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OK... so what can you do with this? (feddit.dk)

submitted 10 months ago by EvilCartyen@feddit.dk to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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I'm interested in this project, but I am unsure if there's anything actually useful or fun you can do with it.

So tell me about the fun stuff you've built!

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[–] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It will be challenging, for sure - it's in the woods, after all, and it's 150 km away. But that's exactly what LoRa is developed for, right? And if more people go online the problem of distance will disappear...

[–] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lora in itself is just the radio communication, low level.

It doesn't do the meshing. That's meshtastics' thing. There's also lorawan that does it.

More info (1).

[–] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How did you decide between LoRaWan and meshtastic?

[–] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Went with neither. We have our own gateways that connect to the internet.

LoRa itself travels kms if the terrain is favourable.

[–] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Neat. But is there any architectural difference between the two? Do LoRaWan units also form a decentralised mesh network?

[–] iii@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah they share little other than same radio carrier.

Lorawan is hierarchical, almost always eventually plug into the internet, data is binary, and upstream providers are usually commercial.

Meshtastic does its alternative network meshing thing.

[–] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks!