[guardian-dev] GilgaMesh (was Re: FireChat moved off iOS proprietary mesh to their own xp mesh protocol?)

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at guardianproject.info
Fri Oct 3 11:43:37 EDT 2014



Nathan of Guardian wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014, at 11:29 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: 
>> My experience with WiFi Direct is the exact opposite.  I spend a day with
>> it
>> and couldn't get anything working.  So my guess is that the quality of
>> WiFi
>> Direct support varies widely based on ROM and hardware.
> 
> Remember though, all that I am doing with it is "discovery" mode
> essentially. Just beaconing, or whatever you want to call it. I am not
> trying to create or join a group, or open sockets, or anything of that
> nature. 
> 
> I did just learn though, that I have to disconnect from any standard
> wifi hotspot for the direct mode to become engaged.
> 
> +n

Yeah, I'm not sure I even got things advertising easily. I was shocked at how
crappy it was.  I was using two relatively modern Android devices, I forget
which.  But one was probably a stock Nexus 7 2013.

Before diving too deep into implementing more on this discovery hack, I think
the important question to ask is what we would actually do with a low
bandwidth, broadcast-only transport mechanism.  Its not clear to me how it
would be used beyond just a open chat room in the local area.

.hc


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