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FireChat is a free peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without Internet access or cellular data to send text and images.
FireChat sends messages directly between mobile devices using peer-to-peer Bluetooth and WiFi connections.
Every device acts as a relay, creating a mesh network amongst groups within proximity.
FireChat has been utilized by community organizers, emergency responders and private citizens to communicate when cut off from outside networks, including pro-democracy protests in Taiwan and Hong Kong, natural disasters in Ecuador and Kashmir, and off-the-grid events like Burning Man and Summit At Sea.
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat&hl=en
Am vazut acelasi lucruri ca si tine si vad diversi oameni pe care ii stiu de oportunisti care tot trag de multime in 10 directii.
Faza cu marsul, piata ovidiu si prefectura e clar menita sa dezbine.
Ramasul la Primarie ar fi primul lucru bun si da e nevoie de o platforma pentru proteste. Facebook nu e bun, chiar daca e cel mai accesibil - te pierzi in tot felul de rahaturi. Am trei insi pe wall care urla suntem nu stiu unde, suntem nu stiu unde... dar nu raspund la interpelari directe sa iti spuna clar unde sunt.
Firechat e cam limitat, dar a avut succes in Honk Kong.
Alte idei?
I agree, Firechat is really the best solution here for us.
I haven't seen anyone ever mention Firechat in any of the big EDC facebook groups though, only here on reddit.
I think we can use apps like FireChat when internet goes down.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firechat/id719829352?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat&hl=en_SG
I am assuming you need internet connection to organize protests and such purposes. If yes read further else ignore it.
There is a messaging application called FireChat that was made especially for purposes like this i.e. to fight internet shutdowns by the totalitarian regimes. It works without the internet. It uses the phone's bluetooth to connect to a nearby user and like that it forms a large grid of users on which messages can be sent in times of internet outage. All you need to do is somehow get the word out and make people download this app to reach a critical mass and voila, the internet outage is not a problem anymore!.
Edit: Adding links to app and its wikipedia page.
Sounds like what FireChat does, uses phones wifi and Bluetooth to build a mesh network and send messages to other people with the app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
The app is getting terrible reviews in the Play Store. Most say they can't even sign up. Others say it automatically enables bluetooth and wifi, and it's a battery drain.
It seems look a good idea that's poorly implemented. Maybe the next update will get better reviews.
Here you go: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
FireChat makes use of a cellphone’s radio and Bluetooth communications to create a network between phones close to one another — up to about 80 yards — without connecting to the Internet. If a cellular signal or wireless network is available, the app uses that.
It was used in Hong Kong: http://nyti.ms/1qNCaRG
This is why everyone should have Firechat installed on their phone. You'll probably never need it, but when you do, the internet is down and you can't download it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
There's an iPhone app too.
Aproveitando a notícia, alguém aí já conseguiu usar o FireChat? Instalei o app ano passado pra testar mas, mesmo com um smartphone do lado do outro, se eu desconectasse da internet (mantendo bluetooth e Wi-Fi ativados) não conseguia trocar mensagens (justamente a proposta do app), fora as constantes "quebras" do app.
Simultaneamente fiz um teste com o Walkietooth e funcionou perfeitamente.
São dois apps que acho super válidos de ter instalados no celular.
There are ways to communicate peer-to-peer without using the internet at all. Here is one example of a peer-to-peer bluetooth network chat app: FireChat https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat&hl=en&rdid=com.opengarden.firechat
FireChat works even without an Internet connection or cellular phone coverage. Use it anywhere: planes, public transportation, cruise ships, campuses, and crowded events. All you need is a few people around you using FireChat.
It's something the Chinese used during their own own protests.
It'd be pretty simple! Get some cheap Android cell phones, install FireChat (or I could help you set up Serval Mesh, which has texting and calling functions) and you're off!
I did abandon these plans when my job brought me to China. So that makes things much harder. But, they were certainly grand, and certainly attainable.
Our capital city was planned to be located here. We had started to prep the area before I left by killing overgrown grass (involving many tarps) and removing debris.
Download the app firechat. You can message through wifi directly from one phone to another without needing any service
Also found Fire Chat for both android and apple. Same concept.
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat&hl=en_US
There's an app for that.
No seriously.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
Basically forms a wireless internet using any phone within range, and connects you to another to another to another to get a message across.
Hasn't been well received, but people are already trying to work on this idea. I like it for that.
These are the situations where Firechat can help a little with communication at least, if nothing else.
https://www.opengarden.com/firechat.html
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat&hl=en
Messages can be sent peer to peer via Bluetooth and Wifi.
We have a SDK that lets developers build mesh applications on Android over at www.RightMesh.io. Our team is working on a few general purpose apps (including some chat applications) for environments where connectivity is poor or non-existent. Unfortunately, we don't have these ready. If you are asking out of necessity rather than curiosity, I would encourage you to check our one of our competitors FireChat here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
Coincidentally, I arrived in Barcelona today for a conference on blockchain technologies where we will be talking about our secure, decentralized communications platform (and how combining MESH + Blockchain will incentivize the right behaviour for users in an off-grid environment). It was actually very quiet in the streets today, but watching the footage on the news after returning to the flat was quite disgusting.
Source: One of the founders of RightMesh and sitting in an Airbnb in Barcelona.
If you dont need serval mesh but any app wil do try firechat. And any mesh app will use dry out your battery quickier but it is better then no communnication at all. Test any app that you choose properly before it will be too late to test.
> telefoanele nu merg in Piata.
instalati-va FireChat ( click pt ANDROID si click aici pt iOS )
Functioneaza Fara "Rețea" (GSM) prin Bluetooth si Wifi Direct. (Cica merge cam greu asa dar ... merge in mijlocul protestului)
Va asteptam pe:
#ougprotest / National #ougprotestB / Bucuresti #ougprotestTM / Timisoara #ougprotestCJ / Cluj Napoca #ougprotestMS / Targu Mures si #CoruptiaUcide
Spread the news ...
There is a messaging service like you are describing available for download https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat&hl=en
This idea has been explored before, because it acts more like how the internet work, where computers talk to each other rather than relying on a provider.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat&hl=en
Firechat gets around bans and although not designed specifically for this purpose it has been used specifically for this purpose
"FireChat creates a mesh network using Bluetooth and peer-to-peer WiFi. FireChat transmits messages and pictures offline between devices that are located within 200 feet of one another."
Firechat on Android is one such app, similar apps may be listed among it https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
Instalati FireChat in caz ca 'pica' retelele de telefonie din preajma protestului, 'din cauza supraaglomerarii'
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
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FireChat is a free peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without Internet access or cellular data to send text and images.
FireChat sends messages directly between mobile devices using peer-to-peer Bluetooth and WiFi connections.
Every device acts as a relay, creating a mesh network amongst groups within proximity.
FireChat has been utilized by community organizers, emergency responders and private citizens to communicate when cut off from outside networks, including pro-democracy protests in Taiwan and Hong Kong, natural disasters in Ecuador and Kashmir, and off-the-grid events like Burning Man and Summit At Sea.
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat&hl=en
Also: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
Apps like this get a lot of use in China.
https://www.toosheh.org (Android & Windows)
Also, someone else had made the following suggestions:
> >از اونجایی که به احتمال قوی اینترنت طی چند روز آینده قطع خواهد شد پیشنهاد میکنم یه سری نرم افزارها رو هم خودمون نصب کنیم هم به دیگران معرفی کنیم:
>Briar: فقط اندروید: >> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.briarproject.briar.beta
>>یا https://briarproject.org/fdroid.html
>The Serval Mesh: فقط اندروید
>Murmur: اندروید
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FireChat is a free peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without Internet access or cellular data to send text and images.
FireChat sends messages directly between mobile devices using peer-to-peer Bluetooth and WiFi connections.
Every device acts as a relay, creating a mesh network amongst groups within proximity.
FireChat has been utilized by community organizers, emergency responders and private citizens to communicate when cut off from outside networks, including pro-democracy protests in Taiwan and Hong Kong, natural disasters in Ecuador and Kashmir, and off-the-grid events like Burning Man and Summit At Sea.
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat&hl=en
Stumbled upon this app on twitter, its a messaging app that doesn't need WiFi or Cellular data
While I'm not completely familiar w/ the jargon I believe this app uses something similar to a mesh net. Essentially connects all users in order to pass along messages. Could be useful for the hurricane...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat&hl=en_US
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firechat/id719829352?mt=8
App store links if anyone is interested
I think there is already an app for that called Firechat.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
Like Fire Chat?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat&hl=en_US
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There was this app that was used to circumvent cell phone towers during protests.
Disclaimer: I've never tried it myself. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
Please share. This is not a spam.
FireChat is a free peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without Internet access or cellular data to send text and images.
FireChat sends messages directly between mobile devices using peer-to-peer Bluetooth and WiFi connections.
Every device acts as a relay, creating a mesh network amongst groups within proximity.
FireChat has been utilized by community organizers, emergency responders and private citizens to communicate when cut off from outside networks, including pro-democracy protests in Taiwan and Hong Kong, natural disasters in Ecuador and Kashmir, and off-the-grid events like Burning Man and Summit At Sea.
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat&hl=en
Please share.
FireChat is a free peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without Internet access or cellular data to send text and images.
FireChat sends messages directly between mobile devices using peer-to-peer Bluetooth and WiFi connections.
Every device acts as a relay, creating a mesh network amongst groups within proximity.
FireChat has been utilized by community organizers, emergency responders and private citizens to communicate when cut off from outside networks, including pro-democracy protests in Taiwan and Hong Kong, natural disasters in Ecuador and Kashmir, and off-the-grid events like Burning Man and Summit At Sea.
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat&hl=en
See if this will work. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firechat/id719829352?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireChat
I'm going to do all I can to help. We're all rooting for you!
Oh nice. I see it's for Android, too
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat&hl=en
Just curious. How are you even allowed to take that name with the other firechat?
Decentralized messaging app which doesn't require data
There are short distance messaging apps that work without internet using wireless+bluetooth (like that shady but useful app Shareit) and created a network so that if all people in a crowd extending to a large distance have the app active, and one guy sends a message, it keeps getting transmitted from user to user across till the whole area/group gets it.
<strong>Briar</strong> : FOSS, available on FDroid and Play store - and the highest rated
Of course it'd be better if the whole group commits to one, or maintains redundancy, with a primary and one as a fallback.
Decentralized messaging app which doesn't require data
There are short distance messaging apps that work without internet using wireless+bluetooth (like that shady but useful app Shareit) and created a network so that if all people in a crowd extending to a large distance have the app active, and one guy sends a message, it keeps getting transmitted from user to user across till the whole area/group gets it.
<strong>Briar</strong> : FOSS, available on FDroid and Play store - and the highest rated
Of course it'd be better if the whole group commits to one, or maintains redundancy, with a primary and one as a fallback.
you could try firechat:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
These apps use wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple's Multipeer Connectivity Framework without an internet connection by connecting peer-to-peer.
Send the links to these apps in your WhatsApp groups and get as many people added on there as you can. These apps work best in high density areas. The more people have this app the better as network packets can hop to more distances and more devices means less network congestion.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.briarproject.briar.android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.bridgefy.main
Someone tried to share this tip, it was shared with shortened links and I asked them to post the full links, which they haven't yet. I'll share their comment here with the links expanded and hyperlinked.
>please install the alternative mesh network apps:
>از اونجایی که به احتمال قوی اینترنت طی چند روز آینده قطع خواهد شد پیشنهاد میکنم یه سری نرم افزارها رو هم خودمون نصب کنیم هم به دیگران معرفی کنیم:
>Briar: فقط اندروید: >> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.briarproject.briar.beta
>>یا https://briarproject.org/fdroid.html
>The Serval Mesh: فقط اندروید
>Murmur: اندروید
Not working in Iran ATM apparently...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
i'm suprised nobody mentions FireChat? It allows you to send messages without wifi or cellular connection. The message is securely passed on to all the "nodes" in the network (meaning everybody that has the app) until it's delivered. It has been in the news a lot during all those protests where governments block/censor internet access...
http://opengarden.com/firechat/ http://opengarden.com/press/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
Firechat and Splinternet are Android apps that provide "dark" alternatives. The first uses wifi mesh networking and the second uses bluetooth to peer a twitter-like network.
You could also try hiding your mesh networking in 802.11..
Have you checked out Firechat?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat&hl=en
FireChat is the most mature, Serval is best when you need the network to be bigger. Or you may want to experiment with Intercom or Wi-Fi Talkie
We do have some couple of apps, one being famous is FireChat.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opengarden.firechat
Another one worth mentioning is (For me better one) is Talkie
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.remaller.android.wifitalkie_lite