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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BTW, Meshcore is MIT and not fully FOSS, while Meshtastic is GPL and fully FOSS.
And both use LoRa which is proprietary.
Fact, but since that’s common and cheap, and I’m not aware of an equivalent FOSS alternative, I’d go with Meshtastic, if were to dabble. And I dabble. :D
I believe the only part of Meshcore that’s not FOSS is the official app, and there’s a FOSS alternative.
Personally, I’d use Meshcore. I tried MT for a month or so. I never saw a conversation, just a few scattered “test” messages. Meanwhile, on MC, I was away from my phone for 4 hours yesterday and came back to 250+ coherent messages in a conversation from all over the region (not to mention the hundreds of test messages).
MT is better in ad-hoc situations since clients can repeat messages, but MC is better for establishing a region-wide communication network.
Agreed. Oddly enough, my Meshtastic contacts are much farther away than my farthest MeshCore contacts but MeshCore seems to be much livelier.
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.
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.
Mesh is cool, but you get faster speeds on amateur HF or 900 bands and a further distance
Mesh also allows you to use encryption.
Fair, however the meshcore gateway drug starter kit is like 40eur 😅.
not really Internet, just a group chat.
that said, making a basic internet on up of it wouldn’t be too hard.
