Meshtastic

The short paragraph from the meshtastic.org landing page describing what it is:

An open source, off-grid, decentralized mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices. No cell towers. No internet. Just pure peer-to-peer connectivity.

Goals

Long term there are two different goals I would like to achieve.

  1. Setup off grid communication between my house, my brother's house and the compound.
  2. Create a sensor network for the garden

Devices

Short Name Name Role Hardware Description
snld seanland CLIENT Lilygo T-Deck First device. Portable for testing and playing.
s-v3 seanland-v3 CLIENT_BASE Heltec v3.2 A solar powered, stationary at my house
sdco seanland-compound CLIENT_BASE Heltec v3.2 A stationary device at the compound
sdpu seanland-pudge CLIENT_BASE Heltec v3.2 A stationary device at my brother's house
sdps seanland-pocket-s CLIENT LowMesh Pocket-S I bought this at Defcon 33. It clips onto my tactical sling pod

Setup

Currently, all the devices are managed between my tablet and cellphone via bluetooth.

Longer Term

This page could evolve or be a subset of a great LoRa page. Currently, Meshtastic is the technology of choice!