Anyone interested in Meshtastic/Meshcore?

[Sean Reifschneider]

I believe Helium hardware is likely to be the same, depends on exactly what
chipset it is, but I'd be optimistic about that.

Sean

On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 11:58 AM Brian Grossman <brian.grossman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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