Solarbird 
cascadia's listening to meshcore all the way up in parksville and sechelt
the whole dang country's just silly with it
Jigme Datse@moira Is this more or less node to node connections? Like for something like this to happen, you need connections along the whole route? That's what my understanding of the tech was. If so, this is pretty dang impressive.
@JigmeDatse yeh, but it's, like... multicast? so you've got redundancy of routes and stuff.
somebody near me has a pretty good repeater but they haven't set location data so i don't know where they are. but when the tag's in the front window I can see like seven repeaters plus who knows how many nodes.
Miakoda 
@hellomiakoda Once I finally got it going, it seems to be pretty polished. MeshCore has taken over here; Meshtastic is more popular elsewhere but here it got swamped.
The MeshCore.io dev team seem to be tightly focused on Android, with als some interest in linux-based webapps, but webapping to me seems kind of counter to the point unless you're running it on the same machine you're using the app on, in which case it's going to be fine.
But from an ease-of-making-shit-work standpoint, an old Android tablet (or phone, no doubt) would be a good starting point if you don't start with a dedicated device.
@hellomiakoda
I spent three days failing to get the MeshCore.io app running on an older version (19H1) of Windows 10, then got it sideloaded and going in like 10 minutes on an abandoned Kindle Fire Android tablet. At least one dev tests all the way back to Android 8. The actual radio is a bluetooth-firmwared WisMesh Tag and it doesn't seem like a bad little toy at all. (I am told that they can brick if you drain the battery enough tho', so be careful of that.)
I spent three days failing to get the MeshCore.io app running on an older version (19H1) of Windows 10, then got it sideloaded and going in like 10 minutes on an abandoned Kindle Fire Android tablet. At least one dev tests all the way back to Android 8. The actual radio is a bluetooth-firmwared WisMesh Tag and it doesn't seem like a bad little toy at all. (I am told that they can brick if you drain the battery enough tho', so be careful of that.)
Loy HenaYoo, me and my friends are interested to get to the Meshtastic network here in France. Do you know if there are some groups we could join here on mastodon ?
I found french people on facebook (yerk) and Discord but the group looks pretty dead.
@loyhena I don't, I'm afraid - all the activity here in Cascadia is on MeshCore, for whatever reasons. Possibly our terrain? I'm told it performs much better here on the same hardware. I don't know if that's unique to us in any way, I just know there was a mass migration over.
I would start hitting hashtags and see if anybody picks up. Also subscribe to any relevant hashtags including Fedibuzz:
https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/113809361069815713
Good luck!
Marcos@moira I need to find a way to get an antenna up. Having my box even up by the ceiling indoors just doesn't cut it. The reliability is terrible otherwise. I've been shopping solar repeaters. Not too terrible price wise even for complete kits.
@glitch25 A number of people are using telescoping flagpoles. You could try that. (eta: Also, not all are metal, and carbon fibre or fibreglass is probably better here unless you want to build a pole grounding system. Plus (basically) no antenna coupling.)
Also, just to be sure: you've tried windows, right? Height isn't always everything. It would be more directional, but as long as you hit people it doesn't matter.
@moira Yup. I've tried windows. Sometimes it's a little better, but it is still significantly inconsistent. Height in the case of LoRa is absolutely everything since the best flow is line of sight.
I've also been contemplating grabbing one of the Rak 1W boards to see if that helps. There are a few repeaters within 5 miles or so, but it's still difficult to keep a consistent connection in my area with my clients and upgraded but still modest portable antennas.
@glitch25 More power is always (?) more better.
Here's my public key, try to ping me or whatever it is? xD
f58f9e06795db86a80fd4ca2a0fd1cc2e77e80aadc0b41c2f539aa97a30926e2
@moira ea3f4e9f2c79b8f08153dd69afd96d5383105597f38aa2940f0ac650068baf49 for me. My client isn't letting me add yours for some reason.
@moira Much better!
btw, do you know about this? https://cascadiamesh.org/map/
@glitch25 I'm still getting fails on all my attempts to DM you, I've got three from you (latest "Hiii" at 12:17pm) but nothing gets back out. I _am_ seeing comms on the local General channel tho', and I can see repeaters.
@glitch25 can you allow telemetry for me? i've allowed for you, maybe that'll help diagnose?
@glitch25 well here's our problem: it's not just us
https://github.com/meshcore-dev/MeshCore/issues/1834
So that's... good? honestly? that it's not just us.
@glitch25 What software are you using? Can you use the "listen for repeater" functionality and see if you've got good access to repeaters? Because if the bigger problem is errors like this it might just be software.
Kevin Freitas@moira Need to try to flash my Heltec v3 to this. Meshtastic never seemed to work well. Have a good perch I could use for a local repeater.
@KevinFreitas That's the exact process I'm told everybody went through - starting on Meshtastic, somebody tried MeshCore and told everybody "swap over right now, this works way better" and I don't know if it's our terrain or what, but.