I found it pretty quick and easy to throw together nodes and repeaters.
Even got some permanent installs in some high places. Built piles of nodes for frens.
Which my friends went wild and threw up more nodes, built chat bots and mesh bots.
And it's chattering away.
Meshtastic postives:
- code works
- there's DM level pub/priv crypto
- community is slinging a lot of code
- there's docs now
- it's popular so you will see some nodes in many places including the US.
Some interesting #mestastic presentations at #spectrum24 . I need to get some interviews with them for @hpr
You know #mestastic but do you know there is also #meshcom ?
You want to know the difference?
Come to the #spectrum24 conference the weekend of 14 / 15 September and find out.
Full schedule:
https://spectrum-conference.org/24/schedule
Booths:
https://spectrum-conference.org/24/booths
Spectrum24 is free, but wo do ask you to register. Please use this link:
https://ticketplace.ch/?op=booking&id=45
My Muzi H1 arrived today, now living the #Mestastic life. I’ve been amazed at the number of nodes around me and the distance I am able to connect too. I am Cardiff base seeing nodes as far away as Bournemouth.
There's loads around the area but I seem to be the only person on Meshtastic in the city of Manchester! #mestastic #manchester
I always thought that in UHF if one radio can hear the other, the reverse direction should work equally well if both radios have the same power.
However, #Mestastic proved me wrong, as I have 50 nodes in my list and only like 5% of my messages get acknowledged.
#lora #lorawan #HamRadio
kleines #Mestastic Staud update:
Nachdem meine beiden nodes nach der Erstkonfiguratiom heute Nacht die letzten 6 Stunden durchgelaufen sind, haben sich 52 System im Umkreis von 3 Hobs gefunden. Und erste Kurznachrichten wurden erfolgreich gesendet und empfangen.
#Berlin Funk communty <3
Dneska jsem na cestě do Prahy, tak snad se s někým spojím 
#Mestastic #MediumFast
#Mestastic One of the issues I had with installing the Mestastic firmware on my devices was that on Linux, you need to make sure that your user account is part of the 'dialout' group, and then log out and log back in again. Even with that I needed to do a reboot of my laptop between each device update, which suggests that t here is an issue in the underlying web serial interface, not an issue that I expect Meshtastic to address. I kept getting 'stuck' at the "Connecting..." stage. Worked around.
#Mestastic Spent several hours last night getting 3 of my LoRa nodes functioning. There's still a lot of work to do, including building weather tight hardware for the nodes that will b e outside, and at least 1, more like 2 extended range antennas, and finish out the @randomalleycat (YouTube account) cases for these.
One T-Deck (of 2 with LoRa Radios) and 2 T-Beams (both items from LillyGo) are up, as well as the Meshtastic software on my phone and some tablets.
