Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network
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HN comment orderRelated: https://github.com/antirez/freakwan/ Disclaimer: I'm the author. The concept is similar to Meshtastic, but the goal was to make more documented and clear choices at protocol level, to have a much simpler to hack and adapt implementation, and so forth. If you happen to understand Italian, I gave a talk about it here: https://talks.codemotion.com/introduzione-alla-tecnologia-rf...
We're using Meshtastic quite extensively for communication on our boat. Each crew member carries a mobile waterproof node (Seeed T1000e), the boat itself has a node, and we also have a Meshtastic tracker for the dinghy. We often sail in places where there's no communication infrastructure, or it is prohibitively expensive. With Meshtastic we can talk when somebody goes ashore, and the boat can send telemetry and alerts to the remote crew. Some of our buddy boats also have Meshtastic…
Ongoing thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44287395
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- Total points
- 668
- Total comments
- 155
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-18 | Lora GPS Mesh Communicator | thcipriani | 22 | 0 |
| 2024-01-01 | Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh networkFirst breakout · Best thread | 882542F3884314B | 335 | 78 |
| 2025-06-16 | An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh net network | doener | 8 | 1 |
| 2025-07-29 | Meshtastic: Open-source off-grid decentralized mesh networking | pimterry | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-11-30 | MeshtasticLatest 20+ point return | debo_ | 301 | 76 |