Life's fantastic on meshtastic

shortwavesurfer2009

5 (17)

Posts: 7

Earned: 0 XMR

Tipped: 0 XMR

Sep 18 09:05

(3)

(0)

#144

The title is a play on a lyric from the Barbie Girl song.

Meshtastic (and other related projects such as MeshCore and Reticulum RNodes) are based on the LoRa (Long Range) chirp spread spectrum radio protocol. LoRa is fairly low link throughput but can be heard at up to 20db below the noise floor. It is normally used at extremely low power less than or equal to1 watt. This means it is easy to run infrastructure nodes on a small solar panel and battery.

Meshtastic is an off-grid messenger built on top of LoRa that uses managed flood routing and hop counts to create a text-only communications network with commodity hardware. It can be used to monitor sensors such as soil moisture, light levels and much more. The main use case though for a lot of people is for text messaging and sharing GPS location or waypoints on a map.

Edited: Sep 18 09:13

Tip shortwavesurfer2009

42WimCbGoy5SVZfkr5YdwtAg9jvpxFfNXfBjM2CJAUZC9JNAKZ34hF6a35HJNXWyw1ctxhSKp4MjfgR3uT8Eneq4GCwtqTs

Publish Tip to shortwavesurfer2009

Please login to publish your tip

Anonymous

N/A (0)

Posts: N/A

Earned: N/A

Tipped: N/A

Sep 18 09:08

(0)

#145

[Deleted by poster]

Edited: Sep 18 09:09

Tip Anonymous

Anonymous has not setup a tip address yet.

Publish Tip to Anonymous

Anonymous has not setup a tip address yet.

Anonymous

N/A (0)

Posts: N/A

Earned: N/A

Tipped: N/A

Sep 18 09:08

(0)

#146

[Deleted by poster]

Edited: Sep 18 09:09

Tip Anonymous

Anonymous has not setup a tip address yet.

Publish Tip to Anonymous

Anonymous has not setup a tip address yet.

edisondotme

5 (23)

Posts: 18

Earned: 0 XMR

Tipped: 0 XMR

Sep 24 00:53

(1)

(0)

#289

I like meshtastic, I have a node where I live and the network is surprisingly popular. Reticulum is definitely the cooler version better than meshtastic. A network of networks as their tag line goes. Still figuring it out!

Tip edisondotme

88XSd4fdhtiPb2BYwsG2H4K28DyGYdM1d6LrHbHCpdzZJucQ7MM1u1xdfKUvD5myyiYCwuqVLxiDQApa5WSRaL3ZBeEe4Jq

Publish Tip to edisondotme

Please login to publish your tip

crabrocket

N/A (0)

Posts: 9

Earned: 0 XMR

Tipped: 0 XMR

Sep 25 02:21

(0)

#296

I received my heltec v3 / meshnology device today. I was just texting into the void, i dont think i have anyone around as the messages failed. At one point i did see 2 nodes or something on my device status screen. Lots of reading up to do. Will have to get a hat for my pi!

ill have to take this around with me everywhere from now on.

Reticulum looks rather interesting!

Tip crabrocket

crabrocket has not setup a tip address yet.

Publish Tip to crabrocket

crabrocket has not setup a tip address yet.

mlupo

5 (5)

Posts: 1

Earned: 0 XMR

Tipped: 0 XMR

Sep 25 09:33

(1)

(0)

#298

Reply to post #144

Meshtastic is certainly interesting, I've tried reticulum on close range with high settings too and it was enough to serve some basic web pages. But I think it's only practical as a short messaging service. You can also run bots on meshtastic, like TC2-BBS (look it up)

Tip mlupo

85hF3scU4Vqdk8SaNhpqsWbuNELUq9HfzbKmvY2VQ4goR1yrmc8oBTLDBBdrgJGBEKf9QKokjYavF5Qh8QMvczVm2rG68eF

Publish Tip to mlupo

Please login to publish your tip

crabrocket

N/A (0)

Posts: 9

Earned: 0 XMR

Tipped: 0 XMR

Sep 29 08:17

(0)

#329

Reply to post #298

Havnt spent enough time checking out meshatic to be honest. Think im gonna get a new antenna to improve my range. Yes, TC2-BBS looks cool, keen to check it out. Reticulum i thought is more general and can do higher bandwidth its not just lora like meshtastic.

We should have a known private channel on meshtastic so that local meshes can chat monero off-grid ;)
PSK=moneromoneromoneroxmr

Tip crabrocket

crabrocket has not setup a tip address yet.

Publish Tip to crabrocket

crabrocket has not setup a tip address yet.

FruitlessOrangutan

N/A (0)

Posts: 3

Earned: 0 XMR

Tipped: 0 XMR

Nov 28 17:20

(0)

#650

Reply to post #144

Sounds really cool.

Could you explain a little more how it's actually used for text messaging? I guess there needs to be a keyboard where you type in a message, and a display where messages are shown, does a meshtastic device have that or you connect it to a laptop and read/write messages via the laptop?

Tip FruitlessOrangutan

FruitlessOrangutan has not setup a tip address yet.

Publish Tip to FruitlessOrangutan

FruitlessOrangutan has not setup a tip address yet.

AuroraGeneralStore

5 (4)

Posts: 5

Earned: 0 XMR

Tipped: 0 XMR

Nov 28 17:24

(1)

(0)

#651

Reply to post #650

You connect it to your phone via Bluetooth or your laptop with serial and use the keyboard from that device.

There is, however, the Lilygo T deck that is fully self-contained with its own screen, keyboard, trackball, etc. And you can use that without a phone or laptop, if you wish.

Tip AuroraGeneralStore

AuroraGeneralStore has not setup a tip address yet.

Publish Tip to AuroraGeneralStore

AuroraGeneralStore has not setup a tip address yet.

FruitlessOrangutan

N/A (0)

Posts: 3

Earned: 0 XMR

Tipped: 0 XMR

Nov 28 19:12

(0)

#652

Reply to post #651

Thanks! I was about to send you a tip for that, but it says "AuroraGeneralStore has not setup a tip address yet" - if you set an address, then I will send a tip to see if that works :-)

Tip FruitlessOrangutan

FruitlessOrangutan has not setup a tip address yet.

Publish Tip to FruitlessOrangutan

FruitlessOrangutan has not setup a tip address yet.

darrolnor

5 (4)

Posts: 16

Earned: 0 XMR

Tipped: 0 XMR

Dec 12 09:24

(0)

#695

Reply to post #298

Also, they are gonna increase the network throughput a lot. I think it's kb/s and they are very optimistic to get to 1 mb/s soon.

Tip darrolnor

darrolnor has not setup a tip address yet.

Publish Tip to darrolnor

darrolnor has not setup a tip address yet.

darrolnor

5 (4)

Posts: 16

Earned: 0 XMR

Tipped: 0 XMR

Dec 12 09:26

(0)

#696

Reply to post #144

I am getting me and my familiy Meshtastic nodes for Christmas.
I am way more excited for Reticulum, but there are no nodes in the area and it seems Meshtastic is the most usable.

You said you wanna connect with people who want to run Monero over Reticulum, right?
Maybe we can open a SimpleX group for that (I am not skilled enough to do work on that), but I would like to be in such a group.

Should I create one?

Tip darrolnor

darrolnor has not setup a tip address yet.

Publish Tip to darrolnor

darrolnor has not setup a tip address yet.

darrolnor

5 (4)

Posts: 16

Earned: 0 XMR

Tipped: 0 XMR

Dec 12 09:28

(0)

#697

Reply to post #696

also, I tried to run it witout a node, but I didn't get it to work. I assume ufw or my vpn is the problem here

Tip darrolnor

darrolnor has not setup a tip address yet.

Publish Tip to darrolnor

darrolnor has not setup a tip address yet.

XmrBazaar (beta)

Life's fantastic on meshtastic