Meshtastic

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Which should I do? Your opinions? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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I shall soon be getting a Rak WisMesh Tag and currently have a Heltec MeshPocket 10,000 mAh that is currently set up as a mesh core companion. I know for a fact that there is some minimal meshtastic activity in my area and there is no meshcore activity in my area at all yet.

The way I see it, I have two options:

Put the tag on Meshtastic and have one foot in both camps.
Setup the MeshPocket as a repeater so it can auto zero hop advert once every three hours, or the equivalent of eight times per day, to let anybody passing through know that there's at least somebody here and use the tag as my companion node instead.

My personal opinion is that I like mesh core better, even though there's no activity in my area yet.

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[–] hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Meshtastic is fairly popular in my area, several good repeaters, a handful of messages every day. But there's no... Consistency.

I can't reliably talk to the same person twice, or even know if they got my messages. It's very frustrating.

I switched to meshcore, and while there's only a couple people nearby, and a very small mesh, what does exist is extremely reliable.

Meshcore wins for me, hands down. That's all I'll be doing going forward.

Meshtastic has a purpose, but City wide, and especially statewide comms, aren't it. It's just not made for it.