Hi,

A few of us in Eastern New York have arrived simultaneously at the starting point into HSMM-MESH and are beginning the early planning.  I have three portable nodes up and running with one operating as an irc server. Testing with HydraIRC on windows works fine on the #mesh channel.

Now as we start to look at actually using the system (at first with temporary tactical setups), I have a couple of stupid questions:

1.  Though it seems trivial, how do you set the time on a node?  All mine are coming back as being in the year 2000 (except the one I tried hooking internet to through the wan port, possible answer here?)

2.  Nodes that are not linked directly to internet through the wan port have no internet connectivity. Did I miss something in the setup? I thought the internet would flow through the mesh if a node was connected.

Thanks for the great work done on this project making it easy for us to follow on.

David Galletly KM2O, Eastern New York SEC

I grew up not far from Albany and if there was a mesh to play with the next time I visit home that would be awesome.

1. The nodes run an NTP client.  When internet access is available they automatically get their own time.  There is no way in the web interface to set it, you would have to log in with ssh and use the date command if you really wanted to set it manually.  Bear in mind that the local time on a node has absolutely no effect on the operation of the network or any applications that may be running on it.

2. The mesh gateway function must be enabled on the setup page, and you must be using at least version 0.4.3 of the firmware.  Some internet dependencies went away and older firmware no longer works. 

73
ad5oo