Meshtastic

Do you have any recommendations for a cheap Meshtastic-compatible board? I don’t need GPS or a battery, since I’ll power it with a solar panel or a power bank. Having a case isn’t important; what really matters is avoiding any soldering.

I’m basically looking for a low-cost board with an integrated LoRa antenna. The goal is just to experiment, connecting it via Bluetooth to a PC or smartphone.

I had to do a lot bit of research on RF radio repeaters just to get an answer as to why there isn't a analog radio repeater that repeats in real time and one of it was that it would effectively increase the transmitted power above the legal limit and there would be "packet bumping". it explains the the meshtastic protocol has to be digital.

but im wondering why there isnt a setting that listens and retransmits on multiple frequency slots or one frequency slot and all modem setting. either of those setting would make using meshtastic easier to adopt.

I just got these Heltec v3 sets for 29€ and plan to give one to a friend and keep the other for myself.

As they don't come with a battery it would be convenient to power them from a phone. I've read that this can be tricky with the Heltec v3, depending on if the phone will provide power without PD handshake or not. Does anyone know if this works with Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 (Qualcomm-based)? Does the cable make a difference when powering from a phone?

Also the antennas look quity wonky and the listing states 2dBi. We will run on 868mhz, what can I expect from this? My friend and I will be visiting a tech event soon and I guess there it'll be fine. In my home, the next node on meshmap is ~6km far, which is probably too much, right?

I got a kit and just assembled it. I tried to google it and I can turn it off but it powers back up after 5 minutes or so. I haven’t even set it up yet. Any ideas what’s going on?

I thought about being a "meshtastic pioneer" and in my head that means rebroadcasting on multiple frequency slots just so meshtastic user can connect without me independently having them to tell them what channel and modem preset I'm on. with my research it seems that there isn't 1 thing I can buy that can work on the entire US(915) band). im curious if anyone would recommend or has installed a radio repeator for meshtastic bands

With no guarantee that this project would ever be useful or even meaningful, I decided to develop a node called Meshtbank.

Meshtbank maintains a central ledger with users, transactions, and balances. It uses the default channel to broadcast system information such as activation and command notices, and it uses direct messages for all operations. An administrator, authenticated through a PIN, can remotely operate the system: creating and deleting accounts, or checking balances and transaction histories.

This would probably work for like a festival or convention. Don't really see it being practical outside of cases like that, but it's a cool use of Meshtastic nonetheless.

The idea came from event firmware such as DEFCon and hamvention. The thought is that having an automatic 50/50 split between CLIENT and CLIENT_MUTE should reduce channel utilization while still allowing the user to manually change the role if needed.

Either that or have a setting to set known portables such as the Seeed T1000-E, RAK WisMesh Tag, etc into CLIENT_MUTE by default while leaving things like the Station G2 in CLIENT mode. Thoughts?

Edit: Another thought is that you could weight it, such that 75% would be CLIENT and 25% CLIENT_MUTE.

What are some good resources for learning how to create nodes. Say I want to get creative and make a solar powered node that I can stick on my car's roof rack. How do I even go about learning how to do that?

This was down in Mexico. Any idea what it is? It’s on the default channel.

I think I have a decent setup (heltec v3, 3000mah battery, aftermarket antenna) yet I struggle to make contact with anyone. I'm a little confused as I do receive messages on the general the Long-Fast channel but my messages never seem to send or be acknowledged. Am I doing something wrong or is this just the nature if radio comms?

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Traceroute:

https://meshview.bayme.sh/graph/traceroute/1000442475

About 200 miles as the crow flies.

The mesh spans up to yuba city at this point, so about 270 miles

I'm curious about trying meshtastic, and I was planning to buy the Wio L1 Tracker once aliexpress sales start. Though, I have read that the antenna isn't quite great, so I was thinking about buying a better one. Also, I'm buying the pro one instead of the oled kit because for 15 extra euros I get both the battery and the assembled case.

The meshtastic website recommends the gizont 10dbi whip antenna for 868 mhz (I'm in europe). The problem is that the antenna comes in sma-male or in rp-sma-male, and I have no idea what connector the tracker has. I know I could just buy an extra ipex connector, but I'd rather keep the original one, rather than spending extra money, considering I'm not even sure to catch any node in my area.

Another question I have is if it's reasonable to use a 10dbi antenna or if it's too high gain, as I see people use ~6dbi antennas for base stations. I'm in an urban area most of the times, but I also plan on using it for hiking, a couple of time in the summer. I know nothing about radios, so I have no idea of how impactful are these numbers.

Finally after over a month of order issues I have one of my T1000-E trackers. It was easy to set up and connect and I see several nodes. Haven’t reached anybody yet. I am in Canada but the location on the map still shows Shenzhen in China. I don’t see anything to change that and was also expecting the GPS would do its thing?!

What the heck #meshtastic device is that with the T9 keyboard? It's got me seriously remembering my very first flip phone back in like 2005.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b66m_ZLT5Y

Side note: how do y'all carry your antennaed nodes while out and about? Like to the gym or errands

The lamp isn’t used/connected any longer. It’s wide open around the building but no way to get there. The tractor won’t reach. 😟

You know what would be kinda cool? A #Brailletastic. It would be a #Meshtastic node, but instead of a visual screen it would have a braille display and braille keyboard input similar to the orbit reader 20

Has anybody heard about this? I ordered a couple beginning of the month. They were back ordered with an estimated re-stock date of Oct 25. Now I get an email they are discontinued and it sounds like the order is cancelled. 😞

I tried to find another store in Canada who sells it but no luck?! Also if it’s discontinued what should I buy instead?

Is it possible to show the friendly name of a message sender instead of the short ID?

Is it possible to turn on message timestamps?

I’m on IOS.