New and improved network mapping software.

Nice work!

It is more of a "system" I guess, in that it's about 7 scripts that combine to make the whole. If that makes sense. It's a bit clunky, I'm sure there are far, far better ways to achieve the same results. I'll try to quickly explain it. In a simple shell script, I use scp to copy the /var/run/hosts_olsr file from the localnode. I run that through sed a bunch of times to remove things I don't need. Take that file and use a command line php script to go out across the mesh and request the sysinfo.json file from each node. Take that info and put into an SQL database table. Another shell script uses the olsr-topology-view python script to get all the link and ETX info from the localnode. *edit: This requires the olsr-dot-draw mod to be installed on the node* That file also gets run through sed a few times, removing things and adding things. Another command line php script then takes that linking info file and uses it to look up the nodes location info in the first database table and builds a second SQL table with just linking/cost per link information. After all that, I build the map with a php page, getting all the info from the database. The map itself is using Leaflet, the same thing the nodes themselves use, when you use the "show map" button. It's certainly not a secret, I can post the script(s) if people want to try and recreate it. It could possibly be built into each and every node, given the free space.

Sorry, it's been a while... I have been trying to make my map easier to get going for others. I could use input from others who try to set it up, to try and make it as easy as possible. This map still requires linux, mySQL, PHP and a webserver. (it could be adapted to a windows system, probably pretty easily) Anyone who would like the current code for this, please send me an email: mycallsign@gmail.com I've made more than a few changes since Dec, mostly trying to make it easier for other people to get setup. Just in case anyone is wondering... what I am talking about is the "live" map for our Santa Barbara (and sometimes Ventura) county MESH Network, and it is viewable here: https://www.sbarc.org/aredn-mesh-network/ or https://mesh.sbarc.org/map.php Please send any other ideas this way and I hope you like it and try to set it up for your mesh network! 73 kg6wxc