@meshtastic

Yes, off-grid mesh radio communication is very fascinating...

#meshtastic

You know...I have a project that uses #yunohost and #meshtastic together. Maybe I should do a blog post or something.

Its a once a day weather report for my region. It posts at around 6:00 am the weather pulled from NWS. Its useful both as a weather report but also a test to see if people get the messages. If they do, they know their node is in a good spot.

Looks like this:

pretty much my journey since birdsite was bought! On the #selfhosting part, though, I went with my own home server running #FreeBSD (ZFS is awesome!).

And regarding #meshtastic, I must warn you that it's a drug. This year I went from "zero" to "regional community builder / crazy dude deploying stealth nodes in trees" in a matter of months 😅 Just so you know what to expect!

I want to like #meshtastic but it has proven extremely ineffective in Alexandria VA. I have to walk a half-mile from my home and up a bridge to have any chance of being heard and relayed by anything, even when I use an aftermarket antenna. I hope it would work a little bit better in a regional comms/power outage because more people would probably be firing up their devices and joining the local mesh.

Also, I have to force-stop and restart the Android app most of the time whenever I lose and want to reestablish bluetooth connectivity with my T-Echo radio, and the radio itself seems to unpredictably hang and require a manual reboot every few days.

It'll probably just live in a drawer until/unless there's some sort of outage.