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    From aether@VERT/KC1AWV to echicken on Mon Apr 29 10:47:23 2024
    I know I'm a bit late to this conversation, but give MeshCom a look as well. https://icssw.org/en/meshcom/
    It may not have all the same features as Meshtastic, but it's the same sort of idea and is designed with ham radio in mind.
    I've also been playing around with Reticulum - https://reticulum.network/ which is PHY agnostic (can be done over old packet!) and is a bit more fleshed out than the other two.

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to aether on Tue Apr 30 21:38:41 2024
    Re: Meshtastic
    By: aether to echicken on Mon Apr 29 2024 05:47 am

    I know I'm a bit late to this conversation, but give MeshCom a look as well.

    There's also broadband-hamnet.org which I may have been confusing with Meshtastic at first :D.

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  • From echicken@VERT/ECBBS to phigan on Wed May 1 05:55:02 2024
    Re: Meshtastic
    By: phigan to aether on Tue Apr 30 2024 16:38:41

    There's also broadband-hamnet.org which I may have been confusing with Meshtastic at first :D.

    I had that suspicion but did not voice it.

    I got the impression (from comments I read somewhere) that BBHN was defunct. Is it still operating? Looks like there hasn't been any news on their website for 8 years, though that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

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  • From aether@VERT/KC1AWV to echicken on Wed May 1 10:22:37 2024
    I got the impression (from comments I read somewhere) that BBHN was defunct. Is it still operating? Looks like there hasn't been any news on their website for 8 years, though that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

    IIRC, BBHN was unofficially replaced with AREDN. There was/is a post somewhere that said something along the lines of 'the BBHN developers have moved to AREDN'.

    BBHN from what I can tell is old and is probably defunct. The BBHN firmware is only targeting the older WRT routers, whereas AREDN has support for more devices that are newer. Haven't really looked into it a whole lot myself, since the area I'm in has little to no desire or usage for WiFi. Meh, maybe I'll put up an antenna and see what happens.

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  • From Chris@VERT/LLOADED to All on Thu Nov 20 10:42:10 2025
    Has anyone gone down the meshtastic rabbit hole like I have LOL. Very cool tech for sure. I am going to install a mqtt gateway since I am in a area with very few nodes, I have a solar rf node now and a portable heltec v3 I use inside.

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Chris on Thu Nov 20 14:59:03 2025
    Re: Meshtastic
    By: Chris to All on Thu Nov 20 2025 10:42 am

    Has anyone gone down the meshtastic
    rabbit hole like I have LOL. Very co

    I certainly have. There are at least
    two different groups of Meshtastic
    users in my town, on separate presets.
    There are also some using Meshcore
    firmware instead.

    So far, I have a RAK, Heltec V3, Heltec
    E190 (e-ink display), and a Seeed
    Studio T1000e. Someone made a userport
    interface to connect a node to a C64,
    too.

    Unfortunately my immediate area doesn't
    get out to the rest of the city's mesh.
    A local mqtt server would be pretty
    cool.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Chris on Sat Nov 22 12:29:12 2025
    Chris wrote to All <=-

    Has anyone gone down the meshtastic rabbit hole like I have LOL. Very
    cool tech for sure. I am going to install a mqtt gateway since I am in
    a area with very few nodes, I have a solar rf node now and a portable heltec v3 I use inside.

    I have a Heltec V3, been puttering around with it. Not much progress
    made yet.





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  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to Chris on Mon Nov 24 13:36:07 2025
    Re: Meshtastic
    By: Chris to All on Thu Nov 20 2025 10:42 am

    Has anyone gone down the meshtastic rabbit hole like I have LOL. Very cool tech for sure. I am going to install a mqtt gateway since I am in a area with very few nodes, I have a solar rf node now and a portable heltec v3 I use inside.

    I built a WisBlock meshtastic node earlier this year. It was fun for a bit, especially at EAA Airventure this year.

    Now the thing just sits in my truck, and I occasianally remember to charge it (the battery I jammed in there lasts nearly a month).

    Meshtastic is a neat concept, but it really seems like a solution that's in search of a problem.

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