status tab (Nearby Mesh Devices)

[seamustuohy]

This tab will be a recreation of the neighbors list that shows the following about nodes on the mesh
list header: Hostname
list header: Mesh IP-Address
list header:RX signal
help icon text: (STILL NEEDED)
list header:ETX value
help icon text: (STILL NEEDED)
list header: Gateway?
list-options: yes/
list header: Hops Away
help icon text: (STILL NEEDED)

[critzo]

Some of these items need to be deferred to 1.1: Hostname, Gateway, Hops Away

The rest should be added for 1.0.

ETX value help icon text:
Expected Transmission Count - the expected number of retransmission attempts that are required for a packet to travel to and from a destination.

RX Signal help text:
Data reception rate.

[areynold]

I've sketched out the basics of the page, including a mostly functional implementation of the neighbors list.

A few notes:

• Hostname will require us to add an olsrd plugin
• As far as I can tell, RX signal will require some additional tooling to collect and correlate with olsr info. As critzo notes above, this can be moved to 1.1.
• The neighbors list currently uses txtinfo, not jsoninfo.
• Number of hops is available through both txtinfo and jsoninfo. We should decide on a plugin before implementing.
• Gateway is available through txtinfo and jsoninfo. We should decide on a plugin before implementing.
• This implementation is almost a direct copy of the existing olsr neighbors page, which is almost suitable for use as a module. A better long term implementation would be to rewrite olsr's neighbors page to accept different arguments.

Submitting a pull request of the partial implementation in order to minimize conflicts.

[seamustuohy]

@areynold Remind me to show you how I wrote the connected clients page with functions with enough encapsulation to allow us to re-implement the neighbours page in a matter of minutes once R1 comes out. :)

[seamustuohy]

Current implementation only shows IP Address and ETX Value. There is a hostname field but it always sits at ?. As such our implementation simply removes functionality from the existing version.

[seamustuohy]

This page still has one broken column and incomplete functionality. As such, reopened.

[areynold]

Which column is still broken?

[seamustuohy]

Did we add the olsrd-hostname plugin back in to the build? I thought we were keeping it out. I had not looked at the net status since it was fixed.

[georgiamoon]

Can we re-open this for an upcoming milestone to add the rest of the values in? Or should that be a new issue?