Whoa this is really neat. I’ve been trying to get into Meshtastic but it’s hard to convince others when you need special hardware. Would be super neat if Apple did something similar. Shouldn’t be too hard since the AirTags use the same idea? Would also be neat if there was a way to build a LoRA proxy to extend the range. I might give this a try with my meshtastic devices.
I'm working on a project that uses the same kind of idea as the Bluetooth tracking tags. It's an Arduino library for mesh networking, that works over BLE and UDP, but it can also link to MQTT. An MQTT node routes the packets it sees to the appropriate topics, and subscribes to topics for all the channels local nodes want, so you should be able to talk to anyone anywhere via the gateway. The packet destination address…
Re: Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
#21Super interesting! Leaving the transport layer as modular is definitely a great choice! I like the idea of MQTT because there’s a lot of methods of serving it. I’ve been in the middle of setting up a meshtastic MQTT mode to try it out.