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I got my first device! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 weeks ago by bowreality@lemmy.ca to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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Finally after over a month of order issues I have one of my T1000-E trackers. It was easy to set up and connect and I see several nodes. Haven’t reached anybody yet. I am in Canada but the location on the map still shows Shenzhen in China. I don’t see anything to change that and was also expecting the GPS would do its thing?!

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[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I am rural AB so lots of sky available. I’ll give it some time I guess. No chatter on the longfast and my message hasn’t gone anywhere yet. I’ll give it some time too. As far as I understand people have to be available to receive not like email or text where it’s just delivered to read later. Edit: got the location fixed. I toggled fixed position and that was enough to kick it into gear.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People's Meshtastic device has to be on, yes. They don't have to have their phone connected to it. Once a phone is connected, the messages received since the last phone connection are transferred to the phone. There's probably a limit to how many messages a device stores but it's probably large.

[–] bowreality@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks. Off to Meshtastic.org to learn more haha