[Ribbit-Developers] Packet format

[Josh Datko]

Is the packet binary format published somewhere?

I just discovered ribbit and there are some things that I can probably help with. I'm not a mobile developer, but once a minimodem like utility exists where the audio is converted into the packet (is it literally just text? no header etc...?) there are some fun experiments perhaps.

For example, I'm not sure you completely have to re-invent the ARES message board idea. MQTT, with perhaps carefully crafted topics could meet your requirements I think. Additionally, I've always been interested in having multiple radios (hams have plenty of them in general) where you could map them to MQTT topics. So perhaps there is one well know uplink frequency, but perhaps several downlink frequencies (different radios or perhaps scanning).

In any case, I'm useless on mobile development but I'm interesting in the more embedded / backend stuff.

Lastly, I'd suggest you consider a Progressive Web App (PWA) instead of an actual mobile app. The benefit is you can distribute the app without the app store (useful for emergencies), they are installed like regular apps, and you then really only need to maintain one code base vs ios and android specific features.

I tried it quickly and it does amazing work very nicely with two handhelds and FM, but they were only 1 meter apart :P

Josh

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