Not yet, no.

The little red flag thing is kind of cool.

You should really keep your gain at no more than 3 DBI. 6 DBI being the maximum. Otherwise, you start to have problems with receiving nodes from different elevations. A 3DBI antenna will radiate and receive in a perfect sphere where a 10DBI antenna would not be able to hear an airplane, for example.

Oh, I see. I definitely don’t know how to do it from the web interface.

Yeah, that’s kind of what it seems like to me as well.

Well, your phone needs at least 5 volts. So it sounds to me as though if you’re using the node, then it can take advantage of the entire battery. But if you’re using it to charge your phone, you can only take advantage of like 70% of the battery.

To get the last week view, tap the router short name, tap more details, and then tap device metrics log, then tap 1w. It will give you the device metrics for the past week and then you can add all the channel utilization numbers together and divide by the number of reports you have. As I mentioned before, the routers in my area report every 12 hours and so over a week there are 14 logs so I have to add all the channel utilization numbers up and then divide by 14.

What is the average channel utilization on your local routers? From what I understand, once it starts to get above 30%, you start to get dropped packets and stuff like that. The routers here report every 12 hours, so I go in and check the last week view and average out the channel utilization over all the reports from the last week.

In urban areas, long fast is definitely going to get congested quite quickly.

By chance, do the numbers seem a bit off to anybody else? From what I understand, the battery capacity is 5,000 or 10,000 mAh, but yet it’s only being rated for 3,500 and 6,500 mAh. I heard the bottom 5% is being reserved for the mesh node itself, but that should mean the rating should be for 4,750 and 9,500 mAh.

Right. Another really interesting idea in my opinion would be to integrate an SX1262 into laptops. That way, if you’re ever off network, you can at least have a low bandwidth communication method.

I would think it would weigh too much to actually stick it to a phone with a magnetic back. I think it’s more for just setting the phone down on top of it and getting a charge from it.

Edit: Eh, 140g. That may be possible. Though having it stuck to your phone would end up making your phone over 300 grams and possibly over 400.

Get yourself a solar node and a 30 foot flagpole and put it up because height is might and you would be absolutely amazed the kind of things you can find with a high node acting as a relay. We have a node where I live that is 200 feet up on a tower and during band openings I can receive nodes from over 300 miles away in a lot of cases.

We dont have many here, but shortfast is like 10x faster than LongFast and can handle many more connections.

As there are more nodes, there will be more locations in which Shortfast has people broadcasting. During band openings, you might even start seeing people over RF instead of over MQTT.

Yeah, that’s definitely something you can do. Although I have not personally done so.

People have made BBS’s with it, like from the 1990s, and there are some very limited games you can play over the mesh, such as Mesh Tac Toe. Look up TC2 BBS and Specfive.

I think a lot of the UK has gone over to meshcore but at least personally I wouldn’t use it because the app is not open source and I refuse to use anything that’s not open source if I can at all avoid it. https://meshcore.co.uk/

Also, keep your antenna game down. That 3DBI is fine. And even the 5DBI is okay. But much higher than that. And you’ll start to see problems with elevation changes. Not wanting to let your nodes communicate.

From what I understand, you can have several hundred nodes easily on the fast modes. That is definitely a quick overload compared to your traditional cell phone network. But there are not that many people with Meshtastic and not that many events where the super fast modes are even required. Even in large metropolitan areas, I’m only seeing upwards of 30 or 40 people on MeshMap, and obviously that’s not showing everybody because that’s opt-in, but that would still be well within the range of the fast modes.

Well, eventually some people are going to have to change, especially those in suburban or urban areas will probably need to go into at least medium or short range modes just due to the density of nodes. I live in a small city (~50k pops) and was just checking around to see if anybody else was in one of the faster modes. But at least as of yet, I don’t see anybody. So for now, long fast is fine, but there will come a day when it no longer will be.