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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)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 7 points 1 month 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

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago (3 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.

[–] Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I'm in agreement, I'm not a fan of services or communities who base their interfaces and projects on proprietary crap.

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

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

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Ah I didn't knownthere was open source firmware for it as well

[–] scotmartin@feddit.org 3 points 1 month 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 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No licence fees (unless you count specific proprietary firmwares which are not necessary at all), and any device can be a repeater

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

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

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

Literally just released right?

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

The multi byte pathing? Yeah fresh out of the box