ec> pa> What have you created so far? I have 4 meshtastic devices and quickly
ec>
ec> Quite a lot but also not very much. :)

Understood - so far I just have 2 lilygo modules that can send/recieve but I want to build a couple more... I want to 2d print one of the iPhone magsafe ones that sticks to your phone, and the blackberry one w/ the keyboard.

I'd also like to mount an antenna on my house, hopefully to link Portland to my city about 15 miles away... I'm gonna see if I can get nodes down there.

Maybe one day we'll be able to hop to eachother!

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Re: Re: Meshtastic
By: paulie420 to echicken on Wed Apr 24 2024 19:39:00

pa> Understood - so far I just have 2 lilygo modules that can send/recieve but
pa> I want to build a couple more... I want to 2d print one of the iPhone
pa> magsafe ones that sticks to your phone, and the blackberry one w/ the
pa> keyboard.

I grabbed a couple of Heltec v3 modules since they were the right combination of price, features, and fast delivery. I've got a Lilygo T-Deck on the way (the blackberry one) just for the novelty of it, even if I don't think that's the direction these devices should move toward. I imagine I'll reevaluate my hardware choices once I become more familiar with all of this.

Progress for today was the start of a weather module:

https://gitlab.synchro.net/sota/synctastic/-/raw/main/img/screenshot.png

where green is me using one Heltec module from my phone, and ec00 is a script running on my BBS and responding after fetching data from openweathermap.

Whatever you can imagine doing here with the Synchronet JS environment and all BBS data is on the table. And it doesn't have to just be text messages, this is just an example of a simple user-facing application.

Sending a message like the one I'm typing now, however, would take several packets. I'm not sure if that kind of traffic is welcome on the network, so I'm still pondering what exactly to do with this.

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Re: Re: Meshtastic
By: echicken to paulie420 on Thu Apr 25 2024 01:45 am

> packets. I'm not sure if that kind of traffic is welcome on the network, so
> still pondering what exactly to do with this.

How about just checking # of unread emails and messages in bases marked for
scanning?

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Re: Re: Meshtastic
By: phigan to echicken on Thu Apr 25 2024 08:30:46

ph> How about just checking # of unread emails and messages in bases marked
ph> for scanning?

I think the best solution would and should be more complex for the sake of efficient use of the network. It should take into account that stations are effectively broadcasting new messages (as they come in and on request) and that any other station might observe these packets. Your BBS might think it has 10 unread messages for me, but maybe I've already seen 8 of them go out over the air (broadcast, or directed at some other station).

Most likely it would involve requesting and sending lists of unique message IDs, and/or updating scan pointers based on acks, or I don't know what. Ultimately the goal would be to keep network traffic to the minimum possible, and conventional BBS network callouts just don't map that well to this environment.

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Re: Re: Meshtastic
By: echicken to phigan on Thu Apr 25 2024 12:59 pm

> any other station might observe these packets. Your BBS might think it has 1
> unread messages for me, but maybe I've already seen 8 of them go out over th

Right, but I just meant for functionality of the one BBS. You as the user can
maybe know if you've read some message on a certain base, if it was after the
last time you logged into that BBS. This would be kind of like a pre-login
check that some boards let you do without having to fully "log in". Like Image
BBSes on Commodore.

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Re: Re: Meshtastic
By: phigan to echicken on Thu Apr 25 2024 13:19:14

ph> can maybe know if you've read some message on a certain base, if it was
ph> after the last time you logged into that BBS. This would be kind of like a
ph> pre-login check that some boards let you do without having to fully "log

I see. It's easy enough to return unread message counts for a user, so maybe that's something to add if ever there's interactive message reading for users via this interface. Re: message bases, I'm mainly pondering data exchange between BBSs at the moment and not a user interface.

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