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Self-host Meshtastic Metrics in Grafana (roguesecurity.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by starkzarn@infosec.pub to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/32151664

This is a generic metrics post to leverage a spare ESP32 meshtastic node to ingest metrics into Grafana! We've had some congestion issues due to poor config in my area, and this has helped me pinpoint which nodes are causing the biggest problems, and block them at my repeater.

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[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Very cool.

I wish I had a valid use case for my nodes, but they're basically just toys at the moment.

[–] starkzarn@infosec.pub 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, so far the most prevalent thing around my area has been "it's a hobby for the sake of being a hobby." No one does anything terribly useful or important with it. I can tell you that I would certainly never rely on it as a form of emergency communication.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah its pretty spotty. A walky talkie would probably be better in an actual emergency. Im hoping meshcore or related projects will make it less spotty.

[–] starkzarn@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Meshcore does address some of the biggest shortfalls of Meshtastic, but I absolutely HATE that they're positioned to either rugpull, or setup a perpetual "freemium" model. It's also not interoperable, so if Meshcore is to work, it needs the numbers like Meshtastic has.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Agreed! I wish they could have worked with meshtastic instead of trying to get everyone off and using their project. Which is totally open source but not really.

I think the next year or so will be interesting in the space. Im just sitting here with my little nodes making an impromtu weather station.

[–] WASTECH@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What’s the difference between the two? Reading the GitHub for meshcore, it sounds exactly like meshtastic. What makes it better?

[–] starkzarn@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

The primary thing is rather than "dumb" flood routing, you can choose the path your message takes to its destination; as a repeater operator you can also choose the path it takes to repeat out. Its a slight compensation to people carelessly placing infrastructure nodes with poor configurations in poor places. Not perfect, but better. Adoption is much, much lower though, and the licensing is not copyleft.