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Anyone else jumping on the LoRa Meshtastic bandwagon? (mander.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The cheaper v3 and more talk on youtube finally pushed me to order a LoRa board.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I'm in. I just need to connect to the larger mesh around me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah! i bought several LoRa boards and antennas and I did some testing with them. For now I have them stored in a drawer, but I am hoping that the technology will become popular enough to start building practically useful meshes around here by collaborating with others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You should set one back up, there is a backorder on some of the boards so it looks like interest is up.
Looking at meshmap.net I'll probably be on the edge of making contact, but we'll see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Will do!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I set up my first node this week! Not much traffic yet, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Welcome, yeah depending on where you are the network still has big gaps. I've been on my local mqtt topic to stay connected, but I did hit a lot of nodes driving through Tennessee.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah. I live in an area with a lot of river valleys, so the signal doesn’t propagate as far, either. I might set up a solar client on top of a nearby ridge to try and build out the mesh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Same here. The guy I ordered from is suffering a massive backorder problem, though. Can't wait to get my boards delivered, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Mine finally shipped yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For a complete noob, can you explain the difference between the versions? Does V3 interact with the V2 OK?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Best i remember it's compatible but v3 has a few important updates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks.