Although routers and repeaters are not strictly necessary for a Meshtastic network to function, adding dedicated routers to your mesh can dramatically expand the geographic coverage of the network. As mentioned in my previous post, my current objective is to provide basic coverage to the majority of Greene County. Green county is one of the…

Meshtastic is an open source mesh network project utilizing cheap LoRa radio hardware. It can be used license free to communicate relatively long distances via radio. Its primary use is and Android or Apple app based text messaging via a bluetooth to a radio that is connected to a larger mesh radio network. The text…