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OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios

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Re: OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios

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Post by adrianpike »

wakawaka28 wrote: post #18
harporoeder wrote: post #4

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The killer application in this case is ATAK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Team_Awareness_Kit

Is ATAK even useful to civilians? Is it trustworthy?

Yes and yes, we've used it for civilian Search & Rescue in tandem with CalTopo.

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Post by bityard »

nativeit wrote: post #10
bb88 wrote: post #8

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Meshtastic has been popular, but relies upon a terrible implementation of a mesh -- and it's vastly oversold on its capabilities. I understand some hams run a meshtastic repeater primarily to convince meshtastic users to become hams.

I feel like a HAM license is something of an inevitability of my future, although I don’t have any practical need for one. Catching satellite signals in my backyard is a lot of fun.

I think most hams (myself included) are the type of people whose favorite hobby is collecting more hobbies. Plus, ham radio pairs nicely with tons of other hobbies like electronics, kit building, hiking, solar power, space weather, and (as you say) satellites. I highly recommend it.

Re: OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios

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Post by bcrl »

MANET is one of the protocols I was involved in implementing for a certain network protocol suite back around 2012. Mesh routing protocols only work for the most limited of use cases. They don't know about the capacity of the underlying wireless network and basically fall apart when things are congested or there are radios with poor reception. QoS is implemented far better in modern cell phone networks, and if the routing protocol doesn't take QoS into account, it's gonna suck.

Re: OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios

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Post by gh02t »

wakawaka28 wrote: post #18
harporoeder wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The killer application in this case is ATAK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Team_Awareness_Kit

Is ATAK even useful to civilians? Is it trustworthy?

I use it for hiking, its great.

Re: OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios

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Post by kylixz »

harporoeder wrote: post #4
esafak wrote: post #3

MANETs: back from the dead!? The problem is not the hardware, but the software; apparently, nobody can think of a killer application.

The killer application in this case is ATAK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Team_Awareness_Kit

If anyone wants to help make MANETs better with TAK… check out opportunities on ditto.com where the team is building crdts and using them to help enable SAR. Say Turner sent you in your application if it looks interesting. Particularly the FDE role.

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Post by BertoldVdb »

Yossarrian22 wrote: post #25
gh02t wrote: post #24

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I use it for hiking, its great.

How do you use it for that?

It is an offline moving map with very fancy marker etc support. Seems a good choice for a hiking app?

Re: OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios

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Post by wryun »

jrexilius wrote: post #13
speransky wrote: post #12

I use MorseMicro in 802.11s mode successfully, just openwrt stuff, any reason to try this project ?

Last time I played with Moremicro they didn't work with real 802.11s and had some hokey proprietary hierarchal tree topology that required a main basestation gateway. ad-hoc, peer-to-peer was broken. They finally fixed their driver?

The tree mesh thing you're thinking of is actually just EasyMesh (it's a standard!). We're using prplmesh.

But yes, 11s Mesh also works. Let us know on the forum (https://community.morsemicro.com/) or via github (https://github.com/MorseMicro/) if you're having issues. Err, I work for Morse in case that wasn't clear.

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