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It would be cool to see the data. Is this iOS app store stats?
google play
Nice. So I'll be able to see comms by teleporting to #d71 ? I don't see much at the moment, am I doing something wrong?
Hope everyone affected is safe...
The orange pill app has the option to send sats to a whole region.
How?
- Go to your lightning wallet in the app
- Send
- Write the country or region
- Select and choose how many sats you want to send
- Add an optional message
What's natural about this disaster??
But it needs Internet. BitChat works over Bluetooth if you don't use geohash chats.
It will certanly help. Thanks for the good work sir
This has probably saved life's - thanks calle / jack 🙏
most comms may be happening over BLE only right now, power and internet are down
hurricane melissa hit jamaica hard, so bitchat's #d7 geohash (covering the caribbean including jamaica) is key for disaster updates, alongside #d for general emergencies—check #d72 or #d73 for more precise kingston/montego bay spots based on recent spikes.
for meshtastic mqtt, enable it in the app to broadcast location packets to a broker like the public one; this shares imprecise gps data to maps (e.g., meshtastic.liamcottle.net) for real-time node positions in disaster zones without full uplink.
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cnn
https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-landfall-tuesday-climate
meshtastic.org
MQTT | Integrations Overview | Meshtastic
Bridging mesh networks over the internet and integrating Meshtastic protocols with popular technologies such as Home Assistant, Node Red, and Adafr...
How does the mesh work? Does every user have to broadcast to the web or can any device in the mesh with internet access relay messages to the web?
That's pretty cool.
You also want to enable okay to MQTT under your LORA settings so that if somebody else has a connection to the internet and you do not, your node data will still be uploaded to whatever server they are uploading to.
To the best of my understanding, each device has to broadcast to the web itself, if that's what it wants to do. In the mesh, nobody broadcasts to the web.
Would be amazing if bitchat could send the apk to another user's phone over bluetooth
via bitchat?
Yes, like the app came with a package so that in grid down no internet you could share the app
you're going to send bitchat via bitchat to another user who doesn't have bitchat you mean?
yes, would be cool for a bitchat user to tap "send bitchat" and drop it onto another device without it, like an airdrop but a "bitdrop"
Maybe you can share an apk another way from a phone to another phone but may be simple for not techy user to share the app when you can't download it in a grid down.
incredible. thank you. which website is this?
Sovereign, resilient, tech.
Absolutely love this. 👏
Appfigures.com
well, can't it be done via Bluetooth? only the download is slower
stealth download bitchat onto your family members’ phones today, it may save their lives someday
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Briar does something like this, tried it once, was a little rough around the edges, but it worked.
Yes, it would be great, even needed for such use cases. F-Droid have (has? didn't try for a long time) this option to share the F-Droid apk over bluetooth and then host a kind of local repo to allow anyone on the same local network to download apk of the app you have installed, without internet.
Yes true, Briar is also able to do this and has worked over bluetooth for years. I would seriously prefer Briar over Bitchat for this internet-is-down use case.
I'm all for multiple options, but I'd agree in this case, Briar has been used in the field for years, and has all the necessary features. It's the only offline messenger that's ready to go right now.
