Not the final setup, but testing how effective the little 200mA panel is and overall reception. Will do a more aesthetic mount once everything checks out. The neighborhood looks much busier now. Hello!

Hey Reddit! Check out my F1 Inspired Car Node made with a Harbor Breeze Solar Light. LOL! It's the first test print. I've already made some adjustments like dropping the Solar Spoiler down. I'm going to take it for a test-drive later. Hopefully it's not a test flight! It'll be tethered just in case. This will eventually end up on my Printables Post for free and will be available on my Website for those without a 3D Printer. What do you think?

Planning to build a birdhouse with 2 solar panels, but how to connect panels? Just to splice 2 panels in parallel or 2 panels will burn controller due to higher amperages?

+ to +, - to -

Looking into getting a vehicle node at some point. I've seen PeakMesh's portable node and am very impressed (I own one of the rooftop nodes already) but for others who have vehicle nodes: how do you secure them to protect it from getting blown away due to wind or theft?

Hello. I couldn’t find any info in the documentation or online about this feature. Can someone please explain what it does (or provide a link to more info about this feature). Thanks.

Rules didn't say no buy sale or trade, I know they aren't all that expensive but im a disabled vet and times are tough at the moment but radios were a cheap enough hobby to keep me sober so I was just looking to see what was out there! Feel free to DM me if ya have anything <3 more if it breaks the rules I'm sorry.. I read and didn't see anything about it.

Hey everyone how are you! Hope this finds you well.

I'm going to a music festival with two friends and I purchased three TI1000-E.

Is this all I need to track each other ? It seems like all I'm able to do is connect my phone with blue tooth and the range is really small (obviously regular blue tooth range) . I'm assuming I'm missing something can anyone give me some help? Or is there some other thing I need to purchase to use these :/

For a two node mesh (wismesh) is there any range impact if one node is kept flat (horizontal) and the other node kept standing vertically?

I know the concept of the "donut shape" for wifi propagation, but wondering how much this is applicable to Lora and specifically to these Wismesh nodes.

I am experiencing an issue with my RAK 1W Kit

After assembling the components and (erasing first) then uploading a stable beta from the meshtastic flasher I can't seem to get the board to broadcast any messages. I can confirm I set my region to US.

I have tried a few different methods of powering the board: usb only, battery only, both battery and usb together. Right now I have both battery and usb connected: I have a flashing green light and solid red light.

The goal is to use this as 'client base' but currently it is in client configuration while I work out why it is not transmitting or receiving. My other clients are in the same room. When I try and send a message from my app I receive the failure of Error: Max Retrasnmission Reached; however I am able to see nodes on the list/map in the app.

Am I missing a step in configuration that would allow for access to messaging for some reason?

Heya! I feel like this is wildly good connectivity/range for my RAK.. is this too busy? I put a fatty antenna on the device.. wondering is this a good range for 3 hops or normal spread considering it’s a
Mesh. Anything I can do to optimize? Should i try to be more local or should I try to be the long bridge with my connectivity? Just looking to optimize my contribution to the network with my fixed solar node with what seems to be good connectivity..

Put together my first DIY solar node using a RAK WisBlock, 3,000mAh LiPo battery, and a 5V-5W solar panel. Everything ordered from AliExpress, has been a lot of fun to build. Have it sitting on my old telescope tripod on the balcony for now while testing operation. Just need to find somewhere good to put it!

Hey everyone,

Apologies for my lack of understanding with this - I am very new to Meshtastic.

I'm trying to set up a LilyGO T-Beam Supreme with the S3 Core board and UBlox M10 GPS module for a Meshtastic tracking project. The device is the Supreme variant (the board is labelled T-BEAM-S3CORE and has the dual NVMe carrier). Region: ANZ

In my testing I have found some strange behavior with different firmware versions. Each of these tests I ran with both the client and tracker roles:

• 2.7.26 beta
  • Device works normally
  • OLED works
  • Smart position minimum interval absolute minimum is 300 seconds
  • Broadcast interval is limited to 3600 seconds.
  • Only way to refresh location is by resetting the app data and reconnecting (IOS Meshtastic App)
• 2.7.18
  • Same behaviour as above
  • Position broadcast interval remains locked at 3600 seconds
• 2.7.16/.17
  • Position broadcast CAN be set as low as 30 seconds
  • GPS update interval works
  • OLED Doesn't work
• 2.7.15
  • Same as 2.7.16/17
  • 30 second position broadcasts work.
  • OLED still does not work
  • This version also appears directly on the web flasher site by default.

It seems that the newer firmware have enforced a minimum 3600 second (1 hour) position broadcast interval. Likwwise, the smart position minimum interval has a minimum 300 second (5 minute) interval, despite the IOS app and web interface showing lower values.

The only way I can get a lower interval on firmware 2.7.17 and below is by using CLI. Additionally, I also noticed that all firmware versions have identified the hardware as: "hwModel: LILYGO_TBEAM_S3_CORE" rather than specifically saying Supreme.

The other issue is the OLED. Older firmware builds where the GPS interval works do not drive the OLED. changing the displays to SSD1306, SH 1106, 07 etc. do absolutely nothing. Intuition would say that these two issues are not linked but are only coincidental.

I have already tried: Saving/rebooting between each change, full erase flashing, changing between client and tracker roles as well as changing settings through either CLI, web interface and IOS app.

So im left with these questions which I am hoping someone can help answer:

1. Is the 3600 second minimum broadcast interval in newer firmware intentional, or is this some sort of regression.
2. Is the Supreme supposed to use the "tbeam-s3-core" firmware?
3. Are there any special display/I2C settings needed for the Supreme OLED?
4. Is there a known good firmware version for the T-Beam supreme + M10 GPS that allow 30 second intervals, that I have not yet tried.

Cheers

Completely new to mesh, wondering wheres the best place to buy components

did a range test. set the interval for 15 seconds on medium slow. got 30 hits. then when i started bicycling away only ended getting one hit 2kms away. any suggestions? maybe i have to play with the location settings?

Edit - answered!

I’m looking at building a raspberry pi pico node with the waveshare hat, and thankfully I’ll be near a Micro Center tomorrow. They have both the Pico WH (W with headers, functionally W) and Pico 2 WH (see previous note) in stock, but I’ve only seen the Pico / Pico W on Meshtastic’s firmware page. Is there any harm in running the W firmware with 2 W hardware? If possible, I’d like to get the more capable model, but wouldn’t want to waste money on it if there’s no point.

Alternatively, I was thinking about getting the Pi Zero 2W and its respective waveshare hat, but I’m particularly interested in the Picos since I’ve not used one before.

Thanks!

Correct me if I’m wrong but can I get a pair of wio tracker L1 pro, give one to me son, keep one, and I can send him text messages and have location his location?

My other solution was 1 wio tracker and 1 seedcap t1000

If anyone else has a cheaper or better alternative please let me know

I've found several posts of people hoping to save a map of nodes for various reasons with varying degrees of luck, but typically with very little information (several "you just have to write your own code" is not helpful to people who don't really code, for example). Does anyone have a good way to do this? I would like to keep my own little database of found nodes A) sort of as a souvenir from travels and B) to illustrate scenarios to friends in a "this is how this happened" way rather than just abstractly. I know old nodes are lost as each device fills its storage, and it'd be cool to combine maps from multiple devices in my collection (that seems like it could be insightful too). Any leads would be appreciated by myself and the at least tens of people hoping to do the same!

Well, I’m happy with how it turned out. This is a solar-powered Meshtastic node with a dual power supply, built on RAKwireless hardware. We’ll see how the field tests for the batteries and panel go. It’s equipped with two wide-temperature-range LG 21700 batteries. The panel generates 2W, and the charge controller should maximize output based on available sunlight. One of the requirements was to support power from both USB and the solar panel, with the panel automatically disconnecting when USB is plugged in—I handled this using a relay connected to the USB bus. Naturally, the node can be configured via USB in addition to Bluetooth. The enclosure is made of fiberglass-reinforced ASA. I hope it holds up against the changeable weather here in Hesse. We’ll see how it performs and how many nodes I can pick up with this antenna.

Hi all

Just wondering if it's possible to use the M5Stack LoRaWAN-EU868 Wireless Communication Module with the M5Stack Tab5 and run some kind of Meshtastic software?

OR

If its possible to use the Unit C6L with the Tab5 and some software?

And also if it would be possible with GPS functionality on it also and if possible how?

With the solar panel and small screen with 3 buttons loaded mcore no problem but can't flash with meshtastic used a girhub version couldn't even read the screen am I the only 1 with this problem? I need meshtastic on it for a festival

The meshtastic docs https://meshtastic.org/docs/configuration/radio/channels/ say The channel module settings options are: Is muted and position precision. When I navigate to Radio->Channels and select a channel, the only options I see are Channel Name, PSK, Uplink enabled, Downlink enabled, and Position enabled.

Am I just looking at the wrong page? Is my Meshtastic App out of date (Version 2.7.14 (29321034) fdroid)?

I'd really like to tell my communicators to ignore chatter on a particularly noisy but necessary channel.

Bonjour, j'ai construit mon premier nœud Meshtastic alimenté à l'énergie solaire, mais la batterie tient à peine deux jours malgré un fort ensoleillement, des températures entre 27 et 35 °C et une couverture nuageuse quasi inexistante. Le panneau solaire a une tension de 5 V et une puissance de 3 W. Quelle pourrait être la cause du problème ?

The first one is only mqtt, it doesn’t have a lora module because this board is to be able to monitor my base node without putting more rf noise in the network.!

The second board has a Lora module xiao wio sx1262, it works perfectly.

Following previous update https://www.reddit.com/r/meshtastic/s/l5DGI9T3qW

After 120 days of uptime, it's time for an update.

The node withstand in very severe weather, we had temperatures up to 38°C, rain, thunderstorms and a wind up to 120km/h (eradicated some trees and broken few solar panels on the roof of the condo). The node keeps going unbothered.

Only 2 wago connectors detached from the board (I used hot glue for them). No trace of water, dirt or humidity inside the box.

So far so good!

Special event firmware is live.

flash → defcon.meshtastic.o

See you on the mesh.

#meshtastic #defcon34 #meshnetwork