{"id":418,"date":"2024-01-20T17:29:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T17:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theshanty.us\/?p=418"},"modified":"2024-01-20T17:29:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T17:29:39","slug":"started-playing-with-meshtastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/2024\/01\/20\/started-playing-with-meshtastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Started playing with Meshtastic."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I first heard about Meshtastic about two years ago. I have been interested in using it to send messages since then, but it wasn&#8217;t until recently that I had a use case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife and I were camping on Assateague Island in Maryland and we had zero cell service. If I had the Meshtastic network up and running, we could have communicated anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I bought a pair of T-Beams to see if I could make it work and have since ordered a T-LoRa T3-S3 to use as a base station\/relay.  next I need to figure out how to get it running on one of these small Heltec devices, so I can put it up on a drone to may longer distance connections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3295\" height=\"2575\" src=\"http:\/\/theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240120_121845.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-419\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard about Meshtastic about two years ago. I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,22,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communication","category-maker","category-networking"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_155020.jpg",1664,877,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_155020.jpg",150,79,false],"medium":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_155020.jpg",300,158,false],"medium_large":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_155020.jpg",640,337,false],"large":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_155020.jpg",640,337,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_155020.jpg",1536,810,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_155020.jpg",1664,877,false],"chromenews-featured":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_155020.jpg",1024,540,false],"chromenews-large":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_155020.jpg",825,435,false],"chromenews-medium":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_155020.jpg",590,311,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"chuck","author_link":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/author\/chuck-2\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/category\/communication\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Communication<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/category\/maker\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Maker<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/category\/networking\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Networking<\/a>","tag_info":"Networking","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}