Its cool but its the size of a freaking cell phone…

I just got a Heltec LoRa32 v3.1 for my birthday and looking forward to learning about this community. Thanks from Colorado.

Just recieved mine, but I have an antenna dilemma. I’d like to use this as a portable base station/ relay. I want to be able to put it on a rooftop, solar side up, for a few days or even a weeks then redeploy it to another location. I want maximum range but an attached antenna. Any recommendations?

Like this video..One comment: I was not aware: The external antenna connector is RP-SMA and will only connect with a RP-SMA antenna! You will need this barrel connector to use an SMA male antenna with the solar case. A .2 db loss!

On Meshtastic 2.3.15, under my primary channel 0 LongFast, there is now an option for "Position". Does this work to hide your location on the primary channel?

Now we have to figure out how to get it to support some sick demoscene ANSI art graphics and we’ll be set to revive the entire BBS scene

USING MESHTASTIC DEVICES - near other humans, will utilize their natural BIOFIELDS (for better results), WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION, IS ASSAULT & BATTERY. YOU REALLY NEED TO DO MORE HOMEWORK BUBBA!

Could you take a look at this Meshtastic alternative, it's in its infancy but the network design looks interesting kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2nPpX-qarh-bKMsi=gKJBRRgBgdJFjxKr

love it

Why the Mouser antenna over the Gizont flexible 17 mm antenna?

Nice Job

This is very cool! I want to buy 3 !!

Great Video! Thanks so much! Can you do a video on flashing the remote node firmware?

With a cheap shortwave radio, and a usb sound card/cable, a recieve only js8call setup (which is all the bbs code supports) is really easy and cheap. Maybe you can show just that, as a "super easy addon" anyone could easily add to their BBS setup, no license needed, SHTF ready.

Just ran into a problem with one of my t-echo. Worked on a 5000 mile road trip. Now I find that it does not respond at all over the air or with BT. It was doing a blue-red-red flash for quite a while. At some point I got it to boot to flash mode and tried putting latest on, but it didn't seem to work. md5sum of the file and the current.uf2 after the flash did not match. Now it is just doing a red-red flash every 10 seconds or so. Anyone know? I've poured over all the things I can find with google which was close to zero.

This is great!

I have one from the first batch and it is a great unit. However, I have noticed that the GPS is not working so I reached out to support and they have been awesome on responding and let me know that they've had a few users report that their GPS antennas are not working also. So they offered to send me a new antenna, so that I can replace it, or I can even send my unit back and they will replace it free, and test it for quality control then get it back up to me. So customer service has been phenomenal for me.

This is absolutely fantastic! Looks like a seriously powerful tool that will be VERY helpful in the future. I will definitely mention this in the next update of the GhostNet docs, and do what I can to integrate this project more. Look forward to using this myself!

SWR and Return Loss must go together when looking or home brewing antenna..

Meshtastic and JS8Call on ghostnet? This is the best crossover ever.

is there a way to turn it off?

Now question:I thought the FCC banned internet over radio? Does it being a (what I assume to be) unlicensed frequency change that? Apologies if you cover that in the video. I was not able to finish it before I started on work.

I also purchased one of the original batch. Very impressed. Great value!

This is so helpful! I've been a ham for many years but I'm just now giving aprs a try. I've got a setup working as an igate/digipeater but I've got one problem. I've checked and re-checked that I have the lat/long put in direwolf.conf correctly but when I look at aprs.fi the longitude is getting changed from W to E and so my station appears to be in China lol. I even tried using UTM coordinates instead of the lat/long and it still puts me in China, just a different part of China. Still haven't figured out what's going on there. Except for that, it's all working great and I appreciate all your videos, aprs and otherwise.

Think we will see this board as a standalone unit in the future soon?

I'm considering putting some on top of the ranges (peaks in New Zealand), how lightening resilient do you think this would this be.... looks like a fair reasonable amount of plastic between the components & the pole you stick it on - could even pack more insulation on the arrangement.... thoughts??

I got 3 of them. I set them up and got messages working. I'm still new to meshtastic so I still have that 'i don't know what i don't know" feeling. For an upcoming trip to Canada, im wondering if its legal to take over the border.

What's the battery life?

It's chonky. If I'm tethered to my phone anyways I don't care about GPS or a screen on the unit itself.

Great little setup, and fabulous video! Question - have you or anyone here configured an external (waterproof) on/off switch? That would make it easier to shut it off an disconnect the antenna for wisblock maintenance without worrying about burning out the radio circuitry.

Messages for group @TC2: [1] KF0P**:: MSG TEST MSG FROM MN. ♢ (2024-07-19 04:45:55) Contact made here in se iowa on 40m. It works.

I love the new design and I am now trying to convince myself I don't need another Meshtastic radio. 😃

There is no earth curvature. If you look at the record, it is 158 miles, 254km. and not 10 miles.

GPS was not built into the board.. You missed the GPS module nicely tacked into the top of the case.

What would be current recommendations to test mestastic in EU? I can solder and such, but I would much prefer something like this but that already is in market.

Ghostnet is top tier S2 is under rated

bro give us a review on that friggin clockwork pocket computer/cyberdeck , those things are bad to the bone!

I haven't been able to get a GPS lock on mine, even when leaving it on for days and days.

I wish it was a bit more affordable too.

Have you figured out how to stop the motion sensor from waking the screen?

I am keen to try this with my Heltec E290, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and M5Stack Keyboard. Maybe my T190 as well when it arrives. Mini BBS

I am looking forward to seeing your build video with pi zero. What Linux OS you used on the zero?

Very happy with my device, and my t-shirt.

what is the case built with? PLA, PETG, Something else?

TE connectivity used to be called amphenol, amphenol was Bendix aircraft corporation connector division. They have over 100 years experience with electronics, so that antenna is going to be fantastic

I was one of the lucky ones with the first batch! I got my device and a very nice Tshirt. The device is superb (I just wish it had Wifi) and Rokland a very good company with superb customer support (even for clueless newbies like me!). Very highly recommended! :-)

If you get one of these and the default node name is "718a", completely wipe it and (re)install the firmware.

Too much money but it’s a nice kit

I bought two and they had different mac addresses but they have the same user id’s when I first got them running it seemed to confuse my iphone they were two different nodes. I could communicate on both channels I have set up but no direct message and they wouldn’t see each other on map. Did a factory reset and re-uploaded my channels and it works normal now but they still have the same user id’s.