I've been playing with #meshtastic and #meshcore a bunch recently. I've had some thoughts about the modulation settings used with both projects, and what that implies regarding kinds of hardware we're able to use.

I've written a blog post on the subject, and I hope you take the time to read it and provide feedback, if you know about these systems. Especially people in #Seattle where I know a log of this stuff is being used.

https://housedillon.com/blog/meshcore-and-lorawan/

@nullagent I know you've looked into meshtastic v. meshcore, but maybe your network might have more insight. From what I understand, someone going by Cisien is responsible for some of that, but he's not on here. I've chatted with him on Discord and he seems cool.

Anyway, that's all to say that I'm having a lot of fun, and I'm genuinely curious whether this idea has legs.

I've been playing with #meshtastic and #meshcore a bunch recently. I've had some thoughts about the modulation settings used with both projects, and what that implies regarding kinds of hardware we're able to use.

I've written a blog post on the subject, and I hope you take the time to read it and provide feedback, if you know about these systems. Especially people in #Seattle where I know a log of this stuff is being used.

https://housedillon.com/blog/meshcore-and-lorawan/

@nullagent I know you've looked into meshtastic v. meshcore, but maybe your network might have more insight. From what I understand, someone going by Cisien is responsible for some of that, but he's not on here. I've chatted with him on Discord and he seems cool.

Anyway, that's all to say that I'm having a lot of fun, and I'm genuinely curious whether this idea has legs.

An alle die #meshtastic benutzen. Kommt rüber auf #meshcore.
Gerade bei uns in Augsburg ist das Lora-Band so saturiert durch die Stadtwerke und wir haben jetzt mehrere Tests gemacht und können sagen das EU Narrow Band funktioniert mit Meshcore am besten und holt auch nochmal mehr Reichweite raus. An alle die mit #meshtastic in #augsburg rumspielen. Kommt vorbei ins @OpenLabAugsburg@chaos.social
und helft und ein stabiles meshcore Netzwerk in Augsburg aufzubauen! Heute Abend wäre zum Beispiel eine gute Gelegenheit mal vorbeizukommen

Is there anyone on here who can explain the differences between #Meshtastic and #MeshCore and explain their relative merits? My sis @kazooloon and I are interested in getting started with one or the other.

#meshtastic / #meshcore / #LoRa people near #boston: assemble. Get me connected to your non-corporate non-ham networking. I have nothing. What is the simple beginner portable setup I could buy in the US today, either pre-made or as a kit, that ships from the US? https://youtu.be/oAo2sb8LpFc?t=12 https://cambridgemesh.net
cc @occvlt @aredridel

An alle die #meshtastic benutzen. Kommt rüber auf #meshcore.
Gerade bei uns in Augsburg ist das Lora-Band so saturiert durch die Stadtwerke und wir haben jetzt mehrere Tests gemacht und können sagen das EU Narrow Band funktioniert mit Meshcore am besten und holt auch nochmal mehr Reichweite raus. An alle die mit #meshtastic in #augsburg rumspielen. Kommt vorbei ins @OpenLabAugsburg@chaos.social
und helft und ein stabiles meshcore Netzwerk in Augsburg aufzubauen! Heute Abend wäre zum Beispiel eine gute Gelegenheit mal vorbeizukommen

Is there anyone on here who can explain the differences between #Meshtastic and #MeshCore and explain their relative merits? My sis @kazooloon and I are interested in getting started with one or the other.

Dear Fedi, what are your opinions about meshcore vs meshtastic?

#meshcore #meshtastic #dearfediverse

MeshCore has released their code today.

I've read most of the code and this is fairly early, limited docs, no mobile app and limited hardware testing.

That being said the over the air protocol+routing looks excellent. The code is well designed and fairly slim. The security posture is good and designed in from the start.

They get so much right in so little code. I even think I could make this messtastic compatible faster than they can improve.

https://github.com/ripplebiz/MeshCore

#MeshCore#Meshtastic

Lately a youtuber whose been doing a lot of videos about meshtastic just announced he's launching his own meshtastic replacement targeting the same hardware.

I watched a lot of Andy Kirby's videos and he seems to have an eye for the same sorts of problems I've mentioned with meshtastic so I'm very curious to see how his project goes.

They haven't released their code yet so we'll have to wait and see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNWf0Mh2fJw

#MeshCore#AndyKirby

This is what the Meshcore map looks like now in the Pacific Northwest. My little node can see over a hundred repeaters on the mesh.

We now regularly have chat conversations that span several cities and we have frequent posters from Canada. A typical day sees HUNDREDS of posts in the public channel. Whole sentences and thoughts, not just "ping".

Meshcore is really taking off!

#meshcore #pnw #seattle #lora #radio

Over this weekend I was sadly asleep for one of my favorite effects in radio, tropospheric ducting!

I'd read a paper years ago from a team who detected ducting events in 868MHz LoRaWAN networks. These events allow end devices to reach concentrator nodes hundreds of miles away, possibly even beyond the curve of the earth.

I was wondering if we'd see this in lora meshes and turns out YES!

https://youtu.be/bB7Aji0KtxA

#LoRa#Meshcore #radio#Seattle#Portland#PNW

A few weeks after the Mt Rainer feat, some friends went camping and hiking all around the Orcas islands and we never lost contact at all.

At times they had better connection to the mesh while camping than they do in the city.

They hiked up Mt Constitution and were able to get direct line of sight connections to repeaters in Seattle using a typical handheld LoRa radio with an external antenna.

#meshcore #lora #radio#Orcas #mtconstitution #pnw

There have been so many really cool developments in the last month just from adoption.

Recently someone hiked up Mt Rainer and had a conversation with us on the public meshcore chat. When I went through the cougar mountain repeater's logs I noticed my repeater in Seattle's U District was actually the first hop that was connecting them to the mesh.

If that wasn't wild enough, the hiker was using a TINY radio, the Seeed Studio t1000e 🤯

#MtRainer#PNW#LoRa#MeshCore

This is what the Meshcore map looks like now in the Pacific Northwest. My little node can see over a hundred repeaters on the mesh.

We now regularly have chat conversations that span several cities and we have frequent posters from Canada. A typical day sees HUNDREDS of posts in the public channel. Whole sentences and thoughts, not just "ping".

Meshcore is really taking off!

#meshcore #pnw #seattle #lora #radio

Last night I meshed from south Vancouver island to Portland, over 300km using #meshcore

Last night I meshed from south Vancouver island to Portland, over 300km using #meshcore

The first new tool is lorapipe, a firmware that runs on most consumer LoRa radios.

We've tested it a ton on ESP32-S3 based Xiao Wio boards.

This turns your lora radio into extremely minimal serial device that sends and receives packets in a dirt simple CSV format.

The radio can be tuned on the fly to switch between meshcore, meshtastic and LoRaWAN sync words and frequencies.

https://github.com/datapartyjs/lorapipe

#lorapipe #lora #lorawan #meshtastic #meshcore

Printed up some cases for my little army of Heltec V3 #MeshCore and #Meshtastic nodes.

Printed up some cases for my little army of Heltec V3 #MeshCore and #Meshtastic nodes.