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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?
- 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FCC will vote on plan to remove outdated amateur radio technical restrictions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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questions about getting into Lora?
Perhaps checkout Meshtastic, it pretty much does what you want. https://meshtastic.org/
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not sure where to begin
Yes, but only via a MQTT broker. Meshtastic isn't LoRaWAN so it doesn't include that type of capability by default, but I'm not the expert on that aspect of it. If you check out the docs at meshtastic.org, and the Discourse forum link at the top of that site you might be able to find better answers to that question.
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I got tired of not being able to text my friends, so I found a solution: $30 DIY LoRa personal mesh nodes with Meshtastic!
I know a lot of people have the problem of not being able to reliably get in contact with friends, and walkie talkies are basically useless unless you get somewhere quiet. I knew there had to be a way to get texting over walkie talkies or something similar, so I did some googling and came across this project called Meshtastic.
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LoRa Text Messaging Networks
That is the very 1st item that https://meshtastic.org/ does:
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are there any private voice and text chat apps for local areas over wifi or bluetooth? for android?
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- Current best mesh network app?
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Any not so obvious alternative ways to access the internet,communication or information during shtf
Software / app: https://meshtastic.org/ Meshtastic is one of the apps you can run on your devices AND is the firmware provider for the Lora devices. So you flash the device with meshtastic, install the app on the phone, pair the phone with the lora, and start chatting.
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Open Source Communication Radio Network - Meshtastic
There's this really cool project that uses inexpensive radios that can communicate over kilometers to build a "mesh network."
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Ham vs Mobile GMRS Radio's
Check out https://meshtastic.org/ or https://meshtastic.letstalkthis.com/ for information on the software side and links to purchase the hardware.
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Meshtastic
Anyone in San Antonio interested to test Meshtastic range?link
What are some alternatives?
disaster-radio - A (paused) work-in-progress long-range, low-bandwidth wireless disaster recovery mesh network powered by the sun.
ESP32-Paxcounter - Wifi & BLE driven passenger flow metering with cheap ESP32 boards
NomadNet - Communicate Freely
EBYTE - Libraries to program and use UART-based EBYTE wireless data transceivers
Meshtastic-gui-installer - Cross platform, easy to use GUI for installing Meshtastic firmware.
LoRa-Stopwatch - Stopwatch with countdown for multiple devices being synchronized via LoRa
wrolpi - Create your own off-grid library
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.
python - The Python CLI and API for talking to Meshtastic devices
ParaDrone - AutoPilot for Parachutes
network-management-client - A Meshtastic desktop client, allowing simple, offline deployment and administration of an ad-hoc mesh communication network. Built in Rust and TypeScript.