• rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        18·
        10 days ago

        Or Meshcore if you’re in a fairly populated area.

        Everyone should try both, and see what’s more established in their area!

          • rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            10·
            10 days ago

            Yeah, the official app isn’t super open-source, but the protocol is, and other companion apps are being developed. So far the only restriction I’ve found is that I’ve got to wait 10 seconds when doing remote repeater admin via the mesh.

            Or just run it on a standalone, like a T-Deck, which is what I normally do! Bonus, you can stick M5 Launcher on the T-Deck, and bounce back and forth between 'tastic and 'core with a simple reboot.

          • rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            9 days ago

            If you go to the firmware flasher: https://flasher.meshcore.dev/

            That shows what’s supported with ready-to-go firmware. The community firmware is what’s mostly used. MeshOS and Ripple are more special cases that you probably don’t need to worry about when you’re getting started.

            Then this is far from an exhaustive list of devices, but not bad for getting started:

            https://nodakmesh.org/meshcore/devices

            If you want a ready-to-go device, and are brand new to LoRa radio, just look at the pictures for the devices that are already in cases and with antennas, vs. the bare boards. And basically, there’s almost total cross-compatibility with devices running Meshtastic or Meshcore. You can always flash the firmware from one to the other to try each one out.

    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
      13·
      10 days ago

      I’ll drop this again, network layer is not really my bailiwick, but to my mind, the only thing stopping mesh networks from taking off is a lack of motivation, the tech is everywhere, especially in high density environments.

      People generally don’t need the full speed of their internet all, or even most of the time, they mostly buy a speed they can afford that makes their big downloads (e.g. games, updates, perhaps streaming) more tolerable. If a mesh system could aggregate a bunch of users connections for speed they could probably buy cheaper plans knowing that when they need it they can have the speed.

      Anyone knowledgeable in the ways of meshtastic or other such, does it, or anything else you know of fill this niche ? The wallet is always a good motivator…

      Presumably ISPs etc would quickly make it against terms of service, but if there’s some bucks in it a lot of people won’t care…, and how can they tell?