Miner should provide more node information for easier debugging and API access to data

[abhay]

I'm looking to give API users and ultimately Hotspot owners more access to information about their hotspot without having to interrogate it locally via Bluetooth.

Proposal is to share the following metadata:

• hardware version (rakspot, blockspot, sidetable_v1, sidetable_v2)
• firmware version
• uptime

I think these three metrics will be a nice path towards self service support and give the blockchain team (and community) visibility on what's running in the network.

[abhay]

cc: @evanmcc @madninja

[evanmcc]

It'll be more work to get all full nodes to put this information in a sensible place, so the first version will likely just support various types of spots.

[abhay]

version would be huge.

[evanmcc]

helium/erlang-libp2p#303 is the blocker here. I was not able to add any of these to the metadata as currently implemented.

[ke6jjj]

This could be a potential privacy issue. Could we perhaps have this information encrypted such that only the owner(s) of the hotspot can see the data? That way it can still be visible in "the app", but only to those who actually are provably in charge of the hotspot.