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A quick announcement...

I know there has been a lot of interest in Resource support in microReticulum over the past months (even years), and I'm happy to announce that it has finally arrived!

I've also added an example project nomadnet in the repo that demonstrates a very basic NomadNet client and server. Note however that microReticulum presently does not have support for compressed content, so most pages delivered by standard NomadNet will fail to be received unless compression is disabled. The reason for this omission lies in the compression algorithm bz2 used by RNS which is extremely resource-intensive and not embedded-friendly at all, but this is a discussion for another day.

Note that Resource support is currently only available in the master branch of the microReticulum repo and not in any release (yet). Please treat it as "experimental" for the time being while we work to get more interop testing behind us. In the meantime, feel free to play.

Cheers!

Is there a way that the microReticulum transport nodes can show up in my network visualization panel on MeshchatX which is connected to a standard RNode? It would be great to confirm that the transport node is indeed up and running.

gdane wrote:

A quick announcement...

I know there has been a lot of interest in Resource support in microReticulum over the past months (even years), and I'm happy to announce that it has finally arrived!

I've also added an example project nomadnet in the repo that demonstrates a very basic NomadNet client and server. Note however that microReticulum presently does not have support for compressed content, so most pages delivered by standard NomadNet will fail to be received unless compression is disabled. The reason for this omission lies in the compression algorithm bz2 used by RNS which is extremely resource-intensive and not embedded-friendly at all, but this is a discussion for another day.

Note that Resource support is currently only available in the master branch of the microReticulum repo and not in any release (yet). Please treat it as "experimental" for the time being while we work to get more interop testing behind us. In the meantime, feel free to play.

Cheers!

This is so awesome. Great work Attermann!!!

As a side note, for any LXMF implementations in the future that target microControllers where bzip isn't possible - there is compression support signalling with the SF_COMPRESSION flag :)

https://github.com/markqvist/LXMF/commit/72932eea28074420defd02b6eb3e5e09a126e4ee

daylight-hub wrote:

Is there a way that the microReticulum transport nodes can show up in my network visualization panel on MeshchatX which is connected to a standard RNode? It would be great to confirm that the transport node is indeed up and running.

Not yet, but that has actually been the motivation behind finally getting Resource implemented, so that transport nodes can have a mechanism to share instrumentation with other nodes on the network.

I haven't decide if I will implement a NomadNet-type interface, or extend the existing management endpoints already in RNS and recently (partially, wip) implemented in microReticulum.

Of course you don't have to wait for me either. You could roll your own firmware based on microReticulum_Firmware, and add in whatever endpoint you like using microReticulum code and the nomednet example as a guide.

Zenith wrote:

gdane wrote:
> A quick announcement...
>
> I know there has been a lot of interest in Resource support in microReticulum over the past months (even years), and I'm happy to announce that it has finally arrived!
>
> I've also added an example project nomadnet in the repo that demonstrates a very basic NomadNet client and server. Note however that microReticulum presently does not have support for compressed content, so most pages delivered by standard NomadNet will fail to be received unless compression is disabled. The reason for this omission lies in the compression algorithm bz2 used by RNS which is extremely resource-intensive and not embedded-friendly at all, but this is a discussion for another day.
>
> Note that Resource support is currently only available in the master branch of the microReticulum repo and not in any release (yet). Please treat it as "experimental" for the time being while we work to get more interop testing behind us. In the meantime, feel free to play.
>
> Cheers!

This is so awesome. Great work Attermann!!!

As a side note, for any LXMF implementations in the future that target microControllers where bzip isn't possible - there is compression support signalling with the SF_COMPRESSION flag :)

https://github.com/markqvist/LXMF/commit/72932eea28074420defd02b6eb3e5e09a126e4ee

Awesome thanks for the heads-up. That would be a really nice addition to NomadNet too.

That could probably be done too.

In the long run, I think it would be very nice to see some type of feature flag happen on the link level, and maybe even options for different compression like zstd. Much like how MTU is negotiated.

gdane wrote:

A quick announcement...

I know there has been a lot of interest in Resource support in microReticulum over the past months (even years), and I'm happy to announce that it has finally arrived!

I've also added an example project nomadnet in the repo that demonstrates a very basic NomadNet client and server. Note however that microReticulum presently does not have support for compressed content, so most pages delivered by standard NomadNet will fail to be received unless compression is disabled. The reason for this omission lies in the compression algorithm bz2 used by RNS which is extremely resource-intensive and not embedded-friendly at all, but this is a discussion for another day.

Note that Resource support is currently only available in the master branch of the microReticulum repo and not in any release (yet). Please treat it as "experimental" for the time being while we work to get more interop testing behind us. In the meantime, feel free to play.

Cheers!

Awesome! I spent a few cycles in the last few weeks grafting pyxis onto microReticulum 0.3.0, since I had formed it back in December or something, and you had much nicer solutions for several of the problems I had to solve along the way to get it working.

Will happily spend a few more using your Resource implementation!