Comment on Self-host Meshtastic Metrics in Grafana
starkzarn@infosec.pub 4 weeks agoYeah, so far the most prevalent thing around my area has been “it’s a hobby for the sake of being a hobby.” No one does anything terribly useful or important with it. I can tell you that I would certainly never rely on it as a form of emergency communication.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Yeah its pretty spotty. A walky talkie would probably be better in an actual emergency. Im hoping meshcore or related projects will make it less spotty.
starkzarn@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Meshcore does address some of the biggest shortfalls of Meshtastic, but I absolutely HATE that they’re positioned to either rugpull, or setup a perpetual “freemium” model. It’s also not interoperable, so if Meshcore is to work, it needs the numbers like Meshtastic has.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Agreed! I wish they could have worked with meshtastic instead of trying to get everyone off and using their project. Which is totally open source but not really.
I think the next year or so will be interesting in the space. Im just sitting here with my little nodes making an impromtu weather station.
WASTECH@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
What’s the difference between the two? Reading the GitHub for meshcore, it sounds exactly like meshtastic. What makes it better?