25 Nov
2019
25 Nov
'19
2:49 p.m.
Hi Kris
How complete is the hardware linked to on aliexpress?
It looks like the PCB, antenna, breakout
pins, and power jumper is included -- so all that's missing from the complete
Disaster.Radio box is
the housing, solar panels, battery storage, and all interconnects for the prior two?
Yes all the components are there, however it's closed source hardware.
The previous versions of the board had fairly limited range due to some poor design
choices, this one looks better, but it will be interesting to see how it performs. There
may be a performance boost from replacing the shipped antenna with something better, as I
suspect the supplied one is crap.
I'm planning to have a go with capacitors rather than batteries for longevity, it will
only work in the sun, but batteries seem like the component most likely to fail.
As a side note, I would love to introduce folks in the
mailing list to Althea.
Looks good, have you tried it out?
Thanks
Sam
The name refers to
both the organization and their open source mesh
networking software. Their organization model
incentivizes decentralized, locally-owned internet infrastructure by paying providers
through
blockchain. Their software automatically routes traffic to the most reliable, affordable
nodes. The
model is incredibly interesting! I know some of y'all are already aware but I thought
I'd spread
the word!
Again thanks the link to the new pcb and I look forward to understanding what is and
isn't
included.
Kris with a K
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 8:38 AM grant <ggallo102(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Sam,
Thanks for taking initiative on this.
I personally do not have a problem with this idea, as long as it works. I would like to
tag a
release (0.0.1?) and provide them binaries so that they are shipping it with firmware
from a
particular commit. They should also be able to flash the SPIFFs with the web app, we
could provide
binaries for that as well. Then, you wouldn't necessarily need an SD card.
SD cards need to be formatted to fat32 for ESP devices. To prepare the SD card, you need
to build
the javascript app (following the readme
https://github.com/sudomesh/disaster-radio/tree/master/web) and then copy the contents
of
web/static (`index.htm` and `bundle.js`) to the SD card. It's a fairly
straightforward process, but
I should create instructions.
It's great that they are willing to make a small donation with every sale. SudoMesh
would be the
group to receive those, and they do have a bank account, I would dm Jenny about that.
The one addition I would make to the listing is a link to either the website,
disaster.radio,
and/or the github repo in the description.
This group generally operates on a consensus basis, so I'd be interested to hear what
other people
who have been involved in its development think.
p.s. I would also be cool to display something on the OLED screen when it ships,
haven't gotten
around to that idea though.
-grant
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 9:23 AM <samuk(a)disroot.org> wrote:
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kris.keillor(a)gmail.com Hi all
Yesterday I emailed TTGO/ Lily to see if in principle they could install the disaster
radio boards
they ship. After a bit of linguistic miscommunication they went ahead and did it.
So it's now possible to order the boards pre-flashed here:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000396836096.html
I didn't intend to do this without asking the list, so apologies if I've
overstepped.
If you really don't want to do this, then I can ask them to remove the listing. I
realise that
fully open hardware is needed in the medium term.
They are willing to donate a $1 for every board sold:
https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/H856d5793d514415187b910e3fd4a3139w.jpg
Assuming you're happy to leave the listing up, where should we send this trickle of
donations? Do
you have a bank?
This does leave the task for the users to configure their SD card, is that as easy as
formatting to
ext2 and copying index.html to it?
https://github.com/sudomesh/disaster-radio/tree/master/web/static or is it more involved
than that?
Let me know what you want to do about the listing, and if it stays up, where to send the
money.
Thanks
Sam
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