Glad I can help. I firmly believe in decentralization and meshtastic is doing a great job at starting to decentralize communications, so I would want to do my absolute best to promote it and help it grow properly. Like, sure, right now we are only using it to send text messages over long distances, but as the density of nodes increases, you can up the bandwidth and shorten the links, and you could easily start to send data over these links like files and audio and possibly even video, depending on the compression algorithms and link speeds.
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I see the possibilities as the network grows and agree that decentralization is key. Are there any resources that you’d recommend to help me figure out the scenario that I’m trying to accomplish?
I was planning on a repeater that’s waterproof and solar but now youve got me second guessing and realizing that I need more knowledge. I don’t want to do something that could make communications worse.
Thanks again.
I've learned what I know through just asking questions of the community, just like you have been, and watching all the YouTube videos I can get my hands on about meshtastic.
You might also run into another system called meshcore, and it's very similar to meshtastic, but at least I won't touch it, because it's not fully open source. The firmware for the devices is open source, but the application that you install on your phone to interact with it is not open source, and therefore I will not touch it.
Right on, it’s been nice chatting. I’m sure I’ll see you around the halls of nostr. Meshtastic bedtime videos last night for me. Thanks for the fyi on meshcore, one less rabbit hole.