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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

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Hazey 1y ago

Somebody just needs to write software for it to put it in AP mode

Dr. Hax 1y ago

I'm not sure if it hss enough RAM & flash to handle that additional code

Hazey 1y ago

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

DM for new npub 1y ago

Meshmastic could still be useful as a discovery layer for TollGates to announce that they are in need of a gateway.

Each TollGate will have its own npub, meshmastic could even be used to transport some basic notes if needed..

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Dr. Hax 1y ago

Don't worry, crew, I'm going to keep pushing forward with this node.

I plan on linking together the documentation that does exist (there turned out to be a good deal of very useful docs, they just took a while to find), and writing documentation where it doesn't yet exist. Of course I will submit anything I write myself upstream.

m00ninite 1y ago

Use an ESP32 for BLE + wifi

Dr. Hax 1y ago

I'm going to be using serial in the end. I'm just using the wireless to verify functionality before I start tinkering around with what looks like the most poorly documented way to interface with meshtastic (at least for now…)