I finally got some time to play with the #reticulum #rnode pair that I flashed a few days ago. Bidrectional messages passed over #lora succesfully using a pair of heltec v3. This was a little less user friendly than #meshtastic but very doable after watching the Andy Kirby youtube video (using newpipe in grapheneos as recommended in responses to my last post)

I like that reticulum is a full network stack that is encryption first. Much more flexible than the text only of meshtastic. Going to keep digging here. My other #hamradio gear is gathering a little dust.

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Rerixulum is already much much bigger than any other tech; LoRa or other radio signal tech out now

Keep going

So I would need to flash 2 heltecs for a basic test? Is the use case for reticulum basically mesh internet.

Reticulum is an encryption first networking protocol stack. You could use it over wifi with 2 android devices or over wired ethernet. Any physical comms path is fair game although it hasn't been ported to everything yet. I chose to flash 2 rnodes to try it for 2 reasons.

1 proof that it used the reticulum stack by disabling all other comms between the devices, wifi and LTE off.

2 I wanted to play with my radios because I am a radio nerd.

Dope. My main use case in farm automation, so you think I need reticulum or would meshtastic suffice? Don't know fuck all about radios, just got the basic meshtastic stuff up and running.

For a home automation network meshtastic is enough, I guess, but also here reticulum would be more versatile.

Farm automation, not home automation.

bruh. use the farm automation tools that exist. that's literally where LORA has been used for years.

Got links?

Help pls

I'd be interested in following along on anything you do with reticulum for farm automation. Be sure to keep us updated.

It'll certainly be all over my profile here

I prefer it over meshtastic.

now bridge to the internet.

Cool