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There's a live stream tomorrow on the 'tube setting up a MeshCore companion for sending messages over radio waves directly instead of relying on internet providers.

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[–] d13@programming.dev 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I've been looking into this as well and just bought my first components.

I'm trying Meshtastic first and then will try Meshcore.

What does everybody think of Reticulum Network and RNode? It honestly seems superior conceptually to Meshtastic/Meshcore, but I'm not sure how good it is in practice or if anybody is actually using it.

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People who studied the code speak really fondly about reticulum, however, it's not as popular for building the lora based mesh networks, because the full stack does not run on the simple microcontroller. You need what is basically a standard PC connected to it. Given that mesh repeaters are usually designed to run off-grid on solar and battery, wasting additional power for a raspberry pi or similar computer would make the project unfeasible.

All while Meshtastic or Meshcore are perfectly happy with the esp32 or nrf microcontrollers. And the nrf ones can run without a direct sunshine for days with the reasonably large battery.

[–] kaedon@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 months ago