Meshtastic is an open-source project using low cost LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without little or no communications infrastructure. It’s a portmanteau of Mesh and “fantastic”.
I found it shared on Facebook, which lead me to the subreddit post, which lead me to reading more about it and even finding Lemmy communities and local groups!
https://mander.xyz/c/meshtastic
I also made sure to check if this wasn’t a hail corporate thing. And I also felt like I missed the era of homemade radios. So this is exciting for me!
I’ve got a node on my roof. Solar powered RAKwireless. I can connect using my phone over bluetooth.
Can you give some details for how you bridged it to Matrix? That sounds interesting. (I have a matrix server too)
I believe this is the bridge I’m using: https://github.com/jeremiah-k/meshtastic-matrix-relay
This is great! Looks like they just added BLE support too. Thanks!