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I got #meshtastic nodes working as advertised and it's super freaking cool. Here's a picture of my test setup.

Messages come from phone and go to the wifi access point (in my case, a raspberry pi) to the Meshtastic node. That, in turn shoots it through the medh network using LoRa, and it goes from the recipient Meshtastic node to a computer via serial (USB).

Messages are encrypted across the LoRa link by the Meshtastic nodes. My WiFi has WPA encryption to protect it between the phone and the node that is on WiFi, however I believe the router and anyone connected to that access network can see everything in plain text.

Nope Noperson 1y ago

Looks like the plan is to eventually run Signal over the LoRa meshnet. That would fix the encryption issue.

https://hackaday.com/2020/02/26/lora-mesh-network-with-off-the-shelf-hardware/

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Dr. Hax 1y ago

Huh, I wonder why Tom Nardi thinks there is a plan to run Signal over LoRa mesh network. 🤔

Normally hackaday authors would back up claims like that with a link to their source, so I suspect it's just conjecture, not a plan of someone who contributes code to either Mashtastic or Signal.

I agree it'd be another way to address the issue, but it would also require a gateway to the internet. It would not solve anything for off-grid communications.