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Where have my alerts gone to?
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
Bot dashboard now available
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
Alert! Alert!
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
The Need for Multibyte Pathing
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
What a start to the day!
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
Yet Another MeshCore Analyzer Site
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
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What Are These Advert Thingies?
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
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Why Set Repeaters Up with Multibyte?
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
Stealth MeshCore Repeater
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