Mesh/16 May 2017

people's open network hacknight - 16 May 2017

• Jorrit, Daniel, Jehan, Jenny, Will, Bullitt, Corey (new)

• Jehan:
  • Talked to terot shop - not owned by them
  • Talked to StorQuest - got managers contact info - they have cell phone antennas on roof already - president personally approves contracts
  • Talked to Reed Brothers - they're still interested - we should come back with equipment ready to install and do a demo

Jenny:

• Worked on taxes this week - got OC's taxes in - waiting on IRS response to OOC's 2014&2015 taxes before moving on taking over OOC's 501c3 or not
• Sudomesh 990N will be submitted will be submitted

Bullitt:

• Talked t
• SSB on Raspberry Pi not working yet

Cory - has frontend JS experience and EE degree, would like to help out

Will - extender nodes at 50th St rooftop are not working (home nodes are working fine) - maybe didn't flash with the most recent firmware.

• discussion of implementing some way to check that extender node is working (in admin dash)

Jorrit -

• On Sunday mounted a map on a foamboard in sudo - physical representation of the mesh - right now there are ~5 nodes on it
• Finished this Disaster PingPong thing with Grant last week - intro to the ESP8266, scans the wifi networks, checks signal strength
• Where to store media assets? Creating 'propaganda' repo on the github

Scott:

• was here last weekend... set up a home node.

Daniel:

• Reminded to check in w/ Laney College
• Marc, Robb and Daniel cleaned out the mesh area and rack this wknd - removing extra cables, swapped out 2 switches with 2 new better ones
• Set up 2 HP PoE switches, a wireless controller,and an AP in sudo room w/ ID 'Omni Commons'
• Wants to set up another AP in the Den... marked 9 locations in total (3 in ballroom)

Andrew(?) -

• Works at a battery storage company.. creating a virtual power plant for the grid. Data Analytics, and some software

NPR interview on mesh (Marc was interviewed for

agenda

Disaster Radio

• Using nodeMCU flashed onto the chip, LoRa scripts
• Marc got two nodes to finally talk to each other the other day \o/
• Message need to be less than 256 bytes
• 900 MHz
• Want to make little 'throwies' for distributing them

action items

• invest in mac ethernet adaptor?
• send off the 990N [jenny]