I was already building a homelab, and was eyeing SDR and Meshtastic gear.

Don't do it!! Next you'll be setting up a weather station. Then you'll be setting up a microphone to ID birds via Merlin. Then home Assistant. Oh gosh it never ends.

But it's so much fun.

This comment is targeting me personally.

Well now I'm looking at automatic bird id and logging so I can track local species and see what my attempts to turn my stretch of grass into a wildlife garden does... Thanks, I think?

I'm so sorry. Lol

They are all ready on my to do list, but just those three things.

So far. While at it consider storing all the Linux isos ever existed too

I feel attacked.

What weather station did you end up with? And if it’s already been set up, is it proving to be more useful than local weather stations?