My #arednmesh is up -- now what?

I also need to find another #ham that has #arednmesh setup so we can play.

@T_X I still have my #arednmesh routers. You can make them play together if you change the #ssid of the #hsmmmesh routers

Hello everyone! I’m new to this Mastodon thing, so please bear with me as I learn. Licensed since around 2008, originally as KI6LOU. Extra class who enjoys playing radio with ones and zeroes. Including #aprs #allstar #dmr #p25 #winlink #echolink #irlp and #aredn to name a few. When I have spare time, I also enjoy teaching about Radio and testing and passing new ham radio operators. #introduction #digitalradio #arednmesh #amateurradio

POE cable failure in the middle of the storm due to corner-cutting with non-waterproof coupler. Launched emergency repair mission to fix it and replaced it with a waterproof coupler. Lesson learned too. #hamradio #arednmesh #electronics

Ce matin c'est la grande journée des mises à jour de nos réseau. Il est possible que certains systèmes soient indisponibles quelques minutes lors des opérations de maintenance.

Firewall, routeur, switch, radios... Tout y passe!

#hamradio #radioamateur #mesh #aredn #arednmesh #maintenance #IT

I must admit that I've been "lazy" to learn #Ansible ...

I was maintaining 25 #AREDN mesh nodes all by hand even if I had previously made needed script to do everything. The script was working, but needed tweaking. Tonight I took a shot at tweaking it and make sure that only critical nodes are not updated automatically.

Result is 25nodes updated with only one password input in less than an hour! Not bad!

VE2ATU network is now fully updated to latest release.

#amateurradio #arednmesh #mesh #it #learningnewstuff

Has anyone else ever setup an openstreetmap tile sever for #AREDN #AREDNMESH purposes? I tested with the northeast region of the US and was able to get it working in under a couple of hours, so I expanded to North America and I'm in about 12 hours already and its still working away. I hate to think how long it would take to render all the tiles on the globe on a raspberry pi. Good thing I'm on an SSD. #OSM

My PR to #arednmesh has been merged into the repository earlier this week as commit 74810d01b4a54bfc2809c97bda5ca048f9eb12fe.

It fixed a bug that was introduced during the code translation to LUA.

The bug: It was not possible anymore to open ports range from the GUI in the port forwarding area.

Reason 1: REGEX has hyphen not properly escaped.

Reason 2 : Port range validation logic was reversed. The code was validating a port range having an higher start point than the ending point.

Along those 2 fixes and some discussions with dev team, another tweak has been made in the GUI code to escape blank space if any in front of the port range so the value is properly reused later for internal uses.

This was my first code contribution to AREDN Mesh. I already look forward to help when my skills allows to.

#aredn #hamradio #AmateurRadio #Coding

@w8emv @fgregg #aredn & #arednmesh ;)

Updated 4/6 of my #arednmesh nodes to the latest firmware release (3.22.12.0). No problems. Will catch the other two #aredn nodes tomorrow.

A few weeks, I noticed a bug in AREDN mesh V3.22.6.0 when I wanted to change some settings from the "Port Forwarding, DHCP, and Services" section. Reverting to V3.22.1.0 made everything functional again.

It took sometimes to figure out was exactly was the bug. When I narrowed it to the port ranges inside the port forwarding section, it has been indicated inside the original ticket.

Time past and it was causing more and more troubles to our setup. So this morning I took an hour to look at the code. Not being a LUA dev, I wanted this bug fixed and if I may be of any help, better help out!

Starting at V3.22.1.0 to understand the logic behind the scene, I found out how it works. I took time to concentrate on the validate_port_range function.

Between V3.22.1.0 and V3.22.6.0, the code has been rewritten in LUA, so I got the intuition that this rewrite might a brought in some problems.

Moving to main branch (V3.22.12.0 (Latest)) , to ensure not working on obsolete code, I found out the validate_port_range function and read the code. So I found out a first mistake while evaluation if the range is properly indicated (ex: 1000-2000 = Valid / 2000-1000 = Invalid). Simple and easy to fix.

Made the changes on my lab device and still no joy! So what is the worst thing (IMHO) to convert from one language to another... ? REGEX! So I made a quick search to 'learn' how REGEX are working in LUA to get some answer. Opened up a JDoodle tab and started to play with the REGEX line until the various tests with valid and invalid ranges returns proper results.

Pushed the new REGEX in the lab device and Bingo! It is now working properly.

Arranged a PR (First PR on the project), submitted it and now waiting for it to be reviewed and merged. In the hope I didn't break something else!

Once included into nightly, our 2 gateways requiring port ranges will be back to normal operations and so will be our VoIP servers behind them!

#AmateurRadio #AREDN #AREDNMesh #LUA #Bugs #VoIP #Scriptkiddy #OpenSource #FirstPullRequest

Today has been not been as productive as I wanted, but it has been a good one!

2 years ago, I started a project called AEWS, to collect data from various public sources using #Python with the goal to retrieve power outages, road closures and weather. Once retrieve, the data is formatted into 2 formats. The report format is a text file using markdown format and there is also the #aprs format to send abnormalities over RF in a group messages for all #amateurradio around to get the information if they wished to.

The goal for that little piece of software is to automate sending important information to operators deployed in #emcomm operations.

Last year, I was looking at a way to get some helps on some coming projects from fellow hams that are not coders but know enough to give a hand. I then found #nodered . After a bit of testing, Node-Red has been adopted as the official way to make things happen at our association.

So since then, we are migrating everything possible to Node-Red. Few weeks ago, I started to migrate AEWS toward Node-Red and more urgent projects came in, so it has been set aside. Today I've been able to put a bit of work into AEWS.

Starting from scratch or almost, I've took care to make it modular and integrated it with our #mattermost and #zabbix instances running out off our #aredn mesh. We now can receive reports on MatterMost, on our web portal and receive abnormalities through RF on APRS and via review them through Zabbix dashboard. Also small part of the data are available through our #TAK server, more work is required for that part to bring full data into it.

Most part of the power outage system is done. Few tweaks and getting site specific status to be shown on all platform and it can be called done. Maybe it will be done by the week-end so another module can be attacked before end of the year!

Cheers to productive and unproductive days!

#productivity #amateurradio #hamradio #arednmesh

AREDN Mesh announce the release of version 3.22.12.0! More new features and tweaks to make the mesh better!

AREDN Mesh is a firmware to use on selected commercial WISP devices to operate a broadband meshed network oriented for emergency communications.

The ARAT (VE2ATU) mesh network will be upgraded at the beginning of 2023. Meanwhile, we will deploy the new release in our lab to test possible instabilities.

Official release announcement: https://www.arednmesh.org/content/aredn-322120-release

#amateurradio #aredn #arednmesh #ve2atu #arat #abitibitemiscamingue #at

Random #aredn thought of the day: I have been planning a little road trip and on such occasions, I've been known to use #aprs just to track an interesting path. This gave me a random idea: operating a mobile #aredn node, and whether I could link up with the #arednmesh in various places along the way. But it makes me wonder: if a node could read a GPS and automate its position in the AREDN network, would that be cool?

Tinkering together a mobile #arednmesh go box. Harbor Freight ammo box, cheap 6Ah LiFEPo4 battery, a $20 solar charge controller, a 12->24v converter, 4 port POE injector and some ethernet bulkhead connectors. Will add fuses, switches, buttons, a USB charger, and a hookup for solar panel (I have a small 10W and a larger 100W). Pictured with my budget TPLINK CPE210. #projects

Anyone else mucking around with #aredn or #arednmesh? I'm tinkering with some hardware around my house, sadly only able to get out via an Internet tunnel due to the lack of clear line of site to anywhere else, but I am working on building a small battery box/go kit that I can take to parks and muck around some more. My idea is to make a small solar power setup to experiment with.

#aredn #arednmesh sounds interesting every time I see it mentioned, but then I read about it and get turned off by the lack of easy entry points.

I assume people find it useful, but I just can't get excited about it. Am I the only one?