On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 04:44:51PM -0300, Steve Song wrote:

Hi all,

Is there an obvious choice for web-based visualisation of batman-adv networks? We currently use a custom product (SPUD - http://dev.villagetelco.org/trac/browser/spud/trunk/INSTALL) built specifically for Village Telco but would prefer to join our efforts to a broader community-based effort. I am aware of

Nodewatcher http://nodewatcher.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html and Nodeshot http://wiki.ninux.org/InstallNodeshot

but both of these take a little adapting to batman-adv. Is there anything out there that has been developed specifically for batman-adv?

I know about people in Ninux that wrote a script taking the output of "batctl vd dot" and converting it in a format understandable by nodeshot.

In ninux they have a mesh network running batman-adv and it is entirely shown on the map server ;-)

Maybe you can try to ask them via the mailing list? Bye!

On 17 October 2012 18:45, "Linus Lüssing" linus.luessing@web.de wrote:

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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2012 um 21:44 Uhr Von: "Steve Song" steve@villagetelco.org An: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org Betreff: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Web-based Visualisation Tool of Choice for batman-adv?

Hi all,

Is there an obvious choice for web-based visualisation of batman-adv networks? We currently use a custom product (SPUD - http://dev.villagetelco.org/trac/browser/spud/trunk/INSTALL) built specifically for Village Telco but would prefer to join our efforts to a broader community-based effort. I am aware of

Nodewatcher http://nodewatcher.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html and Nodeshot http://wiki.ninux.org/InstallNodeshot

but both of these take a little adapting to batman-adv. Is there anything out there that has been developed specifically for batman-adv?

For our local Freifunk community here in Lübeck we are currently using a home-brewed solution called 'ffmap-d3' developed by Nils Schneider to visualize our batman-adv topology. Source code is available on github:

http://tcatm.github.com/ffmap-d3/

It is still quite new and still gets its regular tweaks, but this page should already give you an idea about how it looks like, its current features and general usability:

http://holstentor.metameute.de/mesh/nodes.html

Not sure whether this is something you are looking for, but thought I'd mention it anyway.

ffmap-d3 is quite beautifully done, very elegant rendering of nodes although we are looking for something more GIS-oriented. Both are worth exploring though. Thanks.

Cheers... Steve