qMp endorses the Wireless Battle of the Mesh v11
The Wireless Battle of the Mesh is an event that aims to bring together people from across the globe to test the performance of different routing protocols for ad-hoc networks, like Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N, BMX6/BMX7, OLSR, and 802.11s and static routing. Of course, new protocols (working on LEDE) are always welcome.
Many developers and community networkers will join the event to hack, test, discuss, explain and learn. If you are interested in dynamic routing protocols or wireless community networks you can't miss this event! The Battlemesh is free of charge and open for all.
This year the event will take place from Monday 7th to Sunday 13th of May 2018 in Berlin, Germany. It is co-located with the Wireless Community Weekend in the Wireless-Meshup event.
The qMp community endorses and supports the Battle of the Mesh v11, and teams with other communities to foster the development of bottom-up community networks.
Many other communities endorse and support the Wireless Battle of The Mesh v11. If you are interested in coming, join the event's Mailing List to stay up to date with the latest news.
Join us now and free the network!
qMp endorses the Wireless Battle of the Mesh v10
The Wireless Battle of the Mesh is an event that aims to bring together people from across the globe to test the performance of different routing protocols for ad-hoc networks, like Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N, BMX6/BMX7, OLSR, and 802.11s and static routing. Of course, new protocols (working on LEDE) are always welcome.
Many developers and community networkers will join the event to hack, test, discuss, explain and learn. If you are interested in dynamic routing protocols or wireless community networks you can't miss this event! The Battlemesh is free of charge and open for all.
This year the event will take place from Monday 5st to Sunday 11th of June 2017 in Vienna, Austria. It is organized locally by FunkFeuer Wien, Vienna's community wireless network.
The qMp community endorses and supports the Battle of the Mesh v10, and teams with other communities to foster the development of bottom-up community networks.
Many other communities endorse and support the Wireless Battle of The Mesh v10. If you are interested in coming, join the event's Mailing List to stay up to date with the latest news.
Join us now and free the network!
Experimenting with the Microduino MicroWRT Core
Some weeks ago, Jason from Microduino™ kindly sent us three samples of the MicroWRT Core boards and asked us to give them a try and use them with qMp. We added the support for these devices in the recent qMp 3.2 Clearance stable release and played with them a little bit to build a small mesh with sensors.
The MicroWRT is a small and cheap development board based on the MediaTek MT7620A SoC (which integrates Ethernet networking and 2.4 GHz WiFi 2T2R), with 64 MB of RAM and 16 MB of flash storage. It is fully supported by the currently latest OpenWrt 15.05 Chaos Calmer release and, since recently, by the qMp 3.2 Clearance stable release.
The MicroWRT boards have a great performance and the SoC is well supported by qMp/OpenWrt. The devices are a great option to build a wireless mesh network that integrates sensors and actuators, thanks to their expansion board that allows integrating Microduino (Arduino-compatible) boards.
We have detailed the process of building a small mesh network with three of these devices, adding the Microduino board with a sensor and sharing the information all over the mesh network in the following two articles:
Experimenting with the Microduino MicroWRT (I)
Experimenting with the Microduino MicroWRT (II)
Experimenting with WRTnode
We are experimenting with the WRTnode.
qMp is already available for this tiny and powerful device. You can find the ready-to-install binaries of the development version in our official repository: http://fw.qmp.cat/kalimotxo
It can be seen in the pictures that we connected several elements to the board pins:
- Ethernet cables (the device integrates a 5 ports switch)
- a USB camera
- a relay to remotely lock/unlock a door
The WRTnode performs very good, it has a huge amount of flash memory (16 MB) and a MIMO 802.11n 2.4 GHz radio which seems to work quite fine also in adhoc mode. It is actually a nice device for use in home automation, drone/robotics stuff, as a control device (to provide access to other devices via the serial port, for instance) and so on, while meshing in 2.4 GHz using qMp.
Check the article with the full set of pictures here: Experimenting with the WRTnode.
