First the easy bit! Take the existing 4631 and GPS module and put on to the new mini board. Eventually will be printing a case but for now, bench testing and it appears to be working as expected.

So life got in the way and only now getting back to playing #Meshtastic Having fun squeezing all this in the tiny case I found on Printables. Also even more fun soldering wires to the board and OLED! Learnt that even if the solder looks ok, it might not be ok enough for decent comms for the OLED so I wasted considerable time thinking I had a dodgy screen🙄

I then had some more fun figuring out CLI commands to configure the RP based Lora chip on this board that will become the fixed node, possibly in repeater or router mode. I also discovered how accurate you need to be with lat/long if you want it somewhere near where it actually is! Only 1 or 2 decimal places can we widely put!

Next tasks are to get the buzzer working on the mini node and environment sensor on the fixed node. Although the fixed node will be in a mostly sealed box it’ll be nice to be aware of the environmental readings. Both of these only a few £ each so was worth it just to play, so tiny though!! After that, time to get the fixed node in the box and antenna mounted up on the gable with an Ethernet connection!

Off on an outing today so taking my mini #Mestastic node and also a #Meshcore node I quickly setup. Main node is now up on the gable of house to hopefully give a little extra coverage too, lets see what we can make contact with today!