I’m going to Arctangent festival later this year and there is no cell signal so I’m taking these three Heltecs and giving two of them to close friends so I can find them at the festival!
I’m going to be running Meschore on all three (my experience of Meshtastic is it sucks all of the air out of the room and good luck sending a message to any of those contacts you found).
So if anyone else is going and wants to hop on the same mesh, this is your heads up!
The @atpfm folks have been singing the praises of these fairly cheap #LoRa sensors from YoLink. They don't seem to be sold in AU, is anyone aware of anything sold and supported locally (I'd prefer to avoid importing via Amazon if possible)? https://shop.yosmart.com/products/ys1603-4ys7903
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.
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!
I think the best thing about the home made nodes I've been using is that it's durable enough to carry almost daily. But flexible enough that I can do tons of experiments with external antennas and temporary installations in client mode or repeater.
The big one especially has crazy battery life and can run all week.
The other thing that rocks about this build is that it can be assembled with no soldering so its about as noob friendly as DIY hardware gets.
It'd be nice to be able give away a few to people who can't afford to buy the parts themselves.
$45 / $600
So feel free to throw a few bucks at me so I can scale up my LoRa expirements.
Venmo / cashapp $nullagent
Meshcore is working well enough in Seattle that now adoption is the largest issue to having a more robust LoRa mesh network.
So if you're in the PNW area and want to build a solid handheld LoRa radio to try out meshcore I've made a bill of materials for my go to portable build LoRa plans.
https://git.devhack.net/nullagent/lora-builds/src/branch/main/rak
#meshcore #seattle #pnw #tacoma #openhardware #arduino #lora #radio
I think the best thing about the home made nodes I've been using is that it's durable enough to carry almost daily. But flexible enough that I can do tons of experiments with external antennas and temporary installations in client mode or repeater.
The big one especially has crazy battery life and can run all week.
The other thing that rocks about this build is that it can be assembled with no soldering so its about as noob friendly as DIY hardware gets.
Meshcore is working well enough in Seattle that now adoption is the largest issue to having a more robust LoRa mesh network.
So if you're in the PNW area and want to build a solid handheld LoRa radio to try out meshcore I've made a bill of materials for my go to portable build LoRa plans.
https://git.devhack.net/nullagent/lora-builds/src/branch/main/rak
#meshcore #seattle #pnw #tacoma #openhardware #arduino #lora #radio
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
My evaluation of resilient and disturbed means of communication started today #meshnetworks. I received my #LoRa radio board and installed #meshcore. No contact to other nodes yet, but I’m also not sure what to expect. Let’s see how it goes…
The next step will be #reticulum, but it looks too advanced to be a good starting point for me.
#emergencypreparedness #disasterpreparedness #disasterrelief #solarpunk
Anyone on the fediverse tracking the #Iran internet blackout? Are there ways people there are taking to get reconnected through other routes? What about #LoRA? Are there any maps that show nodes that are connected to the general internet in the region though @meshtastic or similar?
Hello #hackers and #DIY friends,Im away from #Mastodon,the reality is that
never liked microblogging, I was one of the pionners because I do like the
open/decentralized internet,but now I'm using #usenet a LOT & the new cool #hacker
playgrounds #nomadnet#reticulum#LoRa #meshtastic,offgrid,decentralized,meshes
Come chat @ 'hispagatos HQ' @ 4ce9566abcec9619f67d181c5959dfdc in reticulum/nomadnet
in #usenet 2600.* and hispagatos.* comp.lang.go alt.comp.lang.rust newsgroups rek2.hispagatos.org
Cleaning up the wiring and checking antenna SWR with a NanoVNA.
Was curious if these cheap antennas were similar to their name brand look alikes. And no, no they are not comparable lol. Stick to the name brand I guess for this style of antennas, the cheaper ones are not worth it this time.
Working on a meshcore testbed.
I want to have several radios on the roof so I can develop in production
Wrote a little parser for meshcore packets tonight. It's still messy and a lot more to implement. But, it reads the container format so I'm happy for now.
I have meshcore packets flowing from multiple repeaters(on different frequencies) talking on wifi using udp broadcasts.
The repeaters automatically discover each other on the network and now I'm able to watch their chatter with a quick nodejs server.
#lora #meshcore #networking #radio #nodejs #container #incus
This is a subtoot and should probably be a blog post. But basically some techbros are re-inventing mesh radios (badly).
Low cost, developer friendly mesh radios have kinda been going in circles for decades. I've personally been watching this space for 20yrs & it's not progressing.
So in many ways I guess I shouldn't be surprised to review yet another cheap mesh radio project and realize, "dude this just plain sucks and isn't improving at all, oh and the community is kinda awful".
First the good.
The core tech of LoRa remains amazing.
The hardware has gotten DIRT CHEAP.
The idea that anyone can go buy a $10 circuit board, 3d print a case and have a radio that can talk privately to satellites or across town IS ground breaking!
The biggest break through lately is that the hardware IS good AND cheap at long last!
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