The Best Meshtastic Devices for Every Use Case: A Comprehensive Guide

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The Best Meshtastic Devices for Every Use Case: A Comprehensive Guide
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/4523050

Discover the best Meshtastic devices tailored to your needs! From solar-powered options like the RAK WisBlock to budget-friendly choices like the Heltec LoRa 32 V3, this guide covers various use cases. Whether you prioritize portability, ease of use, or advanced features.

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Meshtastic® is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communications infrastructure. This project is 100% community driven and open source!

How does this differ from walkie talkies?

By supporting networking (and also using a mesh to increase range).

As I understand "walkie talkie" radios, the spectrum they use (GMRS/FRS/CB/MURS, etc) isn't permitted to transmit data in a way that's useful for proper data networking (there's some allowance for data but not really anything like what most people think of as networking, and encryption is right out of the question).

For the most part, these radio specs can only increase range by use of repeaters. IIRC meshtastic takes a mesh approach to increasing range and reliability.

They can transmit any kind of data and be hooked to the internet if you like.

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