If you use Rusty's IRCD pckage and IRC chat, you can send files and photos through it's interface. And it fits on any version hardware.

Im trying to figure out good duplex audio myself, as I now have TWO USB nodes, each with a USB sound card attached ($3.50 for both slo-boat-from-china specials). I would like to be able to tx/rx audio from my 897, since I can control it via ser2net and HRD over serial/USB.  Just need the audio solution.

73

KTF

Hi Ken,

Im wondering if there is something in Win7 DNS that is causing it. I usually dont have this problem with my Win7 Laptop. Once in a great while though, I will run across it where i need to go in via IP and not DNS.

I may do some extra checking on this here soon, and of course report back.

Jim

K5KTF

I noticed that the PDF documentation to convert WRT54G(L) routers is out-of-date,  In fact, after re-boot you must access the MESH node as 172.27.0.1:8080 not as localnode:8080 in Windows 7.

Also, when setting up a mesh node gateway, all you need to do is "check" the "Mesh Gateway" box under "Setup" on the mesh node you plan to connect to the WAN.  In fact, I am now writing this comment through a two-node  HSMM-MESH, not typical WiFi router!

Success!

73,

--- Ken WI7B 

For some reason Quick Reply always fails with Request Forbidden, sigh.

Hamchat is a really important event in the life of HSMM-Mesh- especially when trying to demo the value-added potential.

Two apps that would be uniquely suited to the bandwidth and resilience of HSMM-Mesh:

1. Image transfer (single images good, streaming video a bonus).

2. 2-Way streaming audio (for SSB rig operation - linked to a control app like flrig)

Thanks!

Sure thing! It'll be just a little bit different, but I'll make a windows-friendly version. I'll have an updated guide for windows by this weekend.

EDIT:  Please find attached the updated version for Windows.  This document is still a WIP.

Attachments
 Guide to Asterisk on an HSMM-MESH v1.3 WIP - Windows Friendly Version.zip [475 KB] ::

I have a problem with the dissapearing node issue and due to physical barriers and rf interference I would like to run a hard wire link/bridge between two nodes about 200 feet apart. Unfortunately after hours or reading articles and trying many different configurations, nothing works.

I can't seem to bridge the wifi and lan subnets. My knowledge is pretty limited in this area but I can usually find and follow instructions pretty well, I have found a number of comments and some instructions but nothing has worked.

Hi I am new to the forum, in addition to just receiving my Call Sign.  I have installed the firmware on my two wrtsl54gs routers and noticed it does not work out of the box.  I have figured out the issues and modified the config scripts and web pages.  It now functions properly.  Is there someone I can give the new files to so that the firmware can be updated?

Thanks.

I have a new permanent installation of a mesh node on my 30 foot tower with a gain parabolic antenna and bi-directional AMP. It is on a rotor and I now have a pretty solid connection to Cedar Park Hospital. Signal fluctuates from 85% to 100%. I can also connect to a few nodes through the Hospital such as KE5RS tower etc. But no link to Austin yet.

Fred N5JXO

For a quick and dirty time stamp I change line 157 in the hamchat.pl file to the following:

printf FILE '<p><span class="callsign">' . $name . ':</span><span class="date">' . localtime() . ':</span><span class="message">'. special_chars($msg) . '</span></p>' . "\r\n";

I then added the following to the styles.css file to make the time stamp slightly smaller and a different color:

.date {

padding-left: 2px;

padding-right: 5px;

font-family: "arrial-narrow", arial, sans-serif;

font-size: 14px;

color: #FF00FF;

}

If your router is connected to the internet it will pick up utc time while booting, if not, it will be some random time.  If the correct time is important you will need to ssh into the router and change it manually as there is no way to do it from the web interface. The command is: date MMddhhmmyyyy (Month, day, hour, minute, year)

This is how the time stamp will appear in the chat server as well:

K1NDT: Sun Jan 27 09:06:11 2013: testing

Hope this helps.

This worked well on Safari on my Mac as well as IE9 on a windows 7 machine.

Many thanks to VE3NKL for this.

Scott K1NDT 

I'm trying to upload the file for the USR5461 to turn it into a node. I've noticed one thing…2.8MB file where there is only 2MB of flash on the system. So…what's the secret?

PS I currently have a micro version of dd-wrt on the router but that was done in an effort to try and get the system to read the bin file instead of looking for the usr file.

Jerry,

In further discussions with the radio people, it was decided to use the cable for the 2-meter and 440 bands since it was already there.

John