<div dir="ltr">I believe Helium hardware is likely to be the same, depends on exactly what chipset it is, but I'd be optimistic about that.<div><br></div><div>Sean</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 11:58 AM Brian Grossman <<a href="mailto:brian.grossman@gmail.com">brian.grossman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Brian</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 7:22 PM Sean Reifschneider <<a href="mailto:jafo00@gmail.com" target="_blank">jafo00@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Sean</div></div>
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