[ellisd]

Totally agree on Meshtastic being an superset of this product's features.

Although LoRA radios come in 2.4 Ghz variants which makes sense for a global product launch vs. needing to have multiple SKUs for each region, I'm leaning towards Totem Lab optimizing BOM cost and taking a simpler route with just an ESP32.

ESP-NOW mesh protocol [1] seems to be around the 1000m range statements that are mention in their mesh blog post [2].

> The Unity Mesh Network™ is layered on top of a peer-to-peer connectionless communication protocol. This peer-to-peer protocol allows any two Totem Compasses to track each other at a range of up to 1000 meters.

[1] https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/stable/esp32/... [2] https://www.totemlabs.com/post/unity-mesh-network

[simonjgreen]

That’s a good point. I could also see them using NRF24s