Mesh Potato Tests

We have made good progress on the Mesh Potato (MP) so far. The basic functionality (making phone calls over a Wifi Mesh network) is working OK. Over the past few weeks Elektra and I have been concentrating on several specific areas of the MP and testing them in more depth. This posts [...]

Voice Over B.A.T.M.A.N.

Bringing up Wifi

On Friday I set about testing Wifi on the two Mesh Potato prototypes. The N-type antenna connectors attach to the MP PCB via a pigtail with a tiny Hi-rose style connector. This looks a bit fragile so I decided to mount the two MPs in some weatherproof boxes so I had [...]

First Mesh Potato Phone Call

Since the boot loader bugs have been tamed we have been making steady progress. Today I brought the FXS module drivers up, closely followed by Asterisk and the first Mesh Potato phone call at 3:43pm today.

Almost exactly 1 year since the Mesh Potato project was kicked off at the first Village Telco workshop in [...]