I'll zap you for this as soon as I get my coinos NWC fixed or I get my personal lightning node finished.
Hmm, maybe if I got someone else with a solar node and a large antenna like 1km away I could just bounce directly to their node. 🤔
It's 6 DBI. I don't understand why better gain would cause it to NOT receive my transmissions.
Is there some place I can read more about this that doesn't require the background knowledgr of someone with an EE degree?
An anology of "you're shouting in my ear with a megaphone, so no, I can't understand you" would be the level of detail I'm lookong for. Just practical tips & explanations. I'm not super interested in the theory of antenna design (yet 😅)
Holy smokes, I think it might actually be the antenna's tx/rx plane. I'm outside mixing rice hulls into my soil and I held my little heltec v3 at the ideal angle and did a traceroute, just to see what it would do, and it immediately responded.
If that's the case, maybe I want another node locally with a more forgiving antenna that will relay to the roof? That just seems kinda expensive in terms of the number of hops. One from my helrec to the jump point, two to the roof, three from the roof to wherever. Even with the hop count jacked up to 7, that extra hop is a high price to pay, IMHO.
Maybe this wouldn't be as big of a deal with #reticulum? I'm not sure how many hops they'll do by default nor what their maximum is.
#radio #mesh #meshtastic #hardware #electronics
If it wouldn't be $20-30 in shipping, I'd offer to just send you a device to see what your local LLMs can do. 🙂
I'd be somewhat surprised if an LLM produced code that would compile, let alone call the right functions. All the functionality is there in signet-base and it's all called from the GUI client.
To be honest, this shouldn't be a particularly difficult task for an LLM. I wasn't trying to pick something difficult to try to stump it. I genuinely want these things to be useful for real-world thing, despite all evidence to the contrary.
It reminds me of attack tools written to solve Capture The Flag hacking competitions, where they actually do work reasonably well on tiny, toy programs found in CTFs, and then utterly fall apart on analysing any real world code.
Every LLM I've tested can give me a decent summary about the signet project.
It doesn't seem to struggle any more with Signet than it does with adding features to any other project.
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqgngyl02u9dl2d3a8xchhctfns95mzf2cs2yulwensk9jd0gc7gaq855au4 honestly, nothing. It's not on you to get it fixed.
☝️ Nailed it
I like how the responses include:
- too wet
- too dry
- root bound
- too much heat
- not enough airflow
- too close to the lights
- not enough nutrients in the soil
- stuffy temperature
So... basically it could be nearly anything. 🙄 If you figure it out, please post back so the rest of us can learn something. 🙏
Disclosure: I already tried this and it hallucinated a bunch of slop.
None if them could even write documentation for the existing code that was better than copying and pasting the usage messages. And even then it made crap up. But it clearly did have the code because it was able to copy/paste from it.
I just saw it 20 minutee ago with a "bad signal".
Maybe the antenna is unable to tx/rx downward and it just radiates out? So when I am basically directly under it, I can't see it?
I'll check the antenna connectors when I get up on the roof next, but since it got my DM from a few blocks away, it seems unlikely that the antenna has come disconnected.
Updates: I can connect via bluetooth just fine. It even delivered a test DM I sent a couple days ago. Rebooting the solar node didn't help. Battery charge continues to rise.
My Heltec v3 can see other nodes, but I'm going to try swapping it out for a tdeck in case the problem is on the client end.
If that doesn't work, I'll probably going to be climbing up on the roof soon and tearing the box open.
I'm an AI coding skeptic, but I'm willing to be proven wrong. If you think AI can write code, prove it.
Challenge: write a CLI program that will list all accounts in a Signet password manager.
An existing CLI tool already exists and can unlock the device, the AI just has to implement a task to list accounts.
You can use any tool you want, open source, closed, paid, free... I don't want any excuses for why AI isn't up to the task. 😂
Current status:
I have a battery discharge protection circuit in there specifically to take care of this, but maybe this is the universe telling me it's not working as intended?
It popped up once today, reporting 27% battery, so still going in the right direction. I'll let it charge up some more then try connecting over bluetooth to see if I can poke around, maybe reboot it and see what happens. #yolo
If you follow me for reports on my #solar #meshtastic node, I have an update.
I mounted the solar panel, antenna, and box of radio gear to my chimney. #Radio was reporting that the #battery pack was at 0% charge. Over the course of 2 sunny days, that rose to about 20%.
However, it just suddenly dropped to 0% again, and even before that I haven't been able to consistently see the node as online despite being in range (like, within 100 feet).
So I'm not sure what's going on. I caulked it all shut, so I don't think it is a rain issue, but maybe? The sudden battety drop didn't happen durring nor immediately after rain, so that also does not point to water damage.
At any rate, the testing will continue. This is why I put it on top of my roof first instead of trying to put it on top of someone else's tower. It's a lot easier to get onto my roof if I need physical access.
#mesh #OffGrid #electronics
If you don't like the federal government [attempting to] override protections that your state government has put in place, you have the option of turning to your local elected officials.
While all levels of government should be upholding freedoms for everyone, local governments are more likely to actually do so in practice.
Advocate for making sure your community is taken care of, without relying on federal funds. Be it free speech, healthcare, 4th or 5th amendment rights or anything else.
You can also go the #anarchist route and lobby for no government, instead relying on communuty members to directly support one another.
#USPOL
A password manager is pretty standard for holding Nostr keys. It basically has built in 2FA: something you have (the password database) and something you know (the password to unlock it).
There are people working to make this more usable/safer in the future.
nostr:nprofile1qqsd7ele5ljpzft5tjl84naae5pkj9uqcepa77adwr6ayyy0948uyqqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qtxwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tmwwp6kyvtdv9hxcmnxd3uh57t2dpnkswfhxp6rsmtddenhyerew33hqvm2wfkkzcfkxe6nsdpkvankwdm5xgcxxem3w9m8jm3ew3hr7cnjdaskgcmpwd6r6arjw4jsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshsavanjs is exploring using seed words to generate multiple linked private keys so each client/device you use could get its own key.
There's Amber, which holds your private key in one app and then other nostr clients can request that Amber signs each post (so the nostr clients never see the key, only Amber does). That doesn't address backups, but it helps lower the risk of a key being compromised.
https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber
Other people are working on multi-sig solutions so two apps would need to be involved in signing each post. There's quite a bit going on in this area.
Your post leads with "Voca is a text-to-speech application..." but then at the end of your post it sounds like it's just an idea, not an app (which would explain why I couldn't find it in the stock F-Droid repos). What is the current status?
