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LoRa communications: anyone using it in their group already?
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LoRa communications: anyone using it in their group already?
Jack Spirko covered LoRa communications and MeshTastic today. He has a good summary on his audio web page, https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/lora-mesh, though it’s available in a YT video as well. LoRa and MeshTastic has also been covered more than once on the Hackaday website.
Does anyone have time in using this for/in their community and if so, thoughts on its versatility and limitations? I wonder how far line of sight comms will go in some of the pointier mountainous parts of Tennessee for instance. But it for sure is Decentralized.I’m gonna have a talk with the resilience groups around here about the feasibility of using it; how much and where would we put the relay/repeater points.
thesurvivalpodcast.com
Decentralized Mesh Networks with LoRa Radios - Epi-3567
Today we discuss Meshtastic a fully open source project that works with LoRa radios, requires no licenses & brings coms to remote location or during emergencies.
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I hadn’t looked at it in this light, but makes sense.
Mainly I had (and still have) dreams of using it for remote sensors.
Eg, “hey dummy, you left the coop open again”. That sort of thing.-
It’s so bloody inexpensive, that you can deploy a dozen or two of these for that very thing:
“I’m the chicken waterer reporting, and I’m: (Full/Half Full/Near Empty/Something’s Not OK)
“I’m the electric fence surrounding the garden, and I’m (Fully charged/Firing at diminished capacity/Something’s Not Ok, come check on me)–Lather, rinse, repeat, for a bunch of homestead tasks that are OOSOOM otherwise ‘out of sight out of mind’. Help direct your energies better on the rounds.
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I’m just getting into it. Got a Lilygo T-beam supreme in today, got it up and running, flashed to latest stable firmware, but no contacts yet. Have a case coming as well.
Also have a t-echo en route, so I at least have two nodes to play with if there is no one else around, and maybe make one a “base” and one a mobile. Like I said, just getting started playing with it.
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