RANGE Test is here!!! https://youtu.be/OwTy_-Y-A5o

Can't wait to get my first message on this thing about my car's extended warranty.

It should be used as such: Encourage as many people as possible to install in their attic for low cost. A small solar panel and lithium battery will allow the network to remain in place in power outages. Joining the mesh will allow access to the mesh. The mesh will carry encrypted data from users on the network. Encryption keys will be used like phone numbers. Individuals may communicate outside normal networks, with strong encryption preventing the ability of government snooping or censorship. Yes government tyrants, I'm talking about YOU.

Excellent tutorial and sharing of essential knowledge in the age of hyper-surveillance. Also good for the revival of interest in ham, cb, and other types of radio aficionado niches. If digital tech fails, analogue and radio will save us

Just letting you know that these modules have GPS on them. Meaning that you don't even need your phone for others to see your location. The feature for your location to be pulled from your phone is there because other supported module don't have the GPS. Furthermore there is a new version of ttgo tbeam with better lora and GPS chips on them but is 7$ more expensive. Cheers

The great performance of LoRa in all these 3 features (good sensitivity, low path loss, good obstacle penetration) makes LoRa a disruptive technology enabling really long range links. This is specially important in urban scenarios, with very difficult transmission conditions. To sum up, LoRa can get long ranges in Smart Cities deployments, so it reduces dramatically the size of the backbone network (repeaters, gateways or concentrators).

I wonder when all of the off grid people gonna unite and create a grid...

This combined with a raspberry pi, keyboard, screen, and a 3D printer could be amazing.

I just might start buying these like a few each month and setup my own private network around my house. I love up on a mountain in the woods so this would be cool to setup in my area and allow some of my friends and neighbors to connect. This is a fun little hobby

Quick update - I have a car node with a meshtastic radio that also has environmental sensors and voltage/current sensors wired in. This means I can monitor and data-log my car battery voltage and cabin temperature/humidity remotely. I have a t-beam at home connected to wifi, forwarding packets to MQTT, and I pull that info into HomeAssistant, allowing for really pretty graphs. I also have some solar-powered nodes that are capable of continuous operation off-grid, and they have current/voltage sensors capable of tracking battery and solar power usage/production. The project has come a long way.

I've never heard of this before. It's definitely something I want to learn more about!

This is exactly what I wanted to deploy at a particular flea market with no cellular service so that we could split up and still send pictures, messages, locations, etc to each other.

This is killer - looking for dissident tech for the coming authoritarian era... more please

Idk why I was recommended this, but I couldn’t be happier