[Battlemesh] Android wifi meshing

[McKinley, John]

Paul

Thanks for agreeing to talk.  Here is the background:

We have a senior monitoring app that's running on an Android Phablet. The
phablet has cellular and wifi connectivity capabilities.

There will be 1-2 phablets in each apartment in a building (we install the
solution on senior living campuses).

We we hoping to use meshing to allow the phablets to share internet
connectivity (e.g., only 2 phablets in the building would have cellular
data connections.

The system isn't very data intense (most transactions are small in size),
but does on occasion transfer an audio or image file to and/or from a given
phablet. The size of those files is under 1MB.

Hoping this initial background helps.

Happy to talk in real-time.

Regards,
John

On Friday, February 26, 2016, Paul Gardner-Stephen <paul at servalproject.org
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','paul at servalproject.org');>> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 7:14 AM, McKinley, John <
> 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> 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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