var __index = {"config":{"lang":["en","de"],"separator":"[\\s\\-]+","pipeline":["stopWordFilter"]},"docs":[{"location":"index.html","title":"Home","text":"<pre><code>__   __          _\n\\ \\ / /_ _ _ __ (_) ___\n \\ V / _` | '_ \\| |/ __|\n  | | (_| | | | | | (__\n  |_|\\__,_|_| |_|_|\\___|\nYet another node info collector\n</code></pre> <p><code>yanic</code> is a respondd client that fetches, stores and publishes information about a Freifunk network.</p>"},{"location":"index.html#the-goals","title":"The goals:","text":"<ul> <li>Generating JSON for Meshviewer</li> <li>Storing statistics in InfluxDB or Graphite to be analyzed by Grafana</li> <li>Provide a little webserver for a standalone installation with a meshviewer</li> </ul>"},{"location":"about.html","title":"About","text":"<p>A little overview of yanic in connection with other software: </p>"},{"location":"about.html#how-respondd-works","title":"How respondd works","text":"<p>It sends the <code>gluon-neighbour-info</code> request and collects the answers.</p> <p>It will send UDP packets with multicast address <code>ff05:0:0:0:0:0:2:1001</code> and port <code>1001</code>.</p> <p>If a node does not answer, it will request with the last know address under the port <code>1001</code>.</p>"},{"location":"about.html#related-projects","title":"Related projects","text":""},{"location":"about.html#yanic-collecting-data","title":"yanic collecting data","text":"<p>VPNs (respondd for servers):</p> <ul> <li>mesh-announce from FreiFunkNord</li> <li>respondd from Sunz3r</li> </ul> <p>Nodes (respondd for nodes): gluon</p>"},{"location":"about.html#alternative-collectors-of-respondd-data","title":"Alternative collectors of respondd data:","text":"<ul> <li>Node informant written in Go</li> <li>HopGlass Server written in Node.js</li> </ul>"},{"location":"about.html#yanic-published-data","title":"yanic published data","text":"<p>Databases:</p> <ul> <li>InfluxDB SQL-like timeserial database</li> <li>Graphite RRD file Based</li> <li>and more</li> </ul> <p>Visualization from Databases: Grafana</p> <p>Output:</p> <ul> <li>meshviewer-ffrgb:<ul> <li>meshviewer</li> </ul> </li> <li>nodelist:<ul> <li>ffapi<ul> <li>freifunk-karte.de</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li>meshviewer (others):<ul> <li>unmaintained origin meshviewer branch: master (v1) and dev (v2)</li> </ul> </li> </ul>"},{"location":"running.html","title":"Running Yanic","text":"Community Meshviewer Database Visualisation (Grafana) Freifunk Bremen meshviewer from Freifunk Regensburg with a patch to show state.json grafana - with influxdb Freifunk Regensburg meshviewer from Freifunk Regensburg grafana - without yanic Freifunk Frankfurt am Main meshviewer from Freifunk Regensburg - Freifunk Hannover meshviewer from Freifunk Regensburg with 'minimal cosmetic modifications' grafana with influxdb Freifunk Hochstift meshviewer from Freifunk Regensburg - Freifunk in Mainz , Wiesbaden &amp; 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It is possible to have multiple output for one type of output, just add this group again with new parameters (see toml [[array of table]]).</p> <pre><code>[[nodes.output.example]]\nenable = true # (1)\n\n[nodes.output.example.filter] # (2)\nno_owner  = true # if it is not set, it will publish contact information of other persons (3)\nblocklist = [\"00112233445566\", \"1337f0badead\"] # (4)\nsites = [\"ffhb\"] # (5)\ndomain_as_site = true # (6)\ndomain_append_site = true # (7)\nhas_location = true # (8)\n\n[nodes.output.example.filter.in_area] # (9)\nlatitude_min  = 34.30\nlatitude_max  = 71.85\nlongitude_min = -24.96\nlongitude_max = 39.72\n</code></pre> <ol> <li>Each output format has its own config block and needs to be enabled by adding:</li> <li>For each output format there can be set different filters</li> <li> <p>Set to false, if you want the json files to contain the owner information</p> <p>Warning</p> <p>if it is not set, it will publish contact information of other persons.</p> </li> <li> <p>List of nodeids of nodes that should be filtered out, so they won't appear in output</p> </li> <li> <p>List of site_codes of nodes that should be included in output</p> </li> <li> <p>Replace the <code>site_code</code> with the <code>domain_code</code> in this output.</p> <p>e.g. <code>site_code='ffhb',domain_code='city'</code> becomes <code>site_code='city', domain_code=''</code></p> </li> <li> <p>Append on the <code>site_code</code> the <code>domain_code</code> with a <code>.</code> in this output.</p> <p>e.g. <code>site_code='ffhb',domain_code='city'</code> becomes <code>site_code='ffhb.city', domain_code=''</code></p> </li> <li> <p>set has_location to true if you want to include only nodes that have geo-coordinates set</p> <p>(setting this to false has no sensible effect, unless you'd want to hide nodes that have coordinates)</p> </li> <li> <p>nodes outside this area are not shown on the map but are still listed as a node without coordinates</p> </li> </ol>"},{"location":"docs/configuration.html#nodesoutputgeojson","title":"[[nodes.output.geojson]]","text":"<p>The geojson output produces a geojson file which contains the location data of all monitored nodes to be used to visualize the location of the nodes. 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