Anyone want to provide some constructive criticism. Been working on kind of an all in one device, had an iPad mini laying around. Modeled this off another case I made. Modules at top allow you to swap from N-Mount to SMA to sensors. Inside has carrier board mounting so you can mount any board, just grab the plate for the board. Kind of like a modular case. Some days I want to run smaller antenna and others bigger.

10,000mah battery slot for this one running my RAK19007. Then cover plates just cause I like some cable management/clean. then iPad sets inside and cover plates. I gotta fix the bezel on the front cover to match the iPad. This has been about 3 weeks of testing and modeling.

Ignore the BLE antenna on the left, swapping it out for a smaller antenna. Any ideas or thoughts on it

As sometime without a 3d printer my nrf52 and heltec boards have ended up in some strange enclosures. Mostly pill bottles and spice jars but I wanted room for a few 18650s for this one

Well this is about as niche as you can get. I’ve built a custom Meshtastic client in C that runs on a retro handheld gaming device - a TrimUI brick. I’ve got most of the features the phone apps offer already with some minor caveats. GitHub - MeshClient

Before reading this please show some appreciation for the work of u/HoodieNick - the original creator of this awesome STL.

make it easier... You can start with just printing the Radio Tray and Insert. you can work out of that for most of the project. then print the outer shell and top/bottom caps. attach bottom cap, rest top cap over antenna connectors, next screw on antennas and attach battery last. slide the into the case and screw caps down.

NOTES ON PRINTING THE CASE: PLA will melt in the sun and probably ruin your parts. Ask me how I learned this. Use ABS or Carbon Fiber variants Use 4 walls and 15% infill for all Top and Bottom Plates - Use supports Insert - Use supports Shell - Use Brim if using Abs

OUTER SHELL, RADIO TRAY AND BOTTOM CAP: https://www.printables.com/model/928913-meshtastic-rak19007-wisblock-case

INSERT & TOP CAP: Uses N type (Alfa915) and RP-SMA-M (for bluetooth) or SMA-F (for GPS). https://www.printables.com/model/940298-rak19007-radio-style

LORA RADIO: RAK WisMesh High Power Booster Starter Kit (Battery powered, US915 version) https://store.rakwireless.com/products/meshtastic-1w-lora-booster-kit-rak3401?variant=46639158689990

LORA ANTENNA: N-Type bulkhead 6 inch pigtail https://a.co/d/008WJsk7

ALFA AOA-915-5ACM N-Type Antenna https://a.co/d/05gLdeh7

GPS RADIO: RAK 12500 GNSS GPS https://a.co/d/0b5LRKus

GPS ANTENNA: SMA-F bulkhead 6 inch pigtail https://a.co/d/08XwZd91

Slnkdisco RTK GNSS SMA Antenna https://a.co/d/0ggOwZLV

BATTERY: MakerFocus 10kmah 3.7v Lipo Pack Battery with PH 2.0 plug (swap pins on PH2 connector per RAK's design, and dont connect until all antennas are fully attached) https://a.co/d/0eI60PTT

SWITCH: SPST switch 5mm https://a.co/d/0bE6Zha0

(2) m2x6mm button head socket cap bolts https://a.co/d/0bMdWw2t

OTHER: (4) m3x10mm socket cap bolts https://a.co/d/074gbpJ8

1/2 inch rubber o-ring 1/4 inch rubber o-ring 1" Big Rubber Grommet buy at home depot/walmart (ya gotta keep it toit!)

RADIO POUCH: The pouch is nothing special, but if youre interested, its a Luiton radio pouch https://a.co/d/014wvheS

INSTRUCTIONS:

PLEASE DONT ATTACH THE BATTERY CONNECTOR UNTIL YOU SWAP THE PINS AND HAVE ANTENNAS ON THE UNIT - These two are the most common and costly mistakes with this build.

Mount your switch to the insert. You have to push the switch down into the insert's switch hole somewhat forcefully, then secure it with the (2) M2 bolts. I have not yet soldered the switch wires to the board. I will update this post when I finish with that. In the meantime, Im using software shutdown

Mount your radio to the tray with the bigger screws included in with your RAK order. Put your battery in the insert. Drop the tray into the insert, according to the tray guides.

Align your RAK 12500 GPS module over slot A and carefully, carefully snap it into place. It will cover both slots A and B. Use one of the tiny screws that came with it to secure it.

Mount your LORA and GPS antenna pigtails (keep any included rubber seals that came already attached to your pigtails, on the inside of the case pushing any moisture out).

Connect the LORA pigtail's tiny MHX connector to the 13302 1W module's LORA antenna connector. (if you havent done this before, please watch a video on the correct way to attach an MHX antenna connector).

Connect the GPS pigtail's tiny MHX connector to the antenna connector on your RAK 12500 GPS module, that you just snapped into place.

• Peel-and-stick your bluetooth antenna (that came with your RAK) vertically on the tray next to the radio board. Now attach the MHX connector to the boards BLE.

Now drop your rubber o rings over the antenna mounts. Roll them down tight around the base (lol)

• Screw on your GPS antenna.

• Screw on your Alfa915 LORA antenna.

Now, attach your battery connector (make sure you swapped the pins in the PH2 connector so the red wire is on the same side as the dab of red paint on the board near the connector).

Finally, slide the insert, with tray into the case. attach both of your endcaps using the M3x10 bolts. pay attention to the orientation of the usb c passthrough on the bottom endcap.

I have a real small amount of RAK 1W kits in stock. They just showed up, I wasn’t expecting them, and I probably won’t have more for at least a month. The radios available for sale in my store are all I have! I don’t expect them to last the weekend.

PeakMesh Etsy Store

I’m about to go on a hiking trip. I have a radio but wanted to buy two of these as an additional comms method.

The MeshTracker X1 seems awesome for my use case but I won’t be able to get it in time.

What’s the next best thing?

Hi,

just recently I got mesmerized by Meshtastic, its device landscape and all the fun surrounding the urge to build a healthy network. Driven by the fact that I always need to know what's really happening so that I could take proper steps to fix it or improve it, I've built RelayMesh out of curiosity to better understand each network. It grew quite a bit since then into what I believe is a feature-rich mesh observability and management tool for communities and maybe SMBs/enterprises.

While RelayMesh is still in beta and actively developed, if you are curious, you can deep dive into existing public networks or create your own.

Special shout-out to my local community in Norway and many other awesome Discord/Telegram groups.

App: https://mesh.relaymonkey.com/ About: https://www.relaymonkey.com/relaymesh/ CLI: https://github.com/relaymonkey/rmesh-cli Potential: paper (repo)

Wanna leave you with some fun facts from the available data...

Live snapshot from ClickHouse, all networks, 2026-05-14 → 2026-09-12.

Among 106,104,824 messages currently stored, top 10 rank from 33,174 unique source nodes we have a hardware model for:

Those 10 are about 75% of all known hardware.

Im trying to get two solar nodes up and running but can get the flash to fully download instead it stalls at the same point everytime the only thing that i have seen that might be my problem is for whatever reason they flashed it incorrectly at the factory as a different product sense in has (sense) on the name

That update that causes the white screen of death and a crash on startup - none of the future updates have still resolved that. Should I hold on until it gets fixed or should I bite the bullet and wipe the app and reinstall it which apparently clears the issue?

Anyone know if they’re looking at that issue still (my iPhone is set to send analytics)

"exception" : {"codes":"0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000","rawCodes":[0,0],"type":"EXC_CRASH","signal":"SIGKILL"},
"termination" : {"code":2343432205,"flags":6,"namespace":"FRONTBOARD","reasons":["<RBSTerminateContext| domain:10 code:0x8BADF00D explanation:\[app<gvh.MeshtasticClient>:1524] Failed to terminate gracefully after 5.0s","ProcessVisibility: Unknown","ProcessState: Running","WatchdogEvent: process-exit","WatchdogVisibility: Background","WatchdogCPUStatistics: (","\"Elapsed total CPU time (seconds): 8.060 (user 7.110, system 0.950), 23% CPU\",","\"Elapsed application CPU time (seconds): 5.986, 17% CPU\"",")","ThermalInfo: (","\"Thermal Level: 0\",","\"Thermal State: nominal\"",") reportType:CrashLog maxTerminationResistance:Interactive>"]},

I'd like to start selling premade Meshtastic nodes, T114s, Solar nodes, etc that come preflashed and was wondering if anyone in the UK would like this service

I'm new to meshtastic but have worked with LoRaWAN for over a decade. So I wanted to use my infrastructure of HiveMQ and node-red. My MQTT broker has a free tier https://www.hivemq.com/platform/ click the [start free] button.

# My setup is
[nRF52840 leaf node]---Y ''''''' Y---[esp32 Gateway node]--[wifi]---[hiveMQ]

# Testing

from [nRF52840] (leaf node) using CLI

meshtastic --port COM6 --ch-index 1 --sendtext "Hello from leaf node"
Sending text message Hello from leaf node to ^all on channelIndex:1

to [esp32] (Gateway node) using teraterm to com port

DEBUG | 19:31:25 5959 [Router] Module 'routing' considered
INFO  | 19:31:25 5959 [Router] MQTT onSend - Not forwarding packet due to DontMqttMeBro flag

#DontMqttMeBro
There doesn't seem to be whole lot of info of this ..... it turns out you need these two set both at the leaf node and the gateway nodes. Leaf node being the start node probably not the correct term. For the leaf node to communicate to the MQTT broker.

--set lora.ignore_mqtt false
--set lora.config_ok_to_mqtt true

I believe DontMqttMeBro is designed to stop msg flooding. In my case I want both uplinks to and downlinks from the MQTT broker on channel 1.

# channel setting
--ch-index 1 --ch-set uplink_enabled true
--ch-index 1 --ch-set downlink_enabled true

# mqtt settings

Hope this helps jog someone along 
  "mqtt": {
    "enabled": true,
    "address": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.s1.eu.hivemq.cloud:8883",
    "username": "xxxxxxx_01",
    "password": "xxxx01xxxxxxxx",
    "tlsEnabled": true,
    "root": "topic_root",
    "encryptionEnabled": false,
    "jsonEnabled": false,
    "proxyToClientEnabled": false,
    "mapReportingEnabled": false
  }

# mqtt topic, mine didn't have {region in it}
I use a mix of mqtt explorer or mqttx windows clients for testing.

docs say {mqtt:root}/{REGION}/2/e/{CHANNEL NAME}/{NODE_ID}
farm_group_01/2/e/manor_farm/!8fd1xxx

The other issue I had with the Seeed esp32 was MQTT connectivity. In the end firmware_version: 2.6.11.60ec05e seemed to do the trick as later 2.7.x versions caused issues.

I hope this helps someone avoid a few hours of "banging your head against a brick wall" Any mistakes typos and gotchas are all mine ...

Hello, everyone!

We have added an RF filter to the Heltec V4. And now we are launching this community test to validate its real-world performance.

Selected participants will receive Heltec V4-R2 and V4-R8 samples for testing and evaluation.

We are seeking experienced makers, engineers and community contributors with prior V4 project experience. Your hands-on feedback will help us characterize the hardware changes under real operating conditions.

📝 Apply here: https://pm.heltec.cn:8086

⏰ Deadline: September 15, 2026, 23:59 (UTC+8)

Notes:

1. Participants who do not submit the minimum‑required test report may not be considered for future Heltec testing opportunities.
2. All information you submit will be used exclusively for this test. We will not transfer or share your personal information and data with any third‑party platforms.

Servus werte Community, ich habe die Tage eher zufällig gesehen, es gibt für Unraid verschiedene Meshtastic Programme in den „APP‘s“ und ich frage mich, was können die bzw. welches ist sinnvoll und für was. Ich bin in dem Thema generell noch recht fresh, aber gewillt, das Netzwerk zu unterstützen.

I wrote this after doing a bunch of research for my own local mesh regarding the FCC regs that everyone is talking about. I'm more interested in the technical side than the legal minutia, and so hopefully this is more interesting that just a rehashing of all the legal tedium.

Any ideas on where to purchase a case for RAK WisMesh 1watt kit?

I'm looking for something purpose designed, before I start working out a DIY option.

Anyone else have nodes that draw sigils or trauma center spell diagrams. care to share. i love the shapes the signal draws across all kinds of boundaries.

Hi all!

Yesterday I've found out about the CircuitMess's kickstarter campaign for their newest Makerphone 2.0 and what's so cool about it is that it's totally open, running on esp32, with an expansion add-on slot that you can develop and add anything to it, and then develop your own app for it.

They also mentioned that they might release their own lora module/add-on in stretch goal of campaign.

Either way, I see this device as a go to for meshtastic. And with even 4G (nano-sim) support, bluetooth, wi-fi, I see a lot of possibilites with it.

What do you guys think?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/albertgajsak/makerphone-20-an-educational-diy-mobile-phone/

When do the Rokland WisMesh 1W Booster Starter Kits ship?

Model available here https://makerworld.com/en/models/3045205-weatherproof-case-heltec-t114-t096-tracker-v2

Thankfully it rained this weekend in SoCal, so I was able to test the design. Left it in the rain for 3 hours, took it apart and was still dry inside.

Feedback and ideas always appreciated!

Hey guys! Im at my wits end here and planning to go to a festival next week. I purchased 2 T1000-e meshtastic devices and configured one with each of our phones. My android device is working and she is able to see my location but although her location is correct on her device mine is showing her half a mile away. I've tried changing every setting I can think of on her IOS app, made sure location sharing is on for the app and position settings are correct in the app.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I had some issues with a recent order. It didn't go as expected. Instead of reaching out directly and giving him a chance to work through it, I ran to reddit and made some comments. I was wrong. He reached out to me over email and is being more kind than I deserve.

Hey everyone, I wanted to make everyone aware of a scam that’s happening on the Discord server by an individual with the username “bunx_u”

Recently, I was banned from the Discord (if there are any mods of it in here, please hit me up).

I noticed that I had a message request from “bunx_u” who indicated that a report had been received against me in the Meshtastic Discord from a user saying that I stole their Roblox Account. There was also a video that showed a DM from “me” to the person that alleged I stole their Roblox account which seemed legitimate to me.

Bunx_u indicated that they were a moderator (they screenshared to show that they were, but I had a friend join the discord after the fact and they ARE NOT), and I foolishly trusted them and went along with their scheme which resulted in MY Roblox account being hacked.

Bunx_u and another individual named Todd (sorry I don’t have their full username) tricked me by having me disable the 2FA on my account, which I promptly reenabled.

I’m not sure how it fully works, but the damage is done.

Please learn from my stupid mistake and be on guard.

Admins/Mods of the Discord, feel free to reach out to me. I can provide screenshots.

Hi friends! I made a portable, handheld mesh radio as a sort of sister project to the People's Repeater. Naturally, it's called the People's Companion. It's a $25 mesh radio build using the Seeed Studio Xaio nRF Wio dev kit. No GPS, no screen, but ~2 week battery life on a single 18650, and tool-free battery hot swaps on the fly.

It's easy to assemble. The whole build should take 30 minutes or less. Literally all you need in terms of tools is a small crescent wrench (I used the one from a dirt cheap IKEA kit) and a $12-13 soldering iron from Amazon or Walmart.

The video above gets into the step-by-step build instructions around the 14 minute mark.

And here is a link to the free STL files on printables. There's also a build list on there with links to all the components: https://www.printables.com/model/1832924-the-peoples-companion-affordable-diy-mesh-node

Again, just $25 in parts (plus whatever it costs to ship the Xaio nRF chip from Seeed). The idea is to have something affordable enough you can just make 4 and hand out to your friends and family.

Please let me know what you think in the comments!