Oh wow! I was not aware how inexpensive pre-builts were. I may just pick one of those up then. Thank you for the link!! Is there any benefit of having nodes connected to MQTT? Ive heard theres some smart-home applications for people with acres of land, but would you say theres a usecase for people who live in an apartment or in.the suburbs?
I don’t use MQTT currently, but there’s several things you can do with it:
Pass some messages as plaintext for use in, say, HomeAssistant
Bridge meshes over the internet
Send/receive ProtoBuf messages from an MQTT client to the Meshtastic node and the mesh
Plugging in some of the mesh mapping programs to visualize the mesh
I tried setting up MQTT with HomeAssistant but couldn’t get messages to come in correctly. Most likely my own fault but I just never got back to it as I didn’t have a specific need in mind when I was setting it up.
Bridge meshes could be interesting. Like if I could convince a friend to get one as well, then we could use meshtastic when were nearby each other or miles apart.
MQTT is kind of a PITA to get working. I had to use MQTT-Explorer to figure out a proper configuration. It seems since then, the developer has started using Copilot to write and test the application.
Oh wow! I was not aware how inexpensive pre-builts were. I may just pick one of those up then. Thank you for the link!! Is there any benefit of having nodes connected to MQTT? Ive heard theres some smart-home applications for people with acres of land, but would you say theres a usecase for people who live in an apartment or in.the suburbs?
I don’t use MQTT currently, but there’s several things you can do with it:
I tried setting up MQTT with HomeAssistant but couldn’t get messages to come in correctly. Most likely my own fault but I just never got back to it as I didn’t have a specific need in mind when I was setting it up.
Bridge meshes could be interesting. Like if I could convince a friend to get one as well, then we could use meshtastic when were nearby each other or miles apart.
MQTT is kind of a PITA to get working. I had to use MQTT-Explorer to figure out a proper configuration. It seems since then, the developer has started using Copilot to write and test the application.