Great to see yet another project to provide "offline"-ish comms.
The existing solutions are obviously not good enough yet, hence why all these projects are popping up. I hope we get to a good-enough one soon.
LoRa is great, but the bandwidth is terrible, so you'd be limited to Twitter sized messages when using this comms channel.
Meshcore and Meshtastic are, depending on your area, pretty good for offline comms. They provide a pretty compelling combination of encryption and no license, and there's a fairly lively set of users in my area.
MeshCore is currently budding out, unless you are in one of the few places where it is really entrenched. Just in the last 6 weeks I've been doing it, I've gone from basically receiving 0 messages to having to disconnect my phone from my client node last night because it was going crazy.
Much of the communication is like HAM radio: talking about the mesh.
Interesting project, thanks!
Seems a little complicated though? How do I set this to communicate over only TCP or Bluetooth? I think that's a common use case (where no Internet is available) yet it seems unnecessarily complex to activate.
I don’t really like this from the Reticulum repository: “[…] The Reticulum Protocol is defined entirely and authoritatively by this reference implementation, […]”.
The reason there are so many apps trying to solve offline decentralized communications is that there’s no standard protocol or path for it. Everybody tries to sell their app as the real solver.
Also, OS-dependant (iOS/Android only apps) won’t give any progress to the state-of-the-art.
How about iOS thought third-party App Stores?
I was looking so much for an iOS app that would be worth clicking thought those scary "Do you really want to do it" buttons.
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MeshCore is currently budding out, unless you are in one of the few places where it is really entrenched. Just in the last 6 weeks I've been doing it, I've gone from basically receiving 0 messages to having to disconnect my phone from my client node last night because it was going crazy.
Much of the communication is like HAM radio: talking about the mesh.
The reason there are so many apps trying to solve offline decentralized communications is that there’s no standard protocol or path for it. Everybody tries to sell their app as the real solver.
Also, OS-dependant (iOS/Android only apps) won’t give any progress to the state-of-the-art.