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Thanks to your donations, to grants provided by both the Shuttleworth Foundation and the NLnet Foundation, and to LTFE for providing hosting, we have been able to successfully establish a new server, which we named the aggregator. The new server ... [More] will host the next version of nodewatcher, the modular provisioning, deployment and monitoring platform targeted at community wireless mesh networks worldwide. In order to make future deployments of nodewatcher as seamless as possible, we have been hard at work to provide a Dockerized version of all components that we use ourselves. For configuring the host and managing all the containers we decided to use Salt, which enables us to document the whole deployment in a single place and to enable that similar new instances can be easily built. To support our need of interconnecting Docker containers via Layer 2 links, we have developed a simple network configuration daemon for Docker, netcfg, which enables dynamic configuration of Layer 2 bridges between containers. Read more, comment, like, share ... [Less]

wlan slovenija was presented at the first Ljubljana Social Innovation Expo. For the SIXPO poster we've used a comic created by our supporter Agnieszka and I think it turned out very nice. ... [More] Comment, like, share ... [Less]

Development of wireless optical system KORUZA has reached the 5th prototype generation and it is time now, to put it out in the wild and properly test it. We are launching the World Wide KORUZA experiment to deploy more then 10 links worldwide with ... [More] a range of sensors and a test device, to observe the performance over a 12 month period. Experimental results are expected to identify error sources in the system as well as create an open dataset for future study of free-space communication system as well as KORUZA. Research organizations, community networks and others welcome! Read more, comment, like, share ... [Less]

I - Jernej Kos - have recently received the Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant to focus on further development of version 3 of the nodewatcher platform. The nodewatcher v3 platform is an open source (GNU AGPL licensed) network planning, deployment ... [More] , monitoring and maintenance platform for community wireless networks. Such recognition and support of the project is very motivational and confirming the project is on the right track. Read more, comment, like, share ... [Less]

A quick update on what is happening regarding bringing nodewatcher v3 platform closer to reality. Version 2 of nodewatcher used its own simple key-value format and a bunch of shell scripts to provide monitoring data. In order to bring this into the ... [More] modern era where JSON and ubus are available as compact libraries on OpenWrt by default, I have in the last few days created a new modular OpenWrt monitoring agent that can run on nodes and periodically obtain data from various sources (directly from procfs, from uci, from netifd via ubus, from nl80211 netlink API via OpenWrt's libiwinfo, etc.). The agent will be used by nodewatcher v3 as the source of telemetry data, but due to its JSON/ubus output, it can be easily also reused by other projects that need to monitor OpenWrt nodes. Read more, comment, like, share ... [Less]

The 3rd Sharing Day happened, where we shared Internet, contacts and ideas of wlan slovenija network. The event took place in great company of other sharers and visitors, under the trees in the park Tabor. (An interesting thing: tabor means "camp" ... [More] in literal translation. :) Read more, comment, like, share ... [Less]

In 5 years of growing, wlan slovenija network has really grown. It has now more than 350 active nodes and almost 1000 registered nodes. As you probably know, we are using our nodewatcher system to collect real-time data about performance and use of ... [More] all those nodes and the network as whole, store it for easier debugging, and display it visually so that anybody can see how the network operates. In 5 years this is a lot of data. More than 100 GB of data which we want to provide for everyone. With the new version (v3) of nodewatcher data storage requirements will grow even further as we will be able to monitor the network faster and better. This is why we have to buy a new server and we need your help to able to do it. With the new server we will be able to continue growing! We are planning to buy: Lenovo ThinkServer RD 430, 1260 EUR 3 x Seagate ST3000VX000, 3 TB, 315 EUR Together: 1575 EUR 277.96 EUR (17.6%) Please donate for the new server. You can do that using PayPal and Bitcoin. If you would like to donate in a different way, for example by wiring money, please contact us. Every contribution counts! We list all donations publicly, so make sure you tell us if you want your donation to be anonymous or have a special message. Comment, like, share ... [Less]

Battlemesh V7 in Leipzig is now over, more than 100 developers, active in community and other wireless networks, came together to test, debug and improve hardware, wireless drivers, routing protocols and user applications. We had fun, learned a lot ... [More] , got to know each-other and formed a range of ideas for future work. Read more, comment, like, share ... [Less]

The Wireless Battle of the Mesh is about to begin on Monday and Musti will be presenting wlan slovenija and in particular his wireless optical project KORUZA, Serval Rugged Battery Pack for powering nodes just about anywhere and speaking on ... [More] discovering the location of 5GHz wireless nodes. Battlemesh is free to attend for anyone, if you are around Leipzig, Germany, drop by and see KORUZA in action. Comment, like, share ... [Less]

In October 2013 I was awarded Shuttleworth Flash Grant which enabled me to further pursue the development of the wireless optical KORUZA and create a good basis for future work. The past months have been very busy and produced quite exceptional ... [More] outcomes. Led the development of 3D printer Troublemaker based on the open sources of Ultimaker Original and have created a 4 3D printer farm for construction of KORUZA prototypes, about 80 more were constructed by members of Drustvo Elektronikov Slovenije (hobby electronics society), making this technology much more popular in Slovenia. Established a non-profit development organization Institute IRNAS Rače, aimed at providing formal support and create a working environment for development of open-source systems, primarily KORUZA at this stage and was awarded a NLnet foundation grant to further continue the work. Designed the serial communication system for Openwrt that takes a fresh approach to data acquisition and control of electronic circuits that connect via the serial port. We believe this is the best way yet to handle KORUZA control as well as many other applications, from sensors to robots. Developed KORUZA to a whole new level, integrating the 3D printed prototype in an outdoor suitable design, successfully tested it over more then 100m, evaluated the performance and iterated the procedure to fix all the noted problems as well as adding new features. The results of this work now enable test deployments and further development of the system. Implemented a remote flashing approach for TI ARM based microcontrollers, enabling remote upgrades of KORUZA as well as giving the whole hacker community a fresh way of approaching to developing and improving their creations. Thank you, Shuttleworth Foundation, for all this! And special thanks to Jernej, who actively developed software solutions. Thank you all for various kinds of support! Read more, comment, like, share ... [Less]