I want to create a out-of-band device that is able to manage #meshcore repeaters. This way I can update out of reach devices.
Any idea what external watchdog I can use to powerup the PI when needed?
@Gina there is a Open Sovereign Cloud Day, this afternoon.
Just finished designing a custom out-of-band management plane for my homelab.
All built around 3 open-source Armsom @armsom_jackson Sige7 boards — next step: turning the prototype into proper HATs and writing the control software 🚀
https://sapiolab.nl/posts/backplane_for_armsom/
#homelab #raspberrypi #embedded #opensource #devops #armsom #sige7
Building an Out-of-Band Management Plane for My Homelab My current homelab consists of three Armsom Sige7 nodes. Having multiple identical boards allows me to experiment with different configurations, test deployment strategies, and simulate small-scale distributed environments. What makes the Armsom Sige7 especially interesting is that it’s open-source hardware. This gives me full visibility into the board layout, which opens the door to deeper hardware-level integrations that are normally difficult—or impossible—on closed systems.
New blogpost: building a pyMC_repeater #Meshcore node on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W.
Includes wiring a Pico SX1262 LoRa board, SPI debugging, and measuring power consumption for solar use.
Meshcore is a decentralized mesh network that allows nodes to exchange messages over LoRa radios. Instead of relying on centralized infrastructure, devices forward messages for each other, forming a resilient peer-to-peer network. During the Christmas holidays I came across several posts about #Meshcore on Mastodon. The idea of a self-organizing communication network immediately caught my interest. Not long after that, I caught what I jokingly call the Meshcore flu and started ordering hardware to experiment with it myself.
