Mesh/05 June 2014

Introductions

• Juul, Ron, Jenny, Alex (remote logging & measurement), Will, Jeremy, Jason, Ivy, Deekoo (paranoia), Dan, Daniel

Updates

• Marc set up the Laney roof node last night! We're going to mount it tomorrow at noon
  • Couple of problems to solve with the new chipset
  • Running auto-ssh creating a reverse ssh tunnel - so we can communicate with it, as can the folks working on sensor data stuff
  • 5GHz high-powered sensitive antenna pointing east
  • We'll probably be able to put more nodes up
• Jake made nice serial console loggers so we can get explicit logs when nodes go down
  • Folks who've been experiencing crashes should take one of those
• Jenny set up a bank account last week
  • Also working on the wiki information architecture - feedback appreciated!
  • Panel at Open Source Bridge at the end of June on community wireless mesh, w/ People's Open Net, wlan-slovenia, KC Freedom Network & (maybe) Altermundi!
• Alex set up a test server for logging over snmp
  • Suspects that tunneldigger is responsible for the crashes
  • Marc: Could also be batman-adv or l2tp - something kernel level - or maybe the combination of the two?
  • Marc: Right now if you don't have an internet connection you can't run a node
• Daniel's node started working, then stopped! probably an exit node issue
• Will: Center for a Stateless Society threw half a bitcoin to people's open net!
• Jeremy: Set up a mini-mesh at Lightning in a Bottle!
  • Ran off a so0lar panel + a battery
  • Ran etherpad-lite successfully
• Ivy wants to work on the splash page / service browser
  • Functions for adding your own services
  • Upvote/downvote system for quality control ^.^
  • Combo traffic-monitoring and voting for quality control
  • Admin interface could use improvements as well - all written in Lua
• Dan has a bunch of O'Reilly books! Contact him
• PeopleOpen.Net participated in Reset the Net day of action today!
• Network plan for the Omni! https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Network/Reboot
  • Look into Unix Surplus
  • What kind of Internet connection can we get there?
  • Comcast has offered 105mbps and multiple lines

Inventory Update

• Adapt the bullet antennae for the picostations
• 150-200 Sparkys (nice, have built-in hardware watchdogs) - so need power cables, enclosures, antennae
• 19 picostations
• Ubiquiti Unifi?

DIY Antennae/Enclosures

• Boxes that could be weatherproofed? jerry-rigged antennae? (could get it under $10 this way)
• Jake has all the equipment for calibrating antennae
• Most nodes are going to be in peoples windows anyway
• Workshop on DIY antenna-making

Action Items

• Node crashing - Marc working on workaround
• Exit server stops communicating
• Server-client setup (Jeremy?)
• Dan looking into uptimerobot
• Ping guy who donated ethernet cable (Jenny)
• Look into enclosures from open-mesh (Dan)
• Set up mesh-dev list

Gratuitous Link Dump

• Monitoring tool recommended by Gittip: http://uptimerobot.com/