It has been a long time since I tried to get my MESH network going. I got discouraged a while back when there was no other local stuff but me. However now I have thought of a use for it.  I am a STEM (technology) teacher and am doing a Mars lander simulation with remote control robots.  I wanted to put a remote wireless security camera on my MESH nodes so that the students can see the robot, plan their next move, execute, then see what happens.

In saying all that... I pulled my Mesh routers out and tried to hook them up.  Now it has been a while and I cannot remember much.... But I did go to the setup pages and used the addresses in the browser to connect via wireless and via LAN.  No matter the address I cannot get anything to connect.  I am thinking of reflashing a newer firmware, but cannot get anything to recognize on LAN.

Can I get some pointers?  They are 54GL routers and were flashed years ago.  I just cannot connect and I want to make sure I can before I buy a camera.

Bill R.

N5VEI

Bill 

Your Mars Lander Project sounds like a great use for BBHN!  Putting a camera on one node and seeing on a computer connected to a second node should be pretty straight forward.  It sounds like you can connect to your nodes and hopefully they are seeing each other on a mesh status screen.

If your nodes were flashed a long time ago, I would guess you have 0.4.3 or earlier on them.  In the 0.4.x versions the default was for NAT and you would need to set up port forwarding or else go to a DMZ mode to get to the camera.  I would suggest you update to the current version.  It uses 5-host dmz mode as its default which should work fine for what you are doing. 

On the node for the "Lander", with the camera plugged into a LAN port, go into the setup and in the Port Forwarding, DHCP and Services screen and set up the camera with a DHCP Port Reservation and then as a Service.  Once you do a save changes and reboot, you should be able to see a link for the camera on the Mesh Status Screen of the "Mission Control" node.  Click the link and you should be seeing the camera.

If you need more help just ask.

Clint, AE5CA