While Raven can be installed on any AREDN node, we have some recommendations for the best experience.

Node Recommendations

We recommend choosing a node with the following characteristics:

• Pick your primary node; the one which resolves from http://localnode.local.mesh to make it easy to see your messages.
• Pick a node with plenty of RAM. RAM is used to store large shared messages (e.g. images).
• Pick a node with plenty of FLASH. FLASH is used to persist messages.

Installing the Raven package

You can find the latest Raven installation package here https://github.com/kn6plv/Raven We distribute Raven as two different packages; an IPK and an APK.

• IPK is used to install Raven on AREDN release 4.26.1.0. We don't recommend installing on earlier versions.
• APK is used to install Raven on Nightly Builds and releases after 4.26.1.0

Which ever package you are using, install it using the usual AREDN installation procedure (see http://docs.arednmesh.org/en/latest/arednGettingStarted/node_admin.html#upload-package)

The first time you install Raven, it may take a little time to complete as it must make changes to the node's firewall and create some initial configuration.

Once installed you can start using it (see Getting Started).

Updates

During alpha testing (i.e. now) Raven with attempt to auto-update itself once per day.