Building the Backbone: Setting Up Your First MeshCore Repeater

Hey BuffaLoRa community! Unlike the often-discouraged repeater devices in Meshtastic, repeaters are the lifeblood of a MeshCore network. Because MeshCore companion devices don’t rebroadcast, repeaters are essential for bridging your traffic across the network. While this requires more nodes overall to build out the map, MeshCore compensates by allowing up to 64 hops between nodes,Continue reading “Building the Backbone: Setting Up Your First MeshCore Repeater”

Meshtastic as a plugin to ATAK

One of the real-world applications for Meshtastic is to use it in combination with Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK) to provide an off-grid means of communicating between ATAK users and/or to provide a means of asset tracking. ATAK is an Android smartphone geospatial infrastructure and situational awareness app. It allows for precision targeting, surrounding landContinue reading “Meshtastic as a plugin to ATAK”

Get Ready for the Meshtastic Presentation at W2SO

We invite W2SO Members to join us at the Lancaster Amateur Radio Club General Meeting this September 2nd, where we will be diving into the exciting world of Meshtastic — the open-source, long-range, low-power mesh communication platform. To make the most of our time together, we’re asking participants to update their Meshtastic devices in advance with a special channel andContinue reading “Get Ready for the Meshtastic Presentation at W2SO”