Installation

While Crow can be installed on any AREDN node, we have some recommendations for the best experience.

Node Recommendations

We recommend choosing a node with the following characteristics:

• Pick your primary node; the one which resolves from http://localnode.local.mesh to make it easy to see your messages.
• Pick a node with plenty of RAM. RAM is used to store large shared messages (e.g. images).
• Pick a node with plenty of FLASH. FLASH is used to persist messages.
• Or pick a node with a USB port, and bring your own storage drive.

Installing the Crow package

You can find the latest Crow installation package here https://github.com/kn6plv/Crow We distribute Crow as two different packages; an IPK and an APK.

• IPK is used to install Crow on AREDN release 4.26.1.0. We don't recommend installing on earlier versions.
• APK is used to install Crow on Nightly Builds and releases after 4.26.1.0

Which ever package you are using, install it using the usual AREDN installation procedure (see http://docs.arednmesh.org/en/latest/arednGettingStarted/node_admin.html#upload-package)

The first time you install Crow, it may take a little time to complete as it must make changes to the node's firewall and create some initial configuration.

Once installed you can start using it (see Getting Started).