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On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Valent Turkovic

<valent@otvorenamreza.org> wrote:
> Hi Bruno,
> just to our hackaday page you will find full instructions there -
> https://hackaday.io/project/10453-meshpoint-opensource-wifi-for-crisis-situations
>
> Or just go to our Nodewatcher cloud server, create new account and
> create few nodes and play around :)
>
> Are CPE210 V1 devices still available in Brazil?
>
> Cheers,
> Valent.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 2:39 PM, bruno vianna <bruno@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Hi Valent
>>
>> Sorry to also hijack the list subject, but I'm also curious about
>> meshpoint---
>>
>> - What firmware do you use for the devices? Is it available anywhere? I
>> couldn't find no reference.
>> - In your network, do you run local services? Do you use a local server or
>> autodiscovery applications?
>>
>> We have also been using the CPE-210 in our community networks in Brazil.
>> It's a great device for a very good price.
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> Bruno
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Valent Turkovic <valent@otvorenamreza.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Fred,
>>> first I'm not part of Librerouter team so probably anyone from the
>>> team will give you a more detailed answer.
>>>
>>> My project is called MeshPoint and we are working exactly to solve
>>> part of your problems - to rebuild quickly failed internet
>>> infrastructure. You can check us out at www.meshpoint.me and on our
>>> hackaday page -
>>>
>>> https://hackaday.io/project/10453-meshpoint-wifi-router-for-humanitarian-crisis
>>>
>>> But currently neither Librerouter or MeshPoint are ready to be send in
>>> large numbers anywhere. But if you can get some cooperation from your
>>> goverment and if they are interested in doing a pilot project to
>>> research how would MeshPoint fit in their disaster recovery program
>>> please don't hesitate to contact me. I would love to help you.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Valent.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 3:45 PM, fred <support@qo-op.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > Your project is somehow what I am looking for to build back Internet
>>> > access in Dominica (Green Carribean West Indies island).
>>> > How could I get more details and find hardware to bring there?
>>> >
>>> > I am also willing to integrate, recharge station and opens source
>>> > network services to help rebuild phone (asterisk), social (mastodon),
>>> > market (gchange) and free money system (duniter) for full operation...
>>> >
>>> > I have made prototypes with RaspberryPi, hacked TPLink router but any
>>> > help is welcome to build a proposal to Dominica Government...
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> > Fred - http://MadeInZion.org
>>> >
>>> > PS: Do you know http://redport.cl/
>>> >
>>> > Le 06/11/2017 à 00:29, Valent Turkovic a écrit :
>>> >> Thanks Nicolas,
>>> >> we did a lot of work in last two years.
>>> >>
>>> >> We have deployed wifi network in refugee camp that rotated 4000 people
>>> >> each 24h and in 4 months we served over 500,000 people with wifi. Even
>>> >> getting a licence to enter a refugee camp from ministry of internal
>>> >> affairs was hard enough, then we has only 72h to build and deploy
>>> >> hotspots on light poles that has power only during the night. So in
>>> >> two days without almost no sleep we build charging and monitoring
>>> >> system with batteries under 100€ that worked from first try. And it
>>> >> worked for months in harsh outdoor environment.
>>> >> And on the third day we had all of our hotspots deplyed, thanks to lot
>>> >> of people in our local hackerspace that helped and thanks to awesome
>>> >> Nodewatcher system that enabled us to configure all devices and build
>>> >> wifi mesh network in just few hours.
>>> >>
>>> >> I hired professional mountain climber to teach me and help me take all
>>> >> these devices up to 30m high poles and not die while doing it :) I
>>> >> didn't want to risk any of the other guys from our hackerspace, this
>>> >> was my duty to do on my own.
>>> >>
>>> >> What I saw when working with biggest NGOs in the field that none of
>>> >> them are ready for rebuilding internet infrastructure when it goes
>>> >> down, and we have the technology that can be used to rebuild it much,
>>> >> much faster, cheaper and the most importantly at scale!
>>> >>
>>> >> All other solutions don't scale and are insanely much more expensive.
>>> >> I have reseached this field very thoroughly and have talked with all
>>> >> stake holders, like Disaster Tech Lab, communication sans frontières,
>>> >> Vodafon, Unicef, Red Cross, Green peace and lots and lots of small
>>> >> NGOs. And none of then have a solution that scales and is affordable.
>>> >>
>>> >> After the refugee crisis has passed we continued working on MeshPoint.
>>> >> We also build 3 generation of prototypes, did who knows how much case
>>> >> designs and tested lots of boards and routers until we our current
>>> >> version.
>>> >>
>>> >> Our current version works amazingly, to he honest much better that I
>>> >> expected it to work! This is mostly due to modular design which
>>> >> offloads traffic to three SoC so even if one if overloaded we still
>>> >> have two other ones. Also using sector antennas makes a huuuge
>>> >> difference because you have spatial isolation which increases number
>>> >> of users at least 3 fold. Also for conserving power we can always turn
>>> >> off any board if necessary.
>>> >>
>>> >> So we did our first controlled real world test this summer - and we
>>> >> got up to 150 clients connected per radio, so that is total of 450
>>> >> clients per MeshPoint! We were blown away and after we got these
>>> >> results. Previously our best case predictions were up to 300 clients.
>>> >> But great work that Dave Taht, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen and others did
>>> >> on bufferbloat and make-wifi-faster project payed off huge for us! We
>>> >> are eternally grateful for their work and all other OpenWrt and Lede
>>> >> developers.
>>> >>
>>> >> Our latest tests are deploying tethered drones to establish long range
>>> >> wifi link (check out our Hackaday page for video). We are also testing
>>> >> big tethered balloons filled with helium also for establishing long
>>> >> range wifi links.
>>> >>
>>> >> We are now in last stages of testing open source mppt solar charger
>>> >> for LiFePO4 batteries, this will be most efficient mppt solar charger,
>>> >> not most budget sensitive, but definitely most efficient. I saw that
>>> >> Electra also designed mppt solar charger, and I'm interested to
>>> >> compare them both if we manage to get some more people to join us.
>>> >>
>>> >> Also we are also currently building  is solar and battery powered
>>> >> sensors that can be used to detect forest fires.
>>> >>
>>> >> If your boards are available only to developers are there any plans to
>>> >> release schematics under some open source licence? We have experienced
>>> >> electronics people and we can at least try to build few on our own and
>>> >> share our experience and even help make it better. How many layers
>>> >> does your board use? Four or more?
>>> >>
>>> >> Cheers,
>>> >> Valent.
>>> >>
>>> >> On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 10:47 PM, Nicolas Pace <nico@libre.ws> wrote:
>>> >>> Hi Valent,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Amazing you have contacted us before us contacted you! (I have this on
>>> >>> my todo list for a while!)
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 03:15 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>> >>>> Hi good people of Librerouter,
>>> >>>> I'm founder of MeshPoint - humanitarian open source wifi router
>>> >>>> (www.meshpoint.me).
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Your project is very interesting, I like the industrial design you did
>>> >>> for your project.
>>> >>>> My team and I would be very interested in testing your pcb and then
>>> >>>> seeing if it makes sense for next version of MeshPoint. Currently we
>>> >>>> use pcb radio boards from TP-LINK CPE210 devices.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Great!
>>> >>> LibreRouter will do a big difference on the user experience in
>>> >>> comparison to those devices, in particular because of the triple-radio
>>> >>> design (those are just one radio).
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Are you already using LibreMesh on the CPE210?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> We are also looking into making our own PCB boards, so is makes sense
>>> >>>> to cooperate on this.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> For sure! We have already gone through the process, so we can
>>> >>> collaborate on the same design to make it better!
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> Under which open hardware licence have you released LibreRouter?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> Are pcb schematics publicly available?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Not yet, but not because of lack of interest... mainly time.
>>> >>> For sure will be before we make it available to the public.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> Does Librerouter pcb support POE in and POE passtrough?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Based on the spec, it supports POE and POE passthrough.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> https://librerouter.org/media/documents/librerouter_specifications_v6.p
>>> >>> df
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> Is it possible to buy or borrow few prototype boards for testing?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The amount of prototypes we manufactured was very small, and are
>>> >>> already commited for the development process.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Units will be available very soon.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> If you register on the contact form we will let you know as soon as it
>>> >>> is available: https://librerouter.org/contact/
>>> >>> Also would be interesting to explore collaborations.
>>> >>>
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