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meshtastic vs meshcore: my thoughts (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 months ago by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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So I have been using Meshtastic for a bit over a month now, and I've been hearing about MeshCore, which sounds interesting, although it's much smaller. Tonight, I decided to give it a test, and while there's nobody around me who I can test with, my initial impressions of the firmware is that it's early, but good. With that said, from everything I can tell, the applications to control it from Android and iOS do not appear to be open source. And I absolutely refuse to become interested in something that is not open source. So that's a big no-no for me. If I am wrong, I would definitely be willing to try it again. But if I am right, the only way I would consider using it is if somebody else writes an app that is open source.

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[–] huskypenguin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The application is freemium, written by one of the devs from the Reticulum project. The core is open source so anyone can write a client for it. We're in the early days so I imagine more clients will pop up.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

Well, when there's a fully open source app, I will give it another look. But until that point, I'm not touching it again.