I’d like to have one at two physical locations, best I can do is a window and a third on me to actually message from. Hope to get sensor data from the two stations and have all three in client mode.
Is that good, bad, whatever!?
What are you doing these days in your local area?
Just started playing around with MT a couple weeks ago. Currently have 11 nodes provisioned and ready to do…something with.
So far, I’ve just been playing around with things to learn: figuring out channel settings, deciding on whether to run my private channel in a custom frequency slot or override it to use the “default” frequency slot so it can relay for nodes outside my own mesh. Things like that. Have also been 3D printing various cases for them.
Original plan is/was to have 5 of them configured as portable nodes for when my friends and I go camping, backpacking, hiking, hunting, etc. Kind of a modern text-based version of the FRS walkie-talkies we used to carry (with position reporting as a bonus). Probably going to reserve a few nodes for that purpose and maybe a couple more with bigger antennas that can be temporarily dropped to act as relays (and pick them back up on our way out).
There’s not currently any near me, but I am also looking to start a local Meshtastic group. My backyard has a hill where I can mount a node, and the relative elevation is pretty optimal for it. According to the site planner, I should have pretty good coverage mounting it there (with a solar panel).
I haven’t decided if I want to link the community group nodes via MQTT or try to build it out natively. Maybe I can start with MQTT and hope that it fills in later?
I’m new to meshtastic too. Just an FYI, you can make the primary channel a custom private one and still have a longfast pubic channel as a secondary as long as you you set the Lora frequency to 20 (at least that’s the default one in the USA).