brito

Handling radios is hard. So difficult to get conditions of transmission and reception to be stable on both ends, even more difficult to make this easy and stable for others without the capacity to fine tune them.

1:1 and group messages are now added on the web app at https://geogram.radio For the moment these messages are using normal internet. The next step in terms of offgrid is send and receive messages/using the browser connected to a cheap walkie-talkie. I'm not a talented developer, therefore please have patience as the code and UI gets improved over time. Text messages and groups are easy enough and done plenty by other projects, the goal here is that person/group has their own collection of chat rooms, forum, web pages, messages and files to share with others. Basically what a person needs in standalone mode without depending on clouds or multiple providers. At the moment these files are hosted on my own server, in the future the data should be hosted by users themselves on their phones without needing the main website/domain for anything.

ZPAQ is a zip archive that permits to keep several versions of files inside the same archive. This means for example to keep several backups on the same compressed archive instead of multiple copies where only what changes is added (big storage saving). https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz

Wow.. the geogram server was inactive this morning which is common because it isn't yet mature but this was the first time the error was due to lack of disk space. 40 GB of disk space have been used to hold about two months and 320 million radio messages from across the globe. This means about 240 GB on current rates to hold a year worth of messages. After geogram is fully running this value should be around 1 TB per year, still quite feasible with common hardware.