If someone is interested in getting involved with meshtastic but doesn’t have soldering or any electronics background you can purchase ready made devices from many vendors.
My only complaints with it are that there’s no iOS app, which cut down the userbase significantly, and that there’s no easy way to migrate / export a profile and and existing contacts between devices.
And I wish I could set a Briar mailbox node (without the encryption key, so that if compromised you can’t read anything meaningful) on a VPS to receive messages when my app is offline. Right now the only way to accomplish this is with another Android device.
I’ve found Jami from another comment a few hours ago, but I haven’t downloaded it yet. But I think it expects an existing internet/network connection, where Briar seems to be focused on getting messages across through any means available.
Sadly from October 2021, their site seems to be offline
The project it looks based on is Meshtastic, the nodes are pretty cheap, you can even find them on Amazon if your truly desperate.
https://meshtastic.org/
I LOVE Meshtastic!
There’s also MeshCore, and now the networks are split between these 2.
Well… Shit. Time to check out meshcore!
Edit: Nah, company driven.
I’ll keep the fully open GPL 3 meshtastic my preferred
If someone is interested in getting involved with meshtastic but doesn’t have soldering or any electronics background you can purchase ready made devices from many vendors.
https://muzi.works/products/refurbished-r1-with-external-antenna
https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-meshtastic?variant=45315795845301
It’s a fun project!
There are lots of competing LoRa mesh networks right now.
Are you familiar with Briar?
Works over internet, TOR, local wifi, bluetooth, even “sneakernet”.
My only complaints with it are that there’s no iOS app, which cut down the userbase significantly, and that there’s no easy way to migrate / export a profile and and existing contacts between devices.
And I wish I could set a Briar mailbox node (without the encryption key, so that if compromised you can’t read anything meaningful) on a VPS to receive messages when my app is offline. Right now the only way to accomplish this is with another Android device.
I’ve found Jami from another comment a few hours ago, but I haven’t downloaded it yet. But I think it expects an existing internet/network connection, where Briar seems to be focused on getting messages across through any means available.
No I’m not. Looking foward to reading this
I’ve never used it, but I’ve heard of “Jami” that is supposed to operate in a similar fashion.
Is that still in development? The desktop client at least looks like it hasn’t been updated in quite some time.
AFAIK, yes. Latest release is from March of this year, and they have commits as of a month ago.
Maybe https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/ as an alternative
Oops. Didn’t check the date; saw it on https://mastodon.social/explore/links.
Yeah I’ve fall for it me too and foward it to my friend, cool projet nonetheless sadly it seems to be nowhere to be found 😢