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With regard to a specific build of any HSMM-MESH or Broadband-Hamnet firmware for Raspberry Pi, Pi 2 or Beaglebone black, No version has ever been released. Talented users have taken each operating system, added the OLSR features and the DNS processes, and done one-off conversions of each of these models. It appears that plenty of horsepower exists even in the Pi Zero to do the same thing. We don't advocate the Pi or Beaglebone directly serving as a node for several reasons. First, it is not water tight and would need to be in contact with a USB or Ethernet connected access point located high enough to be useful. This presents some problems as you would normally like to have a really strong signal on the node that serves your BeagleBone, PI, etc. such that hop count to that node is very low.
Second, If your mini computer lives up to its abilities, you will be serving up web pages, possibly hosting a file/FTP store, APRS and, running Asterisk and possibly one or more chat server programs. Others add Tickets CAD and locally stored Open Streetmaps to the mix to manage your deployed resources. As you stack more tasks on to the quite capable mini computer, you take away cycles from near real time tasks like Asterisk, decreasing the concurrent call count that can be handled with quality audio.
In addition, 5v power over Ethernet (POE) is even less standard than the 12v used in many setups. It does not port well over a distance due to 5v needing to be not more or less than 5v. Other power is 12v or higher for the Ubiquiti and IP phones, so starting over with voltage doesn't hurt you on short runs and still works fine as the length of your CAT5 grows. It is quite easy to have a solid 5v power source for the Pi/Bone at your operating position and leave the higher power/better antenna job to a POE connected Ubiquity mounted above your head. With native water sealing and POE already handled, it's a snap. Such a host, acting as a mesh node with direct LAN addressing and hard wired to the Pi/Bone and will get premium service to each user. Nothing here says you CAN'T make the Pi/Bone your mesh node, but why fight all of the above factors just to do it? Restating the current situation: Broadband-Hamnet does not offer any builds of firmware now or in the past that directly convert any model of Beaglebone or Raspberry Pi to BBHN operation. Users are free to whip up one and share the recipe with others. Our recommendation is to have a dedicated mesh node hard wired to the mini computer over CAT5 cable and give it a solid 5v supply in an area where weather protection is not an issue.
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