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Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET

Now that I like. And I think there is room for both – IF people know and understand the differences.

Mesh against ham in an emergency is not even a competition, in my view. The numbers just aren’t there. But for random cellular failures etc, I see some utility.

Personally, I’ve just seen so much more about mesh lately than ham, and it makes me sad. If it’s a gateway, as you suggest, then great. I worry that people see it as a novelty and not a gateway.

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JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Oh it’s a hundred percent just the novelty communication technology that is in vogue right now. I don’t really know if it’s a true zeitgeist technology or if someone with a lot of product to sell who is playing with the social media algorithm. But I guess I don’t really care much.

The trick is to find a way to seize on that opportunity. Now that our mesh network is structurally sound and sufficient, I’m working on using a raspberry pi to automate our ham club meeting dates, testing dates, and field days, and then blast those messages once a week or so over the mesh network. That way, an impulse buy turns into the discovery of a fuctional network and afterwards, a random person can discover a whole local community of people with all sorts of new things to learn.

You can lead a horse to water. But you can’t make him drink.

first you need a trough. That’s the mesh network. After, the horse needs to be thirsty. That’s the curiosity people have. information, the when and how and where, you can automate and passively tell them about. that’s the water.

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- circuitfarmer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Good on you for using one to bolster the other! Smart use of the tech either way.
  
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lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There was a massive power outage in Portugal not too long ago and people used Meshtastic to communicate between cities to see who had power.

It does work, but it’s not a Final Solution

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- circuitfarmer@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  …is that a pun?
  
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  - lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Both can coexist, more options is better when talking about decentralised systems
    
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rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Meshtastic has some store-and-forward stuff that’s damn nice but someone has to set it up.

Meshcore has routers, repeaters and mailboxes.

It it could be pushed up to a few watts it would be far more useful.

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