hardware, I just haven't a clue on the software side of things.
- vidarh 6y agoI think it really depends on use-case. A lot of mesh projects get stuck on really large scale, but if your goal is just to be able to build networks where the number of hops between any given node and one with uplinks is realtively limited - so more "range extender" than a replacement for normal ISPs, the software is an "easy" problem. If you can come up with a hardware package that is resilient enough, then "all" you need on the software side is a small Linux install and a bootloader setup that will try either of at least two boot partitions. You'll want a watchdog to force a reboot to a know good install if it doesn't respond after a while. Routing is the tricky bit, but as mentioned if the number of nodes is small enough a small routing daemon to periodically exchange routing information and discovery performance fluctuations is not a big deal.