[Battlemesh] Android wifi meshing

McKinley, John john at greatfallsventures.com
Fri Feb 26 21:23:29 UTC 2016


Paul

Thanks! Will reach out to you Monday.

John

On Friday, February 26, 2016, Paul Gardner-Stephen <paul at servalproject.org>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 7:14 AM, McKinley, John <
> john at greatfallsventures.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','john at greatfallsventures.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Hoping to find a solution that isn't functionally limited to specific
>> user functions, like "chat".  Really looking for a solution that simply
>> allows each android device to share internet connectivity, like open-mesh
>> does. Some of the efforts I have looked at are too integrated with
>> the user-facing apps they also supply.
>
>
> Okay. Interesting.  With Serval we do supply APIs, and we do have
> mechanisms to tunnel IP traffic over the mesh.  Mesh networking on Android
> is hard these days, as WiFi is more or less unusable, because Google cut
> the ad-hoc part of the wifi driver out several versions ago. So even with
> root, you need to have a new kernel, which is not necessarily trivial to
> do.  Happy to have a chat with you off-list to see if what we have made can
> work for you.
>
> Paul.
>
>
>>
>> On Friday, February 26, 2016, Paul Gardner-Stephen <
>> paul at servalproject.org
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','paul at servalproject.org');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Curious what you mean by "fuller mesh"?
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 5:10 AM, McKinley, John <
>>> john at greatfallsventures.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> All
>>>>
>>>> My first post to the listserv, so apologies if I get things wrong.
>>>>
>>>> I was trying to get people's opinions on whether there is a robust and
>>>> reasonable current thread of work on bringing mesh networking onto the
>>>> Android platform.  I am tracking Serval and some other projects, but was
>>>> hoping for a good B.A.T.M.A.N. or other fuller mesh implementation
>>>> (optimally over wifi).  I have had a really good experience with the
>>>> open-mesh.org stuff, and was hoping there was recent (2015/2016)
>>>> android-related work, but I am not seeing it.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone point me in the right direction on recent work worth
>>>> leveraging/reading about?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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