Offline networking: Difference between revisions

One practical mobile application of LoRa is MsgLab, where it is employed as a small handset with keyboard and case such that it can be used for texting in off-grid contexts<ref>https://www.msglab.co/</ref>. The Meshtastic project is another, with a large global community of user-operated mesh nodes. This off-the-shelf 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 for those less technical, 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>. A global map of Meshtastic nodes can be seen [https://meshtastic.liamcottle.net/ here].

== Linkdump ==