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)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by PapaSkwat@lemmy.wtf to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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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 8 points 4 weeks ago (14 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

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 weeks ago (7 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 -1 points 4 weeks ago (3 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 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think it's problematic when communities give support and endorsement for proprietary firmware and apps as official solutions. The fact that you had trouble finding open source firmware because most of the crap they promote is proprietary is literally the problem.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 0 points 4 weeks ago

There's several proprietary tdeck firmwares endorsed by the project like meshos and ripple. Like all the other companions there's open source firmware available and you're free to work on your own too

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