James

Took my #Meshcore devices in to work today and with the new antenna it's *so* easy to get messages out when you're three floors up!

Being picked up in Oxfordshire, the south coast, Lincolnshire... marvellous. 😁

Now if only there was a way for the network to join up with the continent. I think people on the south coast can see people's nodes in France and the Netherlands but I can't from the middle of England.

How come that even with a new Gizont (or similar) antenna I can't get messages out onto the mesh, but I can quite easily pick up 14 messages from the public channel in a row without a problem?
And my repeater can bounce other people's messages around the mesh?

#MeshCore

My Xiao repeater has died. Fell apart at the wire connections.
My solar panel does a fraction of the job I expected it to do.

Time for a change of plan.

I've put the antenna back on one of my Wio L1s, and replaced the Xiao's one, so all three devices are now back to stock configurations.

I'll turn one of the L1s into a repeater and see how well it does, and sell the Xiao, TP4056 and battery.

Then later in the year I'll probably buy a better solar panel (than my current, Chinese, allegedly 35W one - any recommendations?) and another LoRa board to run Meshcore on.

#Meshcore #LoRa #Solar #SolarPanels

Took my #Meshcore devices to work this morning. Three-storey building, and three quarters of the time got messages out onto the mesh, picked up by a repeater in London and bounced around the UK about 10 times. Pretty cool. :)

Also I nearly misspelled "mesh" as "mwah".

Mwahcore, anyone?

After a full day of charging in (late winter, northern hemisphere) direct sunshine, my new solar panel charged my power bank enough to recharge my #Meshcore repeater's battery by...

...somewhere between 6 and 10%. 🫤
Hrm.

Sir Ian McKellan has always been pretty high up in my estimation and I didn't think he could go any higher, but he just has.

https://youtu.be/wXq58BbhCO4

To just hold a room like that. Incredible.

He was talking about ICE and fear of immigrants, and then quotes Shakespeare that he performed in the 1960s – straight out like that.

#AskFedi

Is there a way to tell if a Fediverse instance/server runs on or is facilitated by Cloudflare, before signing up to it?
(...besides the connection verification captchas you see sometimes.)

I have three #Meshcore devices.

1) a Seeed Studio Xiao nRF[something] which is set up to be a repeater. It has the antenna of my second device, a stock Wio Tracker L1 Pro antenna.

2) a Seeed Studio Wio Tracker L1 Pro, with the antenna swapped with that of my first device. As such, its antenna is a little flappy strip of something.

3) a Seeed Studio Wio Tracker L1 Pro, unaltered, with original antenna.

Both devices 2 and 3 are companions.

Why, then, does device 3, with its larger, more substantial, 11cm-long antenna, see only a fraction of the messages in the Public and Test channels, whereas device 2 sees at least twice as much?

And why does my repeater struggle to get messages out on the mesh, but repeats others' messages quite happily?

Is there a petition anywhere for UK people to sign, to oppose our Great Leadership's plans to put VPNs behind age verification?
I've seen ones to oppose the NHS's integration of Palantir but not for that.

List of hashtags:
#politics #petition #UK #AgeVerification #VPN #UKpol