I’m going to Arctangent festival later this year and there is no cell signal so I’m taking these three Heltecs and giving two of them to close friends so I can find them at the festival!
I’m going to be running Meschore on all three (my experience of Meshtastic is it sucks all of the air out of the room and good luck sending a message to any of those contacts you found).
So if anyone else is going and wants to hop on the same mesh, this is your heads up!
Rapidly moving my meshtatic nodes over to meshcore 
Going very smoothly so far. Meshcore is notably very fast at message delivery and delivery confirmations back to the sender.
Thinking I'll leave my primary meshtatic infrastructure nodes up and build meshcore nodes to deploy next to them so as the network matures I can do head to head comparisons.
Now back to the positive.
All is not lost, meshtastic is the biggest LoRa mesh and it sucks BUT its not the only one and the same mobile nodes and repeaters you'd use for meshtastic can be used on any other LoRa mesh.
I think the most exciting meshtastic alternative is Reticulum. It exists already, has a routing and security approach for the real world but might be too opinionated in some ways for some users. It's a bit of a grander vision
2024 rolls around, the cryptobro hype has died off, the corporate hold is doing its thing on TTN and well... all other types of public comms are getting spied on like no ones business.
Time to go catch up on the LoRa mesh going ons.
I noticed meshtastic was close to FINALLY merging their public/private key system in the fall last year and decided it finally hit my first min. bar for re-review.
Mind you they were kinda making misleading encryption claims up to this point.
First the good.
The core tech of LoRa remains amazing.
The hardware has gotten DIRT CHEAP.
The idea that anyone can go buy a $10 circuit board, 3d print a case and have a radio that can talk privately to satellites or across town IS ground breaking!
The biggest break through lately is that the hardware IS good AND cheap at long last!
Well, this is interesting. Lilygo has a LoraWan communicator with a little BlackBerry-style keyboard and a screen, running a #esp32 for cpu+wifi+bt. Not as capable as a #beepy but I’m curious to try one all the same.
https://www.tindie.com/products/lilygo/lilygo-t-deck-esp32-s3-lora-module-28-inch-lcd/
#lora
Time to ask again: is anyone in #milwaukee running #meshtastic ?
Hey, everybody! We're in the feedback phase. Some more devices have gone to Armenia, USA and Germany.
A few devices have been sent to Mestastic developers. Made some non-critical updates to the interface and functions on the git. We are moving, perhaps slowly, but surely. The basis is still the protocol.
#loratype #lora #electronics #iot #meshtastic #tech
We're making progress on building a #Meshtastic network across PHL! In the past few weeks we've shown it's possible to send messages 5 miles or more across the city via #LoRa nodes in high places. If you work in a tall building, get in touch!
For beginners, we're running our Meshtastic 101 class on Sunday, 7/30 at 1 p.m.:
https://iffybooks.net/event/meshtastic-july-30
Our next two virtual Meshtastic meetups are Thursday, 7/27 and Thursday, 8/3 from 7 to 9 p.m.:
https://iffybooks.net/event/virtual-meshtastic-july-27
https://iffybooks.net/event/virtual-meshtastic-aug-3
I’m an American living in #Japan. I’ve led a career assisting international projects to introduce and utilize IT in industrial and commercial applications.
Recently I’m interested in topics including #IoT #SDGs #LoRa #robotics.
I am a #coffee drinker and my habit eventually led me to roast my own beans in a pan on the stove.
I look forward to opportunities to interact with you.
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How to tunnel NNCP over: #S3 #Nextcloud #Owncloud #WebDAV #ssh #tor #LoRA #Xbee #SFTP and #UUCP - https://floss.social/@jgoerzen/106786433628981477
My 12-yr-old decides to write an operating system and learn C. https://floss.social/@jgoerzen/106871449955753762
I offer #Usenet feeds over #NNCP. https://floss.social/@jgoerzen/106891544884588818
#Yggdrasil, the end-to-end encrypted #Mesh network that needs zero infra. https://floss.social/@jgoerzen/107584885919420001
Tools that work #Offline with #NoInternet. https://floss.social/@jgoerzen/107884945439834995
@PINE64 excited for the updates's release as always! i tested my #pinephone #lora back cover today and am super excited for lora tech to further mature.
My driver for the @PINE64 #PineDio #LoRa USB adapter is now compatible with #Linux kernel > 5.10!
I also fixed the spi-ch341-usb driver to support kernel > 5.16!
https://codeberg.org/JF002/pinedio-lora-driver
https://codeberg.org/JF002/spi-ch341-usb
Thanks @codeberg for hosting the code!
@PINE64
What a great timing! I've just finished a demo of a basic #LoRa chat app between my Pinephone an my computer (using the USB adapter)!
See this video : https://video.codingfield.com/videos/watch/5a68be9e-01a2-43aa-af60-595366619553
I'll clean and publish the code soon
The seventy-fourth edition of my weekly collection of news about #LinuxPhones (@PINE64 #PinePhone, #PinePhonePro, @purism #Librem5 and such), #LinBits, is out!
https://linmob.net/linbits-73-weekly-linux-phone-news-week47-48/
This week in Linux Phones: #libhandy 1.5.0, #Fluffychat 1.0, #NemoMobile running on two more devices, #postmarketOS adds support for another Snapdragon 845-based phone, #LoRa backplate fun and more!
Demonstration of the first login and talk of PineDio for "off-grid" communication potential here:
#PineDio #Pine64 #Radio #SDR #LoRa #communication #IoT #TTN #TheThingsNetwork #Chirpstack 
UPDATE: New #PineDio Gateway #LoRa #Mesh image. Video demo of first login + multiple source for checksums (including hidden service #E2EE). Sets Timezone, creates unique #SSH keys for each copy flashed, resize, and more.
Preinstalled/enabled #chirpstack + concentrator. Learn more & download here: #Pine64 #Radio https://www.buymeacoffee.com/politictech/pinedio-mesh-net-gateway-new-improved-download-lora
You all love the @PINE64 #Pinephone, right?
You also like #LoRa, right?
If so, you'll love this : LoRa on the Pinephone!
YES, thanks to the LoRa backplate, you can send and receive LoRa messages on the Pinephone!
https://codingfield.com/blog/2021-11/a-driver-for-the-pinephone-lora-backplate/
CC: @lupyuen
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