There is now Meshcore coverage in Worcester.
Support for more networks to come in the future.
#meshcore #mesh #networking #routing #lora
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Why meshcore over meshtastic? Have heard contradictory arguments.
I would much prefer to do Reticulum but that is a little bit more involved (although on my list as I believe it is a better project in my opinion).
As for Meshtastic and Meshcore, which both focus on chat. Meshcore has a higher hop-limit which Madhya stud suffered with. And given the nodes between me and others in Cape Town it would be reached now and then.
Meshcore also has a proper routing algorithmn, I think. I see it mentioned path discovery, so that is way more efficient than flooding the network like Meshtastic does. I also like the strict definition of repeater (router) and client which Meshtastic doesn't have (although arguably it has a lot of different modes).
@Danie van der Merwe did I miss anything?
Also Meshtastic's hop limit is 7 due to a 3 bit field used for the TTL
hi, for sure MC > MT 😊
reticulum is cool, I am planning to build a dual node - 1 solar panel, 1 battery, 2 radios, 2 antennas.
one for MC repeater and the second one reticulum. Microreticulum rnode is very cool :)
Also is 2Ah battery enogh for winter times? What solar pannel did you use?
Thanks :)
I just found out there's an open source meshcore app for android, supposedly? Not sure about it yet, waiting for it to show up on f-droid like the meshtastic app does
There is, meshcore open. Available via Obtanium.
That is what I am running as there is NO way I am going to run a closed source all with open source firmware.
Woah, have you actually gotten MicroReticulum working?
As I have not yet, only usdled the standard RNode firmware paired over Bluetooth to my `rnsd` daemon.
I saw MicroReticulum needed to be compiled from source, which I can do but just want to know if it is easy. Saw it needed Platform IO and all?
No idea if it is enough, the battery.
I can upgrade in the future.
But yeah it will probably die after some time as it did when I left it running over night.
So I will need to look at that.
Just worse trust wise than meshtastic because meshtastic at least has an app on f-droid, even though they have f-droid going along with the lie of LoRa being "open source"
A lot of apps that call themselves "open source" don't even get listed before f droid calls them out for lying so badly they need to be fully rejected
If I see correctly - you have TTGO, which is ESP32 based.
I recommend RAK4631 they consume 10x less energy while idle.
Super cool HW (and still compatible with micro-reticulum) 😊
Solar panel: https://www.robotics.org.za/6W-5V-USBC?search=solar
They have it on GitHub, the APK.
But does FDroid build apps from source?
Yes, LoRa is patented by Semtech
Oh, nice! Do you flash with esp-tool then?
This looks neat. You unzip the `.zip` and is there a `.bin` inside?
Also nice to see it is not AI/theft-coded
Yes, they test if the APK can really be compiled freely
You have a device you could recommend me? Please
Ah, that makes sense why releases are delayed but it is also great that they do that!
normally i use
But I need to verify, that all works properly (I am also new to microreticulum)
RNode Flasher
Is that a web flasher?
I use esp32tool and arduino-nrf tool. WebSerial just doesn't work well for me.
I am using this and it is just great!
https://store.rakwireless.com/products/meshtastic-starter-kit-esp32-s3-lora-sx1262
webserial is the only reason I still have chromium installed 😅
android-nrf should work fine, not sure tho about the zip file
Although grafene's flasher worked for me.
Meshcore's didn't
Thanks
Meshcore-open. It's really great and I highly recommend it as I've been using it for about a month now.
and there is also MCui on zapstore, but i could not make it connect via BLE... 😒
I should check that out
ZapStore one does not support BLE or seems, from the app description.