I tested Bitchat with a couple of friends during a 3 day music festival. Read my report:
https://primal.net/saunter/testing-bitchat-at-the-music-festival
Discussion
Hopefully this can be fixed and is not a general flaw of the overall approach 🤔
Seems like at the next festival, it would be valuable to have a LoRa transceiver and try out meshtastic :)
I may try this. Would one node be enough for all friends to use their phones to communicate?
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
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.
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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.
very valuable data, thank you. Bitchat is still evolving fast with significant improvements on its stability. can you tell us which devices you were using? Did you see a difference between iOS-ios, ios-android, android-android stability?
Great use case for Bitchat.
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Better use a lily go t watch - this is a watch with integrated meshtastic. It'll work for sure
Hey nostr:nprofile1qqs9xtvrphl7p8qnua0gk9zusft33lqjkqqr7cwkr6g8wusu0lle8jcpzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuurpwfjhgmeww3hhwmspr9mhxue69uhkummnw3exx6r9vd4jumt99aex2mrp0yn7plng , this is what I get when I click this link (using latest primal on Android
