Ah okay so it's calculated on the node, not in the app. Bummer
I don't want to share my location to the mesh. But I want the app to calculate how far other nodes are from my position. Is that possible? What options do I have to configure to make that happen?
Hmm not sure I like that. Apparently the default channel has too much traffic to be handled well by the esp32 devices.
I am not sure if the mesh size is limited. They're doing "managed flood routing" which is like normal flood routing, but routers wait for a while to see if someone else is flooding the message already, then they don't send it out themselves if they see it flooded. I don't know how that behaves in different network topologies
Das war vor Jahrzehnten schon ein Auslaufmodell
No I am a noob at this as well. The heltec v3 seems to be the most popular device though.
I don't have one. It's to tinker with my first esp32 board and lora.
It's basically a hobby. If you live somewhere super rural or something it might be interesting to chat with your neighbor or whatever but I think meshtastic is still too much in the alpha stage to be usable really.
It might be useful on a festival or something, where cell networks are overloaded and you and your friends can contact each other via meshtastic. Idk if that would work though.
Yeah I might upgrade to a 18650 cell that I reclaimed if the phone battery is too small.
For now I use it mostly for exploring meshtastic and trying to send a single message to someone else in the network xD
Thanks. Where did you get the channel from? "Show full details"?
I am in Germany. I would like to find a root topic for Berlin :)
Thanks I'll search around.
But chatting through the internet kind of defeats the point imo.
Also I tried to connect to mqtt but it did nothing. Do you have instructions for dummies how to set it up? I used the meshtastic module config docs and it didn't work ^^
Yeah my plan was without charging. But I found another solution anyways :)
Yeah I don't have one around ^^
Actually though that's not true, last night I found an old device of me that I could harvest a 18650 battery from.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2189807
> Held together without any solder ^^ > > Uses an old phone battery for power and is housed in the box that the heltec v3 hardware was shipped in. Unfortunately I had to bend a row of pins to fit it in the box with the battery, but this is only because on my model the two rows of pins are already soldered in. Normally they should be included extra I think. > > I am seeing lots of other meshtastic devices, but haven't yet managed to send a message. Maybe I am not in a good location or I need a better antenna. > > Kinda want to buy a second device just for messing around with two of these ^^ > > I highly recommend buying off of aliexpress directly.
Held together without any solder ^^
Uses an old phone battery for power and is housed in the box that the heltec v3 hardware was shipped in. Unfortunately I had to bend a row of pins to fit it in the box with the battery, but this is only because on my model the two rows of pins are already soldered in. Normally they should be included extra I think.
I am seeing lots of other meshtastic devices, but haven't yet managed to send a message. Maybe I am not in a good location or I need a better antenna.
Kinda want to buy a second device just for messing around with two of these ^^
I highly recommend buying off of aliexpress directly.
That's cool, will you post your setup in the meshtastic community?
Honestly just get a heltec v3 from aliexpress, it's only like 12€.
The board works with the cellphone battery, even with just holding the wires to the contacts ^^
Yes exactly that's what I am trying to do. I just found a 3.7v battery in an ancient cellphone of mine, maybe that'll work as well.
Is it possible to power the heltec v3 with NIMH batteries? Like maybe 4 in series (4.8v) or 3 in series (3.6v)?
Would it even charge them or is the charging only for li-ion battery packs like the 3.7v one that everyone suggests?
I don't want to buy it if I don't need it, I have old NIMH batteries in abundance and I'm not sure what my final setup should look like yet.
How the Ukrainian drone Liutyi went from a single model to becoming the main arsonist of Russian factories and airfields in the full-scale war
Seht ihr das auch bei fast allen remote communities denen ihr folgt?