Controlling home automation remotely without any internet access.
Tracking dogs, people or vehicles - again with no internet.
Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 1 day agoI’ve been fooling around with Meshtastic for a couple years and haven’t come up with a real world use for it yet, other than scenarios like you mentioned.
What would be really cool is if cell phone makers could incorporate a mesh into their phones as a local public channel when the tower goes out. It would probably just be used by drug dealers or something, but it’s the only cool and functional idea I can come up with.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I don’t see how you could get enough reliability to do either from any distance.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It all depends on the environment and the amount of nodes. I’m not exactly controlling Fort Knox here so 100% reliability isn’t a big point
It’s still cool to be at the store 2-3km away and get a notification that the fridge door is open, via a completely independent network 😀
I get the exact same notification via the internet, but it’s not as cool
JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If they can’t charge an admittance fee or a per message fee, they won’t implement it. It goes against their business model.
But we can dream.