I'm working on a few art cars that will be heading out to Burning Man this year. Each car has their own unique 192.168.x.x/24 network that connects the audio, lighting and flame effects control systems. One of the aspects of the audio system being used is that a deck defined as a primary can send audio to other decks configured to use the primary as their source. This happens over an IP network. I'd like to be able to allow the individual art cars to come together and have one serve as the primary and any others in range can then be secondary to form one massive audio space.
To do this, I'm hoping to be able to configure the wAP AC's that are on each car to allow them to mesh. The 2.4ghz radio would be set for local wifi access to each car. It allows for things like playing music via someone's iphone, running the lighting controller on an ipad, etc. The 5ghz radio would be configured to form the mesh. When any two cars are near enough, their network would be accessible via the other. With each car having their own unique 192.168.x.x/24 network, packets would be routed over the mesh from one car to the other.
Another option is that each car has one wAP AC for it's internal wifi network and a second specifically for the mesh.
Is this type of configuration possible on the wAP AC's? Is the idea of mesh networks coming together and breaking apart on a regular basis workable?
Any pointers or configuration thoughts would be appreciated.