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What should I buy? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by dudesss@lemmy.ca to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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I live in Canada. Preferably FOSS and ethical devices. Help me duders. I don't really know what I want, except help with the network.

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

LoRa is a proprietary radio interface, so I don't how how FOSS you can go with it, but the Meshtastic firmware itself is FOSS.

What are your use-cases? Are you looking for something to use as an everyday carry? An outdoor solar node to relay messages in your area? A node to use as a base station? All of the above?

For everyday carry, I semi-recently bought the SenseCap T1000e and I love it. I did a post about it here: https://startrek.website/post/34105873

Seeed (the company that makes the T1000e) also makes a nice outdoor, solar powered node: https://www.seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-Solar-Node-P1-Pro-for-Meshtastic-LoRa-p-6412.html

They've also got a lot of options for various other configurations as well: https://www.seeedstudio.com/LoRa-and-Meshtastic-and-4G-c-2423.html

Those are all "turnkey" devices, but I've heard good things about the Heltec V4 if you want to go a more DIY route and make your own case and add your own accessories (GPS, accelerometer, etc).