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Meshtastic

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A community to discuss Meshtastic (https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction)

Other mesh communities:

MeshCore: !Meshcore@feddit.org Reticulum: !Reticulum@mander.xyz

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Never heard of Meshtastic until today, so thank you for this comm! (lemmy.wtf)
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Thanks to everyone who posts here and the mod who created the comm.

I first heard of this concept in a thread here on Lemmy. So now learning about it and looking into everything. Thanks guys!!

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Wait till you find out about meshcore that runs on the same hardware!

Whole new rabbit hole. Australia has all but entirely moved to meshcore due to the issues with scaling meshtastic in cities

[–] scotmartin@feddit.org 1 points 17 minutes ago (1 children)

Doesn't Meshcore require infrastructure that someone needs to set up (repeaters or something?) and the software costs license fees ?

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 14 minutes ago

No licence fees, and any device can be a repeater

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Unfortunately the primary apps and the firmware for some devices is proprietary. That leaves a bad taste in my mouth for a project like this.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What devices? People are free to licence their apps however they wish. There's four entirely separate firmwares for my companion that vary from fully open to fully closed and paid

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago

I believe the T-deck firmware is proprietary.

And I realise that people can license their apps however they want, I'm just saying the main apps endorsed by the project are proprietary.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

A friend of mine said that meshcore can hop up to 64 times?

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

64 hops with 1 byte path hashes

32 hops with 2 byte path hashes

There's also 3 byte path hashes but nobody uses them yet

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Literally just released right?

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

The multi byte pathing? Yeah fresh out of the box