What is the key for the triembed channel? I tried to enter it as a public channel and it says the channel uses a static secret key.
I seem to be getting a lot of incoming messages, and new contacts discovered, but nothing is getting out. I've got the antennae properly oriented, and in a second floor window. I may containerize it and get it up on the roof or a tree this week. On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 3:29 PM jonathan hunsberger via TriEmbed < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks all. This has been very interesting. I ordered a Heltec V4 from > Amazon. Somehow it arrived about 18 hours later. I hooked it up, flashed > the standard meshcore.io firmware and was immediately able to ping > Tarheel Backhaul and get traffic from Georgia, Ohio, Tennessee, etc. with > it lying on my desk. I hung it up in the window and couldn't ping > anything. Then i realized that the antenna was pointing horizontally so i > made it vertical and got ping back! > It's plugged in, and if I leave the house and come back (or just kill the > app and restart/reconnect) i get all the contacts and messages from when i > was gone. Very easy to get started with if you have a repeater in range! > Anyway, i made a #triembed channel if anyone wants to say hi on that. > > Only bad thing is i might have to order another radio because i wanted to > try Meshtastic and now i don't want to turn this one off. :) > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 4:38 PM Pete Soper via TriEmbed < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Whoa, great bootstrap! Thanks again, Josh. Your performance notes are >> very encouraging. >> Pete >> >> Aug 12, 2026 4:11:53 PM Josh Wyatt <[email protected]>: >> >> Great, fun topic! >> >> I've been experimenting with meshtastic and meshcore for the better part >> of six months, including putting up my own meshcore repeater (and >> subsequently having to rework it due to bad sealant allowing water ingress, >> but v3.0 is going up soon). >> >> For reference, my location is about halfway between Apex and Garner, >> just north of Fuquay and Holly Springs in Wake County. Just north of the >> southern edge of 540. >> >> Meshtastic is great for ad-hoc, smallish dedicated group comms. Think >> hiking group, camping group, etc. It has a very easy learning curve. When I >> first flashed meshtastic, I immediately saw and was able to communicate >> with a human who had two nodes not very far (.5 miles or so) from me. >> >> meshcore is far better for established and scalable comms. When I first >> flashed meshcore, I was able to receive messages from as far away as >> Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia, by virtue of an established network of >> stationary repeaters. I was receiving line-of-sight signal from as far away >> as North Hills mall (12 miles from me, there's a repeater on The Eastern >> building) and Chapel Hill ("Tarheel backhaul" repeater, >> https://rdumesh.org/tarheel-backhaul-how-chapel-hill-joined-the-mesh/) >> as they are high enough to have direct line of sight to my location, and >> are running at legal limit (1 watt). They couldn't hear me at first because >> my nodes (heltec v3, heltec t114) were running much less power, my antennas >> are crap, and probably most importantly, not high enough. >> >> Meshcore feels a little better engineered. Meshtastic feels more like a >> toy, or proof of concept. >> >> My guidance for success is: >> 1. Run meshcore on a repeater up high and some companion nodes inside >> your house (within bluetooth range of your phone). >> 2. Deploy your repeater with 1 watt output and >> 3. Get the repeater as high as possible. With the low power firmware, >> solar repeaters are trivially possible. Mine has a spot 80 feet up in a >> tree on the back edge of my property. >> >> If you're going to flash meshcore, especially on the ESP32 based devices, >> be sure to use the power-saving fork of the firmware. >> https://github.com/IoTThinks/EasySkyMesh/ >> The developer is VERY active and responsive, and works with the original >> maintainers to roll changes upstream early and often. >> >> Thanks, >> Josh >> >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM Pete Soper via TriEmbed < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Congrats, Glenn! Your raising this subject on Monday created a hell of a >>> spark of interest. >>> >>> Pete >>> >>> On 8/12/26 13:45, Glen Smith via TriEmbed wrote: >>> > As with all things, the documentation may not be up to date. >>> > >>> > I have the meshtastic app on my phone and prior to flashing my boards, >>> > did discover a node. I don't remember now where I was at the time >>> though. >>> > >>> > I have now flashed my 2 nodes and can report that I have sent messages >>> > between them. >>> > >>> > Keep in mind that we can use this withing our own homes to report >>> > telemetry - like Paul's freezer temp even if there is no other >>> > infrastructure existent. If we find it useful, adding a routing / >>> > repeater node would benefit the community and improve functionality >>> > for everyone. >>> > >>> > A app called Flaresat seems to allow you to bridge to the internet via >>> > a single phone that still has mobile connection. I have not >>> > experimented with this yet. >>> > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Triangle, NC Embedded Interest Group mailing list >>> >>> To post message: [email protected] >>> List info: >>> http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org >>> TriEmbed web site: https://TriEmbed.org >>> To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: >>> [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe >>> Searchable email archive available at >>> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> Triangle, NC Embedded Interest Group mailing list >> >> To post message: [email protected] >> List info: >> http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org >> TriEmbed web site: https://TriEmbed.org >> To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: >> [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe >> Searchable email archive available at >> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Interest Group mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: https://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > Searchable email archive available at > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >
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