Top 5 packet-radio Open-Source Projects

Reticulum

83 1,538 9.4 Python

The cryptography-based networking stack for building unstoppable networks with LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi and everything in between.

Project mention: Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-31

Any views/comparison reagarding freakwan versus reticulum https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum ?

direwolf

18 1,469 7.0 C

Dire Wolf is a software "soundcard" AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, as a tracker, digipeater, APRStt gateway, or Internet Gateway (IGate). For more information, look at the bottom 1/4 of this page and in https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/dev/doc/README.md

Project mention: What signal is this? the frequency is around 144.8 and I am listening from Bucharest. the only sound i can compare it to would be a velociraptor noise. the second image shows a sound that sounds like white noise and happen much more frequently. thanks in advance for anyone who helps! | /r/RTLSDR | 2023-06-04

144.800 is the APRS frequency in Europe. That's part of the 2m amateur band, and you can use tools like Direwolf to decode the packets. See https://aprs.fi/ for a display of the packets that make it to the internet.

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NomadNet

8 430 8.4 Python

Communicate Freely
Sideband

9 231 9.5 Python

LXMF client for Android, Linux and macOS allowing you to communicate with people or LXMF-compatible systems over Reticulum networks using LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi, I2P, or anything else Reticulum supports.

Project mention: Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-31

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

aioax25

1 18 3.9 Python

Asynchronous AX.25 library using asyncio
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).