Hi,
I can't find out how I can create a new channel in an existing zone and how I can remove old messages in the database?
Can someone give me a hand where to look?
Many than ks & 73
Manuel DO5MSH Hamburg, Germany
I can't find out how I can create a new channel in an existing zone and how I can remove old messages in the database?
Can someone give me a hand where to look?
Many than ks & 73
Manuel DO5MSH Hamburg, Germany
Manuel, to create a new channel in meshchat you click the dropdown list in the Channel field and click "Add New Channel" to type a new channel name.
Deleting anything from a meshchat zone is more challenging because it has a distributed database that was designed to recover all messages from other running nodes. Every online node maintains a copy of the current meshchat database. If a node goes offline and come back online later, it will immediately sync with other online nodes to update its copy of the meshchat database. Even if you completely delete the meshchat database on your node, as soon as it goes online it will sync with others to restore the database. Even if all nodes are down but a single node is still running, all of the others will sync with it when they come back up and integrate those messages.
The only way I know of to start the meshchat database from scratch is to coordinate with all of the other node owners, pick a time when they all stop their meshchatsync service, they all need to delete their meshchat zone database at the same time, and then bring their meshchatsync service back online. But remember that if only one meshchat node still has a stale copy of the database, as soon as that node comes back online the other nodes will integrate those messages. One other way to start a new meshchat zone database would be to have all of the meshchat node owners switch to a new zone name. Stop using the old zone and start using the new one. That will create a separate zone database file to begin fresh.
but in my case there is no possibility to select "Add new channel".
There is only one existing channel "Everything" to select without any alternative choice. :-(
73 Manu
Select the dropdown on the right (the red arrow). The first thing below Everything will be the option to add a new channel.
There also appears to be a way that accidentally creates new channels from some specific text in a message. The 4th entry there "IP Dial 10*..." was created when pasting a section of a Mesh Status listing into a message. That happened twice on two different channels before I discovered that it was adding a new channel. And no, there is no practical way to delete a channel.
Good point, Jim. Meshchat was designed to have people type their text into the message window. The meshchat "database" is actually a tab-delimited text file. I've seen some very weird things happen when people try cutting & pasting things from a web browser into the meshchat message window. If there are embedded tab characters then meshchat interprets them as field separators and bumps the following text over to the next field.
I tested according your instructions but sorry to say does not work :-(
I testes with Safari, Firefox and IE.
73 Manu
Many thanks and 73
Manuel
Glad you found out the secret...
right now I am sitting in the wood with a gun but I will try later! 8-)
73 Manuel