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Sideband
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Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network
yggdrasil can use WiFi on Android, I haven't tried it yet - https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/. yggdrasil gives you the ability to use TCP/IP applications over its mesh network but doesn't offer any end-user functionality itself.
Manyverse can use WiFi for decentralised social networking - https://www.manyver.se/. They're currently in the middle of a rewrite of the backend and a protocol switch away from Secure Scuttlebutt to their own protocol currently named PPPPP.
Reticulum/Sideband offers a P2P messaging system over WiFi or other mediums - https://github.com/markqvist/sideband
- Sideband v0.4.0 - with Paper Messaging and better hardware support - has been released
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Reticulum Development Roadmap
Related programs such as Sideband and Nomadnet has also had their repositories updated with more visible roadmaps.
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A comparison of various anonymity/privacy focusing networks
Mobile support: Yes, Android only for now though. There is an example Android messaging app that uses Reticulum here: https://github.com/markqvist/sideband. The app source code can be used as an example for others that want to use Reticulum on Android, at least until I get around to writing a full Android development guide. There is some preliminary info in the manaul on the topic here as well: https://reticulum.network/manual/gettingstartedfast.html#reticulum-on-android
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3 mile text coms no license
While it still requires a few more steps to set up, a system based on Reticulum, using a client like Sideband is a lot more flexible. You can mount the radios in optimal positions, for examples on your roof or another high spot, and Reticulum can automatically bridge the LoRa and your home wifi network, so everyone on the wifi network can share the single radio on your house, without having to connect anything directly to their phones/devices. Here is how one user have utilised this during hurricane Ian.
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Sideband (version 20221005): LXMF client
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Sideband: LXMF client
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Are any of you actually working on privacy-related projects?
I have built a few simple communications tools with Reticulum, Nomadnet and Sideband.
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Internet/ Mobile outage preps
https://reticulum.network https://github.com/markqvist/sideband https://github.com/markqvist/nomadnet
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- FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared
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Show HN: Extend Zigbee sensor range with LoRaWAN
This is a fantastic idea, thanks for sharing. I feel like LoRaWAN and LoRAMESH are the perfect solution for shuffling messaging around for home and property sensors, easily traversing a couple miles in poor conditions.
Prior to seeing this I was thinking about how to use the Meshtastic [0] project to fundamentally provide simple UDP services for message brokering over LoRa. There are so many sensors that could easily hook or connect to devices acting as network routers that could bridge other protocols across long distances very easily.
Have you looked at doing something similar with ZWave at all?
[0] https://meshtastic.org/
- Amateur Radio Fatalism
- Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network
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T-Mobile introduce fines from Jan 1 for "Code of Conduct" violations
Truly independent peer-to-peer internet when?
Seriously, I think more and more about building a LoRa network with friends. https://meshtastic.org/
- What Is LoRa: The Fundamentals
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FCC will vote on plan to remove outdated amateur radio technical restrictions
Agreed-- at least relaxing the restriction for UHF/SHF signals on a "secondary usage" basis (traffic must yield to plaintext). Potentially with with reduced power (say 100w) or minimum directionality, but I think a 'secondary usage' would be sufficient. Without doing so virtually all experimentation will continue to be deflected onto the ISM bands and we will lose our allocations through disuse.
So long as identification is still decodable, spectrum usage can be managed.
It's sufficient to prohibit commercial usage you don't need plaintext to do so. The old threat of tow trucks and cab services moving onto ham-bands had long since been mooted by ubiquitous cellular, but even if it weren't any significant commercial usage will eventually have a whistleblower. Usage that is obscure enough to not be vulnerable to whistleblowers could also be hidden just as well in "plaintext" traffic that was really uncrackable steganography.
As it stands you can't even lawfully log into your own personal systems over amateur radio even if you take the unreasonable steps of using specially modified software to authenticate-but-not-encrypt because inevitably some third party will send a message to you via the internet that contains some naughty words that aren't permitted over the radio.
Without relaxing the encryption rules, innovative radio usage like meshtastic (https://meshtastic.org/) will continue to be pushed onto ISM bands where (1) they're still technically unlawful because the homebrew hardware is not type-accepted (amateur bands are the ONLY place where homebrew intentional radiators are allowed!) and (2) where the band choices, power limit, and EIRP limits are detrimental to full exploration of the possibilities.
Besides, the FCC has long allowed proprietary, license fee bearing, patent encumbered digital modes. These are very close to encryption in terms of their ability to lock others out of ham comms, and have frequently been used by amateur radio groups to establish "lid free" communications channels. (Because most of the more irritating people aren't technically sophisticated enough to adopt some new mode without help, and people won't help them...).
The rules as they stand punish honest people who follow the intent and spirit of the rule in favor of people willing to just ignore the rules (including operating unlawful devices in ISM bands), willing to use stego, or willing to use obscure protocols to achieve the same ends that they'd otherwise achieve with encryption. It blocks modern networking by disallowing standard internet-grade software use with radio since all of it has integral encryption which generally can't be disabled to prevent downgrading and cross domain attacks in contexts where the encryption is needed -- or because in some cases the protocols are designed in such a way that authentication without encypherment isn't possible.
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Qaul – Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App
Meh.... very very low range.
For ~$20 you can get a LoRa dongle and https://meshtastic.org/, and with some luck (someone putting a node on a hgh building or a hill), you can reach quite impressive distances.
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Meshtastic (version 30109): An inexpensive open-source GPS mesh radio for hiking, skiing, flying, marching.
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What are some alternatives?
TranslateYou - Privacy focused translator app built with MD3
disaster-radio - A (paused) work-in-progress long-range, low-bandwidth wireless disaster recovery mesh network powered by the sun.
Reticulum - The cryptography-based networking stack for building unstoppable networks with LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi and everything in between.
EBYTE - Libraries to program and use UART-based EBYTE wireless data transceivers
NomadNet - Communicate Freely
ESP32-Paxcounter - Wifi & BLE driven passenger flow metering with cheap ESP32 boards
fake_contacts - Create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning.
LoRa-Stopwatch - Stopwatch with countdown for multiple devices being synchronized via LoRa
quetre - A libre front-end for Quora
ClusterDuck-Protocol - Firmware for an ad-hoc mesh network of Internet-of-Things devices based on LoRa (Long Range radio) that can be deployed quickly and at low cost.
libremdb - A free & open source IMDb front-end.
ParaDrone - AutoPilot for Parachutes