I really want to set up a #Meshtastic / #Meshcore router with a wired Ethernet backhaul. The idea is to have the router and its antenna outdoors, but run the cable indoors to our home network. Any suggestions?
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I really want to set up a #Meshtastic / #Meshcore router with a wired Ethernet backhaul. The idea is to have the router and its antenna outdoors, but run the cable indoors to our home network. Any suggestions?
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in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •Meshtastic there are hardware options with wired ethernet instead of wifi (there is a rak esp32 option), the pakets can transferred over to an local mqtt server and from there over your lan to the mobile app,
Or to an local running linux native meshtasticD service on a computer.
In the newer firmware there is the UDP option where no mqtt is involved too. Then you need a second node (hardware or meshtasticD service) for your client side needs.
For meshcore there is no such option beside getting a raspi in the outside enclosure too and tunnel the usb serial interface through your network, or play with experimental wifi firmware and app, but no native ethernet.
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in reply to Doppelmembran-Würgenippel • •Neil E. Hodges
in reply to Neil E. Hodges • •Doppelmembran-Würgenippel
in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •You could try socat or ser2net to get serial data over ip network, with a linux based endpoint on the other end, like a second raspberry.
The esp-based serial to wifi firmwares (running on a second esp8266 board) was not 8-bit binary transparent, as i searched for this last time for 3d printer use. So this doesnt work.
The ethernet rak node you can get on ali https://aliexpress.com/item/1005001656862435.html or look into this to see the rak partnumbers.
I have had the UDP connection by accident working, but not the other things.
It look like the meshtastic firmware had a lot of troubles on esp32 platform with wifi, but worked stable on version 2.5.23
I dont tried ethernet over cables but others said it run on their hardware
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in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •stefani banerian
in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •it is quite possible to have two MC nodes plugged into R-Pi or analog, each running meshcore (eg python) listening to the node, and talking over the net to each other.
i run a bot on the #olybot channel, and it is "easy enough" to have it talk to another set up elsewhere.
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