Well, I am disappointed to learn the #meshtastic on an #RP2040 does NOT serve up a #WiFi AP that you can connect to woth your phone. ☹️
Instead, the wifi operates in client mode, expecting you to have an AP nearby with a known SSID and password.
The punchline here is that if you wanted to use this in the field, you're need to carry around a router to which your phone and RP2040 would connect in order to use the mesh network.
It still works without any 3rd party #infrastructure, but having to have 3 devices per node instead of 2 is disappointing to say the least. Hopefully the RP2040 will get BT support in the future to work around this.
#LoRa #offgrid #networks
Somebody just needs to write software for it to put it in AP mode
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I'm not sure if it hss enough RAM & flash to handle that additional code
Bare bones AP does not take more resource than a client, worst case have to trade one for the other. My guess is AP is not a typical use case for this hardware so it hasn't been written
