Status Update: DogOnRails/ROBIN + WifiDog update

[Joe Bowser]

Hey

Here's what's currently happening with DogOnRails and the Firmware:

1. Geocoding is up!  You can now type in your address and have it semi-intelligently translate to Latitude and Longitude.  This is useful for adding new nodes to the system.
2. ROBIN Heartbeat: We now have the ability to record the mesh stats from ROBIN and send them to the DogOnRails server.  This means that all nodes will connect to the DogOnRails to report their mesh status, as well as their WifiDog Captive Portal status.
3. MAC Blocking WORKS!  We can't throttle, but you can kick people off the network using the interface!  This is a huge feature, since this will prevent abuse of the network!

Here are the features that will be added to DogOnRails this week:

1. Meraki Network Import: The ability to read in a Meraki XML file and create nodes with the same name and their MAC addresses so that when a user switches from Meraki to DogOnRails, all their nodes will just go online right away without any configuration required.
2. Better Usage Statistics: More screens on the show tab
3. Time Limits: This is meant to go in place so that we can prevent Wifi Campers

Here is what is outstanding on our version of WifiDog:

Bandwidth Throttling: We need to get the throttling enabled.  The problem that I'm currently facing is that for some reason it is not entering the if statement for Traffic Shaping, despite the fact that conf.c reports that it is reading the token.  I am going to compile a new version with more debug messages to try and debug it, and I may have to get an old Linux box that I have with a PCI Wifi Card to test the Dog on x86 with a proper debugger to get this figured out.

If anyone wants to help with the C code, please let me know and I will send you the source that I am using for my version of WifiDog.

As usual, please feel free to log bugs in the appropriate places:

http://code.google.com/p/dogonrails/
http://launchpad.net/merhaki


Thanks

Joe

[Antonio]

Great Joe,

a very good work, my compliments

Antonio

[Ian Salmon]

Looking good Joe!!

 

Just what we all need! Well Done!

 

Ian

www.opensourcemesh.org

[Mike P]

Hi, we're watching this work with interest from New Zealand.

 

Our plans are to roll out a 100+ meraki mesh in the New Year, with sponsors from some of the larger community groups.  Since we don't have hardly any volunteers, we'll probably go for the "out-of-the-box" solution.

 

If it was possible, could you think about code to protect bandwidth donors from excess traffic charges?  In New Zealand our plans are normally something like 6Gb traffic / month, then you pay $5 per additional Gb.  People are willing to donate their unused portion, say 1Gb/month, but dont want to exceed their limit. 

 

If each MAC address could have a Gb donated/month, that would be cool.  Sort of like a bandwidth telethon.

 

Good work,

 

Regards Mike