AUS - Brisbane

[tired tartan]

then self amagamating tape over the antenna bits

wish i could pull nodelists remotely to see snr

[sand coyote]

E2f8 is back in business, thankfully.

[sand coyote]

We're receiving you @plucky flame

[plucky flame]

Works if I stand up.

[plucky flame]

SNR -15 @sand coyote

[sand coyote]

Wow!

[plucky flame]

80km!

[sand coyote]

That's amazing!

Maybe you should temporarily enable your real GPS location? That way ot shows the right distance.

SNR was 6 on my beam antenna

[sand coyote]

SNR 6.5 @plucky flame !

[plucky flame]

Surely via someone else

[sand coyote]

Yeah, JBMesh according to the traceroute above.

[sand coyote]

80.7 KM

[plucky flame]

I had my real GPS location on. High accuracy! On Mt Cordeaux.
I had a more reliable connection standing up holding the T echo. But I was there with friends so didn't really want to stand around mucking about with radios. But I'll have a look at the screenshots and range test.csv data later!

Thanks. It worked better than I expected!!

I even managed to get a direct connection to my roof node. Which was theoretically possible, but very much depending on fresnel zones. I'll paste the screenshots later.

I'm super impressed with the Zissor TX915-JKD and Gizont whip too. Can solidly recommend.

Thanks for changing out the repeater batteries!

It could be worth getting a RAK wisblock board. And keep ESP32 for DC powered nodes at houses. The power consumption is significantly different. RAK nrf52 7mA vs maybe 100 or 150mA on ESP32.

I'll chip in $15 or $20 🍻
https://a.aliexpress.com/_msgi5cm

Also no pressure. We might eventually find someone who lives on the hills.
I still have to get my roof up to 3m once I get guy wires.

[plucky flame]

@hazy prairie hope you zoomed in on the picture above.

[sand coyote]

I'm happy to do the same.

[plucky flame]

Here's the line of sight from Mt Cordeaux.

Zooming in on the Brisbane section. I think I mainly connected with the southside nodes: Scott, foodie, my roof node. I think part of Mt Cordeaux peak kind of blocks the view to the northside from where I was standing.

This is the profile to my place in Fairfield. I get tiny red specks of LOS on that map.

This is the profile to Scott in Sunnybank hills. I had the best connection to him despite the peaks close to cutting out LOS.

From this website: https://www.heywhatsthat.com/

I didn't get any CSV data on my ESP32 roof node. Maybe it doesn't save it unless I'm connected. Though it also forgot it's GPS position, so maybe a glitch.
CSV data from the T Echo wasn't that helpful. SNR was -15 to -17.5 with one -19.5.

[tired tartan]

why does android report like that

dont think ive seen negative snr on ios

or the cli

flicked geebong to client mode so i got telemetry

see if it actually charges

[tired tartan]

invested 4 deep in solar wisblocks so it better lol

[plucky flame]

Negative SNR is definitely a thing. I've seen others discuss it too.

I think it means the signal is weaker than the noise, but mathematically I'd expect that to be an SNR between 0 and 1. 🤷‍♂️

#esp32 message

[tired tartan]

the reviews here are interesting https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005015440987.html

[plucky flame]

I still think this is best Flexi whip, and it made 80km too! ⛰️
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mOr2nTy

[tired tartan]

i put one in my cart yesterday 🙂

soldered a 5v bme280 under the screen on the tbeam

seems to work

mate at boondall was waving around a heltec yesterday on a pole without luck, he got some packets but no one heard him, hopefully he has a better antenna in that ali order

[plucky flame]

The heltec coil is shiiiit.
If he has the L shaped case, do the mod that I did:

#enclosures-discussion message

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[tired tartan]

its teh diymall antenna, the atomicx radio

i modded the stubby one to be close

i was going to put that in the muzi case that suits that antenna

[tired tartan]

those not heltec looking wireless stick lites must be this commit
Add board and variant definitions for EBYTE_ESP32-S3

[tired tartan]

LUST and 0c1e

[tired tartan]

0c1e is going to rex's

i have another complete twin for mountain top at clear mountain

more battery as more trees

[tired tartan]

after a lashing of sikaflex and self almagamating tape

[tired tartan]

Fraz roof testing noted

[tired tartan]

mountain top lit up for testing to boonie

i have hardware going there this week

this is all under control 🙂

754b is clear mountain

0c1e is new rex kit in testing here

18?active

[sand coyote]

From the Helium roof mounted

Will keep an eye out for any direct connection during the day.

[plucky flame]

Yeah, currently not on the roof! Upgrading the enclosure, no longer a peanut jar.

I haven't put the height up yet!

Where about is Rex again? I often have a direct connection

And where did all the extra nodes suddenly appear from??

And where did Bill and co in Redcliffe go?

[sand coyote]

You were able to see Bill? I've never been able to from here.

[tired tartan]

Manly West

[plucky flame]

Really! Wow.

[tired tartan]

might get a bigger battery from altronics for it

maybe

[plucky flame]

This case is a tight squeeze for a Heltec WSL.

Surprisingly wifi works without an external antenna. I think it's because the onboard folded metal antenna is touching the inside of the case and so the whole metal case is radiating wifi signal.

But the metal case isn't connected to ground. It might not work so well on the roof with an earthed antenna pole.

[plucky flame]

No never seen Bill. He's dropped off MQTT. Might have local connections he is happy with.

[tired tartan]

what area is e2f8 in?

i saw him once from the top of the hill on newman rd

oh lol

[plucky flame]

Woah! Mountain top is ages away!

I wish more people put approximate locations.

[tired tartan]

its so nice opening fresh rak boxes

[tired tartan]

damnit one is a rak4631-r with wrong bootloader

[tired tartan]

oh forgot barry

[compact quartz]

I would suggest bending down the metal wire holding it on, however we can’t tell if it may be helping.

[plucky flame]

Yeah, just very temporary to get some link.

[eager matrix]

I'm not on mqqqtttt so assuming these are all local mesh. When i had mqt on it would give me 100's all over au.

[tired tartan]

yes about 50 in my node db

😄

[plucky flame]

At least 3 of those are me, looks like renaming a node makes a new line.

[plucky flame]

That's good at 915. How is it at 920?

[tired tartan]

thats 800-1000 scale

[sand coyote]

I did a NodeDB reset recently and I count 35 nodes. Still trying to help CowHerb in Logan Central get back online with his two nodes.

[tired tartan]

more height and a better antenna haha

or friends in high places 😛 🇯🇲

rex must go over the top

[eager matrix]

ill reset now and check

[plucky flame]

My roof node is back up. And slightly higher at 2.1m! Using section of tarp pole dropped inside the TV antenna pole, the full 3.5m I'll need guy wires.

Also I measured the voltage drop over 10m of 20AWG 2 care. And it goes from 5.1V at the plug to 4.98V with the heltec powered up. So I'm happy to skip the DC-DC buck converter.

Btw, there's suddenly 17 nodes on the mesh!

I have direct connections to:
Rex -8.3, 16km!
DMJ -4.8, 4.3km
7e9c -7.5, ?km
E2F8 +7.3💪, ?km
Hainam_chicken -18.5, ?km
Fish -14, ?km

What sort of antenna does Rex have?

[tired tartan]

ziisor

one of the solar things is for there

[eager matrix]

2hrs worth

[plucky flame]

Is it the short 26cm fibreglass Ziisor? The 40cm sucks unless you need a middling 1.1GHz antenna.

[tired tartan]

yer

[eager matrix]

if i could get nodes on cli i would script it to post here every few houers

[tired tartan]

lol

[plucky flame]

Stage 3 of the roof node. Now in an aluminum enclosure. The plastic ones of a similar size all have seams down the side that are no good for cable gland or N type mounting.

And it's about 2.1m tall. The shiny bit is the inner section of a long tarp pole, with a hole drilled and M4 bolt through it to stop it dropping all the way into the old TV aerial mount.

I'm waiting on some more bits to put thin stainless guy wires up, and then I'll put the top section of the tarp pole on, and aim for 3 to 3.5m.

[tired tartan]

i might have gone direct to barry then

[plucky flame]

And stainless u bolts, don't worry the plastic zip ties are temporary.

[tired tartan]

just waiting to hear from old mate on clear mt to take one up

[plucky flame]

What do you mean? I see Barry Wood on and off directly. Currently offline.

[plucky flame]

Anyway, just wanted to share, if you have a TV aerial, it would be quite easy to extend with a bit of tarp pole from council clean up.

[tired tartan]

maybe barry wood can hear me occasionally

id usually go out via rex

[plucky flame]

My SNR has improved! DMJ was average -9.3 now -3.9, and E2F8 was +5.4 now +6.6. Rex is highly variable so it's hard to tell. Current average -4.3.

[tired tartan]

yea i have one for there too

hehe

atomic on my case to do the mountain first

[sand coyote]

Found some nodes down at Tamborine.

[plucky flame]

4 hops! Barry wood must be in some sort of repeater mode.

[tired tartan]

nice direct barry to the mountain

it is 🙂

i can put the mountain in router too

wonder where it went

[sand coyote]

@plucky flame This is as direct as I've managed so far.

[tired tartan]

nice

[plucky flame]

And without the e2f8 repeater.

Common Scott, you know you want to put a tent pole on your TV mast with a node on it... 😈

[tired tartan]

wondering if this thing on the mountain slid down behind the tv pole

lucky i have on site engineers

[plucky flame]

Which thing?

[tired tartan]

i think he hets a bit too much shade on the house, but there's a power pole on clear mtn rd

if we go put it up on the street power pole it will also go over lake kurwongbah

might be worth it

clear mountain went down as soon as i left lol

but he got off the roof and boonie was chatting so i bailed

[tired tartan]

0c1e islying on the ground

outside

i see a bug in the latest python cli too

with traceroutes

[sand coyote]

@plucky flame Thanks. What does 1 hop away mean and why no SNR?

[plucky flame]

SNR is only meaningful for nodes you are connected to. Otherwise you just see the SNR of some other random connection that node has. So it's more useful to know which nodes you can hear from directly (have an SNR reading) and others are howany hops away are they.

1 hop means there's one node linking you to them.

[sand coyote]

I get a SNR for LUST?

[tired tartan]

shouldnt

its on my couch

[plucky flame]

Yeah. I don't know why that would be.

I have hops away:2 to lust. Unknown username (Barry 🍆?) And Geebong.

[tired tartan]

geebong is router client

because there's 3other radios here

so i can get telemtery but i might crontab something, was using this rak11310 7822 for cli stuff

i need to set up another hidden client with mqtt

or buy an ethernet module 🤔

[tired tartan]

its very strange like there wasnt anything obvious what would make the mountain have issues

i'll 3d print a pole adapter for a different antenna pole we had issues with

[sand coyote]

What's the secret to getting WIFI working on the Heltec V3's? I can't see the IP address on my wifi.

[tired tartan]

i think 8e7c was up a mountain as i got a new node notification

pretty sure thats only direct?

you cant have bluetooth on too

its one or the other

[sand coyote]

Yeah, I switched off bluetooth but didn't see the node get allocated an IP address so couldn't connect to it.

[plucky flame]

My heltec V3 worked. Note that the onboard antenna is rubbish. But should work in the same room, or maybe room next door. The WSL having a wifi ipex is better.

[sand coyote]

Ah OK. It's probably too far from the router. Thanks @plucky flame !

[plucky flame]

No worries Scott. I hear people have improved the wifi by replacing the coil with a 31mm straight wire. 😆

[plucky flame]

I got an extremely high SNR. +7.8 must have been up Mt Cootha with a good antenna. If we all saw it direct.

[tired tartan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO-s-34VcPU 🙂

lol a piece of wire is better

[plucky flame]

I can't believe they managed to make a bad wifi antenna. I have a flexible PCB antenna for the WSL inside my metal enclosure (/Faraday cage) on the roof and the signal still gets down to the router inside 😆

[tired tartan]

seems its firmware < 2.2.19 that doxes you on mqtt

[tired tartan]

thats when it added the flag so you could filter them

[tired tartan]

its probably in in mqtt somewhere as to who it is

[plucky flame]

Although then you need someone in the mesh with MQTT on, and you'd get spill over of the dozen or so nodes across Australia.
I wondered if it was a node with fixed location that travelled down to Brisbane, but there were two Townsville nodes that appeared at the same time.. mysterious

[tired tartan]

i think its one of those trackers

surprised no ones dossed the mqtt actually, its be easy to put a million nodes into it

[sand coyote]

@plucky flame is your node in outer space?

[plucky flame]

About 10% of the way to the moon! 🌝

(it's currently indoors and confused since it can't see the sky)

[tired tartan]

this bme280 isn't very accurate

its what you get for $2.39 though

[tired tartan]

emailed that van.jupiter.au chap seeing if the mqtt leak is them

[sand coyote]

Too bad if I wanted to chat to someone else 😀

[tired tartan]

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006340203806.html

$21.30 after tax for a wsl

[sand coyote]

Looks like E2F8 is solar powered now. I think we should all buy Fish a beer.

[uncut thicket]

Is there much MQTT activity here in AUS or am I just not receiving much?

[tired tartan]

im trying to hunt whoever has it on

and get them to upgrade

prior to 2.2.19 there was no mqtt header so ignore mqtt doesnt work

i guess not much because its internet relay chat and why bother

also using the default mqtt doxes you

[tired tartan]

hehe

CheeseMaster lives near atomicx

we've reached him with the expansion

need to improve 7e9c some i think its leaves

[plucky flame]

I haven't used MQTT since I got a real antenna and could contact people! Once you can join the mesh mqtt actually causes problems by overloading the mesh with retransmition of everyone's nodeinfo and location packets.

[tired tartan]

hey Jupiter replied

2.3.3 there..

I'm working on a module for meshtastic to periodically query my solar charger over modbus and send it over the mesh. That's really my use case and tracking the location of my caravan.

awesome

[uncut thicket]

yeah ok. There is no one within range of me so my only form of communication is via mqtt

[plucky flame]

Where about are you and what antenna are you using?

[tired tartan]

get on heywhatsthat.com and make a panorama and see where you get a line to

i did that, found my mate rex's place and put one on his roof

[tired tartan]

not bad if yer in the market https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006812809090.html

like me 🙂

plan c for 7e9c

were plan b right now, printed adapters to get back on plan a

[tired tartan]

i think cheese has mqtt on

cant trace route

have signal strength in app

[sand coyote]

@tired tartan

[tired tartan]

cool off clearmtn

weird i couldnt get a traceroute

oh well 🙂

[plucky flame]

Don't do what I did and order the RAK4630 and 19003, excitedly unwrap it and discover the 4630 you have doesn't have the backing board for the wisblock kits. 👀🙈

Seems like the 4630 wisblock modules are out of stock.

[tired tartan]

hehe woops

iot-store had them

i might have a loose one

wonder if we can deploy just the chip on a 3v3 reg

[plucky flame]

Here's the current mesh trace route map

[tired tartan]

8a60 is on my desk

made it for rex, when i take this solar beast over.

[plucky flame]

I have a direct connection to 8a60 I think! Desk at work?

[tired tartan]

haha no

well yes i work at home

[plucky flame]

How on earth am I connected to it directly? SNR -7.3

[tired tartan]

these bme280s are not so accurate

its 5v tho that just means theres 3v3 reg on the board too

[plucky flame]

Those tx915-jkd antennas are impressive though.

[tired tartan]

that ones the diymall that comes with the 2 heltec v3 deal

just average

was ~1.5 in the extended position

and a potato when bent

we go camping every year and aim for no mobile reception

then someone builds some crazy wifi network

or tries and we sabotage it

or last year we just brought starlink

this year i think we're saying we're bringing starlink then not

if we go the usual place i'm tempted to leave a repeater just to see if its there the next time

you might have had this mac in your nodedb from driving thru chermside when it was on the pole

0c1e is new rex when i go there

[plucky flame]

I only put nodes on the traceroute map that are currently responding.

[sand coyote]

@plucky flame

Can't see your outer space node though.

[plucky flame]

I'm back ! When I post a comment the app pops up a message notification with my message from unknown unknown.

Yeah the other nodes are off.

[sand coyote]

Yeah mine too. Figure it's that beta app.

[plucky flame]

Ah! I'll leave it alone, the Devs will notice I'm sure.

[sand coyote]

Would hope so.

[tired tartan]

it will trickle in

[plucky flame]

Did my nodeinfo stop updating? What did you see?

[sand coyote]

I did a NodeDB reset and you took ages to come back. I still have no LUST.

[tired tartan]

i think they want to remove the node info broadcasts as it all just trickles in anyway

[plucky flame]

Ah. I was on 30 min position updates. I'll just leave it at 15.

[sand coyote]

Yeah, that should be fine.

[plucky flame]

Sorry the nodeinfo defaults to 3 hours. I left that alone. The position updates are the main way nodes seem to be updated in the node list.

[tired tartan]

max node list is 100

didnt have that on my bingo card last week

[cobalt cypress]

what do you mean?

do you mean 106 is too many?

hello everyone, by the way.

[sand coyote]

Hey hey Jupiter.

[tired tartan]

Howdy

100 in the device memory but more on your phone

[plucky flame]

Hello Jupiter!

[plucky flame]

How are you connected to 86? Do you have mqtt on but some non-RF transmission setting?

[sharp kiln]

4631 is what you want.

[plucky flame]

That's the one! Do I want Arduino or RUI3. Doesn't the Rui have the wrong bootloader or something?

[sharp kiln]

arduino, i believe. would be prudent to check elsewhere also 😛

[tired tartan]

bootloader was easy

i need to try bluetooth dfu

[tired tartan]

first attempt wasnt happy

[cobalt cypress]

I have uplink turned on and downlink turned off for LongFast

right now I'm not connected via RF to anyone else. I need to relocate my node

really high ceiling there

[tired tartan]

you have los to rex

maybe even from inside after this upgrade hehe

it will be cool if i dont need the pole after

[tired tartan]

none of the radios i ordered last week have shipped yet

splurged on a t-echo and gizont for myself

[polar bone]

Where’d you buy from? I ordered t-echos from an aliexpress seller. 6 weeks and they still hadn’t been shipped - he said the manufacturer was swamped with orders. Aliexpress ended up cancelling the order.

I ordered some heltecs direct from heltec and they took about 2 weeks before they shipped

[tired tartan]

alianda for rak items and "chip board house store" https://www.aliexpress.com/store/5795449

alianda were fast last time

yea heltec was slow, i usually try for the choice deals on ali as they have different logistics

[sand coyote]

Can definitely recommend replacing BT antenna on the Heltec V3. Took me only a couple of minutes and I reused the coil wire.

[honest harbor]

Hi all, Tom from ipswich (Coalfalls Repeater, and coalfalls MQTT bridge) when able I will be putting the Coalfalls Repeater outside on the back fence I've seen people talk about the RAK4631 solar encolsure anyone got a link to share? Thanks currently inside with a 5DBi antenna and a 1,0000mAh battery

the coalfalls MQTT bridge is a Heltec v3 connected via wifi

[sharp kiln]

Howdy @honest harbor. I'm in Raceview. I don't have a permanent node set up, but I should get that sorted. A repeater up on Denmark Hill would be good 😉

[tired tartan]

i have 3 rak4631's running

one doesnt get any real sun, 2000mah, 3 weeks easy before i need to go fix it

i would say full sun the rak little panel and the biggest battery is probably fine

the one up at clear mountain,with the trees, i ordered a ~$20 soshine panel and a roll of asa filament as a backup i'

but i dont want to ride my mate up there with problems i'll proabaly take that up

https://www.printables.com/en/model/221500-meshtastic-6w-solar-enclosure-base-station-lora-no#preview

upside down antenna is weird heh

[tired tartan]

probably wire in a dc jack the same as the panel has into the case and mount the panel seperatly

#1222828316348649522 message

if you want to make a few check out https://github.com/ndoo/ikoka-nano-meshtastic-device

[honest harbor]

Thanks all for the suggestions ive got a 5v 10w usb-c panel from ali-express ill mount the panel and do a drip loop and a connection on the bottom of the enclosure. Hi @sharp kiln totally agree a repeater on Denmark hill would be really cool.

Ive got two mobile v3 that ive ordered better cases (support external antennas and have a battery compartment)

[sharp kiln]

I have 5x RAK meshtastic starter kits in 3d printed cases, plus another 5 that I'm custodian of.

[tired tartan]

the nice!nano clone arrived today but my e22 radio wont be here for a while

[sharp kiln]

The first 5 are mine. All 10 have GPS modules. Units 1-4 have the rak buzzer units.

Mine are all set up for mobile use at military simulation events. (ie fat kids in the bush playing with toy guns).

[honest harbor]

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/126456249443

[tired tartan]

lol

i tried printing this and it's never just right

although i could spit one out in resin i guess.

or try something other than petg

[honest harbor]

Ok good to know will be good to get them and see how we go

[tired tartan]

lets see what a quote is from https://jlc3dp.com/

$16 delviered

in transparent resin

damn im tempted thats easier than cleaning the prints

i would like one with a switch on the battery like tonys

[honest harbor]

wow

[plucky flame]

Photos for fish. Before adjustment.

And after adjustment. 919MHz SWR 1.086. Marginal gains, and you'd aim for 920MHz (919.875)

It's currently on my roof, but next time I'm doing upgrades I'll try and remember to take an after photo.

[sand coyote]

This seems to me like the long way around to @plucky flame

[plucky flame]

919.87MHz SWR 1.019.
Sharp! 🤩

[tired tartan]

another one https://aprs.fi/#!z=12&call=a%252FMESH-53fa

[cobalt cypress]

I've been using these antennas and I seem to make a good connection back to myself from various places but not typically the best to other nodes

TX915-XPL-100 915MHz SMA-J Interface 50 Ohm Impedance Less than 1.5 SWR 3.5dBi Gain High-Quality Sucker Antenna
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mtjnPZ4

the hops away thing is new, and something I was dreaming about the other day

[plucky flame]

Has anyone used the 3D printers at the State Library - 'The Edge'?

[tired tartan]

looks like they have prusas

and you need to do a session first

wonder if someone stops them if they stuff up when you're not there for the whole 5hr print

i just gave one away and almost impulse bought the new multi material kobra 3 too haha

[tired tartan]

27/80

[tired tartan]

i think its papa b22c with old release and mqtt, by the links in meshmap. no hops in the node list.

[tired tartan]

unless that's just the last hop

[honest harbor]

morning all, not a biggie having trouble setting the time on my nodes, did a bit of research and from my understanding my nodes get their time off the time shared by my internet connected v3. I belive I've set the time zones correctly in the posix Timezone EST-10 at 9.45am it was saying the time is 15:33 Many thanks, also the 3d printed cases came, very happy with them however the 1000mAh battires are just a bit too big for the case and being held together with rubberbands, I've found the 3mf file, now need to find a way to extend the back then have it printed, have a great day all

[honest harbor]

@sharp kiln i was thinking about repeaters around Ipswich then i remember this group
https://www.facebook.com/share/vVPRhPWugtThxSEL/?mibextid=qi2Omg
No idea about how to approach them but wonder if they would like to help out

Or
https://vk4wip.org.au/

[sand coyote]

@plucky flame

@rare adder

[tired tartan]

i know the building manager there, he drinks bourbon and tonic, .. right?

[tired tartan]

well it was at the cc

so this wsl wifi was so bad i put the rak 2.4g antenna on and it's 100% better buit still bad

need to find another router to smash

local mqtt 😛

do i just pump this into elasticsearch or what

[plucky flame]

I have a 5 pack of flexible wifi PCB antenna from this seller that are surprisingly effective. I have one on the WSL inside the aluminium enclosure on the tin roof and it still gets a link to the router inside. 😲
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mP6VnOq

[tired tartan]

2000mah made 3 weeks or so on the mountain, really need a bigger panel with all those trees

the $3.29 poly 40x55mm works fine here 🙂

i have a soshine 6w about to arrive

i think teh actual issue is only moving it

throw the 7db antenna on too see if that fixes my otehr issues

the real pain is how long it would take to charge it

its all rak it works fine when you install it right

its all my fault

need to be there at midday

i printed some brackets to fix our mounting issues we had

cmr is a handheld it shoudl route via 7e9c on the roof

which is about to turn off 🙂

it wasnt getting a good signal to bracken ridge / boondall but the handheld was from teht op balcony so thats just tweaking too i hope

going to manly to replace rex with 0c1e this morning

close to the water towers

i get a slither of los to there, so its my way out of here

then to the mountain and to boondall just 2km up the road 🙂

[tired tartan]

woop

rex the second

now i guess i need to go repair the mountain

[tired tartan]

using my 3d printed pvc and cable tie mounting system

[tired tartan]

this tree here is annoying

[tired tartan]

put a 7db antenna on there to see if a bit more gain helps

[tired tartan]

@honest harbor #enclosures-discussion message damn hows that one from jlbpcb

im going to sell my resin printers

[honest harbor]

Thanks @tired tartan they look really good I'm super happy with the fronts from the ebay seller however I need to get / ask someone to help with extending the back the battries I found are a bit too big have the case held together with rubberbands :-p

also got my enclusure for my RAK from amazon very happy with it just need to figure out a way to mount the solar panel for it

[tired tartan]

i got some asa filament to make one for the soshine panels

theres one already on the way

there's an 8m power pole behind my tree photo

but it gets way less sun

i'll probably have to take my pizza oven over and do pizzas to distract from the ladder work

[honest harbor]

nice, I've the extended back back mod for the case and should (fingers cross) fit my battery
https://www.printables.com/model/741974-h1-case-for-heltec-v3-running-meshtastic
and I've got a friend with a 3d printer so I'll ask him very kindy if he can help if not I can try jlbpcb or the ipswich libary has a 3d printer that is avaible as a first come frist serve kida deal as long as it is not too big a print. Got a way overkill battery for the RAK by mistake but anways, this is the enclusure https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0BZMC1MNG?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1
and here is the panel
https://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005006548187272.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.16.56561802uGEjpM&gatewayAdapt=glo2vnm

[tired tartan]

i have one of those panels

i could not get it to stay up with a esp or rp2040

overkill for nRF52's tho

though i had my tbeam 1.2 up there for 2 weeks

they have a different charging circuit, either way i was surprised

https://www.printables.com/en/model/221500-meshtastic-6w-solar-enclosure-base-station-lora-no i'll use the solar panel part and merge it into the pole cable tie model

[honest harbor]

nice find I'm thinking I'll mount the panel and encoluser separately I can't really do anything massively high as we are in a rental but do have an idea for one of the plastic sheads we have on a higher part of the property

[cobalt cypress]

out in space

[tired tartan]

rex's coverage should be a lot better

[covert dune]

Which suburb is Barry Wood in?

[tired tartan]

It's on level 10 on the city side of the valley

[tired tartan]

changed my antenna and no tx

can hear everytihng

and retransmit locally

i think the pigtail might be shit

might need to pull that out before the sikaflex sets lol

[tired tartan]

nup i dont know how you heard me

i cant refresh the version on 0c1e with admin

cant trace route

i can hear everything

https://tenor.com/vlwr.gif

made geebong router client and it started working 🤔

so i think what happens is my client_hidden was like, sure i got you

oh yea made rex ->boondall

[plucky flame]

I changed my t-echo emoji to a satellite 🛰️

[tired tartan]

just gave a mate from annerley a wsl 🙂 seems he has an idle helium antenna on his roof.

[plucky flame]

Maybe he can be another link over the hill to Scott

[tired tartan]

scot would have to know him i guess if its helium

all out of heltecs to give away, time for 2 more.

why are wireless papers cheaper

idgi

[tired tartan]

dmonkey 40

tx error on his heliumpole

cf20

[plucky flame]

Wireless paper has minimal (no?) gpio

[tired tartan]

no tony g case i think 🙂

he has rx issues

[tired tartan]

going to mash 3 3d prints together for the replacement mountain unit.
50mm pipe insert https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6522299
panel mount https://www.printables.com/model/223030-bracket-mount-for-soshine-6w-5v-usb-solar-panel#preview
pipe mount for cable ties https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1158490

[tired tartan]

oh its 40mm id, even better. that gray stuff is 40mm od

[serene spruce]

Ello everyone, Craig from West End. Nice little community here 🙂

[polar bone]

Yeah that’s totally not going to be subject to a controlled detonation because they think it’s a pipe bomb.

[tired tartan]

~

[plucky flame]

Here's the line of sight from me in Fairfield to Mt Gravatt lookout. Where ADB somehow has SNR of 0.8!

[frail sinew]

My epic setup

[plucky flame]

Haha. This shouldn't work.

[sharp kiln]

You do get some diffraction around obstacles at 919MHz

RF is voodoo and sorcery

[plucky flame]

Yeah. Total magic. I'm amazed people aren't blown away that radio works. Don't get me started on magnets. 🤯

[tired tartan]

electrical energy isn't electrons

[sand coyote]

Good to see some new people joining here.

I gave one of my Heltec V3's away to my brother in law East of the city but he hasn't powered it up yet.

[tired tartan]

hng my js / sqlite doesn't like fraz's unicode

im 5 hops to dmonkey, surprising

he has the long lmr400 cable helium setup like foodie tho

[plucky flame]

Oh no. But it's so fun. I can remove it? Just chuck some backslashes in \🗼

LOL back slash changed it from 🗼 to \🗼

[plucky flame]

How do you know dmonkey?

[tired tartan]

i need to do pragma before creatin the table

i think

[plucky flame]

I sometimes feel like half the nodes are yours. 😆

[tired tartan]

i used to work with him

i had like half a dozen rak antennas

well i decided i need rex and the mountain to get out of geebung, so made them handhelds too. selling them on the benefits on our 4wd trips.

and all my mates are it nerds so it spreads and i help it along with having a just in time arrivals fromthe fast horse express

my mate owns some land bodering the pyramids at giraween im there a bit too

we make steinbiers with creek water

we regularly head into sun downer was thinking the garden light node if i can find a line.

the girraween guy also designs towers for telstra

im going to ask him

be cool to get like, stanthorpe to burrows waterhole camp site

oddly 20 years ago i worked where barry wood is, now a friend works there, so sent that in. my first 19003 i intended to make a handheld with

the second arrives tomorrow i hope but it's going to the mountain

i'll fix whatever that is and have a spare solar rak

actually for context i used to work with dmonkey where barry wood is 🙂

[covert dune]

Where is the best place to source rak kit from, it was $40 USD for a starter kit and 19003 base and module and a couple of other small bits - probably no more than 200grams...

[tired tartan]

i use alianda on ali, ~22delivery so be careful to not forget anything

thats mine 🙂

[covert dune]

The 94% rating with only 85 follows didn't inspire confidence in Ailanda...

[tired tartan]

rak official disputed a return, but i bought it on choice lol

i dont follow anyone on ali

iot-store is local

they have some stuff

can vouch for alianda

[plucky flame]

I've used Ailanda and they've been good. Or use the official rak store... But I think Ailanda are closely aligned. Ship quite fast, under 2 weeks.

[tired tartan]

if in doubt ali choice is undisputed returns, their own logistics so low risk

i ordered on the 1st it's likley going to arrive tomorrow, with alianda

[covert dune]

I'll add a couple to my cart so will be spammed next choice day

[plucky flame]

Ok. I have my RAK19003 together and working. Just need to print tropho's micro case.

Btw, the RAK 915 PCB antenna is tuned very well for Australian band. So I'm optimistic this will be a great pocket set up.

I posted SWR testing to antenna channel. 1.3 seems good!

#antennas message

[tired tartan]

i ordered the transparent resin from jlc

and the stubby ziisor

[tired tartan]

are you going a black tonyg like barry wood?

im printing asa and it's sooooo nice

never had supports so easy to remove

preordered a kobra 3 so new multicolour asa cases will be in order

throws out all this useless petg

[plucky flame]

Yes tonyg/tropho, I want a transparent/translucent blue one, which I gather means PETG. I'll see what the state library let me do once I make a booking.

I don't know much about the different plastics, apparent from PLA goes soft with heat. Which seems bad for Qld car trips.

[tired tartan]

yer petg

what is really interesting is the temps on the jlc page for different resins

im still wrappingmy head around it

i have a couple of resin printers to do my own but honestly $20 is too cheap

no gloves and mess

id pay anyone $20 to process my print any day

[tired tartan]

oneof these things is not like the other

[covert dune]

There seems to be something up with the scale on the middle one...

To grab that data is that from the telemetry module, and you use the cli/python to store and graph it?

Or are the nodes internet and mqtt enabled?

[tired tartan]

thats just default battery

its in any nodes data

i have a wsl with mqtt locally, not internet

[tired tartan]

kind of looks like it tried to start when there was a slither of sun, i thought these did not recover.

[tired tartan]

woohoo, i have been visited by the fast horse express.

rak19003 version E

[tired tartan]

did you get your buzzer working fraz

[plucky flame]

I did!

It plays the opening bars to mario

[tired tartan]

oh sick

[tired tartan]

i guess im building the new mountain node tomorrow

[plucky flame]

It's a bit quiet. Not sure if I have the settings right.

[tired tartan]

i have one on the way

got some promicro nice!nano clones and various radios

[plucky flame]

Mario:d=4,o=5,b=100:16e6,16e6,32p,8e6,16c6,8e6,8g6,8p,8g5.

[tired tartan]

this unicode issue is somewhere between mosquitto and node-red

[plucky flame]

Ooo. I can have my emoji back?

[tired tartan]

hah fish has one too

it just fails to update my nodeinfo table

[tired tartan]

it's 2024 ffs 🙂

[tired tartan]

#mqtt message

like that

[tired tartan]

i was out of 2.4g rak antennas so threw an old telstra gateway at the ground. damn.

[plucky flame]

I'm often surprised how effective some of those PCB antennas are... Though yesterday I took 20 mins to compare the RAK 915 PCB antenna to the Gizont 16.7cm:
The RAK was more positional, which was weird with dBI 0.8.
Vertical SNR against my roof node: average +2.1,
horizontal -2.1,
end on -2.6

Gizont vertical +4.8
Horizontal +2.3
End on +3.8

I'll post this to Antennas too.

[honest harbor]

Jaycar as a special on the Creality Ender-3 V3 SE
https://www.jaycar.com.au/creality-ender-3-v3-se/p/TL4751

[tired tartan]

i pre-ordered the kobra 3 combo for US$424, so in a couple of months new colour cases on everything

[polar bone]

what are you using to generate that map?

[tired tartan]

heywhatsthat.com

[sand coyote]

Upgraded to latest alpha f/w and not sure I'm getting out anymore.

[sand coyote]

Back to beta f/w and I'm being heard again.

[tired tartan]

what device

new mountain router is 2.3.9

going up on saturday

[sand coyote]

Techo and Heltec V3

[tired tartan]

ive had the mountain router facing south for the past day

does not need direct light

which is good i think there's better places i can just take a star picket

thisplace seems to have rak stock now https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006955920753.html

[woeful trench]

Hey from Bulimba

[tired tartan]

hey hey

my alianda order came with a rak wireless packing slip

and a 11300 instead of a 11310

😦

[plucky flame]

Hey Johncitizen. How's it going? Got a node online?

[plucky flame]

Ailanda is think are pretty much a branch of Rak, but with plausible deniability. Maybe they order from rak and pack and sell, but everything about them seems the same. I ended up messaging Ailanda trying to put together a RAK19003 kit and they even added private listings for me to cobble together a bundle without paying shipping on every item. Very helpful. Probably just another shipping arm of Rak.

[tired tartan]

and stickers

JHCXD Module Store is under cutting prices

[tired tartan]

2 more slow boats and my 19003 parts will be here

jlc wouldnt print the user button for the micro case

too smol

[plucky flame]

I'm just looking at the variety of micro case parts from tonyg!

[tired tartan]

i got a 500mAh battery to start

[tired tartan]

this rak11300 was refunded no need to send it back

maybe i can attach some serial to it

[woeful trench]

Two online

I’ve got a Prusa MK4 setup and happy to get on the bandwagon printing stuff for people

[tired tartan]

im just drying the tpu for some gaskets

[plucky flame]

I have 1kg of dark blue transparent PETG waiting to open. A school friend Dad has a Bambu and was keen to print a case for me.

[tired tartan]

i will re-print everything in colour when the kobra 3 combo arrives

[tired tartan]

allthethings.gif

[tired tartan]

#enclosures-discussion message

even thinner micros coming

[plucky citrus]

Hey everyone 👋

If you see housenet nodes that’s me 🤪

[tired tartan]

it's an alfa now

[tired tartan]

that tree is slightly annoying

might have to throw some chook poo under it

i feel like this is close

[tired tartan]

need to write a reply to scot ping reply bot for cia birb station

the power pole on their driveway has a view over the lake to the north to glasshouse, @merry stag if you wanted somwhere to put one 🙂

i can put the other end up

[plucky citrus]

I got a direct ping from stones corner to my house at tingalpa last night, that was ... surprising

given I was on the wrong side of the hill and the antenna's on the east side of the roof

[tired tartan]

rex is mine too, on a mates roof

keen to go wheeling, we usually go camping

can avoid uhf and just text each other

i cant put a location on remotely there

its not too far from the water towers tho

[tired tartan]

probably need to drive there

ble update from outside his house then knock on the door when i brick it

[tired tartan]

ok cia bird station is a llm now

direct message it to heat my room up

[plucky citrus]

Oh dear LLMs in everything

[tired tartan]

hah it made a reponse too long

371 chars when prompt tells it to stay under

[plucky flame]

What's an LLM?

[plucky flame]

Hi Yaleman! I'm Fraz on the southside.

[plucky flame]

Wait, is it hooked up to chatgpt?

[plucky citrus]

geez that stu twg node has quite the antenna or something

[tired tartan]

its hooked up to a small llm

id need to cook it into a docker container to use cuda

[tired tartan]

but then i could use a much larger llm

overkill for telling you the birds need recharging tho 🙂

[plucky citrus]

😄

dear rakwireless, please give me a shipping notification 😡

I figured paying $35 shipping, it might turn up in a timely manner... guess not

[tired tartan]

alianda on ali ships direct from rak too

[honest harbor]

I noticed on mashMap there was another node out ipswich way at Flinders view last seen on MQTT about 1d 20h ago

my RAK isn't showing on the map currently

[tired tartan]

yea either you need to be on mqtt or someone else that sees you, and you need position enabled

how high is your antenna?

its tuned etc?

took weeks to see someone

maybe 6, then i just left something on the pole for a couple of weeks

i wouldnt be on there if i didnt find los to Rex

i have a spare solar node as soon as i identify if its teh panel or the wisbock base

[honest harbor]

my v3 should see it. the v3 is connected via wifi and the antenna currently is not very high I still havn't found a very good mounting location or system for it yet

we are in a rental so I'm not keen to go placing on the roof etc etc

[tired tartan]

double pool pole then 3m of gray 40mm pvc gets over 2 stories

only fell over once

[honest harbor]

got it displaying had to disable via MQTT

[tired tartan]

i think you also need to bounce the fixed location again after changing other settings

[honest harbor]

gone again, thanks will try

thanks it has shown up again:-)

[woeful trench]

https://www.waveshare.com/solar-power-manager-d.htm?sku=26363

This is fine to order for rak wisblock modules?

[tired tartan]

yea but you dont need much more than a tiny panel

i put the shoshine panel on a rak green power adatper

[tired tartan]

i was eyeing the ttgo t batt for something i have planned

and this one has some mentions on this discord https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006484886010.html

[plucky citrus]

heh, the day I complain about rak not sending me a shipping notification, they send me one... let's see how quick DHL express is

[honest harbor]

both my nodes and one of my mobiles are back on the meshmap thanks for yur help

[tired tartan]

did anyone notice barry died, will get it serviced

i had no mesh at valley hops, in eyeshot of it.

[plucky flame]

I saw a metro relay and though Barry was renamed.

[tired tartan]

there with a mate who designs telstra network 🙂 tellin him how its better

[plucky citrus]

certainly cheaper

looks at spending on meshtastic stuff

actually... maybe not 😄

[plucky citrus]

“Don’t sell my stuff for the hand-wavey money I tell myself I spent on it…”

[plucky citrus]

so this rak19001 is using so little power it's pretty amazing, have a shitty old bunnings solar 18650 powering it, and it's barely dropped ~15% in the last 12 hours

[tired tartan]

i removed my gps

[plucky citrus]

yeah I probably should remove it since I'm not actually using it currently

[tired tartan]

halved my power use

i only have a 500mAh spicy pillow

[plucky citrus]

I've disabled it which probably helped

[tired tartan]

hacked up that web thing and have it decoding encrypted packets so the unicodes appear

half way to fixing it

[tired tartan]

maybe i can just republish to mqtt so all the things can just use json

[tired tartan]

tried another panel on the old mountain router and no dice, must be the rak19007

i have a spare, this one can go into a handheld.

[plucky citrus]

😡 how do I swap bluetooth devices in the ios app

[serene spruce]

Slide the connected station to the left and disconnect. @plucky citrus

[plucky citrus]

thanks! that ... wasn't intuitive at all, especially since long-press doesn't offer it either

[tired tartan]

doh the gizont doesnt get here from nyonya or hodfellows

and gave all my ziisors away

[tired tartan]

guess it really wants dipole

[tired tartan]

perhaps i can make a dipole for ants

[tired tartan]

pulled apart the stubby ziisor and it's just a spring

[sand coyote]

Annoyingly, MQTT is back.

[tired tartan]

did you turn ignore off? pretty sure its always on

[serene spruce]

I was up at Mt Greville this morning 60k or so away. I picked up Fraz's 2.1 m but it was too far away for my Ultra Nano to send

[tired tartan]

over the top 🙂

[plucky citrus]

All mine is going into splunk

[tired tartan]

i miss getting boozed up on the splunk sales card

[tired tartan]

Man geebong is more or less under a metal awning on the other side of my brick house now, and it can still hear e2f8

https://tenor.com/kQiVFSwfwmT.gif

i even connected with my work phone and it has SNR for e2f8 🙂

maybe my pool pole is tuned too

[tired tartan]

i got an ebyte m30s but my seeeduino got pinched at the sorting centre i reckon

try the 1w xiao ble build

[plucky flame]

Ah cool!!
Did you see anyone else? I could get Scott in Sunnybank Hills from Mt Cordeaux.

I really should get back on the roof to raise it to the full 3.5m
I have guy wires now.

I found a disposable vape in the gutter. And after seeing Big Clive's tear downs, I took it apart to score a free Lion cell. 😁

It seems fully charged.
I am very tempted to stick it in my roof node enclosure.

It is an 18450 cell. Apparently 1400mAh, so I'd get 10 hours or so up uptime during a power cut.

[serene spruce]

Yeah, It was right on the edge of reception. Might set up a solar node up there one day, it's not too hard to get to the top and there is plenty of LOS all the way to Brisbane.

[tired tartan]

some nodes only sending nodeinfo every 3 days

/gif more!!

[plucky citrus]

I'm the one with the card, so it's easy 😛

[plucky flame]

Looks like I can see Brissy nodes from Marburg

[tired tartan]

6020 -> #1194757507013427250 message

[real wedge]

Nice one Lust. Are they better than the rp2040-lora boards?

[tired tartan]

yes any nRF52 is better than any rp2040 and esp

in regards to power usage

the rp2040 has a bigger mcu which isn't utilised

yet

these things come to about $15 each

[real wedge]

Nice! Good to know

Which radio module do you use with the nrf ?

I might order some to play with

[tired tartan]

https://github.com/gargomoma/fakeTec_pcb/

the newest ra62's have shielding too

[real wedge]

Cheers mate, time to shop 🤙

[tired tartan]

seems to be working ok, hopefully some solar lithium boards arrive today and i can put it on the pole to test properly

[tired tartan]

i can get ble under the pole, actually surprised.

one of these on it https://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005005984067122.html

see how that goes

[real wedge]

I've just ordered 3 nrf modules, I'll sort out the radios soon. The price was too good to refuse

[tired tartan]

the new ra62's are shielded,even tho the pic on ali wasn't

kind of want the faketec to be in the shape of a 19007 now

[sand coyote]

Good morning. Now running TC2 BBS on my T-Echo . Message hello to it to use the BBS.

Seems to be working for me but haven’t tried email yet. It’s running in WSL so nicely sandboxed on my Windows laptop.

github.com/TheCommsChannel/TC2-BBS-mesh

Guess I’ll have to learn Python now 😁

[serene spruce]

Have BBS up and running on my test node: Meshtastic d58c is now: BBS Test Server - 💻 (!da5ad58c)

[sand coyote]

@serene spruce Thanks. I've set mine up to sync with yours.

I tried to access your BBS but no joy 😦 Working now.

[sand coyote]

Moved the BBS over to the Heltec node so I can use the T-Echo mobile again.

[serene spruce]

It's a T3S3 paired with a PI zero w. Seems to work OK.

[sand coyote]

Unfortunately I don’t have a good connection to you. It works sporadically for me.

[serene spruce]

Let me try a higher gain antenna, see how it goes.....or I could try my Station G2. Problem is keeping power up to it 🤣

[sand coyote]

Routing through your Rak and don’t have a good connection to that either unfortunately.

[serene spruce]

I'm running it on my Station G2 now: BBS Test Server - !3b469228.

[tired tartan]

the faketecs cost me ~$20 with a 5v 1w pet coated solar panel, recovered 18650s. next step is a 3d model of a branch to be a hook..

then hook one up in a tree on mt gravatt

[sand coyote]

I think EF28 being down again is degrading my mesh experience.

[tired tartan]

needs a nRF52 in that thing

heltec have one in their latest pr

[serene spruce]

Unfortunately the Station G2 didn't want to play nicely with Serial over WiFi so I've reverted to the T3S3 with a better antenna. Will leave it running on this... : BBS Test Server - (!da5ad58c)

[hasty trellis]

You may try Full Erase and Install. We noticed that the nodedb generated by the old version of the firmware may not be compatible with the new version. Choosing Full Erase and Install will re build the nodedb and can solve many serial port/RF communication problems.

[plucky flame]

Zork is a clever idea! My connection is 2 hops and very weak.

Here's a new traceroute map while e2f8 is offline. Most nodes are still connected. Except Scott and Laksa. And (presumably) northern nodes are very weak.

[tired tartan]

i think rex is going to die

battery not like others

[tired tartan]

i was looking fora graph to do a lot of one way relationships

because the traceroute is who can hear who

[woeful trench]

Anyone local got bits to build out an RAK? I’ve got a starter kit but need an enclosure

[tired tartan]

yer

what type of enclosure

[serene spruce]

Still getting a charge in this weather. 🤩

[serene spruce]

TC2-BBS up and running on my station G2 🙂

[serene spruce]

Sooo, after chasing my tail all day with random serial disconnects on the Station G2, I’ve given up on that and settle for this BBS configuration. Solar powered in a good location, hopefully this will be stable 🤞🏻

[tired tartan]

im patchy getting out

without rex

might need to get some more pole 🙂

[tired tartan]

@plucky flame #antennas message

oh my

[plucky flame]

The shorter 16.7cm gizont is the best in my reading

[tired tartan]

i need one anyway lol

[plucky flame]

Unless the bigger one has better dBi

[tired tartan]

10db is a lot

maybe too much eirp

my ham mate down the road got upgraded i should hithim up

[plucky flame]

I still have a RAk4630 (no backing board) that needs to be put to use. I might try and solder a USB socket to flash it, plug an antenna onto it and see if E2F8 wants it. Would be a bit hacky. And lacks the battery management.

[tired tartan]

i have a few promicro/ha62/faketec's loose

the xiao is interesting, one ham guy says he cant get teh power the advertise so i need to try that, the m30s has an on board power amp

[serene spruce]

Better view on the roof. If only I could hide a node up here.

[serene spruce]

BBS node is pretty solid now. Just trying to make it self sufficient power wise. Node ID is !da761f3a

[tired tartan]

added 50cm to my pole and i can be heard again

[latent viper]

sorry everyone for the cross post, what is the root TOPIC now for Australia using the latest firmware?

[serene spruce]

@latent viper msh/ANZ?

[tired tartan]

2/e

after the root

it chaged from 2/c i think in 2.2

[latent viper]

Craig and Riwakalust - yeah so it's now root/2/e

Msh/ANZ behind the old topic?

For older firmwarw

[tired tartan]

yea i dont think meshmap even accept it any longer

[serene spruce]

I don't use MQTT so just going by what's in my settings

[latent viper]

Thanks gents, I appreciate you both responding

[latent viper]

And the server for mqtt is still mqtt.meshtastic.au ?

[tired tartan]

thats not the official one

[tired tartan]

omg pain

going to need to decrypt traceroutes some more

partial success

[tired tartan]

closer 🙂 https://mesh.hj60.com/neighbors.html

the keys in json and protobufs arent the same

i need to put some more gain on my pole, cant get out.

not sure about android but ios does not have a way to turn it on

seems android does

--set neighbor_info.enabled true

[serene spruce]

Android has that option. Having both an Android and iOS device helps as each has its own advantages.

[tired tartan]

cant get to the mountain, but i can hear it, need to roll around the block to turn it on up there

barry has it on but isnt sending it

[tired tartan]

takes a while before they comply heh

can you turn this on for valley metro @merry stag

[tired tartan]

i think with the admin channel setting false then true made it work, or just waiting hours

[serene spruce]

Unfortunately it looks like the self sufficient Pi Zero/RAK 4361 setup isn’t going to work as planned due to insufficient sunlight. Plan B is a Rpi 4 / Station G2 POE setup with fallback to a solar powered 10000mah 18650 setup if power goes out. Just testing the wired serial connection for reliability. Advantage is that with Poe, the Station G2 gets full power resulting in better transmit performance.
Next step once it’s up and running is to make the Pi4 as energy efficient as possible so the battery can get maybe up to 16-18hrs.

[tired tartan]

the $18 soshine panel would

that things great

also large heh

[tired tartan]

not sure when but i'll get another solar node on rex's roof

[tired tartan]

can you underclock a pi zero

[serene spruce]

You can, i’ve got mine running as slow as it can go. I thinking I had more than 2hrs of direct sunlight then it would have enough to keep ticking over.

[tired tartan]

incomplete pic of clear mountain setup with the soshine panel

dat alfa

[plucky flame]

I had a thought the other week; it would be possible to put a Pi zero or something on an electronic switch that could be triggered over meshtastic to boot. So you could leave it off, but boot it to flash or whatever you want to do on the Pi zero.

What do you use the Pi zero for @serene spruce ?

https://meshtastic.org/docs/configuration/module/remote-hardware/

[tired tartan]

https://github.com/armooo/meshtastic_dopewars

[tired tartan]

meshinfo updated

i should feed laksa into it too

get both sides of the brown snake

[shy rock]

New phone, who dis? 😛

[tired tartan]

!!

just gave a mate a heltec and he asked if it will work on his helium antenna lol

[tired tartan]

Mitchelton is too low

[plucky flame]

There was someone around upper Kedron lamenting no contacts.

[tired tartan]

mitchelton?

mt gravatt of the north

[plucky flame]

😆

[tired tartan]

i had an idea

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7pg4NhR6GrLT8JicA

covert gutter node

[plucky flame]

I've been meaning to visit up there to check out the range.

[tired tartan]

my mate at mitchy as a helium antenna but cant hear anyone on that

im seeing rex next weekend i'll give him a replacement unit

up on moreton would be ok,near tempest

would be a good excuse to visit

lack of trees to throw things in

the top of the driveway at clear mountain can see over lake sampsonvale and i can throw something there

i assume it'd mesh thru the one facing the city

[plucky flame]

I've just realised HT (Haru tracker) is offline... Are you here?

[tired tartan]

finally camping this weekend

and we have the meshtastics

[tired tartan]

yeh i cant get out without rex

i can get out patchy

i rebooted barry this morning ok

also had some max transmissions here unsure why, rebooted the promicro

found traceroute bug

[tired tartan]

i put the new solar panel on the rex hw and sent it back with rex on the weekend, so whenevs he gets on his roof

[tired tartan]

newest is 2.3.13 on the promicro

barry is 2.3.5 and i think rex is 2.3.9

forgot to take my work phone with dfu and the fw onit

oh there was a fix for traceroutes not honoring the hop limit

and often more hops to get the reply

hm maybe im mistaken, could have sworn i read that

[tired tartan]

ok

so the traceroutes all look crap because they stop here lol

i can bridge in public

[tired tartan]

added DanubeRS too i think

and one in thornlands where every node is set to router

and my pocketmesh thing i gave to a mate who has helium antennas at moorooka

[tired tartan]

yea only one or two that should over-ride the algo

[tired tartan]

rex would be a contender as you can't go much further east there, but really no need still

barry says 23.5% util

[tired tartan]

tru.dat

i assume all the noise in the valley is why i cant get out

that way

[tired tartan]

📡 7.67% 21.4%`

30% of util is its tx

[tired tartan]

just sayin, people can do what they want, no feels.

[tired tartan]

could try graph it with the node neighbors

also need to understand if thats waiting to tx included

pushing telemetry.device_update_interval 1800 around too

this graph https://github.com/moshi4/pyCirclize?tab=readme-ov-file#code-example ouch my brain.

RDEF(ANZ, 915.0f, 928.0f, 100, 0, 30, true, false, false),
100% duty cycle for anz

but uint8_t polite_channel_util_percent = 25;

if (!config.lora.override_duty_cycle && myRegion->dutyCycle < 100) {

but but

uint8_t max_channel_util_percent = 40;
uint8_t polite_channel_util_percent = 25;

so polite is true if we cap at 25%

more 🍺 required

i think also chutil% includes all lora not just meshtastic

all those ali HaLow devices

[tired tartan]

ive repeatedly set neighbor info to 3600 on all my stuff, and turned it off lust and birb, without luck heh. somehow birb worked.

enabled false, reboots, out of ideas there.

[torn yarrow]

I've done a couple now; Seem to typically be 18450/18400s so far. Just need to solder a few into my 'garbage' epaper display

[torn yarrow]

I'm only a little ashamed.
Powered by a pair of salvaged vape batteries wired in parallel with cardboard supports from... The dessert I was eating when I decided this was a good idea.

[plucky flame]

Vape batteries are great. I can't believe they are made to be single use. 🥲 I've found two in the gutter so far.

[tired tartan]

Sustaining over 20% utilisation now, finally we have enough routers 😛

[tired tartan]

do i turn router on all my stuff or move channels?
my roof isn't reliable because it wont flood route to my client mutes when it hears a rebroadcast

and because there's so many routers that's often

[torn yarrow]

I'm going to be farting around the CBD tonight. Might see if I can raise anyone. Not seeing much luck on this board unfortunately.

[tired tartan]

too many routers, its shit

one is too many

i improved my shit by lowering my antenna so it sees less rx time

default settings will always attract people that want top use router modes

just give up

make your own mesh

you can get on this discord and listen to garth and then run 2 routers anyway

people will be people so its always going to be lowest common denominator

[plucky flame]

Back from a trip to Roma, Carnarvon, Emerald, Sapphire, Longreach, Winton, Tambo, Charleville and back...

And I didn't see any nodes. 😆

[tired tartan]

there was one 20km away from my mates place at girraween my sensecap picked up. shame no telemetry arriving here

[plucky flame]

This is how the new node notifications show up for me.

I'm currently out of range from the mesh in Murarrie

[tired tartan]

i think its more advanced that ios currently, cant see current draw on ios.

[real wedge]

Hey @trim fractal how are the nrf52 nodes performing, Would you recommend the hardware for a remote setup?

[tired tartan]

i find they are good but the rak4631 works a bit better on my pole

i have a xiao with a ebyte radio i will try out up ther some time

[real wedge]

Awesome thanks for the info mate. 👍

[tired tartan]

like i get a few more nodes in my node list on the tracker consistently when using the rak as the client on the pole.

[tired tartan]

just got some more parts recently #1194757507013427250 message

[tired tartan]

i'll put auth on my meshinfo site to honour the mqtt stuff, seeing my mqtt server is private it will keep getting everything. I could set up another one with only approved traffics

i saw the 2.5 branch has some recent fixes for that

[tired tartan]

i noticed digikey have RAK4631s and they are also free shipping over $60

and these https://www.digikey.com.au/en/products/detail/te-connectivity-linx/ANT-915-NUB-SMA/16123689

[tired tartan]

new alpha release honors ok to mqtt, i was wondering why all those packets were still listed.

[shy rock]

I picked up a T1000-e from Seeed Studio and that buzzer is so loud.... struggling to figure out how to disable it. It still buzzes even with External Notifications disabled, or Enabled with buzzer GPIO set to 0.

[shy rock]

Sorted. Had to set the other buzzer GPIO setting to 36 (unused GPIO).

[tired tartan]

haha i upgraded mine yesterday and that woke me up

[gusty ridge]

Hello I'm here

On a train into Brisbane with my tdeck

From Cleveland side

Is long fast still the standard

[tired tartan]

hey

yes

I see 53 nodes right now.

[gusty ridge]

43 hours ago I was at South Brisbane and got quite a few notes

[tired tartan]

usually 40-60

[gusty ridge]

Yeah look no nodes in Redlands

[tired tartan]

with location on anyway

[gusty ridge]

Even using my SDR it's silent

[tired tartan]

this is what it was like all the time

[tired tartan]

until it wasnt hehe

it's like mitchelton

my friend has helium working ok there, cant egt any meshtastic

[gusty ridge]

I'm on the boulevard at the Redland bay waterfront

[tired tartan]

yeh the panorama looks bleak, need a solar node on moreton

[gusty ridge]

Is there a shortcut on the tea deck to disable Bluetooth because I can't seem to get it to turn back on

[tired tartan]

the new ui? i believe the new ui disables ble

just waiting on a pcb from china to make one 🤞

[tired tartan]

#alphanauts-testing message

nice.

now i can get packets from my roof again

also put a location on clear mountain but i'm going to update it next time im there too its old

[plucky flame]

@tired tartan I have family in Mitchelton. I'll have to take my node next time to say hi.

[tired tartan]

I have a mate there with helium and he gets no one at all, i doubt its turned on otherwise. I see quesabyte online there near the station tho

[tired tartan]

i bet his helium antenna is rp-sma or something

[plucky flame]

We have a dedicated discord server for Brisbane now, started by Dave™️
Come and join!
https://discord.gg/rN66wEedMY