Ce matin seance #fer a #souder et #bricolage #mesh #meshtastic #meshcore #diy #citoyen @Gaulix @GerMaCrise

❓️ D'ailleurs petite question bête:
Pourquoi ces applications ( #briar / #bitchat ) n'utilisent pas une sorte de protocole commun pour relayer les messages indépendamment du nom des messageries, ca créerai un réseau maillé beaucoup plus dense et tout le monde serait gagnant.

Ce qui pourrait être encore plus fort c'est de créer une sorte de passerelle bluetooth -> LoRa ( #meshtastic ou #meshcore ) pour relayer les messages.

#Lora #Bluetooth

Dear meshiFedi:

if somebody wanted to buy some mesh(tastic|core) hardware, do you have any recommendations for shops that are in the EU?

boosts welcome, of course

#meshtastic #meshcore

I don't talk much about it but `meshcore-cli` is still under active development.

Latest version let you easily add nodes discovered through `nd -f` command (`-f` is for asking for the full keys). Just do `add_discovered -a` and they'll all be added to your contacts ...

Handy to load your local repeaters on a fresh node.

#meshcore

If you're coming to #VCF #Montreal ( #VCFMontreal ), and are a #MeshCore user, please bring your companion with you.

If you do, you'll be able to interact with a couple of my anachronistic vintage computing mesh projects (which will be at the @foulab exhibitor table).

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The VCF Montreal virtual exhibitor hall rendering of my MeshCoco and MeshNES projects.

Allez c'est parti, thread sur #Meshcore et les technologies #LoRa !

#meshtastic #radioamateur

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téléphone nokia3310 transformé avec une antenne en haut

Hello masto, avec des copines on veut se mailler dans le reseau mesh, pres de Toulouse. On aimerait bien savoir s'il y a des personne qui pouraient nous montrer leur matos ou nous parler un peu de leur exp pour pas partir de zero à fouiller des ressources sans connaitre la fiabilité des sources...
On est preneuses :
de conseils notement matos (je peux preciser nos reflexions sur nos besoins/envies)
De contacts soit groupes soit perso... si quelqu'un dejà sur le reseau mesh veut passer un message public pour voir si une toulousaine (ou au sud, l'ariege c'est bien aussi) veut nous rencontrer pour nous aider un peut à nous lancer, c'est bienvenu...
Merci, RT bienvenus !

#mesh #meshcore #meshtastic

97% of messages on #Meshtastic and #Meshcore that I receive are variations of “Hello”, “Test”, “good morning from $Location” and “saw your message, X hops” in almost every channel people get working. Not a lot more happening. I think mesh networking is really waiting for a killer app. And no, that should NOT be some form of off-grid, prepper, radically unsocial thing.

Today in fun projects to cope with the state of the world:

My #Nintendo ( #NES ) receives #MeshCore now. ( #OneROM powered. )

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The partially-assembled NES cart.

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The MESHNES cart in the NES

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Television display of the NES. These messages came in over the mesh.

Successfully managed to flash a customized #MeshCore firmware build on a XIAO S3 WIO USB companion that uses RS232 over TTL instead of USB serial for communication. So I only need to implement the MeshCore communication in #TurboPascal.. 🥸

#RetroComputing

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A L1 Pro companion showing a message that was sent by a ESP32 S3-based MeshCore companion that is connected via RS232

Is there already a #MeshCore client for MS-DOS or other #RetroComputing operating systems? Asking for a friend.

#AskFedi

Well, there is something for #Meshtastic: https://macumbaeditor.com/examples/mesh.html

And also something for #MeshCore: https://github.com/DGhost001/meshcore-dos

The latter requires some firmware patches but there is also this interesting wrapper project: https://github.com/AkitaEngineering/Akita-Meshtastic-Meshcore-Bridge

Do what you want with this information. 🥸

#RetroComputing #AskFedi

In speed testing I'm maintaining wireless speeds that should impress anyone who grew up in the dialup internet generation.

We're handily moving 56kbps over 2.4GHz MeshCore today and I'm still pushing to see if I can eek out some more throughput performance.

The BYOMesh's speed of course also could be really helpful to Reticulum and Meshtastic developers and not to mention its backwards compatible with 915Mhz ✨

https://shop.dataparty.xyz/products/byomesh?variant=46790229393583

#MeshTNC #BYOMesh #MeshCore #LoRa

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Bandwidth testing of the BYOMesh board running MeshTNC firmware. Command line shows output from the iperf command

Oh and MANY thanks to the now thousands of #MeshCore repeater operators in the #PNW.

Some of you helped me test out 915MHz IP over MeshCore.

Which again, I've tested a year ago on MeshCore v1 protocol out to 3hops.

You can get about 5kbps at quite times but with competing traffic and capping my airtime to be more neighborly its more like 1kbps.

For 915MHz IP projects, I think true LoRa concentrators could be a big help but juice not worth the squeeze rn.

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/117388719171977341

Hello Fediverse, from an internet connection tunneling over MeshCore.

Test. Test. CQ. CQ. This thing on?

📻 📡 📶

#BYOMesh #MeshCore #LoRa #Radio

C'est quoi #meshcore

Yo, we're getting close to releasing @dataparty's first small but cutting edge step into the hardware world.

If you're excited about mesh radios, ble packet capture and partying on the data I think you're gonna want to get on the mailing list 😉 👇🏿

https://shop.dataparty.xyz

@dataparty @rfparty

#rfparty #meshcore #meshtastic #reticulum #meshtnc #lora #cybersecurity #defcon #SnoopUntoThemAsTheySnoopUntoUs

Announcing the BYOMesh!

We've been hard at work designing what I believe is now the worlds SMALLEST & most CAPABLE LoRa companion dev kit ever!

It combines the tried and true SX1276 allowing access to the full sub-1GHz ISM band all mesh enthusiast know and love, along with the SX1281 providing high speed 2.4GHz LoRa all on ONE tiny board.

https://shop.dataparty.xyz/products/byomesh

@dataparty @rfparty

#BYOMesh #LoRa #MeshCore #Meshtastic #MeshTNC #Reticulum #BLE #SnoopUntoThemAsTheySnoopUntoUs

What's EXTREMELY exciting about 2.4GHz LoRa is the possibility of building long links with much higher bandwidth without having to make the jump to WiFi / Arden or Wifi Halow. Each of which would have a pretty huge step up in power, complexity or licensing.

This now means long #meshcore backhaul links like those between high mountains in the PNW could likely add 2.4GHz and get upto 100x the total bandwidth!

@dataparty @rfparty

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Datasheet for the Semtec SX128X - Page 33 Table 6-2

Without further ado, I'd like to present IP-over-MeshCore in 2.4GHz.

I've actually been doing IP-over-MeshCore in 915MHz... but I didn't want to tell anyone because there just isn't the bandwidth.

BUT 2.4GHz LoRa is a very different story, and now that I have drivers for 2.4GHz, its go time!

Check it out. 1-hop pings of 20ms.
ALL light weight network apps... just WORK!

Here's what a ping flood & mosh/ssh looks like on the SDR.

#BYOMesh #MeshCore #LoRa #Meshtastic #Reticulum #radio

@jz @lvl3k but #meshcore *does* have multiple locations with city-wide, lora-only networks that work entirely without internet, that's what i mean :)

@jz @lvl3k also, don't get me wrong: I *love* reticulum, but damn it's all over the place right now. just get me a set of repeaters that can replace our #meshcore mesh and i'll just switch, but we're missing so many things right now (OTA upgrades, remote admin, group chat) that i'm just waiting for now...

You can see what #reticulum has to offer by way of content of sites on the net, without installing reticulum, at https://reticulum.site
If you are interested in #lora #radio things you could have a look at this site https://reticulum.site/rin/reticulum.me/fotografm Sites are basic because reticulum sites are intended to be able to be used via radio also, making it a very resilient internet built by the people for the people.
#meshcore #meshtastic #meshnetworking #mesh #internetalternatives #autonomie #privacy

@jz i've been hearing a variation of this for months now, is mark really going to implement group chat, and how is it going to work? seeing how group chats just flood #meshcore makes me wonder if #reticulum can even pull this off... serverless chat is *hard*, ask the #matrix people (which are, in a sense, also building a mesh)

@jeffhug je dois relancer mon noeud solaire #meshtastic (et probablement agrandir la surface photo électrique).

De ce que j'ai compris, #meshcore est optimal en agglomération ou dans les endroits où il y a beaucoup de nœuds.
Et #meshtastic plus fonctionnel en dehors.

Si qqun peut confirmer.

hosted tonight's @reseaulibre net, it feels like our #meshcore #mesh is saturating with people having trouble talking to each other, but it also feels like our efforts to fix this are effective, see the log and announcements at https://lora.reseaulibre.ca/references/log/#2026-09-30

#meshcore communities are pretty rad. I like how there are many "Good mornings" in the Public (and other hashtag) channels. I get the feeling of *very* early Internet, and small BBS communities with MeshCore right now.

Here’s my latest fucking contraption.

Tomorrow we’re putting up a repeater, but my friend who actually knows how to climb trees isn’t available. So naturally, I built this thing.

It’s made out of a piece of wood, some metal strapping, an old shelf bracket that I bent into the shape of a hook, a cup dispenser from a missing water cooler, and the sectional pole from a snow peeler.

If you live up north, you know the snow peeler. It’s that long-ass pole you use to pull snow off your roof before the roof decides it’s had enough of winter.

The pole slides into the cup dispenser, then you find a suitable tree, guide the whole ridiculously heavy fucking thing up onto a branch, and voilà: repeater in a tree.

And the beautiful part is, if we ever need to take it down, we just bring the pole back, stick it in the hole, lift it off the branch, and lower it.

No tree climbing required.

Engineering.

#meshcore

which #mastodon server would one use for a #mesh project interested in ham radio, #meshcore and #reticulum? #askfedi #boostswelcome

The Quebec #meshcore network is growing by leaps and bounds. Which is great — but apparently all that growth comes with some growing pains.

Some folks who understand this shit way better than I do put together a few guidelines to keep all the new traffic from making the network shit the bed.

So please give this a read and adjust accordingly.

And by “adjust accordingly,” I mean adjust your repeaters and devices accordingly.

Thank you for your cooperation in keeping the mesh happy and healthy.

https://lora.reseaulibre.ca/news/2026/09/25/please-limit-adverts-loops-and-floods/

En français

https://lora.reseaulibre.ca/fr/news/2026/09/25/pri%C3%A8re-de-limiter-les-annonces-boucles-et-floods/

First #meshcore contact along the journey, in #Winnipeg.

(Edit: I mean first north/west of say… Barrie. Lots of mesh traffic in the GTA + sprawl.)

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Meshcore radio from the window of my train cabin, Winnipeg in the background.

Slept through Saskatoon but saw some #Meshcore repeats at #Edmonton station.

And some friendly Public channel chatter while walking the length of the train on the platform, and getting some fresh air.

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Companion radio with Edmonton station sign out the cabin window

Nearing the last of the #meshcore reports:

- no repeats but direct replies in Jasper (sorry I didn’t see and reply in time @HUTT-6BD)
- saw contacts but no messages going through Kelowna (while sleeping)
- repeats but no response in Chilliwack; unrelated chatter from 8 hops away!

Probably one more check-in, in Abbotsford if I’m near my radio when we pass through, and we already know there’s a big mesh in Vancouver.

Here’s an interesting part of the cross-country #meshcore experiment that I wasn’t expecting: my contacts list has been full since the GTA. I haven’t made time to prune it, and didn’t realize the importance of this.

I just received a message from “Claire in PDX”, just outside of Chilliwack. (I knew the PNW mesh was strong but I wasn’t expecting this much reach (it’s 400+km to PDX)).

But the tracing tools think the same-prefixed repeaters are the ones I captured at home and earlier on the trip!

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Screenshot showing a 9 hop message, but with repeaters from YUL (and other places).

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Screenshot of a map showing this message bounced coast to coast (it did not).

So I've got my Heltec V4-R8 board and took a walk listening to #Meshcore nodes. This is awesome!

starting to document our #meshcore best practices more clearly, as news item instead of buried in configuration pages, so we can point people at them more easily https://lora.reseaulibre.ca/news/2026/09/18/please-use-3-bytes-routing/ more coming as we manage the exponential growth of the #montreal #mesh

Dans deux semaines, j'organise une rencontre des operateurices du réseau #meshcore à #Nantes dans les locaux du radio club local l'ARALA.

On va parler construction d'antennes, constructions de répéteurs solaires, portées de réseau, zones blanches à investir, retours d’expérience sur l'opération d'un ou plusieurs répéteurs meshcore.

📅 Il y aura d'autres rendez-vous pour une introduction à meshcore ou une prise en main du matériel.

https://mobilizon.fr/events/11fb7f10-487d-4c98-b0a4-294a0209fcae

Suivre sur mobilizon : @mesh_nantes

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Copie d'écran d'une carte représentant le réseau meshcore autour de Nantes, avec des liens bleus représentant les liaisons parcourues à ce moment là.

🔋🪫 Nouvelle habitude : récupérer des appareils contenant potentiellement des batteries rechargeables dans les points de collectes pour nourrir mes apprentissages #solarPunk, comprendre les différentes compositions, réutiliser ça avec des panneaux solaires (ex. des répéteurs #meshcore).

Là c'est des brosses à dents qui ont des batteries Ni-MH, une charge sans fil, un moteur et un circuit relativement simple.

#rechargeable #ewaste #recycling #reuse

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Brosse à dent sans fil démontée à coup de scie et tournevis. On voit du plastique et se l'électronique

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Détail de la pile rechargeable contenue dans la brosse à dent

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Détail du circuit imprimé de la brosse à dent

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Pièces en plastique cassés avec pile au centre

Ca y est, j'ai craqué pour le dernier truc inutile à la mode chez les geeks : je suis passé au #meshcore !
J'avais remarqué qu'il y avait des répéteurs dans mon coin et j'en capte effectivement 1!
Jusqu'ici j'ai surtout l'impression de parler dans le vide mais je vois du monde sur le canal public et je capte des répéteurs d’Angleterre, de Ypres et de #lille (et même #Douai semble t-il ! ).

Objectif : communiquez avec quelqu'un de Paris depuis #Dunkerque !

#meshcore vs #meshtastic

https://adrelien.com/meshtastic-vs-meshcore-i-run-both-heres-the-honest-truth-2026/

PSA for #mesh #lora people: FIRE HAZARD! there is a possible design flaw in RAK Wireless WisMesh Pocket devices https://lora.reseaulibre.ca/news/2026/08/26/fire-hazard-on-the-wismesh-pocket/ #meshtastic #reticulum #meshcore please boost widely

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A photo of a green RAK Wireless WisMesh Pocket v2 LoRa radio

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photo of a perforated lithium-ion battery pouch

This battery photo is from *my* WisMesh Pocket V2 unit. Rockland sent me a new one. Tell your #meshcore #meshtastic #reticulum friends. https://kolektiva.social/@Anarcat/117173310682114492

also, incidentally, some people might not know that #meshcore #canada now has a "Region definition and authority" https://meshcore.ca/config/standard/ which i guess is now our standard for how to do regions or else

quite mad about the (lack of) governance in the #meshcore #canada community which seems essentially to be "join the discord" https://forum.meshcore.ca/t/the-community-governance-challenge/50/3

PSA for #mesh #lora people: FIRE HAZARD! there is a possible design flaw in RAK Wireless WisMesh Pocket devices https://lora.reseaulibre.ca/news/2026/08/26/fire-hazard-on-the-wismesh-pocket/ #meshtastic #reticulum #meshcore please boost widely

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A photo of a green RAK Wireless WisMesh Pocket v2 LoRa radio

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photo of a perforated lithium-ion battery pouch

I got invited to talk about #meshcore (and possible #meshtastic ) to the local Radio Amateur Club.
Sure, I will bring some devices and talk about how the network looks like here in Sweden today and also usecases.

But what more can or should I cover here?

#askfedi

Ended up doing a deep dive into reticulum, and it is For Real.

It might be the little hacker platform for off grid shit we have been waiting for.

All written in Python, so you had better get used to that.

I am running a propagation node on my SKSLAN hardware on port 4242.

#Reticulum #lora #mesh #meshchatx #nomadnet #nomadnetwork #meshcore

I never have a lot of spare time, but yesterday I in an about 1 hour revived an old Pixel 4A https://lineageos.org/ - and I created a news and weather bot (work in progress but it works!) for #meshcore for folks who may not have internet access that I run on the phone. I put Lineage on a really old Samsung, and I use it to stream music on my bedroom. Anywho don't throw out your old phone!

@LaurentChemla
Question #meshcore c’est juste une très jolie idée technologique ou ça fonctionne vraiment ?

My newest creation: the Pickle Repeater.

It’s made from a Seeed Studio Companion — the cheapest one I could find, about $25 USD — a battery I got for free from AliExpress, and an empty plastic pickle jar.

The battery has a little solar panel built into it, so I’m testing how long this ridiculous contraption can keep running.

I think the battery normally goes for around $20 on AliExpress. So if this works, and I can make a casing that lets enough light in to charge the solar panel while also being waterproof and weatherproof, then we might have a pretty cheap no-solder repeater for people who don’t own soldering tools or just don’t want to fuck around with that shit.

Right now it’s mounted on a pool-cleaning pole I found in the garbage, because of course it is.

So far, it fucking works. I’ve been able to chat with people hundreds of kilometres away.

More pickle-based telecommunications research to come.

#meshcore

This morning I texted with people in the US from Montreal - 500km away, and without Internet!

#meshcore

Why haven't mesh networks taken off more fully, especially for mobile devices like smartphones? I feel like I heard a lot about MANETs a couple decades ago and then... nothing.

Given the state of society these days, I feel like more democratic and resilient networking options might be important in the near future.

I'm excited for stuff like Velid, but I'm a little surprised that we don't have better options at the lower level of the network stack for resilient networking for it to ride on.

Why are we stuck with fiddly bits of extra hardware running stuff like Meshtastic and Meshcore? Why can't a reasonably sized mesh network be constructed exclusively using already existing onboard smartphone hardware?

I understand that LoRa gets more range between sparsely populated nodes, but it seems to me that most urban and suburban environments should have plenty of density for WiFi/Bluetooth to work.

As someone that's a bit ignorant on the topic, what are the key challenges holding us back? I can think of a few, but I don't know which ones are critical:

Wireless chipset and handset manufacturers might be reluctant if they can't figure out a way to monetize it.

Cell service providers probably see it as a threat, and might want to use their influence on hardware manufacturers to suppress it.

Governments would probably view it as a threat to their surveillance and censorship goals.

A lot of the activity might end up super sketchy, similar to IPFS and Tor, and maybe nobody wants to deal with the liability or hassle.

There might be significant challenges bumping up against the theoretical and practical scalability of mesh networks.

So what's holding us back?

#mesh #meshtastic #meshcore

"C'est super Meshcore il y a plein de gens par rapport à Meshtastic.."
— LeCapybara

>_>

#Meshcore #Meshtastic

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Carte des noeuds Meshcore (juste moi)

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Carte des noeuds meshtastic (des centaines)

Omg j'ai mes premiers contacts sur #Meshcore

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On voit la carte sur l'App Meshcore et le chiffre 15 entouré d'un rond jaune au sud de la suisse.

Les sites web full IA... j'en peux plus >_>

C'est les nouveaux #websitefromhell pour moi.

#Meshcore

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Site de la communauté Meshcore Suisse, plein d'illustrations IA merdiques qui n'ont aucun sens.

Salut les Mastonautes présents sur #Meshcore ! Mon companion n'a pas vu de répéteur depuis 4 jours. Et pourtant j'ai reçu un message hier soir. Comment qu'c'est-y possible ???

Today's plan:
- Drink coffee
- Go for a ride (warcycling for #MeshCore #MeshMapper)
- mow back lawn
- watch Star Trek II
- band rehearsal / singer tryout

But alas there is a #cat in my lap so I didn't even get to the coffee

I shall die here, I guess

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a cat in my lap

A nice (and not so expensive) terminal : « Elecrow ThinkNode M9 is a standalone LoRa terminal that runs MeshCore firmware and features a QWERTY keyboard, color display, GPS, LoRa connectivity, and a 2,300mAh battery, making it suitable for outdoor and emergency communication. »

› https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/10/elecrow-thinknode-m9-a-standalone-esp32-s3-meshcore-communication-terminal-with-color-lcd-qwerty-keyboard/

#Mesh #Meshcore #OffGrid #LoRa #ThinkNode #ThinkNodeM9 #Terminal #Esp32

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ThinkNode M9 Hardware Overview with : - Picture of the main terminal, mainly black with a 2.4 inch 4:3 screen, a function bar and QWERTY keyboard below - Details of the function bar with shrtcuts for menu, preset information, chat room, back, gps button, map and navigation bar at the center - Details of the dimension : 67mm large, 126mm long and 10.3mm of thickness

Merde faut faire une mise à jour. Faut sortir l'escabal.
#meshcore 1.17
https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/08/09/release-1-17-0

My #MeshCore device arrived yesterday. I set up a local corescope instance just for myself so I can have a better view of things. I'm surprised how many repeaters I found.

I don't really understand why I'm not receiving more signals from Hungary though, considering I'm in the western part of Romania.

@franklinlopez @bennjordan haha and then jordan mentions meshcore, awesome, great job! :) in any case, critical mass in #montreal is in #meshcore, for sure!

When I started producing a weekly #anarchist video podcast 20 years ago, I could count in one hand who the other anarcho video podcasters were (at least the ones I knew existed)

Today I'm so fuckin happy to find folks producing high quality video podcasts that not only empower peeps but make info accesible to a large audience without feeling preachy and dogmatic!!🙏👏

So while going through a YouTube wormhole of diy #meshcore solar repeater builds, I stumbled upon (well, the algorithm told me about...) @bennjordan

Benn's click bait video "Gadgets For People Who Don't Trust The Government" totally worked (and the thumbnail helped!) This geek porn clip masterfully embedded intro to anarchism bits interspersed the different gadgets Benn talked about. I wish many anarchist propagandists took a cue from Benn and started making media outside the anarchist ghetto.

You made it this far down my grumpy old man rant? Then share this clip with your nerdy cousin and save him from becoming just another far right troll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk

Little update on this thread... Have you heard of #meshcore - the low cost, off-grid texting solution that actually fuckin works, even at long distances? If you are into building a comms alternative this one I can get behind. I use it too! Thx for hooking me up @Anarcat

Here's a little primer (don't worry the intro info is on the first 3 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhFkLY-wLFA

First impressions after installing a #SAW filter on a #Seeed Solar P1 node closely neighboring a #GSM tower: Less noise, more neighbors, better reception range. Appears to be a game changer.

Went from a noise floor around -90 dBm to -115 and a maximum reception range around 6 km to almost 16 km.

Shoutout to Dave from Mesh-Up.nl for shipping a nearly-zero-effort plug-in filter for the Seeed node! :-)

https://www.mesh-up.nl/product/868mhz-band-pass-filter-sensecap-solar-p1-upgrade/

#lora #meshcore #antennaporn #meshtastic

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MeshCore Neighbor list from roof mounted repeater BEFORE filter installation: Best signal is -6.5 dB. Best range is 5,8 km.

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MeshCore Neighbor list from roof mounted repeater after SAW filter installation: Best signal is 10.3 dB (seen up to 12). Best range is 15,5 km.

J'ai passé mon #Heltec Meshpocket #Qi2 en #Meshcore aujourd'hui. Il semble très bien marcher avec mon PC, mais mon Fairphone 4 ne le voit plus 😔 (alors qu'il fonctionnait très bien en #Meshtastic 🤔)

Tiens,

je pensais qu'on pouvait accéder aux room server #meshcore via les répéteurs !?

À 1 endroit je capte mon répéteur mais pas le soom server. Ceperdant les 2 sont très proches l'un de l'autre au camp de base.

Mais je n'arrive pas à contacter le suivant. Il faut spécifier un chemin ?

Experiments with #MeshCore = just an excuse to play with #LEGO (and buy little accessories for my minifigs).

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a photo showing two mesh units with tall white antennas... they are being housed inside custom LEGO structures. On the left, a rainbow-colored structure with a minifig with long wavy hair sitting at a desk with candles on top, a juice box, a camera, a walkie talkie and a monitor showing the strength of a radio signal. On the right, a structure in various shades of blue with a minifig with long straight hair sitting on top: you can see two cell phones, a camera with a long lens and a gold flag

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a close-up of the other photo, showing little accessories close-up

Vous avez des retexs persos sur du matériel permettant l'autonomie d'un répéteur ou d'un noeud #mesh ?

Sur du long terme ?

Je regarde doucement vers des boîtiers dédiés avec panneau solaire. Pas trop envie de me planter vu le coût 😋

#meshcore

Time to print some Mother in law approved #meshcore nodes, inspired by this:

https://louie.se/projects/stealthy-meshcore-builds-plastic-and-paint/

The plan is to place a node at someones place without the risk of them being annoyed by cables and stuff

@loyhena

c'est malin, maintenant j'ai envie de jouer avec #meshcore ...

So, my observations on #meshtastic and #meshcore so far:

Meshtastic seems like the thing you'd bring on a trip. Excellent for adhoc communication in a smaller area without any established network. One firmware does it all. Very chatty and limited to only 3 jumps, making long distance a challenge. Bring it on a trekking trip or a multi vehicle road trip. Great for tactical and ad hoc deployment.

MeshCore is less ad hoc. While the companion firmware can talk directly to each other, the network's backbone are devices with the repeater firmware. MeshCore supports routing discovery (with fallback) and limits unnecessary repeating by enabling only specific regions. When you have up to 64 hops available, messages intended for your neighborhood shouldn't be repeated to the next city over. Configure this right, and it scales like crazy. Use MeshCore at home. Put a repeater on your roof. Build a consistent mesh and a community. This is where MeshCore shines.

#lora

J'ai décidé de monter ma node-client moi-même pour #Meshcore et regardez comme elle est belle dans son Nokia3310 recyclé

#nokia3310

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un nokia3310 avec un logo solarpunk sur l'écran et une petite antenne vers le haut, tenu devant une main devant une monstera

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l'arrière du nokia recouvert d'un petit panneau solaire

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le nokia ouvert avec une batterie et un rak19007, tous serrés à l'intérieur avec les câbles comme des sardines

@stefano How's the #MeshCore going? I haven' tried it but it looks to be *really* useful.

Et un relais découvert dans le 35 !

#meshcore

J'ai mes premiers échanges avec des breton·ne·s dans le coin, sur Coray 🥹

#meshcore

Et ben juste posé à la fenêtre, mon Lilygo capte pas mal de choses en fait !
Je suis passé à 2 octets d'adressage et mis 'fr' en région par défaut maintenant.

#meshcore

Demain je reçois un #Lilygo T-Echo pour jouer à #meshcore dans le #Finistère !

Et c'est en route !

En allant à ma répé de musique 🪊, je suis passé par une belle colline à côté du Cranou et j'ai capté pas mal de choses... au Royaume-Uni !
2 messages en anglais et des répéteurs, au Royaume-Uni donc et un "room server" à Coray, aucune idée précise de ce que c'est pour le moment.

#meshcore #Finistère

I think I need a better antenna. And enclosure, I guess

#Meshcore

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My new Lora device, sitting in a corner of the balcony

Let the fun begin…

“Is there anybody out there?”

#Meshcore

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A boxed WiFi LoRa 32 V4 development board in transparent plastic packaging, with a bright blue label showing the board, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and LoRa symbols, and support for the 863–928 MHz LoRa band.

And on the flight back home, some of you maybe saw my spam from the air

#meshcore

I did a test in Romania, #meshtastic vs #meshcore and here is the quick summary:

Over 250 Meshtastic nodes found, compared to 70 Meshcore nodes.

BUT

Meshtastic was basically dead, no one talked, or answered anything. I only got one message with the following - "test"
Compare that to Meshcore, where I got hundreds of messages and people where fast to give me recommendations regarding restaurants and places worth to visit.

The meshcore coverage was also great, with some repeaters on mountain tops (2000 meters high) that connected the bigger cities to each other.

Connection to Bulgaria and Serbia was also working great.

My TL;DR conclusion is that people set up a Meshtastic node, then get bored and forget about it, while people that wants more, and really gets into offgrid-mesh moves over to Meshcore

#romania #mesh #offgrid

I'm getting more and more interested in #MeshCore and #Meshtastic - in the rabbit hole. Thank you, @_elena@mastodon.social ... 😠 😆

5 jours et 20 heures d'uptime pour le répéteur de test dans la vallée

C'est un rak 4630 avec #meshcore

Pas mal

La batterie tient bien le coup aussi et se recharge facilement (semble-t-il) avec le petit panneau de 10w (max)

Petit test pour s'ouvrir dans et au-delà (après) de la vallée

Tout changera au fur et à mesure comme l'antenne, le boîtier et une alimentation solaire

Là, c'est juste une preuve de fonctionnement à partir du camp de base 😋...si ça fonctionne

#mesh #meshcore

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Un boîtier en plastique vert sur une équerre métallique attaché à un arbre. Derrière, un arbre et la vallée. Le ciel est bleu. L'ambiance générale est paisible

Je viens de finir le jeu Caravan SandWitch sur switch.
Je suis pas du tout joueur (premier jeu auquel je joue "assidument" et que je termine, il m'aura fallu 6 mois parce que j'ai pas toujours la console a dispo).
J'ai bien aimé l'univers, ça parle beaucoup de hack, de bidouille (électronique, informatique) dans un monde où il n'y a plus d'abondance. Ça m'évoque un peu ce que je vois passer ici à propos de #meshcore etc.

Bref, va peut être falloir chercher le suivant.

#CaravanSandWitch
#switch

Update no.3: my #MeshCore Bluetooth companion is picking up my Meshcore Repeater - YAY 🥳

We had to leave Paris in a hurry last month because of the brutal heatwave so I forgot the cases there. But here in Italy I have an endless supply of LEGO, so I built a custom housing for my Heltec v3 repeater, its battery and antenna. I really like it 🥰

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a rainbow-colored LEGO structure with a hole in the middle that houses my Heltec v3 unit and its battery - the antenna cord goes up and it's a minifig on top of the structure - that looks like me - who holds the Heltec antenna in its hand. The minifig is sitting on an orange transparent stool and has a desk with a cup and a purple laptop in front

Day 2 of #MeshCore experiments, let's go! 🚀

First I'll try to see if I can send any messages with just my companion unit and if that fails, I will set up my second unit as a repeater on my parents' balcony...

Thanks to everyone who sent in pics of their cute pets yesterday to cheer me up (after hours of failing to send any messages). Much appreciated! 💖

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a photo of a laptop with rainbox-color keys and a sticker of Belgian filmmaker Agnès Varda and next to it there is a tiny Heltec v3 unit with a battery plugged in

I thought that doing #MeshCore experiments would distract me and cheer me up...

2 HOURS LATER, I'm still unable to send messages with my Heltec v3 - and I wasted a Fedi friend's two hours (he's a saint), failing to get Reticulum to work as backup.

Well, my Heltec gets messages from as far away as Sanremo (thinking of you @tommi) but nobody gets what I send 😭

Please send pics of cute pets to cheer me up

Si je comprends bien, tout le monde dans ma TL masto est sur #meshcore à la place de #meshtastic
Faut que je regarde ça de plus près et éventuellement que je flashe mes modules.

Comme je n'ai pas discord j'ai un service à demander:

est-ce que quelqu'un pourrait demander dans le salon #meshcore si la position / l'emplacement (même approximatif) du répéteur 5835 est connue

Car ça me permettrait de chercher au mieux comment le joindre via un autre répéteur pour désenclaver un peu le #Cantal

https://meshcore.gg

allez, assez fait joujou, demain il y a boulot.

Avec le t-beam, pas moyen de le faire entrer en mode dfu, ou en tout cas flasher et pc ne le trouve pas

par contre , le t-echo , pas de soucis, un double clic sur le bouton reset et c'est bon.

et ensuite je me suis rappelé que j'ai 2 rak 4630. J'en ai sorti 1 et un double clic plus tard , ça le faisait aussi.

je retenterai le heltec avec le câble que je sais maintenant fonctionnel… mais plus tard

#lilygo #rak #heltec #lora #meshcore

@nuintari I wish to be clear that, at least from reading the #MeshCore codebase, it did not appear to me like it was designed like a networking protocol. There is no hard spec, no attempt at interop, there are some horrific C string abuses, ill-advised encryption suites, and poor consideration for any layers above.

I mean this is the kindest way but it's more like embedded Arduino code driving a radio, at the moment. They say "secure" but never state their threat model. A WIP but has good bones

@nuintari In a nutshell, #Meshtastic is like early ALOHAnet, in that it has packets broadcasted over #LoRA radio with CSMA/CA behavior, but every node floods like an Ethernet hub, until a TTL reaches zero.

IMO, #MeshCore is closer to modern Ethernet forwarding, though using source routing and a bizarre truncation of node addresses to 1-3 bytes. AES-ECB is sus.

Both are actively being used and developed, some by #hamradio operators and others for mutual aid/EmCom uses. I prefer #MeshCore

Ca y est, je fais partie de la communauté #Meshcore !
Première journée connectée et j'ai reçu un message de Suisse le réseau est incroyablement étendu !!

Meshcore: techniques de radio-amateur qui fonctionne par appli et petite device avec une antenne LoRa, qui fait "sauter" (hops) les messages cryptés d'une node à l'autre jusqu'à arriver à un destinataire

Là ça veut dire qu'avec l'aide de 42 nodes dispersées entre Nantes et la Suisse, j'ai réussi à recevoir un message de Porrentruy c'est une dinguerie quand même !

Et sans utiliser ni internet, ni de connexion télécom. C'est complètement off-grid !

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représentation visuelle de la distance entre la Suisse et Nantes avec écrit "42 hops"

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La device utilisée avec les antennes bluetooth et LoRa

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la device vue de près (connectée au téléphone par câble)