Using Destination GROUP to Broadcast messages

[ibuharie]

Hi Everyone,

I have been trying to setup a broadcaster with multiple receivers all running on a single host (since Global GROUP messaging over multiple hops has been marked as a future item) using Destination.GROUP. After some trials (mainly to setup the correct GROUP destination parameters without generating an error), I was able to get the two python applications running side-by-side. The "rnstatus" command shows "Serving: 2 Programs".

On the reticulum config file, I set the interface as TCP:127.0.0.1, enabled Transport and increased log level to 7.

The broadcaster creates a GROUP destination and then uses the create_keys method to generate the symmetric private key. I save this key to a file that I then load on the receiver that creates a GROUP destination with the same APP_NAME and uses the load_private_key method to load the key from the file that the broadcaster created and saved.

At this stage, the two programs are running and the broadcaster is attempting to send messages but the receiver is not receiving them i.e. the callback is not being triggered.

I am looking for any advice about what I could be doing wrong or can try differently.

[ItsPadar]

Reticulum doesn't support GROUP destinations at the moment and only runs them over one hop

[ibuharie]

@ItsPadar , thank you for the response. I was running them on a single host so hops weren't the issue but my observations make sense if it is not supported.