Personally, I haven’t played with it yet. But I’ve seen some promising evidence that one node can cover significant area, so for a festival could be enough. Don’t really know, how it behaves in terms of stability and reliability. But as soon as I got my hands around one of those, I might do some testing and let you know
Discussion
Although you can pair multiple phones with a single meshtastic device, they can't use it simultaneously. Only one at a time.
A robust way to do a festival would rather be:
- each person has a phone with meshtastic app installed and their own lora
Device like this: 
Then it looks like this: 
Get one here: https://www.seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-Card-Tracker-T1000-E-for-Meshtastic-p-5913.html
Or Aliexpress, or other outlets.
nostr:nprofile1qyshwue69uhh2mtzwfjkctn5v95kcepkx3snvtn5wvhxuet58g6rsdpcqyg8wue69uhh2mtzwfjkcw358q6rsqpqheqkxm37d5h7n8sx2gqdez5sxnu39qrylhxnnd66dxpu4e2ufyysm532gk is our mutual friend on Nostr already? He is attending a music festival in KrakĂłw, would be cool for him to share his experience using LoRa.
I’m not going to a music festival in Krakow though …
our friend is
Oh, I see!! He hasn’t shared his npub with me yet. So assume he’s not an active user.
In the mean time. Here's my T-1000E charging ⚡️, UI from meshtastic about the device and it attached to pants.
Looks like it works better than my esp32 with the stock antenna. I will be replacing that antenna though.
