Pi 3 ad-hoc mesh antenna

[cmann123]

Need to set up multiple pis as a MANET mesh network,. found out that the broadcom chip in the p 3 does not support mesh mode, i have tried installing batman-adv routing but there are very little successful tutorial or up to date information for stretch operating system.

Does anyone know of any cheap antenna i can get for the pi3's that support a mesh. I need to set a web server on one of them and then take measurements across the network for a project.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated even on the Batman-adv routing.

THanks.

[topguy]

Does anyone know of any cheap antenna i can get for the pi3's that support a mesh.

Is it not the chipset that has to support "mesh" ? The antenna itself should not matter or ??

[suiluj]

Any advice would be greatly appreciated even on the Batman-adv routing.

@cmann123 hey i am trying to accomplish the same thing with batman-adv and was not able to set the wireless interface in ad-hoc mode (or ibss with the iw command) on the new raspbian stretch with rpi 3 b+ and rpi zero w(h)

As far as i know batman uses the adhoc mode and NOT mesh mode. So the internal hardware sould be able to run batman "mesh" networks.

Do you have any updates? Perhaps we can share our progress here.

[suiluj]

Currently i am writing some tutorials on how to create a mqtt adhoc mesh cluster network with several raspberry pi 3 b+ and zero w.
I included an easy script command to automatically build and install the newest batman-adv and batctl (and install all important packages for the compiling before). The tutorial also includes the configuration of the adhoc network and batman.
So everybody who is interested in using batman on a raspberry pi with the newest raspbian (2018-04-18) just give it a try:

Link to my github tutorial on how to install and configure batman-adv on a raspberrypi:
https://github.com/suiluj/pi-adhoc-mqtt ... and-batctl