MeshCore

I've actually been using meshtastic since January of last year, and I've known of meshcore pretty much since its release. However, until now, I have refused to use it because there was no open source application for smartphones to use with it. And I do not touch software that is not open source if I can at all help it. A couple of weeks ago, I learned about a new meshcore app called Meshcore-open that is currently in alpha. Last night I decided to give it a try, and so far I do like what I see. Unfortunately, the population of my city is only like 45,000, and there are only a couple of meshtastic nodes even in the area, and so I'm all alone here. I unfortunately am unable to put up my own repeater because my yard is absolutely full of trees and a solar node just will not stay charged.

tbh I'm not a big fan of proprietary firmware, but I thought someone might find this interesting.

I recently checked out Meshcore because I live in the outskirts of Ottawa, and the city has completely switched to it from Meshtastic. I was impressed with how big the mesh is, and how well I was able to communicate with someone clear across to the other side! I was on a beach, connecting direct to a repeater 30km away, and they were recieving me another 20 km from there. Very cool.

Anyway, I learned about meshmapper.net from an active Ottawa mesh community member, and dev of the site, Mr. Alders0n.

Been having fun wardriving the area and mapping the mesh's reach into the outskirts.

Just made this app, which is a portal to easily access the war driving web app, and the mesh maps, and added a way to pin the city instead of trying to navigate the globe map to select it... yeah I know I can just add shortcuts to my browser for both, but this was more fun :)

cross-posted from: https://gregtech.eu/post/25654151

Basically title. I'm in the EU, so I need a 868Mhz one. I need it to be weather-resistant, because I'm making an outdoors node. Cost and size are not an issue. I plan to mount it relatively high.

I'll most likely install it on a Heltec T114.