Great application. Just about in the process of completing my station etc. Built a unit for my Campervan. Also another unit with temp sensing as well. Cheers from old George in the UK 🇬🇧

That bird is hilarious !

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 good work and clever recycling

But making things for LoRa requires joining their association "LoRa Alliance". If it requires such centralised authorities then it's a nonstarter as an open source network. Paying $3,000, $6,000, $20,000 or even $50,000 to develop open source products is utterly ridiculous, a barrier to entry and a crutch on innovation.

I really like the package you adapted, can you give more info as to make and model? There are other things similar but I really like what you did here

Good stuff dude!

Can you plz post link to all the parts ? Thx

Can you provide a list of materials? Looking to make something like this as well

Want to get this up and running in Coffs Harbour

Video opens and I want to believe the bird is you, lol Great video, I'm getting some ideas

I have to admit that the only thing I watched so far from your entire channel is the parrot having a bath.... but I've never seen such a cool little set up for a parrot bath, and they say that how you do one thing is how you do everything so... bodes well for the radio aspect 👌

Byron bay. Good on ya mate. Say gday to tom barnett. Tell him conspiracy bear sent you. 🙏🏆🇺🇸✌️

I don't understand the difference between a base board and a core module?

Are your nodes up? Can’t see them on the meshtatic map. I want to set up a South Lismore node.

Hippy :-)

I’ll get a node online in South Lismore in the next week.

Hey Matt, love this! We'd love to chat about some collaboration opportunities. How can we connect? - RAKwireless marketing

Hey mate I think this is pretty cool... I was just wondering do you have a specific purpose for this project or is it just purely as a cool hobby? I'm looking at getting into this but I'm not sure if I can justify doing it if I don't have a reason myself lol.

the birdthastic

Cute conure. :-)

Love your work, Matt. Just wondering about the heat attracted by the black solar panel entering an unvented space containing a lithium battery. Any car gets really hot in a Lismore summer, let alone something that's sealed, black and sitting in a window. Is this an ignition concern?

A link to the light would have been appreciated! Still it is a good video.

Fellow Cannon Driver ❤

Only issue will be when acma get excited about the repeater nodes

Very cool! Great job man. I plan on doing something similar next time I visit my parents in Florida. It’s not uncommon for them to lose cell service for weeks when a major hurricane comes through. My plan is to use raspberry pi zero 2W’s over POE but also with a battery and solar panel. The POE is mainly so I can keep them updated remotely but also to keep the battery topped up. Thanks for some good info and inspiration 👍

I came here for RAK Wireless Meshtastic and stayed for the bird. Nice video.

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Genius. I'm copying this

Great video, I'm going to set one up in Mullumbimby for the same reason.

Great vid. the red areas on the map, areas with coverage?. I'm blundering around trying to figure LoRA out , is there any reason you went the raspberry pie route over heltec straight out of the box? I bought a couple of Heltecs, I think I've bricked one during the learning curve, but can still see huge potential in them.

what hardware for 444 mhz ?

I would Shove a Pi5 (8GB) with LoRa LoraWAN Shield or 2 Hack RF One SDR's ( or a few for Directional sectoring 433MHz & 838Mhz 915MHz) Nice Thing With the Raspberry pi (PI3 ~ Pi5) They All Support POE 24V ~ 48V DC over Ethernet cable 30W 80W you just need 2 Path Jumpers for the POE 4 pins However I would also Use Mesh WiFi v6 for Closer Nodes even run a Mesh Telnet BBS (bulletin board system) Terminal Mesh Service on both Wifi Mesh & LoRa WAN Mesh (After all it is a PI5 With SSD M.2 nvme ) so can run a OFF Grid micro Internet (LoRa & WiFi)

Albo's theme song.

Damn you beat me to it! I was in bunnings the other day and saw those arlec units with the same idea in mind. Ive just built 2 repeaters the same way. The only difference was a 3d printed custom housing that attaches via the existing hinge mounts with waterproof cable tunnels similar to the arlec design. I'll upload the design and link here when I get a chance. I was concerned about the panel size and battery capacity so I'm glad the hear they stand up OK! Nice work.

What is the benefit of a node over a repeater? In a small isolated group of three devices communicating, which would go on the mast?

Would this function as a kind of LoJack for the truck? In other words, would you be able to track the vehicle in the event of theft?

Very professional!

>8-D

Hey now, now, now, now baby I'm beginning to see the light One more time There are problems in these times But ooh, none of them are mine Oh baby, I'm beginning to see the light

Way to go Matt! Looks Like it's my duty to build, install & be responsible for continuous maintenance of two or three Meshtastic LoRaWAN repeaters for the Alstonville plateau area, Lennox, Ballina, Buckombil mountain, Evans Head wrapping around through Woodburn, Coraki Dead straight back to Lismore!! >8-D

Right on my brother! Starting to look into Meshtastic recently . Been wanting to setup LoRaWAN for years (Northern Rivers). Finally preparing to rig up a few... Good work mate. >8-D

Mount the camera. Bouncy camera movement very quickly became extremely annoying. Also, not fond of your choice of background music, we turned it off.

Im hoping meshtastic and LoRaWAN start getting a greater following over here in Australia as much as it has over in the UK. Be nice of there were more 'local' suppliers that didnt want to charge an arm and a leg for the stuff the UK and USA get dirt cheap

Great video could you show the settings for meshtastic app for this setup I am doing the same board ........

Nice music but what is the video about????????

The 5 W claim on the box is for the led, not the solar panel.

What mapping program do you use to work out your coverage?

What antenna did you use?

Another banger

Bonus night footage there, truly spectacular that entire region out to Suffolk and down to Iluka with weather. Thanks for all your content especially the Lora nodes/base stations that are self powered, would love to drop a few and record some useful data and even non useful. 👍🏼