From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <524D0A04.4090702@hundeboll.net> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 08:09:08 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWFydGluIEh1bmRlYsO4bGw=?= MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20131001202648.GT11097@lunn.ch> <20131002130548.GA24077@pandem0nium> <20131002160106.GA1939@neomailbox.net> In-Reply-To: <20131002160106.GA1939@neomailbox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Alfred batadv-vis json conformance Reply-To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking List-Id: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking 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). -- Kind Regards Martin Hundebøll Frederiks Allé 99, 1.th 8000 Aarhus C Denmark +45 61 65 54 61 martin@hundeboll.net