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The Meshtastic project is a unique LoRa implementation with a very large global community of user-operated mesh nodes. This consumer-facing solution provides a modular platform whereby LoRa hardware, battery, and case and antenna are purchased, a web-based flasher is used to deploy the software onto the hardware. Various interfaces to the hardware (including apps and web-based) are provided. Meshtastic can be a good solution for resilient communications, especially for those less technical. Setup and configuration is done on a smartphone via an app, and requires little-to-no prior knowledge. A large community exists to support those less technical.  

Meshtastic leverages the fact that people are often already carrying smartphones, allowing messages to be sent from a paired smartphone over bluetooth to the device, the messages of which are in turn either broadcast to a public channel on the mesh, or to a user-configured encrypted channel of devices on the mesh (for instance to devices of friends and family in the region).<ref>https://meshtastic.org/</ref>. In this sense, Meshtastic can be considered to be a little like a long range 'pager' using a smartphone as the messaging interface.