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Mesh networking support #38

Open Harvie opened 3 years ago

Harvie commented 3 years ago

Can you please add support for wifi mesh networking?

rojer commented 3 years ago

what does this mean in practice? can you give some links for reading?

Harvie commented 3 years ago

You provide all devices with some shared secret and based on that, they all assemble into network in such a way that every node can communicate with every other node even when that means some of the traffic has to be routed through nodes with better signal.

I beleive it's been already supported in esp-idf for years:

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/api-guides/mesh.html https://www.espressif.com/en/products/sdks/esp-wifi-mesh/overview

Harvie commented 3 years ago

What is really interresting is fact that one of the devices can connect to regular wifi AP and forward traffic between the mesh network and the AP, so it can basicaly autoconfigure to extend the range of AP to mongoose devices which are too far from AP to get usable signal...

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rojer commented 3 years ago

might be interesting to look into, but unlikely to happen any time soon.

slimcdk commented 1 year ago

Has there been any progress on this?

pradeep538 commented 1 year ago

Any progress on this ?