urlgrey / hsmm-pi

A set of tools to easily configure the Raspberry Pi to function as a High-Speed Multimedia (HSMM) wireless node.

HSMM-Pi

HSMM-Pi is a set of tools designed to easily configure the Raspberry Pi to function as a High-Speed Multimedia (HSMM) wireless mesh node, compatible with Broadband Hamnet (BBHN) and AREDN. Mesh networks offer amateur radio operators (hams) the ability to operate high-speed data networks in the frequencies shared with unlicenced users of 802.11 b/g/n networking equipment. Hams can operate HSMM or BBHN at higher power with larger antennas than are available to unlicensed users. The HSMM-Pi project makes it possible to run an HSMM mesh node on the Raspberry Pi. The project has been tested to work on other embedded computing platforms, including the BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black.

The HSMM-Pi project can used by people not possessing an amateur radio license so long as they are in compliance with the transmission rules set by the FCC or the local regulating body. This typically means sticking with the WiFi antenna provided with your WiFi adapter.

HSMM-Pi Blog: http://hsmmpi.wordpress.com/

For a video tour, see the following YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltUAw02vfqk

The project consists of a PHP web application that is used to configure and monitor the mesh node, and an installation shell script that installs dependencies and puts things in the right spots.

The HSMM-Pi project is designed to run on Ubuntu 12.04 systems. Rather than providing an OS image for HSMM-Pi, I've instead created an installation script that will transform a newly-imaged host into an HSMM-Pi node. This has several benefits:

• Greater transparency: You can see exactly which changes are made to the base system by looking at the install shell script.
• Easier to port to more platforms: Any platform that runs the supported Ubuntu releases ought to be capable of running HSMM-Pi
• Easier to host: I only need to post the installation script and webapp files on Github and it's done.
• Easier to seek support: Ubuntu is widely used and supported, no need to introduce another customization.

Hardware Requirements

HSMM-Pi has been tested to work with the Raspberry Pi running the Raspbian OS, with the BeagleBone running Debian, and with the BeagleBone Black running Ubuntu 12.04 from the onboard eMMC flash memory. The requirements for each are listed below.

Raspberry-Pi Node:

• Raspberry Pi (any model)
• USB WiFi adapter (tested with the N150 adapter using the Ralink 5370 chipset, and with the Alfa AWSU036NH), or built-in WiFi adapter (on Raspberry Pi 3)
• SD memory card (4GB minimum)

BeagleBone Node:

• BeagleBone or BeagleBone Black
• USB WiFi adapter (tested with the N150 adapter using the Ralink 5370 chipset)
• SD memory card (4GB minimum) (in the case of BeagleBone Black, used for initial imaging of the eMMC flash memory only)

Modes

HSMM-Pi has two modes: Internal and Mesh Gateway. A description of each is provided below.

Mesh Gateway Mode

A node in Mesh Gateway mode routes traffic throughout the mesh, and provides the mesh with Internet access through the wired Ethernet port. The gateway obtains a DHCP lease on the wired interface, and advertises its Internet link to mesh nodes using OLSR.

Internal Mode

A node in Internal mode routes traffic throughout the mesh and provides mesh access to any hosts connected to its wired Ethernet port. The node in this mode runs a DHCP server that issues DHCP leases to any hosts on the wired connection. It also runs a DNS server that can provide name resolution for both mesh nodes and Internet hosts. The following diagram shows how the two types of nodes can be deployed:

There could be any number of mesh nodes in the Ad-Hoc WiFi Network. The route among the nodes is managed entirely with OLSR.

I've done all of my testing with N150 USB wifi adapters that use the Ralink 5370 wireless chipset. These adapters are cheap (~$7 USD), compact, and easy to come by. They also use drivers that are bundled with most Ubuntu distributions, making setup easy. The N150 adapter tested included a threaded antenna connector that should make it easy to add a linear amplifier and aftermarket antenna (outside the scope of the HSMM-Pi project).

Raspberry Pi Installation

1. Download the Raspbian Jessie or Raspbian Jessie Lite disk image. The Lite image is suitable for headless installations as it omits the graphical interface, web browser, etc.

2. Write the image to an SD memory card. This involves formatting the SD card; I recommend the steps described at http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup

3. Insert the card into a Raspberry Pi

4. Connect the wired Ethernet port on the Pi to a network with Internet access

5. Apply power to the Pi

6. Login to the Pi through an SSH session, the console, or the terminal application. The username is "pi" and the password is "raspberry".

7. Run the Raspberry Pi Setup program:

    sudo raspi-config
   

8. Expand the filesystem to fill the SD memory card

9. Change the password for the "pi" account

10. If installing over an SSH connection to the Pi, then I recommend you install "screen" (sudo apt-get install screen) to ensure that the installation script is not stopped prematurely if you lose connectivity with the Pi. This is optional, but I highly recommend using screen if installing over the network. You can find more info on screen here: http://linux.die.net/man/1/screen

11. Run the following commands to download the HSMM-Pi project and install

     sudo apt-get update
     sudo apt-get install -y git
     git clone https://github.com/urlgrey/hsmm-pi.git
     cd hsmm-pi
     sh install.sh
    

12. Login to the web application on the Pi: http://(wired Ethernet IP of the node):8080/

13. Access the Admin account using the username "admin" and password "changeme".

14. Change the password for HSMM-Pi

15. Configure as either an Internal or Gateway node

BeagleBone Black Installation

1. Download the latest BeagleBone Black Ubuntu 12.04 image: http://www.armhf.com/index.php/boards/beaglebone-black/#precise

2. Write the image to an SD memory card using the steps on the page referenced in the previous step

3. Insert the SD card into a BeagleBone Black board

4. Apply power to the BeagleBone Black

5. Login to the BeagleBone Black through an SSH session or the console using the 'ubuntu' account

6. Transfer the image to the running BeagleBone Black using SCP

7. Write the image to the eMMC flash memory using the steps mentioned in the first step here.

8. Wait for all 4 LEDs to go solid (could take several minutes)

9. Shutdown the Beaglbone Black (sudo /sbin/init 0)

10. Remove the memory card from the BeagleBone Black

11. Apply power to the BeagleBone Black

12. Login to the BeagleBone Black through an SSH session or the console using the 'ubuntu' account

13. Change the password for the 'ubuntu' account

14. Install the development tools necessary to build OLSRD and retrieve the HSMM-Pi project:

     sudo apt-get upgrade
     sudo apt-get install make gcc git
    

15. If installing over an SSH connection, then I recommend you install 'screen' (sudo apt-get install screen) to ensure that the installation script is not stopped prematurely if you lose connectivity. This is optional, but I highly recommend using screen if installing over the network. You can find more info on screen here: http://linux.die.net/man/1/screen

16. Run the following commands to download the HSMM-Pi project and install

     git clone https://github.com/urlgrey/hsmm-pi.git
     cd hsmm-pi
     sh install.sh
    

17. Login to the web application: http://(wired Ethernet IP of the node):8080/

18. Access the Admin account using the 'admin' username and 'changeme' password.

19. Change the password for HSMM-Pi

20. Configure as either an Internal or Gateway node

Upgrade Steps

This is experimental, and you should fall back to a fresh installation if things aren't functioning as you'd expect. This is supported only on the HEAD of the master branch at this time.

1. Login to the host using SSH or the console

2. Run the following commands to upgrade:

    cd ~/hsmm-pi
    git pull
    sh install.sh
   

3. Access the web UI and check the configuration. Save the Network and Location settings, even if no changes are needed.

4. If the save operation fails, then you might need to replace the SQLite database file due to database schema changes. Run the following command:

    cd ~/hsmm-pi/
    sudo cp src/var/data/hsmm-pi/hsmm-pi.sqlite /var/data/hsmm-pi/
   

5. Repeat the step of reviewing and saving the configuration through the web UI.

Internal Mesh Node Configuration

This represents the minimum set of steps:

1. Select Admin->Network from the menubar
2. Configure the WiFi interface:
   1. Specify an IP address that will be unique throughout the mesh network. This will be different every mesh node. A default will be provided based on the last 3 fragments of the WiFi adapter MAC address.
3. Configure the Wired interface:
   1. Set the Wired interface mode to LAN
4. Configure the Mesh settings
   1. Specify your node name, likely a composition of your callsign and a unique number in your mesh (i.e. KK6DCI-7)
5. Click 'Save'
6. If successful, click the 'Reboot' button in the alert and proceed.

Gateway Node Configuration

This represents the minimum set of steps:

1. Select Admin->Network from the menubar
2. Configure the WiFi interface:
   1. Specify an IP address that will be unique throughout the mesh network. This will be different every mesh node. A default will be provided based on the last 3 fragments of the WiFi adapter MAC address.
3. Configure the Wired interface:
   1. Set the Wired interface mode to WAN
4. Configure the Mesh settings
   1. Specify your node name, likely a composition of your callsign and a unique number in your mesh (i.e. KK6DCI-7)
5. Click 'Save'
6. If successful, click the 'Reboot' button in the alert and proceed.

FAQ

A list of frequently asked questions can be found on our wiki, at the FAQ page.

hsmm-pi's Issues

Request: Show regular 802.11B/G networks in range in a diagnostic tool

In order to assist assessing the range/quality of a node, being able to scan for regular 802.11b/g networks in range would be very beneficial.

Booting issues

Okay I am noticing some weird booting issues.

Some times when I power the device things don't work... Its difficult for me to qualify that statement as I am not sure whats going on so I will post what I know. I will be happy to help track down the bug in any way that I can.

In an unpredictable way the pi does not want to boot. It gets stuck in a loop of "Restarting wlan0". I am unable to loginto the device as the boot process has not finished. The starting of the card prevents the rPi from fully booting.

To be honest I am not sure if its a hsmmpi issue or a os issue. I do know that I have been using this card with this rPi for a bit and have not seen this appear until I loaded hsmm-pi

Mesh network not being recognized on node

I created 2 nodes on 2 identical PI's, one in gateway mode and the other in internal mode.

When I look at available wifi networks I see the opposite node being advertised at 100% quality.

The OLSRD is running but the status page shows there are no mesh networks that are in range.

I run the daemon from the command line with various settings of debug, but I don't get a clue as to what is wrong.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
Bob
Va3rjs

Support antenna diversity

Some wireless access points (Linksys WRT54G) support antenna diversity, where there are multiple antennas that are used by a single wireless network adapter. Investigate whether that's possible with HSMM-Pi and add the feature if it can be done. Here's a link to the Blog comment requesting it:
http://hsmmpi.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/follow-up-on-usb-wifi-adapters/comment-page-1/#comment-171

Add multiple wifi adapter option for second antenna

Stupid question time

Hi Scott,
I have installed hsmm-pi on three P-pi2's. They can all see each other on the network list. I have a couple of stupid questions.
How do I manage the nodes via the network. Do I have to connect to each on via the Ethernet port and then connect to the wen interface or can I connect to one node then remotely administer the others?
The second question is how the services work.
What I am trying to set up is a network that can ne set up in an emergency response centre. There will be some nodes configured as specialist providers such as an internet gateway and the router will provide the firewall, another a viop server. Some will be simple repeaters to filling the dark spaces in a building. The others will be the interface between the lan and the mesh.
I want to be able that a pc on say node 2 can ping and see the c$ chare on a pc on node 3 and so on. The plan was that the node2 would have the ip 172.27.2.10 and would give out a dhcp scope 11-19. Node 3 and ip of 172.27.2.20 and have a dhcp soap of 21 - 29 do you get the idea. When I do this I can’t ping.
I assume I am doing something stupendously stupid and fully accept the title of N00B. On the surface this build id simple to build onto the R-pi. The headwear is the right cost. you’re not tied to specific hardware. in the UK Linksys WRG54's are hard to come by and the ubiquity kit even harder.
Help, Please? There is a group of UK Hams wanting to use your software and were all as stuck as each other.

Creating services generates network connection loss

My Raspberry is already on the net for days. I create a service to access an http page on a PC inside the local network. After the restart any node in the network is detected.
To fix the raspberry again and let it see the network I had to do:

cd ~/hsmm-pi/
sudo cp src/var/data/hsmm-pi/hsmm-pi.sqlite /var/data/hsmm-pi/

and redo the GUI setup.

73 de Leo IZ5FSA

Specify the version of CakePHP installed with Pear

The installation script uses Pear to install the CakePHP libraries required by the HSMM-Pi web application. However, the installation script does not indicate which version of CakePHP to install. It's currently installing 2.4.1, but it's conceivable that at some point in the future the default version installed by Pear could be incompatible with HSMM-Pi.

Specify the version of CakePHP in the Pear command like:
sudo pear install cakephp/CakePHP-2.4.1

After booting with wifi adapter removed, no longer broadcasts SSID

Booted up the pi with no adapter connected. Restarted it with adapter in it, but the network does not come up now.

pi@K0RET-1 ~ $ iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"HSMM-MESH"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on

I've had this happen multiple times; every time my solution has been to re-image the SD and then reinstall hsmm-pi. How can I troubleshoot this to see what part of the chain is breaking down?

Web interface broken on Ubuntu 13.04 and 13.10

On fresh and updated Ubuntu 13.10 and 13.04, hsmm-pi doesn't work out of the box. Web interface doesn't display assets, and login page is 404.

Use CakePHP 2.4.10

Related to #12, specify the latest stable 2.4.x version of CakePHP which is 2.4.10

Version display on the web GUI.

It would be a quick useful reference if the version i.e. V0.3.0 is displayed somewhere on the status page. Especially if you have a few devices around and need to keep track of the versions.

Adding Service

Is there a tutorial or Help page showing how and what to put in the Services Adding page to make it work?
I tried to add a Service. It shows up on the HSMM-Pi node, but not on the Linksys nodes in the network.
How do I redirect it to port 80 and a path other than /var/www ?
It only gives me a choice of TCP or UDP. What if I want 'http' ? Is this the same as one of those choices?
Gary

[Question] List of known working antennas

Would this antenna work?

http://za.rs-online.com/web/p/wireless-adapters/7603621/?origin=PSF_437644|acc

Broadband Hamnet version 3

Broadband Hamnet version 3 was released for all hardware, but it's not compatible with v2 or v1. Would it be possible to get HSMM-Pi to work with BBHN3?

Request: Use Second WLAN Adapter as Regular 802.11B/G AP with bridged connection to LAN

Name says it all! Right now it bridges the wired connection, but if we have a second wlan adapter it'd be nice to create an infrastructure ap with the LAN connection bridged, and long term even add the feature to connect to existing APs for WAN connectivity.

Status not showing all Linksys routers in network

I have 3 Linksys routers in my home network. One is downstairs and the other 2 are in the same room as the HSMM-Pi node. The HSMM-Pi only shows the 2 in the same room on its Status page.
Does HSMM-Pi only show the nodes it is actually connected to or all the nodes in the network?
One of the Linksys nodes is a tunnel. On the other Linksys nodes I can see the Remote nodes on the other side of the tunnel. On the HSMM-Pi Status page it only shows the tunnel.
So maybe that is two questions, but they are related.
Gary

olsr_secure plug_in

I did get the HSSM-Pi & the this NW-mesh bulletM2 builds to talk, (NOT with the olsr_secure plug in enabled) There is a some sort of problem inputting the key thru the php config. I found olsrd.key and manually input, the key. The system doesn't acknowledge the key in the php site.

Service announcements

SO I can only define ports Ie http://KJ6DZB-4.local.mesh:8080

I cant announce http://KJ6DZB-4.local.mesh:8080/meshchat

Ideas ?

Problems installing on Raspbian-Jessie

After install, localhost:8080 returns the Apache verification page. After editing /etc/apache/ports.conf to point the 8080 virtual host to /var/www, it returns a page with several of the hsmm-pi menu items, but with no css formatting. Clicking on any of the menu items on that page (status, login, etc) results in a 404 error.

Installation of HSMM-Pi

Apparently git is not included on the Raspbian Wheezy build. In order to follow the directions given, one should run "sudo apt-get install git"

Another point, the browser included with Raspbian, "Dillo" does not work well with the web interface. I discovered that Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP does not play well either. An easy fix is to use Firefox.

Otherwise, it works well on an older 256Mb Raspberry Pi.

Thank you for putting this all together. a fun day today.

Marc

Multiple Radio Support

Scott:

The Pi has the horsepower to support multiple radios (with a high current USB hub).

My thought is it would be useful to be able to set up individual radios with completely different profiles. I can think of 3 immediately I wish I could do.

1. Mesh (of course)
2. Access Point
3. Client

Imagine a Pi with 3 radios in it. One on an HSMM mesh, one providing AP to those nearby, and a client radio providing WAN off a public access point. Add in a simplified GRE configuration, and it would be a snap to pop up an adhoc mesh node that connects back through Starbucks to a larger but RF unreachable mesh.

Pis could support routing between different frequency bands such as 13, 9 and 5 cm. One Pi, multiple radios.

73;
Bob KV4PC
kv4pc at qsl dot net

cant log in after a fresh install?

[Bug] Setting of WiFi channel

Once the WiFi channel is set, it does not seem to actually get saved, as once I did a WiFi scan, the BSSID was pciked up running on channel 1 while I had set it to channel 9 and saved the configurations.

[Question] Amateur Radio License

In your videos on YouTube of you using your hsmm-pi on your Raspberry Pi's. Did younneed a amateur radio license to use those antennas?

Also, can hsmm, be used for recreational activities such as hosting say now, a game server, or is it only and strictly used for emergency services.

P.S I say in the README that users can use hsmm without a license if they don't use the requisites that HAM's use if I am correct, so basically the Wifi-related consumer frequencies.

shh via host name doesn't work.

After installing the project and rebooting, the RPi will still be able to be connected to via the hostname.

After setting up the RPi as a mesh node, it is no longer able to be accessed using the host name, but the ip address will work.

Is there a way to continue using the host name for ssh?

Minor: Forbidden at http://x.x.x.x:8080

Need to enter http://x.x.x.x:8080/hsmm-pi/index.php to access it...

host name of nodes does not show up only ip address

The DNS records are not showing the nodes only the ip address's show up on the status page. I did see that there were errors in the var/log/daemon.log showing an error. I will post the error in the next few hours. A reboot will nto fix the issue. I am running the latest Raspian 2014-01-07-wheezy-raspbian I am also running hsmm 1.0 on a linksys router for one of the nodes the others on on VPN. This happens both with or with out VPN software installed.

[Help] When rebooting.

After installing HSMM-Pi on Raspbian on my RapsberryPi's, I then reboot, I loose all connectivity to my Pi. No web interface, or SSH. Not even ping.

Jessie image does not boot on Pi Model B (old 2 USB port Model)

anyone come across this issue.....the image boots fine on the newer version......

Any ideas?

do I need to adjust some files once the image is installed to the SD?

B

/etc/networking/interface missing hotplug or auto for eth0

the Hsmm-pi code doesn't include any hotplug or auto for eth0.

Idea: Using the I/O for status

It would be great to have the node status on a I/O pin to light up a led or something like that... It would be better to have this configurable...
Connected to the mesh status
A specific address available (ping?)

RaspberryPi have i/o, why not using it?

Eric VA2EC

Alfa AWUS036H compatibility with 0.4.0

The Alfa AWUS036H wifi adapter was working with HSMM-Pi that I cloned back in July, and was able to work with Linksys and Ubiquiti nodes. I recenly did a fresh install after upgrading Linksys and Ubiquiti nodes to BBHN v3. The new install works fine with a wifi adapter from Adafruit, but the Alfa unit now doesn't work. It seems to have trouble setting to Ad Hoc mode. When I try to reset the wlan0 interface, I get a message "Device or Resource busy."

I tried going back to HSMM-Pi v0.3.0
-the Alfa adapter works, sees and is seen by the other nodes, but
-can't actually communicate (services on other nodes don't work, RasPi node services don't work on other nodes)

I tried installing with tags/v0.4.0
-initially the Alfa would not function
-after adding "auto eth0" to /etc/network/interfaces and restarting the networking service, the Alfa adapter works (sees/is seen by other nodes)
-after a reboot, however, the Alfa adapter again fails. If I take out "auto eth0", restart networking, the add "auto eth0" back, and again restart the networking service, it works.
- I haven't had time yet to determine if mesh services work between nodes with the v0.4.0 node working.

Any thoughts?

WEB interface not working after a clean install

Hi I know this has probably come up before but here it is again.

This is my first time install of hsmm-pi and everything seems to have gone well.

The Apache server seems to be working....I verified by putting a simple html page in the docroot. same location as the index.php script.

Problem seems to be a missing reference to some cake file.....sorry I am not very familiar with PHP and web servers. But I am comfortable in Linux.

I get the following error in the apache2 error.log.....

[Tue Feb 23 19:03:07.064895 2016] [:error] [pid 643] [client 192.168.1.118:51821] PHP Warning: include(Cake/bootstrap.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/pi/hsmm-pi/src/var/www/hsmm-pi/webroot/index.php on line 92
[Tue Feb 23 19:03:07.072973 2016] [:error] [pid 643] [client 192.168.1.118:51821] PHP Warning: include(): Failed opening 'Cake/bootstrap.php' for inclusion (include_path='/home/pi/hsmm-pi/src/var/www/lib:.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /home/pi/hsmm-pi/src/var/www/hsmm-pi/webroot/index.php on line 92
[Tue Feb 23 19:03:07.073581 2016] [:error] [pid 643] [client 192.168.1.118:51821] PHP Fatal error: CakePHP core could not be found. Check the value of CAKE_CORE_INCLUDE_PATH in APP/webroot/index.php. It should point to the directory containing your /cake core directory and your /vendors root directory. in /home/pi/hsmm-pi/src/var/www/hsmm-pi/webroot/index.php on line 101

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Bob

rc.local "managed" has infinite loop missing $i++ in code

In line 35 inside rc.local hsmm-pi boot up code you forgot to add the code ($i=$i+1) to stop the boot loop.

This will cause hsmm-pi to never fully boot due to an infinite loop in rc.local.

Dup IP's when when attatching usb0

So Im trying to get my Wimax puck setup... Im not shure about thats happing here? Im getting the addresses that the Wimax puck assigns to the Rpi, on the Eth0 address. I will then assign the USB0 & Eth0 to a bond0.

How am I going to configure bond0 in the Web interface, if its going to overwrite my Config file???

-Dose any one have any experience configuring a Rpi in this manner?
-How do I take replace eth0 with bond0 with out destroying nodes confiuration?

WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING

This file is managed by HSMM-Pi.

Manual changes to this file WILL BE OVERWRITTEN

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address 10.204.82.30
netmask 255.0.0.0
wireless-mode ad-hoc
wireless-channel 1
wireless-essid HSMM-MESH

iface default inet dhcp

allow-hotplug usb0
iface usb0 inet dhcp

73 Mathison

Installation on Ubuntu 14.04

There is a problem in the installation (at least on Beaglebone black with ubuntu 14.04) with CakePHP

Starting to download CakePHP-2.5.2.tgz (792,150 bytes)
.............................................................................................................................................................done: 792,150 bytes
could not extract the package.xml file from "/build/buildd/php5-5.5.9+dfsg/pear-build-download/CakePHP-2.5.2.tgz"
Download of "cakephp/CakePHP" succeeded, but it is not a valid package archive
Error: cannot download "cakephp/CakePHP"
Download failed
install failed

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A solution to get it working is to use -Z argument in pear install
sudo pear install -Z cakephp/CakePHP-2.4.10

It will use non compressed package and it works!

Compatibility with BroadBand Hamnet v1.1.0

Check compatibility with BBHN v1.1.0

Support for Docker

The goal of this effort would be to take the build script and turn it into a Dockerfile, thus encapsulating all of the dependencies in such a way that someone could just take an image and load it up on their Pi.

I'll track my efforts here; the file I'm working on is

https://github.com/vielmetti/hsmm-pi/blob/master/Dockerfile

Needs to display error when WLAN fails to start or crashes

As is, when you use a wireless dongle that fails due to not having enough current (AKA unpredictable behavior due to voltage drop), there is no indication of the error in the web browser. This could be fixed by checking to see if the selected WLAN still exists, and if not, displaying an error on each page.

Enable/Disable the Raspberry Pi hardware random number generator through UI

See the following blog comment:
http://hsmmpi.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/enabling-the-hardware-random-number-generator/comment-page-1/#comment-91

Web interface access

Hi all
new to this, followed the instructions to get hsmm on a raspberry pi but after finished I have not access to the web interface. Say I am not aloud to have access on index.php. I tried a few things permissions wise but does not seem to help. Suggestions anyone?

Thanks Manos SV1IW

hsmm-pi see's nodes, but isn't being seen by other nodes.

I've got a pair of wrt54 V1 nodes running and working fine. I just did a fresh install of raspian and hsmm-pi on my Rpi and tried to add it to the mesh - I'm getting an interesting symptom.

Neither of the two wrt54 nodes show the hsmm-pi node in their mesh status or olsrd stats pages. But the hsmm-pi node is displaying the two wrt54 nodes in both. Only by IP address, however, and no services are being presented. DNS services don't seem to be working.

The hsmm-pi is running in gateway mode. Do these symptoms suggest anything?

Thanks!

git clone routine not able to find bbhn packages

When installing through the install.sh routine an error occurs when it attempts to run "git clone git://ubnt.hsmm-mesh.org/bbhn_packages". The error is a failure to connect to the url... I checked, it no longer exists. It doesn't appear that they use any of the same directory structures at broadband-hamnet.org anymore. Any suggestions?
John, KY8T

Mesh node vpn configuration in gui

See if you can come up with a simple method of connecting remote nodes that are unable temporarily to connect via wifi. This will solve some problems, as well as keep people interested that are hard to reach initially.

Documentation for Upgrade Process

Thanks for your efforts getting HSMM/BBHN working on the Raspberry Pi. I have one node configured and hope to add more soon.

The one thing I haven't run across is the upgrade process for hsmm-pi. I suppose since (generally speaking) node configuration is pretty trivial, rewriting the SD card and installing from scratch is reasonable -- but do you have any documentation/suggestions for an in-place upgrade?

Thanks again.

Mesh Services continues to advertise(show) on Status page even after deleting

The Mesh Services window continues to advertise(show) on Status page even after deleting a previously configured service. The Services page reports 'No services have been defined."

I cant share the GPS device...

My previous image, was an Xastir server, thats utilized the usbGPS dongle to sync time with ntp. The 2 programs shared the USB device.

HOW i did it....
http://blog.dale.id.au/archives/149

Device I used... similar if not identical the one in the blog.
http://www.usglobalsat.com/p-62-bu-353-w.aspx#images/product/large/62.jpg

PROBLEM: The hsmm-pi is locking Xastir out of the device.

Show Mesh Links & Neigbors on Status Page

The Status page currently shows only the mesh links, which is mislabeled as being the neighbors. Mesh links represent the full set of known nodes, including those multiple hops away. On the other hand, mesh neighbors are those nodes that can be reached directly. Add an icon to a mesh link to indicate that it's a neighboring node.

network config

Im having issues with the code overriding " /etc/network/interfaces"

-when in Lan mode there is no parameter for a gateway. So i added one in the interfaces file and it works!!! Then make a change in the web browser and the web interface writes over the change ;-( .

• Im trying to set up SmartGW on the nodes. Is that what your calling Gateway Node?
  I just don't have the same level of control over the OLSR config file as in the open wrt interface.

-I switched over to WAN mode and now the node isnt meshing any more...