Meshtastic

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A community to discuss Meshtastic (https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction)

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Reticulum vs. Meshtastic: Key Differences Explained! (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 month ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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In my opinion:

Meshtastic is MUCH easier to set up. Reticulum is very difficult to set up and requires a lot of time/work at the moment.

Reticulum has a lot of potential for more protocols, networking, apps, etc...
Meshtatic is very much made for messages and finding nodes.

Both work with LoRa.

Ive played around with both and was more successful with meshtastic (and meshcore). But Reticulum impressed me because I could send images over LoRa and could work with just about any networking. Which was interesting!

This is a good video showcasing RNode/Reticulum here: https://youtu.be/BsAMeMp1hlg?t=657

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[–] Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is Reticulum? This is the first time I heard of it.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Theres MUCH more to it, but in nutshell it allows you to do TCP/IP/Internet things with LoRa. More info here: https://reticulum.network/

Its a network of networks.

I was able to communicate with another node via voice and images through LoRa. Its very useful if you are looking for more of a internet kind of mesaging system but VERY hard to set up (my opinion). Looks like the community made the heltecs work on it now which was fun to play around with.

You can see an example of this in the times link above.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sounds like Reticulum is what you need for an actual decentralized internet, while Meshtastic is just a messenger service.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

I think thats what they were going for. And it seems to function that way.

[–] civ@lemmy.civl.cc 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Looks like Reticulum is no longer being developed (creator essentially made it read only) and there's no active forks.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago

Interesting, thanks for letting me know. I thought it was still being developed but then found: https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/blob/master/MIRROR.md too bad. But I understand it. Its an ambitious project!

I found a fork here: https://codeberg.org/skyguy/retinet but no idea if its any good.

[–] sp3ctre@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

Statement: https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/1069

But I hope some skilled people take good care of it. Maybe on Codeberg this time.

I will keep my node running for now.