I futzed around with home assistant + meshtastic. It’s dependant on your use case, I suppose, but I found it unreliable.
I have a 5.8DBI Rokland antenna elevated above my home. I live in a suburban area with no significant geographical obstacles for several miles and a fair number of online nodes in my area (low teens). My receiving device… I don’t recall exactly. I want to say it’s a roughly 2 DBI antenna that I found recommended on the meshtastic wiki. I find it to be pretty spotty any more than about 1.5mi (2.5km) away. Though admittedly it sometimes works from much further away.
Point is, meshtastic may not be viable for remote HA administration due to it being a somewhat unreliable at range.
Edit: it occurred to me after commenting that this is a suburban sprawl problem. If you live and work in a small radius such as a walkable city, this is probably perfectly viable.
I futzed around with home assistant + meshtastic. It’s dependant on your use case, I suppose, but I found it unreliable.
I have a 5.8DBI Rokland antenna elevated above my home. I live in a suburban area with no significant geographical obstacles for several miles and a fair number of online nodes in my area (low teens). My receiving device… I don’t recall exactly. I want to say it’s a roughly 2 DBI antenna that I found recommended on the meshtastic wiki. I find it to be pretty spotty any more than about 1.5mi (2.5km) away. Though admittedly it sometimes works from much further away.
Point is, meshtastic may not be viable for remote HA administration due to it being a somewhat unreliable at range.
Edit: it occurred to me after commenting that this is a suburban sprawl problem. If you live and work in a small radius such as a walkable city, this is probably perfectly viable.