Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Alfred batadv-vis json conformance

Martin Hundebøll
2013-10-03T06:09:08Z

On 2013-10-02 18:01, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:05:48PM +0200, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
>>> > >I'm also wondering if label and gateway could have more meaningful
>>> > >names? TQ and host? Also, is TT the best?
>> >
>> >Hm, that is a good question. We also have the batman v with new metrics
>> >coming up, I'm not sure how to handle these (maybe Antonio has some
>> >idea?). It is not the TQ-value in the label after all, but some kind of
>> >ETX-converted value (255/TQ if i remember correctly).
> I think the ETX stuff comes from OLSR (but I don't know the details).
>
> I agree with Simon that we should find a generic name (e.g. metric ?) but I am
> not sure we can represent this value in a "algorithm-generic" fashion (and maybe
> we don't want to).

May I suggest that the cjson output includes an entry to tell the
version of the batman-algorithm?

Users might want to do different map overlays (or whatever) depending on
the available metric(s).

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