AREDN highly recommends upgrading to AREDN security release v3.18.9.0
For more information: https://www.arednmesh.org/content/aredn-v31890-available
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AREDN Project Announces Strategic Changes
AREDN forms a non-profit corporation to ensure continuity
The project saw the need for more formal governance and as a result, took the strategic step of organizing as a non-profit corporation. This will help protect the user-community investments in mesh networking by setting up the framework for long-term resource management, research, and development.
Our mission is still focused on providing the Amateur Radio Community with software, education, and support to enable them to aid public safety, emergency response and disaster relief agencies with high-speed multimedia data networks.
Continuing to rely on the financial support of a few individuals is not a sustainable means of supporting the project. Without more widespread support, the community’s growing investment in network equipment and relationships with served agencies is at risk. We expect to obtain contributions primarily from the ham community. We plan to use these funds to cover operating expenses such as web site hosting, setup a test and validation lab, obtain associated test equipment, and address the costs of promoting the project through various marketing channels. We plan to consider grants to fund worthy implementations of AREDN infrastructure as our resources may allow.
AREDN code repositories on GitHub
All AREDN source code has...
Updated date: Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 17:28
AREDN code repositories on GitHub
The AREDN source code repositories are now accessible on GitHub at https://GitHub.com/aredn/aredn_ar71xx . GitHub is one of the largest open source hosting services with over 40 million users. Anyone with basic knowledge of Linux and git can now compile AREDN images and contribute changes. If you have a background in application or firmware development, the hurdle to get started and contribute to the ham community is now much lower.
GitHub also includes an issue tracking feature to capture feature requests, bug reports, and other issues. This immediately replaces our former defect tracking tool (Bloodhound).
AREDN GitHub Activity
The GitHub setup is intended to jump AREDN forward to stay current, and benefiting from, the 1000+ developers of Linux and OpenWrt releasing a steady stream of advancements and fixes. AREDN is now based on this stream. By staying current, our community is able to focus on those features unique to the ham community.
The OpenWrt group produces a major release each year followed by 3 or 4 point releases in successive months. The latest release candidate was published in June 2018 with a final release targeted in July.
New Devices in AREDN GitHub
TP-Link is now shipping v2.0 of the CPE210 and CPE510 devices. These...
Read More Updated date: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 - 23:31
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HamRadioNow Interviews AREDN
David W0DHG and Darren AJ6BL interviewed Randy WU2S about the AREDN project.The 90 minute discussion covered the AREDN mission, examples of real-world deployments, how to get started and much more.
See HamRadioNow Episode #141 on YouTube or on the HamRadioNow website.
Please consider subscribing to the YouTube channel and watching all the informative episodes produced by this great team.
Operational Notes for AREDN™ 3.15.1.0
Before flashing a Ubiquiti device that is running or has been running AirOS version 5.6, please run the AREDN U-Boot Test program below before attempting a firmware load or upgrade.
We have developed the following utility to help you determine if your device is compatible, as well as being able to take a BACKUP of your node’s critical partitions.
Download and run the AREDN U-Boot Test Setup Program. If the test results in a "GOOD/GOOD" result, then you may proceed to load the appropriate AREDN firmware onto it.
If the test results are "BAD," then you should do the following:
- Backup your device partitions using the AREDN U-Boot Test program.
- Use the AirOS GUI to downgrade to AirOS v5.5.x.
- Re-run the AREDN U-Boot Test program and look for a "GOOD/GOOD" test.
- If "GOOD/GOOD", you can safely use the AirOS GUI install AREDN firmware....
Hamvention 2017 Mesh Network Forum
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Forum Room 2 at 1:30 pm
Moderator: Bill Curtice, WA8APB, Miami Valley Mesh Alliance (MVMA)
Hams around the world are now building radio-based high speed digital mesh networks across their cities using microwave technologies and low cost commercial hardware adapted for Amateur Radio use. Mesh provides flexible, high speed wireless communications that can be adapted to varying terrain types, can be rapidly deployed, are fun to build and use, and are particularly well suited to the EmComm needs of many served agencies.
The MVMA is delighted to host Andre Hansen, K6AH, of the Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network (AREDN) Project, speaking on how to build an effective AuxComm, high-speed data network based on Ubiquiti airMAX products and the AREDN Project’s firmware.
Andre will describe a 3-tiered architecture---using illustrations of actual installations---where AREDN implementers in San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, and Los Angeles Counties have combined to cover over 16,000 square miles with a potential of supporting Incident Command...
Request for Testers for Ubiquiti XW Issues
Our need for XW testers is over. Thanks to the dedicated hams who volunteered to help tackle these thorny issues, we have completed most of the solution testing deemed sufficient to give us confidence in the applied fixes. There is still a bit of additional work to do before we announce a new stable release.
We still need supporting information from our testers to be entered in the Bloodhound bug reporting system so that we can complete the verification. If you have tested the XW fixes, and have not yet updated the Bloodhound tickets with your reports, logs and data files, please do so as soon as possible.
The Development Team is currently focused on troubleshooting the Ubiquiti XW issue. We believe there are likely multiple defects across multiple products which has made this a challenging exercise.
We are looking for testers willing to step out on the edge for us to confirm the existence of these problems across our supported Ubiquiti devices.
Test Setup
You will want to have two devices in...
Tunnel Solution
Thanks to the hard work of Darryl K5DLQ and the Beta Team, we are happy to announce that a new feature allowing tunnels between nodes that do not have RF connections, but do have internet connection, is now available as an add-on to the 3.0.1 BBHN build. While this feature has been heavily requested by many users, it does have some limitations on the supported hardware in that it will only work on devices with 8mb flash and 32mb of ram. This means that while all Ubiquiti devices are supported that we can only support WRT54GS v1,v2,v3 from the Linksys side. This feature is expected to make it into mainline in the near future, for now to install this feature requires performing some manual steps. Full install instructions can be found here: https://www.arednmesh.org/content/tunnel-set-0
AREDN Offline Map Submit Tool Updated
Darryl K5DLQ developed a command line tool that allows operators to submit nodes to the AREDN map without requiring the node itself to have internet access (direct or via Mesh Gateway).
It has been updated so that OMS.exe version 0.9 updated to point to arednmesh.org
This application runs on Windows.
To use it:
- Downloads the AREDN Offline Map Submit (OMS) tool from here: http://bit.ly/arednomstool
- Extract the contents of the zip file to a folder on your PC (no installation required)
- Ensure that your PC is connected to a node as a LAN device.
- Ensure that the node is connected to a VLAN capable switch that is configured with VLAN1 (WAN) access to the internet. (OR, use an AirRouter that is connected to the internet)
- Open a command prompt in Windows
- Run the following command from the folder that you extracted the OMS tool into: oms.exe
- OPTIONALLY: you can run: oms.exe -preview (This will show you which nodes would submit their data WITHOUT actually sending it to the...
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