Anyone interested in Meshtastic/Meshcore?

[Brian Grossman]

Is hardware left over from messing around with Helium useful here?  A
friend has several LoRa boxes and related equipment lying around from that
unfortunate experience.

Brian


On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 7:22 PM Sean Reifschneider <jafo00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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