Some notes on our experiments with the Meshtastic Project.
Check out their beginner's guide, and their discussion forum, and watch Andreas Spiess' review of the project:
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Picked up some Heltec WiFi LoRa 32 V2 boards -- one of the official ports of the Meshtastic project. Was very easy to get up and running. Did a quick test by controlling one of the devices (taped in my home window) via a Python script on a PC (using the Meshtastic-python API), and using it to send out pings every 10 seconds to the network; meanwhile I drove around the neighborhood with the other device connected to my Android phone via Bluetooth.
Here's a nice description of the Heltec pinout.
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Got Meshtastic up and running on a Quahog -- a relatively easy-to-assemble ESP32 + RFM9X design. Just required modifying the 'heltec' LoRa radio GPIO settings in configuration.h in the source code and compiling using Platform.io, as per suggestions on the Meshtastic discourse forum.
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Meshtastic running on a Quahog. |
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First message received on the Quahog. |
Project by Luandro, here.
Luandro's public key on Scuttlebutt is here: @2RNGJafZtMHzd76gyvqH6EJiK7kBnXeak5mBWzoO/iU=.ed25519
2020-12-14 22:00:05
Hackaday article here
Project page here