[aeblyve]

Nth for MeshCore, which the Boston Mesh has found to be a much more scalable solution for building an emplaced mesh network with hundreds of clients: https://analyzer.letsmesh.net/map?lat=42.00963&long=-70.9639...

Separately: while it's cool to chat human-style over these networks, lately I've been thinking that the real value add is last-mile automations. Stuff that won't clog the network like remote-starting your car once or twice a day, and is normally built on top of LTE.

[bergie]

We can turn on the deck lights on our boat remotely via Meshtastic. Works great when dinghying back in the dark.

[itsamario]

Thats what helium and some iot manufacturers tried like Ring. A mesh that only routes out the least utilized egress node. This is also convenient for backpackers and campers to request help, or get alerts, with their exact location

[wolvoleo]

Meshtastic is actually good though. Helium is just another crypto pyramid scheme that pollutes the airwaves. The things network is a much better alternative from people that actually care about making a great network and not about getting rich fast.

[jtbaker]

From what I understand, Meshcore doesn't support the IOT/sensor types of use cases that Meshtastic does, right?

[aeblyve]

It has some functionality of this type (you can see in the overall map a small number of "sensor" nodes), but it's not super well fleshed out or documented ATM.

What I think you can do for sure today is poll a sensor over the mesh, unlike the meshtastic way where you generally automatically broadcast telemetry.

[mikeytown2]

You can run a full blown weather station on MeshCore with wind rain temperatures etc