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Published: Jun 6, 2025 by Phil VK6DEV
This week I received in the mail my first Meshtastic devices. Meshtatic has been the flavour of the month for the HAM youtubers in recent times and I thought it was time to take a look and see how usefull we cam make it.
Hardware
I purchase a couple of Lilygo devices.
Lilygo Lora32
Lillygo TBeam
Initial Setup
The initial setup was very simple. After finding that the meshtastic oftware would not connect to the older firmware that the nodes shipped with, I fired up chrome and visited the meshtatic webflasher. 5 minutes later I had working mesh node clients.
Meshtastic Desert
Apparently I live in a Meshtastic desert. There are no nodes close to my home and from what I can tell, there are no nodes in the Bunbury area. I’ll need to do some driving around with my t-beam node to see if I can stumble apon any other nodes.
MQTT
Meshtastic uses MQTT to link nodes which may be geographically isolated from each other. I turned it on last night and immediately I was having nodes pop up from all over Australia.
More to come…..
