Is moteino support mesh network or do you have any plan to support mesh network ?
thanks,
Zenzen
Not yet but yes there are plans to make that happen.
@felix, getting ready to embark on the mesh networking path using moteino. I had a couple questions:
1) Is the mesh implementation purely software capable of running on a box-stock moteino?
2) I assume one requirement of a mesh stack is that all moteinos are powered up all the time? No low power sleep modes. Which means battery powered nodes are not very practical? With the moteino on and doing its thing what kind of battery life can be expected?
3) Since you have already set down this path, is there any advice you may have or pitfalls you can help me avoid?
Thanks!
My mesh implementation works with routers that are ON all the time, and nodes that can be ON or sleep. Only the routers are required to be ON, to make sure all messages are routed. The gateway is also always ON.
It's a pure firmware stack.
There is no recipe for low power, it all depends on how you use the boards. For the lowest power you need to sleep EVERYTHING, the atmega, the FLASH, the radio, and any other sensors or peripherals.
Advice ? ... it's a hard problem with many exceptions and things to worry about, but if you're diligent and perseverent you will make it. I would start with reading about existing mesh topologies and their different features. I didn't go crazy trying to sleep all the nodes or do frequency hopping, that's too complicated, at least for my needs. You can certainly do that but the problem will become exponentially more complex.