Meshtastic is a mesh network for radio communications or something. I’m curious to hear from people who’ve used it as to what their experience was like.
Meshtastic is a mesh network for radio communications or something. I’m curious to hear from people who’ve used it as to what their experience was like.
To expand on what others have said:
Meshtastic:
Has more users
Has really good info on traceroutes, historical details on signal strength, etc…
MeshCore:
Messages often get recieved because of a better* algorithm (much higher hop limit). Chat feature makes a node into a chatroom. Messages get saved and anyone logging in can see messages.
Both are good. I wish they did more work interop TBH. But both are in their early days. reticulum is also another protocol in the space. Much harder to set up but actually is more like everyone things of a mesh network (websites are hosted/viewed via multiple ways).
Ive worked and contributed to both mesh projects. They have VERY similar hardware so its really just differences between what you want to play around with. In an actual emergency though…walkie talkies are MUCH better (as well as ARPA).
!meshtastic@mander.xyz is where we hang out.