Meshtastic

  • Meshtastic NRF MQTT Decoding

    In Meshtastic there are two main variants of the hardware that are used NRF and ESP32 based devices. Each have their own pluses and minuses. The most common devices such as RAK, Seeed Studios etc.. are NRF. The reason they are popular is that they are very low power, which means with the proper power…

  • Meshtastic TIG Stack

    Meshtastic can be used as a simple Mesh between devices but it also can be used for tracking devices through a Grafana Dashboard. The trick is that Grafana doesn’t work with MQTT very well. This can cause an issue for a number of reasons, the first is that MQTT is not designed for long term…

  • Private Meshtastic

    Meshtastic is a great way to send messages without the need of traditional IP connectivity and can be used in its default mode of sending message to LongFast or other builtin in channels using a public encryption key out of the box. Where this breaks down is that anything you send to your primary channel,…

  • Meshtastic Beginners Guide

    Meshtastic is an interesting way to communicate across distances without the need of Wi-Fi or Cellular services. It is fairly localized communication that can span miles if you have line of sight to your transmitters. If they are closer to the ground your distance will suffer, if you put it up in a tree you…