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Take a look at MeshCore and LoRa. Also Reticulum
Reticulum is awesome, I just wish it was more widely available. The way it can use any configured transport medium to do directed mesh network is really good. My only complaint is that anything involving group messages just kinda sucks and I haven’t figured out how to do it better.
I’m working on several RNS projects currently, one of which will hopefully be a fault tolerant emergency dispatch system (think GoodSam cross ATAK) with panic alarms. If that comes to fruition, it’ll automatically give a familiar usual experience with totally off grid fallback.
What's wrong with me if all I read was "rectum".
Rectum? I hardly knew ‘um.
You've been on the internet too long, as have we all.
it means that we think alike and should be friends. lol
Mellon🧙♂️
Meshtastic instead meshcore. The former is pure mesh the latter needs repeaters.
First, great username, absolutely love it. Second, from what I understand the two share way more than not and are both functional, just with slightly different use cases. Two cool projects, two slightly different views, but not mutually exclusive.
...which has its own advantages
It doesn't absolutely require repeaters. There is an off-grid mode.
Plus, repeaters in meshcore are more like client base in meshtastic. You're meant to put them up at your house. Is it good to put them on tall towers and mountains? Absolutely. But if you can't do that, then you can put it at your house at, say, 30 feet, and it's just fine. Because even with the 3-byte IDs, you still get 16 hops.