Now that we have shipped 3.25.5.0, the nightly builds will be a little different. Before we had just a single nightly build, but for the foreseeable future there will be two:
a nightly build, and
a babel nightly build.
The traditional nightly build will continue to include bug fixes and contains both Babel and OLSR. It will be the base for future Release builds until OLSR is removed.
The babel nightly build has no OLSR and should be considered experimental (i.e. don’t put it in places you don’t have easy physical access to). These images are identified by having “babel-” prefixed to the nightly build number. Using this has the following implications:
Babel-only nodes will not know about OLSR-only nodes. So prior to trying this nightly build, ensure that all the nodes that communications must be maintained with are running at least production build 3.25.5.0, which is dual-protocol.
LUA support has been removed and is no longer used by the AREDN software. Be aware that LUA applications such as MeshChat are not currently supported.
Reverting procedure
If you think you might want to revert to the production release, ensure that you’ve done a backup of your node prior to going to the Babel-only nightly build. If you find you need to revert, then:
Do a from-scratch install of the production release.
Restore from the backup.
New product support
The babel nightly build has the first support for the Morse Micro MM-HL1-EX, a 900MHz, 802.11ah (HaLow) node.
Price is $99.
More info here: https://www.mouser.com/new/morse-micro/morse-micro-halowlink-1-router/
