Experimenting with #LoRa and #MeshCore. This tiny little box (which is mostly empty) and a 20 cm antenna lets you connect to a whole network of nodes.
The first one that showed up in the app's client list was located 50 km away. Wasn't expecting that kind of reach. Apparently it took 9 "hops" (other devices rebroadcasting messages) for us to connect.
Fascinating stuff.
After playing with this for a few days, I'm running into a weird usability issue, that's actually very much a "nice problem to have".
My radio can only store 350 contacts (other nodes on the network). Once that's full, new nodes are no longer shown.
That means I can't add them as favorites, or even message them.
The upside of course is that I can reach over 350 nodes, covering half the country.
And a fix is on the way: https://github.com/meshcore-dev/MeshCore/pull/1379
