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Enki 1y ago

So I feel like there's a piece of information I'm missing here with #MeshTastic and it probably stems from my lack of understanding of ham radio and things like that.

yesterday I was able to find six nodes and also yesterday after updating my software and ever since then I have not been able to find anything in town. And I'm wondering if it's a channel slot issue or what? I honestly don't know why I was I was able to see a few nodes and then after updating my node I haven't seen anything since. Whether I'm stationary or going through town. Kind of confusing. Any advice for a somewhat noob when it comes to mesh-tastic?

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Enki 1y ago

Is the GPS aspect important? I have it offset by about half a mile so I'm not giving away my exact location, but I'm wondering if that is affecting it at all?

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Eternal 1y ago

What can you do with mesh-tastic? :0

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Enki 1y ago

Off-grid messaging. Mostly text. It's not really well suited for data. Reticulum is a lot more flexible and I kind of like it a lot more.

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atyh 1y ago

Reticulum seems miles ahead.

Meshtastic seems like a mid tier device with a marketing department.

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Enki 1y ago

It's kinda what it feels like. Granted, I don't have two meshtastic devices to test it, but reticulum just fucking worked. And I'm having a lot of issues with meshtastic.

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Enki 1y ago

But it has to work pretty decently though, because it seems to be doing a lot of good where the floods happened.

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atyh 1y ago

oh i dont think its bad at all.

its a simple, narrow frequency mesh device that seems relatively easy to use. but Reticulum is an internet replacement.

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Dr. Hax 1y ago

What hardware did you use with reticulum? Just re-flash those same lily devices?

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Enki 1y ago

Yup! Device support between reticulum and meshtastic is almost parallel.

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Bogi 1y ago

Ham radio is very susceptible to atmospheric conditions.

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Enki 1y ago

I was wondering if weather was going to be a problem. The rains just kind of started up where I'm at, so we have a lot of cloud cover.

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Bogi 1y ago

From the little reading I did… rain shouldn’t affect the HF signal too much unless it’s getting inside the antenna and creating shorts.

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Dr. Hax 1y ago

I can attest to large trees absorbing 915MHz, but if you back away from them, it usually works around the issue somehow, even without line of sight.

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Luke 1y ago

Took one of mine for a ride today, but didn’t get any other node notifications… got to play with more, and now it makes me want to find a better antenna

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Enki 1y ago

Yeah, at least for home. I spent some money on getting a slightly better antenna specific for the 915 MHz range. That can supposedly be permanently set outside.

I should probably think of a better mobile one as well. The stock lillygo Antanas seem kind of shitty. Unless I'm just a mumpty and like I said, there's something I'm missing.