Using a phone as a repeater?

EDIT: Never mind, I didn't see mesh networking. My bad. Ignore this post.

Hi. I'm new here. First post, actually.

I had an idea of using a phone as a repeater. Say you have two PirateBoxes planted permanently, but with overlapping coverage. Would it be possible to write a script for a phone (android) that would download data from one PirateBox, then connect to the other one, and upload this data to the other PirateBox?

This way, you could have a web of PirateBoxes, carrying the same information.

It would be two-way ideally, so if PB1 has info that PB2 doesnt, PB2 will get it. If PB2 has info that PB1 doesnt, PB1 will get it.

Of course, the phone would need a power supply as well. I was just wondering if this could be another interesting idea.

You could maybe even use an Arduino.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/2014 04:26PM by ParaBellam.

mirroring with heartbeat for failover (I think thats what it was called when I saw it on howtoforge.com ) is done on some servers to ensure webpages are still available if one server fails. might be able to adapt that approach in situations where mesh isnt working for some reason. how to adapt this to android I have no clue.

You might not even need overlapping coverage, if you have someone traveling between them on a regular basis. I think you could cobble something together with rsync.