I am pleased to announce that with the merge of the request 129 [1] we now are publishing package for OpenWrt for the Armv7 architecture which will support quite a large number of old routers.
OpenWrt [2] is an open source router operating system which has a large support for old and new router architectures. This enables ratmand to run on routers and thus become sort-of access points in the peer-to-peer communication.
OpenWrt packages are mostly tar/gzipped files with a certain structure with your binary. The current package is build using our CI/CD and is published on Irdest’s Git host (an example job run that published this is at [3]).
The demo video of installation can be seen on our PeerTube instance [4].
This is first of many steps and improvements in this area and hoping to do more for better support of all major architectures. This is critical because if routers can be deployed in a crowded area, they can help with communication loads and user devices do not have to do as much work for relaying.
[1] https://git.irde.st/we/irdest/-/merge_requests/129
[2] https://openwrt.org/
[3] https://git.irde.st/we/irdest/-/jobs/53255/artifacts/browse
[4] https://diode.zone/w/qexDpmaP6TZU866TYyCsmB
