A Non-Technical Introduction to Meshtastic Off-Grid Radio Communications

Video Description

This is an open source solution that works with inexpensive LoRa radios, and your mobile phone or laptop, to be able to pass messages directly, or in shared channels, between the various nodes with no Internet or mobile phone coverage required. The intention of this video is to give a non-technical overview of what it could be used for, how it works, and what you can expect from it. This is not a "how-to configure it" or a field demo video. Hopefully the video helps motivate some new users to set up these nodes in their own cities, and thereby help this form of mesh off-grid communication be more effective across entire cities. See also my overview of the Meshtastic Mobile App at https://youtu.be/GAGOkXUlbaY CHAPTERS: --------------------------------------------------- Intro 00:00 Key Features 01:21 Scenarios 04:59 Meshtastic Nodes 11:13 Typical Home Setup 16:05 Minimal Setup 19:17 Mobile App 20:38 Outro 24:04 LINKS: --------------------------------------------------- Meshtastic website: https://meshtastic.org/ My Meshtastic web page with SA context and links: https://gadgeteer.co.za/hamradio/meshtastic-in-south-africa/ Making your own wire dipole antenna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srV70ghBtHg FOLLOW ME: --------------------------------------------------- My daily tech blog at https://gadgeteer.co.za/blog I post to all these social networks at https://gadgeteer.co.za/social-networks-i-post-to/ Videos also replicated to Odysee at https://odysee.com/@GadgeteerZA #technology #Meshatastic #offgrid #opensource