I really like MeshCom as an alternative to the earlier Lora-APRS developments. Why?
because:
- It’s really simple to install
- It supports many different boards
- It support different use-cases like a GPS tracker, simple messaging, emergency messaging
- As it power consumption is really low, the use-case for emergeny usage is very interesting
- It has a pretty cool app to configure the boards and do messaging from your Android phone
So I decided to build a few gateways and trackers as the boards needed I already had from my earlier experiments with LoraAPRS.
I used the following boards:
- As a gateway: DollaTek LoRa32 433 MHz ESP32 LoRa
- As a client/tracker: LILYGO T-Beam V1.2 Meshtastic ESP32 LoRa
All documentation I used was on the ICSSW MeshCom website:
And ofcourse my Austrian friends did already a lot of work with this project:
https://wiki.oevsv.at/wiki/MeshCom/MeshCom_Start
Easy, web-based (!) device flashing:
My MeshCom GateWay DB0FZ-99
My MeshCom Node DL6FZ-2
