A community to discuss Meshtastic (https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction)
I've played with it a few times, it's very neat how it can mesh over basically any kind of data connection including AFSK over ham radio and stuff like that.
It feels more useful to me because it runs on other devices too other than just a LoRa device.
I did. Took a long time to setup and then found out some of the sample servers were down. I liked how on local mesh/Lora I was able to send images! That was cool.
Here's the visualizer showing the connections.
Nice!
If it's been a while meshchat has had a lot of work lately and was pretty easy to get going. Nomad takes a while to populate but I've hit a lot on the sample servers.
Oh, does the RNode firmware support v3 now? If so, nice. I was looking at playing with those, but at the time they only supported v2 and all I could buy were v3.
Yeah, flashed easily from the web. Meshchat and sideband have flashers too.
Nice, thanks. I may revisit that project then (unless all I can find are v4 boards 😆)
Did you find strangers to chat with?
Oh there's plenty, nothing on my local RNode yet but lots of random people and pages on the different reticulum interfaces tunneled over the internet and i2p.
Here a community I just started: !mander.xyz/c/Reticulum
Awesome! I've been trying to figure out Reticulum and it's a bit of a brain twister. Very flexible. Have you looked at meshcore? I kinda love it, looks like it can be a good successor to Meshtastic.
I haven't seen meshcore, but ill look into it right now.
I had not heard of Reticulum but I am certainly interested! Seeing as it can run on the same hardware, perhaps I will be able to justify buying all of those boards and antennas after all 😜
I seems pretty useful even beyond lora, and exploring the nomad network though all the different interfaces has a really early internet vibe.
Can I ask if it's much of a pain to mod? Reticulum could probably use a community around here.
Nope, no pain!
Not clear if you are asking because you are curious and want to mod that community, or if you are asking me if I can mod the community 😅 I would prefer if someone else creates it simply because I still have no experience with Reticulum and because it is nice to have some diversity in the mods, but it also wouldn't be a big deal, I can make it if you would like.
No I'll do it, I've just been standoffish since the past spam stuff and I'm no expert. Oh btw thanks for keeping the best instance.
Ah, that's great, thanks!! If you need any help or decide to step away for any reason whatsoever I am always happy to help, no pressure at all.
Spam and spam bots are usually best handled with the admin because an admin account can ban accounts instance wide and delete all their content at once, so it is more efficient. They are not so common within this instance and they usually target large communities. So, I can help with this if it happens.