Comment on The Best Meshtastic Devices for Every Use Case: A Comprehensive Guide

TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• termain@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Meshtastic® is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communications infrastructure. This project is 100% community driven and open source!

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  • TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How does this differ from walkie talkies?

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It is text-based only. And since it’s such a small amount of data, it can be transmitted a much longer distance.

      There’s also the Mesh part where if two nodes (radios) are too far apart, and another node is in between, it can act as an intermediary/relay to increase distance. You can use ~4 nodes (3 hops) in this way.

      Communications are also encrypted.

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      • xnx@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Is 4 nodes the maximum able to connect?

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      • TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh this is making some sense to me now. Will this replace or augment iMessage one day?

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      By supporting networking.

      As I understand “walkie talkie” radios, the spectrum they use (GMRS/FRS/CB/MURS, etc) isn’t permitted to transmit data in a way that’s useful for proper data networking (there’s some allowance for data but not really anything like what lost people think of as networking, and encryption is right out of the question).

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They can transmit any kind of data and be hooked to the internet if you like.

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    • Darkenfolk@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The long range part I guess.

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