I just bought a SeedStudio SenseCAP T100-E. I only see 1 node in my area on meshmap.net and doubt i will be able to hit it. I will just have to add myself to the mqtt map to let others know a new node exists in my area.
I got a LoRa hat for Raspberry Pi and my Pi 3 is broken, so I'm wondering if anyone has tried it on a Pi 2. I don't see it mentioned on the site and whenever I try installing meshtasticd it fails because of dependencies (not sure if that has anything to do with the Pi, but figured I'd bring it up in case.)
I've been reading a bit of the documentation before I get started. Meshtastic's target use case still seems muddy to me. ... read full post
I'm going to do some a/b testing to compare to the rubber duck antennas I've been using. I don't expect much more, but perhaps a little bit more range? ... read full post
Just putting this here in case it's useful to someone else. ... read full post
Hear me out. I've been thinking about the best way to put up solar nodes in my area. ... read full post
I'm still fighting with Amazon to get my first pair of devices delivered, I went with heltec v3s to get started.
But looking at the meshmap.net, it's very very sparse around me. How likely is it that the are nodes that aren't on the map?
Hopefully I can check it out myself soon!
I mean, your smartphone already knows how to talk on 600 megahertz, 700 megahertz, 800 megahertz, 1.7 gigahertz, 1.9 gigahertz, 2.1 gigahertz, 2.4 gigahertz, 3 gigahertz, 5 gigahertz, 6 gigahertz, etc. I see absolutely no reason it would be unable to talk on 915 megahertz.
I have been an amateur radio operator for quite a long time and am starting to look into meshtastic and the Lilygo T-Deck. However, their site asks me which version I would want. The 915 megahertz, the 860 megahertz, or the 433 megahertz. As an amateur radio person, the 433 MHz would be the lowest frequency and therefore should be the longest range, but is that the most popular model? Would I be missing out on nodes if I were to use 433 MHz instead of 860 or 915? ... read full post
Supplemental video by the creator of the blog post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ry-ck0fhfw
Received my first message from an airplane. Looking at it, there was a United Fight on it's way from Chicago to Cincinnati passing overhead when I got this.
Test, UA flight 808
I read through the Meshtastic firmware code and found the file variant.h for the Meshtastic-DIY-v1_1 build. Notice it’s not the DIY-v1. Instead v1_1. My understanding from that file is that I should be able to wire the following: ... read full post
I recently bought 2 T-Echo Meshtastic devices directly from Lilygo. ... read full post
I don't want to share my location to the mesh. But I want the app to calculate how far other nodes are from my position. Is that possible? What options do I have to configure to make that happen?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/4173930
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/4173929
We'll walk you through adding a vibration motor module for notifications to your ESP32-based Meshtastic Node.
Sometimes when I go cycling I take a buddy or two and we sometimes get split, and i was thinking that having something to tell me how distant we were from each other would be cool. Yeah, there are apps that do that, but they arent foss, they send your location to who knows where, and they massively drain your battery. ... read full post
Held together without any solder ^^ ... read full post
I got two T-Echo devices in the mail yesterday, and I've been configuring and playing with them nonstop.
I did notice some other nodes will pop up that have question marks (????) as their name, but they still can send messages. What typically causes a device to appear as unknown?
Is it possible to power the heltec v3 with NIMH batteries? Like maybe 4 in series (4.8v) or 3 in series (3.6v)?
Would it even charge them or is the charging only for li-ion battery packs like the 3.7v one that everyone suggests?
I don't want to buy it if I don't need it, I have old NIMH batteries in abundance and I'm not sure what my final setup should look like yet.
I’m now at a point where I can detect 152 nodes in my city. 25 are listed as “online.” ... read full post
Rak wireless module with battery/solar. ... read full post
The lilygo t deck is an all in one device that includes a LoRa antenna with a screen and keyboard for messaging people over long distances without any internet using the open source end to end encrypted software Meshtastic.
The video is way longer than it needs to be but you can see the device in action. There’s a growing community of people making meshnets using Meshtastic in different cities.
Looks like you are my first contact off mqtt.