I've been playing around with Meshtastic. I live in a very hilly area, so it's very challenging to get any type of range. The antennas need to be very high up on a hill and powerful.
I've taken a radio with me "into town" and I immediately get many nodes. But that does me no good out in the boonies.
Also - it feels like Discord without moderation options. I can't block anyone. Icky.
Interesting #meshtastic reach. I wonder if people would be annoyed if my node were auto posting emergency alerts. 🤔
What’s your setup / which radio do you have?
Interesting #meshtastic traffic 😬
Hmm... On Meshtastic, not sure what I do now with it, LOL 🤔 (running on open channels, non-ham, because I can't see any ham nodes from here at the moment) #meshtastic
Baby's first solar powered LoRa #meshtastic node.
Still waiting on a better antenna.
Glances at lora mesh network chats rooms for a millisecond . . .
How do we get meshtastic devs to stfu and stop being absolute tools, oh right just stop using their insecure pile of shit. They are the radio nerd version of SCO for the xennial generation.
Whatever stroke of luck that was giving my #meshtastic node access to the rest of the mesh is gone. Until yesterday there was an otherwise silent node out there that was forwarding packets to and from mine.
I'm now anxiously awaiting my new antenna to arrive, because it feels wrong for my tiny radio child to be cut off from its friends.
Some results from a week of there being a meshcore repeater on Cougar mountain.
A lot of us can now hear around 80 radios throughout the Seattle / Tacoma region.
The public chat channel is extremely busy at various times throughout the day.
I've been able to DM people in Tacoma and connect to their chat servers all the way from Seattle.
Some routes are extremely stable, meanwhile others are more flaky. It's super exciting!
Why yes, I have no idea what I’m doing. But I’m enjoying reading about it. If you’re somewhere nearby using #meshtastic I’d love to hear about it!
@librecomms
can we deploy this at #SinBarreras ??
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TY6m6fS8bxU
@meshtastic #loramesh
Joined the Wellington mesh tonight!
Communicated with a friend ~60km away, over the Remutaka Range, using Meshtastic (LoRa @ 915Mhz) instead of the internet.
📻 🗻 📶
#solarpunk #meshtastic #decentralization #lora #radio#wellington #mesh
#Meshcore:
https://github.com/ripplebiz/MeshCore/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#-hardware-compatibility
(Super simple to get started. Tries to solve flaws from #meshtastic.)
#Reticulum:
https://reticulum.network/hardware.html
(Super versatile and what I suspect to be the best tech stack. But rather complex and steep learning curve.)
In the end there should be an overlap of the most common devices.
Genuinely impressed with #meshtastic thus far. I've got a pair of ThinkNode M2s, and the antennas that come with them are literally bits of printed circuit board, and yet they've managed to get a surprising bit of range (maybe 300m) out of them with suboptimal placement and no special care.
I can see that with a real antenna and an elevated position they'd go quite well.
Have my own little #meshtastic node now, and I have no idea what I'm doing. I already want to upgrade my antenna.
I wrote about Meshtastic and Mastodon
https://tomcasavant.com/i-posted-to-mastodon-1-mile-away-from-an-internet-connection/
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