Discussion
Over the weekend @meph added some mind blowing new features to lorapipe.
- APRS over LoRa
- Ethernet over LoRa
https://social.treehouse.systems/@meph/115365077448221139
#hamraadio #radio #lora #meshcore #meshtastic #lorapipe #aprs #ax25 #kiss #tnc #packetradio #networking #cybersecurity #offgrid
Now that lorapipe has KISS-TNC protocol support for sending and recieving LoRa packets, it means that basically all sorts of ham radio and Linux tooling designed to talk to KISS modems suddenly work over LoRa.
For HAM radio nerds, this means things like APRS -just- work. Follow the instructions in the documentation to get started.
I suspect HAMs can bridge APRS across spectrums to ISM 433/868/915Mhz LoRa now using lorapipe. 😎
https://github.com/datapartyjs/lorapipe?tab=readme-ov-file#aprs-over-lora
Because this KISS-TNC stuff is pretty old, it has really good support on modern Linux.
So we're actually able to setup lorapipe on two different linux boxes and form an ethernet network over LoRa!
The current rev has some MTU limits we can fix, we can also eak out probably another 2x more bandwidth too.
But as is I was able to ping, mosh and ssh over my ethernet-LoRa network between Linux computers!
https://github.com/datapartyjs/lorapipe?tab=readme-ov-file#ethernet-over-lora
All of @meph 's work on #lorapipe is under MIT license.
Features like APRS over LoRa and Ethernet over LoRa serve some interesting niches we're not likely to monetize.
More than anything we want lorapipe to be a rapid prototyping tool for LoRa solutions. It's key for this to be as free and open as we can make it and I hope these features demonstrate our direction.
We'd appreciate donations towards the effort so we can knockout lorapipe v1.
Finally setup the github builder and now there's pre-release lorapipe firmware available for download!
We're building 79 different variants so testing on your favorite LoRa devices is highly encouraged!
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