Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service
mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 days agoIn theory the protocol can support those formats. With meshtastic it's only designed for text. You can get some really basic emojis though since they are Unicode.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
If its simple enough, I could probably abuse it to send binary data by encoding everything in base64 or something, and writing a simple translator for whatever my app is.
But what does the usable bandwidth look like, and what about latency? If I’m going just out of range from direct communication, I assume I’d be going through other peoples’ nodes, but is that intelligent enough to route messages through efficiently? Or could I see crazy latency spikes?
mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 days ago
You are at the edge of what I know :) If you find out, let the rest of us know. I only have vauge and hand wavy knoledge at this point of lora slow means lots of latency. GL!