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Marlinski / Rumble

Rumble allows the sharing of messages and pictures without relying on the Internet, in a Delay Tolerant Fashion following the Store-Carry and Forward paradigm
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WiFi should be used differently #34

Open deavmi opened 8 years ago

deavmi commented 8 years ago

Since Bluetooth allows for a true ad-hoc mode. Why not use Bluetooth for the mesh and use wifi to broadcast a hotspot for people to connect to with the SSID (offline social network) which once connected android will ask them to sign into the wifi and make them land on a captive portable describing a little bit about rumble with a locally hosted rumble.apk file. :)

deavmi commented 8 years ago

This should be optional though. Either wofi for the user to use the internet as normal or as the feature above.

Marlinski commented 8 years ago

The captive portal is a good idea, unfortunately it requires root in order to set up the appropriate iptable rule (you want every request made by clients to be redirected to your local address) I have yet to found a way to do captive portal without root

deavmi commented 8 years ago

Surely you can run a captive portal using a web server on android and then binding it to the router (phone's thering) IP address at port 80 hence by default if the user visits the router's page he can get a captive portal.