Just fyi this has been posted earlier if anyone needs the url and direct link. As others had said mesh is a great start into ham and other ways of communication.

Pops up for me.

Also I cant crosspost for some reason. No idea why. But direct link seems fine.

https://meet.jit.si/whatiftheinternetgoesdown

I loke that 3d print! Very practical.

So adorable! I love it.

The new firmware is awesome! The ability to send basic messages is what ive been wanting for a while.

hell yeah!

Whats your favorite meshtastic device?

Thanks! Let us know how the card works!

Got a link to what your looking at? I was thinking of trying some daily carries. I kinda want one of the ones that come with a keyboard.

For me all 4 have the same ussue. V3. Hope you have a better time with it than me. Im thinking of trying out some other models.

Ive been having a heck of a time with the helteks lately. Its such a power hungry board. My battery full charge will only last for a day before needing another charge. And any time the power goes out for more than 5 mins the device resets its name. No idra why. Its been really difficult lately.

The closest i found is pulling the code down to a local git server and runningbthe build myself then usingbthe pythpn tool to get everythingbsetup. Took a long time. And dependencies are all online.

Honestly nothing in the stack is prepated for a true internet outage. You can maybe get the bin/images files in case of a SHTF moment, but thats about it.

Oh i may have interpreted the question wrpng. Woops. Well its still a comsideration. Dependencies are all liabilities waiting tp happen.

Got a link? that looks cool.

https://hackaday.com/2024/01/21/garden-light-turned-mesh-network-node/

https://hackaday.io/project/194509-harbor-breeze-mesh-node-hack

Theres a lot of iterations :)

From our local makerspace discord https://www.printables.com/model/561389-heltec-v3-case-for-meshtastic

https://www.printables.com/@TonyG

Around 28 hours with WiFi on. Its kinda annoying how long it takes to charge 4+ hours from 0 to 100.

And it resets its name if the power ever goes out for more than 10 mins. That sucks.

Not terrible for a daily carry but not something I would take with me for trips.

Yeah. Works well.

2.7.9

I’ll have to ask. Might be a while.

Ive found getting two heltecs works out to tell if the system is working or not. Then putting one very high (like on a chimney) and using that one was as the one the city connects with.

Lora is VERY much a line of sight kind of system. If anything gets its its way, it will stop sending. Its very fickle.

You may want to reach out to your local ham group (if you have one) and see if anyone is interested in metastatic. We had one person that was super into meshtastic put a node on a foothill nearby and it covers the entire city. It gets awesome coverage. But thats the only reason I can talk with others and its spotty sometimes.