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A Long-Range Meshtastic Relay (hackaday.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Mesh networks are so cool. We should all be doing this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Theres basically no way this meets regulatory requirements, theyre based on a value which is roughly based on transmitter strength + antenna gain. The comments on hackaday are fun to read.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm kinda glad I don't have time at the moment to get obsessed with a new topic (though it's lurking in my future now) - this is really cool. I used to mess around with RTLSDR stuff, this looks like it'll scratch the same itch and possibly be more useful. Meshnets seem like a wonderful solarpunk technology and I really look forward to seeing where this'll go.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I am not so happy that currently all these use the proprietary LoRa system. Some kind of medium range and low-powerd mesh network would be very cool though. There has been some movement in the WiFi HaLow space lately, which is IMHO more promising.