Hello Nathan, VERY interesting. Let me know what you discover.
Paul. On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:12 AM, Nathan of Guardian < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014, at 09:07 AM, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote: > > Hello, > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Nathan of Guardian < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014, at 08:21 AM, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote: > > Hello Nathan, > > > > Root would not be required to use this transport. > > > > In other words: adding the bluetooth device name transport would allow > > most > > stock Android phones to mesh, albeit at low data rates (~1KB/minute), and > > with limited range (~10metres). > > > 1kb is approx 7 full length tweets or text messages, so sounds good to > me. > > > Actually, with SMAC, our open-source tweet-compressor, it is between 12 > and 20 full length tweets, depending on their composition. That said, > adding in our authentication and meta-data headers, it probably falls back > to about 5 - 8 authenticated tweets per kilo-byte. > > > Is there any repeater functionality that would extend messages beyond > 10' as the people/phones move locations? > > > This would be an automatic consequence of the Rhizome protocol, which > stores and forwards. The prioritisation algorithm would likely need some > tweaking, and I am sure there are other surprises that would have to be > dealt with to make it all work efficiently over many hops, which are > challenges that I hope we get the chance to face. > > > Great to hear... btw, I just realized we can use the WifiDirect service > discovery capability to send much longer data than the current SSID/name > method allows: > > http://developer.android.com/training/connect-devices-wirelessly/nsd-wifi-direct.html > > Not sure what the limits are, but it doesn't require you to connect or > join to be able to broadcast/listen for this info. > > > >
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