The past week has been a very eventful one for MeshCore in Florida. The event that triggered everything was the south Florida group creating a couple of RF links to connect south Florida to Orlando. It appears that they may … Continue reading
I am happy to announce that everyone can now have access to dab-bot‘s dashboard. It has a lot of information that is collected about the MeshCore network. It has been running for quite some time but I have had to … Continue reading
A week or two ago I wrote a service or dab-bot to work with the alert command. This was actually a much larger undertaking as I had to break the alert command into two pieces: the actual command and a … Continue reading
Thought not really related to the events of this morning, there has been an ongoing problem on the MeshCore network. It is mostly a user education issue and unfortunately there is not a good way to address it other than … Continue reading
This was a particularly interesting day for MeshCore in Florida. You can see in this map from dab-bot all the stations that have been heard from in the past day or two. Before we get to the interesting stuff, lets … Continue reading
I just found a reference to CoreScope Mesh Analyzer. Interesting site, but has limited visibility into some of the meshes in Florida. I just found info on how to connect up an observer to feed data to it. So I … Continue reading
An advert is a specific type of packet sent on the MeshCore network to advertise a node on the network. Repeaters and room servers will advertise themselves on a schedule set by the node administrator. This is generally anywhere from … Continue reading
We all know that repeaters have public keys just like Companions. Just as with Companions the public key identifies the repeater on the network. By default a new repeater install will default to 1-byte hash. At the network level this … Continue reading
Josh over at Ham Radio Crash Course put a video out a while back on building a stealth MeshCore repeater using every ham’s favorite hardware store…Harbor Freight. He uses a small security light and a Seeed Studio module inside the … Continue reading
