Anyone interested in Meshtastic/Meshcore?

[Sean Reifschneider]

I've been thinking about adding a meshtastic router or two for a while
here, but one of my coworkers has said he's interested as well, so last
night I placed an order for some gear.  There's a little bit of activity
around Fort Collins for Meshtastic and Meshcore.  Thought maybe some of the
NCLUG folks might be interested in it as well.

I'm planning on setting up a repeater on the roof at my house near Drake
and Taft, and another one on a 2 story commercial building at Prospect
and College.  Looks like there's around the same penetration of Meshtastic
and Mesh Core around here.  The big issue seems to be that Mesh Core
requires end devices to be able to reach a repeater node, where Meshtastic
can route via client devices as well.  But, Core seems to be a lot more
reliable.  If we had a repeater up at horsetooth, Core would probably be a
no-brainer, but it's not clear how well it'll work with what I'm planning
to add.  Probably will be an experiment, but there seem to be a couple
Meshtastic repeaters around and a couple users.

If you've read this far and are wondering what I'm talking about, these are
both systems for off-grid communications using little devices and the
915MHz band to form meshes and route traffic.  Devices for example can be
credit card, handheld radio, and also blackberry form factor devices.  Use
cases are disaster communications (if cell grid were to fail for example),
and they also have chatrooms for just general chatting or device-to-device
DM.

Sean
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