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

Re:Meshtastic: Open-source, off-grid, hiking, climbing, GPS ... by myself248 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @05:25PM (#25983196)

Meshtastic has been talking about merging with Disaster.Radio for eons, because the two seem to have a lot of conceptual overlap. I can see uses for both feature sets and would love if they were just one thing.

It sounds like that's just not happening?

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Re:Meshtastic: Open-source, off-grid, hiking, climbing, GPS ... by goda90 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @10:29PM (#25985219)

disaster.radio seems kind of dead. No commits to the GitHub in 4 months. The contributor who responded to the latest issue says they aren't actively working on it. I think it would be great if they merged as well. Do you have links to any conversations about this?

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Re:Meshtastic: Open-source, off-grid, hiking, climbing, GPS ... by punkgeek on Sunday January 31, 2021 @11:38PM (#25985593)

we talked about it in the early but there were some fundamental technological limitations that made it seem like not a good fit. At this point I think meshtastic is more feature complete and has lots of areas not serviced by disaster radio (ie. python API, ports to many different types of lora boards, extremely good battery life).

I think the only feature we miss wrt disaster radio is dual radio support and full DSR.

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