Meshtastic is an open-source project using low cost LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without little or no communications infrastructure. It's a portmanteau of Mesh and "fantastic".

I found it shared on Facebook, which lead me to the subreddit post, which lead me to reading more about it and even finding Lemmy communities and local groups!

https://mander.xyz/c/meshtastic

I also made sure to check if this wasn't a hail corporate thing. And I also felt like I missed the era of homemade radios. So this is exciting for me!

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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Have a node up in the attic which is bridged to my wifi and into my Matrix server. Of course, in the event of a catastrophe the usage will be direct bluetooth connection from a phone instead.

The range is impressive, my node connects to others several tens of kilometers away.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I've got a node on my roof. Solar powered RAKwireless. I can connect using my phone over bluetooth.

    Can you give some details for how you bridged it to Matrix? That sounds interesting. (I have a matrix server too)

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