[DisasterRadio] TTGO boards with Disaster Radio now on Aliexpress

[Kris with a K]

Hey, awesome to see some movement with disaster.radio :)

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?

As a side note, I would love to introduce folks in the mailing list to
Althea <http://althea.net/>. 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 at 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 at disroot.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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