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Title: The things you come across
Post by: TerryF on May 31, 2018, 07:48:03 AM

Have been searching for docs on the old CoovaAP an OpenWRT-based firmware designed especially for HotSpots..

Have been using it in a NFP situation providing free wifi for about 4 years, it works OK and its free :-)

Anyway was searching back in the dim past on their old mail lists and came across this..

https://coova.github.io/mail-archive/chilli/2009-April/000664.html


A familiar identity :-)

By the way if anyone has a complete copy of the old CoovaAP docs I would be forever grateful, reading them using the wayback pages is a tad slow :-)

Title: Re: The things you come across
Post by: ReetP on May 31, 2018, 01:04:40 PM

I used https://grasehotspot.org/ for a while for someone.

Can run it on fairly low end hardware. Based on Coova with a load of extras I think.

Worth a try on a Pi or similar I guess.

Title: Re: The things you come across
Post by: TerryF on May 31, 2018, 01:43:55 PM

Thanks mate, currently using CoovaAP on a Linksys WRT54GL wireless router easily setup and does the job..


Unfortunately CoovaAP disappeared a couple of years ago, never to be seen again :-( so no new versions and the old website has had all the CoovaAP stuff deleted, bummer..

Title: Re: The things you come across
Post by: ReetP on May 31, 2018, 03:58:05 PM

Quote from: TerryF on May 31, 2018, 01:43:55 PM

Thanks mate, currently using CoovaAP on a Linksys WRT54GL wireless router easily setup and does the job..

Unfortunately CoovaAP disappeared a couple of years ago, never to be seen again :-( so no new versions and the old website has had all the CoovaAP stuff deleted, bummer..

openwrt / LEDE (remerged) have a coovachilli package ?

But seems they think it is a bit too heavy for that AP.

https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/linksys/linksys_wrt54gl

Time for an upgrade ?? :-)

Title: Re: The things you come across
Post by: TerryF on May 31, 2018, 10:00:48 PM

Exactly :-) its in its last days..just have to nurse it along for a couple of weeks and then going to a INTELLINET GuestGate.

Back to letsencrypt

Title: Re: The things you come across
Post by: ReetP on May 31, 2018, 10:59:58 PM

Quote from: TerryF on May 31, 2018, 10:00:48 PM

Exactly :-) its in its last days..just have to nurse it along for a couple of weeks and then going to a INTELLINET GuestGate.

Good luck Dr Bob...   :lol:

https://youtu.be/QUDxhz_jYxc

(That took me back a bit and made me laugh)

Just for good measure

https://youtu.be/NtlN7ykIZ_I

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Back to letsencrypt

Yeah I have another patch for you to verify after that one, plus another after. So no slacking :-)

Title: Re: The things you come across
Post by: TerryF on May 31, 2018, 11:13:00 PM

The Muppets???

The least you could have come up with was a Monty Python skit, there must be one that is relevant, and no not the parrot :-)

and I thought I should have received some back slapping for cunningly working in a Beatles link when answering another issue here: https://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,53607.0.html


Life is to short to be to serious all the time :-)

Title: Re: The things you come across
Post by: ReetP on May 31, 2018, 11:41:22 PM

Quote from: TerryF on May 31, 2018, 11:13:00 PM

The Muppets???

If the cap fits ;-)

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The least you could have come up with was a Monty Python skit, there must be one that is relevant, and no not the parrot :-)

Oh alright :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evlrs5Bi_6E

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and I thought I should have received some back slapping for cunningly working in a Beatles link when answering another issue here: https://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,53607.0.html

'Twas class ;-)

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Life is to short to be to serious all the time :-)

Indeed. One needs to relieve the tedium......