It appears we may be getting a new role in Meshtastic called CLIENT_BASE. It acts as a ROUTER for favorited nodes such as your personal T-Decks, T1000-E, MeshPocket, etc but acts as a standard CLIENT otherwise.
You would put the CLIENT_BASE node in your attic, on your flagpole, or on your roof and set your personal nodes as favorites. That way a weak 3rd party CLIENT with low SNR does not take priority over your much better positioned high node.
The OP in this github issue had a node on his house that wasn’t getting utilized because another client in somebody else’s house farther away was getting the signal weaker and rebroadcasting it first.
https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/issues/7863
Edit: its out. Upgrade your well-positioned node to version 2.7.9 and upgrade your app to version 2.7.0-open.0
Then simply favorite your portable devices from your well-positioned node.
What an excellent idea! So simple, so powerful!
Looking forward to getting the roof node on this if it works. Thanks for the headsup.
2.7.9 has been released so I believe it has it because it says the pull request was merged a week ago. At least as of now the app is not showing it as an option so it might only be available if you use the command line
Then again, I am running app version 2.6.34, so it might be showing up in the newer versions and I’m just not aware of it. There is a 2.7.0-open.0 that’s out, but I’m not using it right now.
Okay, it’s confirmed. If you want to use it, upgrade to app version 2.7.0-open.0 and firmware 2.7.9.
Under the device section of settings where you choose client, client mute, etc. will be the new option client base.
