Sending photos on meshtastic

Every day, we get closer to reinventing Ricochet, 27 years later...

Propagation (FSPL) is a lot better at 868/915 Mhz than 2.4Ghz. What is the advantage to have a "super BLE", that can propagate for few hundred meters?

Cue xkcd on standards. I've been interested in mesh radio, and I keep hoping that a winner will emerge. Probably won't until a large commercial vendor gets interested and picks one.

How does this compare to Meshtastic, MeshCore and Bitchat?

Capping off a pretty wild week for Meshcore: https://www.pedaldrivenprogramming.com/2026/05/meshcore-is-h...

Correct me if I am wrong but I thought the primary appeal of LoRa was range? Also isn't the primary factor in making long range radio go through things is the frequency? So 2.4ghz is the same frequency as consumer wifi right and thus would propagate about the same right?

It doesn't seem like this would be that useful except that the protocol is LoRa so you can have higher bandwidth between two devices if they happen to be close enough together.

nice to not see some non-ai titles

100x of what? As someone not too familiar with LoRa, what is the significance and how this could be used?

Say I start the node and then what?

I know it’s all open source and I’m not paying for anything so I cant be choosy. But after playing with a bunch of Lora peer to peer chat systems. All I wish is a chat service that uses haloW. Since it uses wifi backend, regular wifi should work as well.

Seems like this would support institutional/campus environments or changing environments where the sensors at the edge are sending higher bandwidth ultimately back to an Internet node using LoRA mesh--instead of directional WiFi?

I'm trying to envision the application of a mesh like this. These could be examples?

- interconnected nodes need to share data (like images)

- interconnected nodes are acting as a collective array of sensors (eg. geolocation)

- interconnected mesh nodes provide redundant pathways back to the central node

- interconnected mesh nodes provide spatial diversity in case of interference or jamming

- nodes are mobile (eg. drone or vehicle) and mesh provides alternative connectivity based on node location and RF attenuation (also provides longer range with mesh connectivity)