I just found out about it. Open Source messaging. It seems intriguing although I’m not sure I would have much to do with it. I honestly can’t find too much information about it except for the website and a few YouTube videos. I was just curious if anyone has had experience with it.

  • Salamander@mander.xyz
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    11 months ago

    I ordered four of the simpler devices this weekend (LilyGO T3-S3 LoRa 868MHz - SX1262) and I have been reading about antennas.

    Since I live in a city I am not super optimistic about the range. But I am still very curious about the concept, and I would love to be surprised.

    After doing some search about antennas, I have decided to test the following combination:

    I also have a vector network analyzer (LiteVNA) that can be used for checking antennas, so I will also try to build some antennas myself. I doubt that my custom antennas will approach the performance of the professional ones… But I just find it such a cool concept.

    Have you already gotten to play with it? What is your experience so far?

    • JCreazy@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I’ve received a T Deck and I’ve got it configured but I guess there is no other meshtastic devices around so I can’t do much of the moment but I have a wiz block on the way so then I can communicate between the two.

      • Salamander@mander.xyz
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        11 months ago

        Ah, cool! I got my 4 devices today and I have managed to play with them a bit. They are pretty cool! I was able to walk over to a park near my house and spoke with people across the world with no data in my phone :D

  • P03@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Yup got some Lora32s for hiking trips. Works great. They work out of the box, but you’ll have to get some lipos and print a case.

  • ALostInquirer@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    This Meshtastic, I take it? I haven’t personally used it, but it sounds interesting! Not too surprising there’s not much info about it though, as it does sound rather niche.

  • gfle@szmer.infoEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I did! Don’t expect too much stability out of it, but I was surprised to say that the latest version worked pretty stable and nicely for me. I can definitely recommend it.

  • macbean@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I’ve got a few devices running and it’s pretty cool. Don’t really have a use case for it though!

  • dumb_luck@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    I’ve got 6 radios running it! A couple use mqtt to push the messages off the mesh and onto the cloud where it’s a little more convenient to receive messages.

    Overall I am using it to set up a little emergency comms for friends and family, but I hope to use it hiking/biking/backpacking as well.

    Super active community on discord, and they have a subset of users on matrix as well.