[Ninux-Wireless] Rilasciata LibreMesh 2024.1 basata su openwrt-23.05.5

[Ilario Gelmetti]

Ciao genti!
Volevi condividere la notizi(on)a: finalmente abbiamo fatto una nuova versione di LibreMesh, la 2024.1!

Per chi non conoscesse LibreMesh: è un gruppo di pacchetti da installare/compilare su OpenWrt per configurarlo per reti wireless mesh. Una volta installato, si possono configurare varie cosette (tipo mettere una password sulla WiFi), ma la configurazione predefinita è circa "connettiti a tutte le altre antenne LibreMesh e condividi i contenuti locali e internet".
Uno degli obiettivi è di minimizzare la necessità di persone tecniche in una rete comunitaria, semplificando la gestione delle antenne. Per questo, alcune persone di Altermundi hanno anche sviluppato una interfaccia web "lime-app", che è uno dei pacchetti di LibreMesh.
https://libremesh.org

La versione anteriore, la LibreMesh 2020.4, era rimasta un po' indietro con le versioni di OpenWrt, mentre la 2024.1 gira sopra OpenWrt 23.05.5 (ma non ancora sulla OpenWrt 24.10 rilasciata due settimane fa).

Nell'email citata qui sotto potete trovare la e-mail di Gothos in cui ci stanno tutti i link per scaricare le immagini o perfino per crearne una personalizzata con una interfaccia online.
Ciao!
Ilario

-------- Original Message --------
From: gothos via LibreMesh <libremesh a krutt.org>
Sent: February 11, 2025 11:55:43 PM GMT+01:00
To: libremesh a krutt.org
Cc: gothos <gothos a esiliati.org>
Subject: [lime] Published the pre-compiled firmware images for the release 2024.1 based on openwrt-23.05.5

Hi,

I published the pre-compiled firmware images for the release 2024.1 based on openwrt-23.05.5

To download the 2024.1 images, navigate to:
https://downloads.libremesh.org/releases/2024.1-ow23.05.5/targets
Or use Firmware Selector to download:
https://downloads.libremesh.org/selector/?version=2024.1-ow23.05.5-default

The release is available in two flavors:
- mini: correspond to selecting 'profile-libremesh-suggested-packages-tiny'
- default: correspond to selecting 'profile-libremesh-suggested-packages'

Using the firmware-selector is also possible to request custom builds
based on the openwrt imagebuilder via an Attendedsysupgrade server https://github.com/openwrt/asu
For the time being only based on openwrt-23.05.5.
I will also add some versions of 24.10.x for possible testing (probably starting from 24.10.2, after increasing the storage of the server)


Additional notes
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I used this code to do the compilation with docker, where I left some notes about the usage:
https://github.com/a-gave/libremesh_openwrt_buildroot_docker

I published some of the docker images also here:
https://hub.docker.com/r/agave0/openwrt-buildroot/tags
They weigh a little bit (3-4GB of compressed archive, 9-10GB extracted),
but it can still be convenient in terms of time to download them, rather than build everything

Of 75 targets in 23.05.5 only 56 are built
the list of excluded, that is valid for both openwrt-23.05 and openwrt-24.10 is at:
https://github.com/a-gave/libremesh_openwrt_buildroot_docker/blob/main/excluded_targets
Some of these are simply empty (like realtek/rtl931x) or contains only profiles too small to fit the mini versions (like ath79/tiny)
others are removed because considered exotic (i.e. only nas devices, or microchip) or unrealistic that people that own those boards want to run libremesh on them.
If too many have been removed let me know.

I published a development build based on current git head ^ca6328347b97728b796fa28d243e02f95f7c6616
https://downloads.libremesh.org/development/master-ow23.05.5-ca63283-20250203/targets
Using the same docker containers referred to above,
In these there is a leftover and it has not been removed the default unused feed repo for the openwrt-kmods
to avoid downloading them since they are not used just run
sed -i '/libremesh_core/d' /etc/opkg/distfeeds.conf

Ciao!
gothos
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