meshchat 2.8 wouldn't load on a hAP lite or a NSM2 running the new 3.23.8.0. meshchat 2.7 loaded but didn't work. Anyone else having issues? Could be a PEBKAC error :)
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Works for me on HAP units. Not recommended on the 32MB devices, may be very unstable. Make sure that you are loading the .ipk that is not the API version unless that is the node that is paired with a dedicated server unit like a RPi.
After the firmware upgrade, the package stops working. I had to re-install it as if it was never there. When installed and linked it appears with the wrong advertised name, then I had to delete the advertised service, then re-establish it with the correct name. Once all this is done then it is back and links correctly to other devices advertising the same MeshChat name. However, the message history doesn't reload on the newly re-installed instance. Oh well, it's not like email where there needs to be archived history.
Hope that made sense. BTW, I need to put out a big thank you to the developers. 3.23.8.0 seems to be working well on the devices I've installed it on. And I just recently noticed on the ardnmesh.org site under the Docs tab, the docs and installation procedures listed are specific to each version of the firmware on the drop down list. Nice. Wish I had paid attention to this earlier :-)
Ed
Understood re putting MeshChat on a LAN connected device instead of the AREDN device itself. I may get around to this sooner or later.
Ed
I checked again on one of my updated nodes. The node is running 3.23.8.0 and I had to again upload MeshChat after the update. I've uploaded MeshChat 2.8 Lua to the node after the firmware update. Once I rename the service to the correct name (which has perhaps a hundred or more messages on other instances on our mesh) no old messages load. The sync shows it is checking in with all the other nodes running MeshChat. Any new messages I post go to the other nodes fine. When I click the "Download Messages" button I get an error message rather than a file to save.
Ed
PS ... added info
I went to one of the nodes not grabbing the entire database and did a bunch of fooling around with it. I logged in, and no old messages were there. I then went to the .... add services tab, reset the values ... no change. Saved Changes, no change. THEN I once again rebooted the node and the old messages appeared. It's very picky but is working correctly now.
No need to compile anything. Download the IPK package file and install it on your node.
Link here: https://github.com/kn6plv/meshchat/blob/master/meshchat-api_2.8_all.ipk
Once I got the 2.8 API loaded, the two MeshChat servers quickly sync'ed up.
Collier
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