Meshtastic: Open-source, off-grid, hiking, climbing, GPS mesh communicator

Re:Meshtastic: Open-source, off-grid, hiking, climbing, GPS ... by pqdbr on Sunday January 31, 2021 @05:18PM (#25983138)

Me and my friends would pay for this. We fly paramotors and almost every weekend we fly to places with no cell connection.

Plain old radio is terrible (there's always someone transmitting all the time without realizing, blocking communication for everyone else) and the ability to check each other's GPS position would be awesome to know if the whole party is still flying together.

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Re:Meshtastic: Open-source, off-grid, hiking, climbing, GPS ... by rlpb on Monday February 01, 2021 @03:02AM (#25986565)

Try PilotAware (pilotaware.com). It's a Raspberry Pi with SDR comms. A web app gives you a radar type display. It'll integrate with moving map software for navigation if you want (eg. I use SkyDemon). I'm not sure about availability outside the UK though.

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Re:Meshtastic: Open-source, off-grid, hiking, climbing, GPS ... by adwi on Sunday January 31, 2021 @06:06PM (#25983524)

GoTenna? https://gotenna.com/

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Re:Meshtastic: Open-source, off-grid, hiking, climbing, GPS ... by froj on Monday February 01, 2021 @08:59AM (#25988714)

FANET [1] is specifically for paragliding. It is also LoRa based and open source, but so far only Skytraxx and Naviter really seem to be using it in their products. I think it's exactly what you're looking for, though.

[1] https://www.skytraxx.eu/News/FANET

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Re:Meshtastic: Open-source, off-grid, hiking, climbing, GPS ... by bigiain on Sunday January 31, 2021 @05:41PM (#25983341)

That’s actually one of the driving force use cases for the project founder, so it’s reasonably likely to eventually work well for that.

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