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ORx install scripts
http://outernet-project.github.io/orx-install/
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No docs on what kind of frequencies is used for Outernet #29

Closed cookiengineer closed 9 years ago

cookiengineer commented 9 years ago

What kind of frequencies are used for the Outernet signal? What kind of satellite dishes will work?

I would love to get started and contribute to the project. Are there any plans to go for NodeJS on the raspberry pi?

Cheers, ~Chris

foxbunny commented 9 years ago

The transponder frequencies are listed in individual guides for each platform, although I should probably add them to the main README as well.

As for NodeJS, there are no plans right now. Do you think it may improve something? I know async i/o is not a bad thing to have, but then again, this is not a typical web site that would suffer under load.

cookiengineer commented 9 years ago

Well, it's not for using it as a webserver. It's for using it as a load balancer, nodejs itself has many many low level apis (like firmware access, c++ modules) that can then be reused on many other platforms. The advantage is that you can then implement a request system on the raspberry pi AND a computer AND a mobile device, no matter where you are. So you are more independent to the request system technology.

soundyogi commented 9 years ago

+1 for nodeJS support.

Big community and many, many platforms!

foxbunny commented 9 years ago

I'm still not clear on what that achieves, though. @martensms Could you open a new ticket with a bit more detail?