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For those of you who have used meshtastic: what was your experience like? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 days ago by tottle@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Meshtastic is a mesh network for radio communications or something. I'm curious to hear from people who've used it as to what their experience was like.

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[–] Bell@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I bought a t1000e "tracker" hoping that I could use it to track my bike if it got stolen. Well despite it being called a tracker and having a mode called "tracker" it doesn't really work as a tracker. It turns out it's really more of an external radio for my cellphone. It gets me onto kind of a city wide chat channel. Nice but not what I was after.

The really frustrating part is that I think the network and the devices can support a decent tracker ...but it'll take the right combination of dozens of confusing settings. I gave up after about two months of trying various combinations. I even went to a meshtastic club meeting but everyone there agreed that my tracker would not really... track. Sigh.

Just one guy's opinion and with just a singular goal. If you're into Ham radio or like the idea of low power radio chirping communicating across great distances... then jump right in.

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

Maybe The Things Network is more like what you are looking for