Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Batman-adv and adroid as mesh client

Antonio Quartulli
2013-04-24T10:55:05Z

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Hi cmsv

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 04:28:17PM -0400, cmsv wrote:
> I have a growing number of users on my mesh that use android and i am
> now looking at supporting it more and better.
> As i do some re-search i see some articles like these:
>
> http://www.geek.com/mobile/batman-wants-to-break-android-free-from-wifi-1539651/
>
> https://blog.itu.dk/SPVC-E2010/files/2011/08/13adhocandroid.pdf
>
> https://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/android-phones-are-connecting-without-carrier-networks
>
> http://allaboutandroidphone.blogspot.ca/2013/02/project-batman-use-of-ad-hoc-network.html
>
> My questions are:
> Are here any ideas to have batman-adv working with android ?

we support batman-adv in the linux kernel. As far as I know you can "simply"
compile the batman-adv module for the Android kernel and it should work. I
remember of somebody which did it.

However we do not directly work on that.

> Is anyone using android in this stype of scenario ?
>

But why do you want to use batman-adv on the Android devices themselves? this
kind of applications are not really energy-friendly and a normal user would not
probably like to drain his battery for no reason (imagine an Android phone
working as router for traffic going to other nodes..).

What I usually do is to use whatever smartphone as a normal non-mesh client,
meaning that I simply connect the phone to a node acting as AP.
This is the common scenario which is also explained in the wiki.

Cheers,

--
Antonio Quartulli

..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara

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