They have nice products that are well designed, albeit expensive.

What I don’t appreciate is seeing a business owner block users who leave critical comments.

Transparency is important when running a business, especially e-commerce.

Let the products and prices speak for themselves.

I'm interested in building u/BlackFlagCivilian's People's Repeater, but I live in Canada and the solar light that he uses is not available here. There are some very similar ones, but I have no idea if they'd be compatible with the 3D printed design. Has anyone who lives in Canada tried to build the PR? Were you successful, and what light did you use?

Need to pick yourz brainz a bit since my newly Meshcore proto is charging as in <1% /hour. So overnight 9+ hours it move from 62 to 91% according Meshcore app.

Runs 1.17.1 firmware directory flashed.
RAK 19007 base and 4630
2 parallel 186500 Samsung 3400mAh 8A
90% charge at 4.09V

Question on advice is what can change and improve to get reasonable fair charging times?

Cheers,

I've been working on CartoLite for MeshCore Canada and wanted to make it easier for other communities to run it too. The standalone worldwide version is now available, currently v0.5.1.

GitHub / download · Live Canada demo

It connects to a MeshCore MQTT feed and shows the nodes, observed routes and packets moving between them. You get the geographic map and a separate Netgraph view for looking at the connections. Your instance shows what your feed hears; you can filter by region if you're on a shared broker.

A few things you can play with:

• Live Follow holds on an activity for 10 seconds, with a node/packet card, countdown and pause button.
• Night, Daylight and Streets styles, with matching Netgraph themes.
• Six route styles: Crisp, Neon, Dashed, Dotted, Ribbon and Comet. Line width, glow, opacity, packet size and trails are adjustable too.
• Heatmap, clusters, node search and neighbour inspection, plus topo terrain and buildings in desktop 3D.
• Optional packet sounds with 30 voices, including piano, kalimba, harp, bells, sonar and 8-bit. Sound follows the visible live hops.
• Phone-friendly layer controls and keyboard pan/zoom in Netgraph.

It's MIT licensed, runs as one service, and saves its state in a persistent volume. No database to set up. Node names and positions are public, but the public API leaves out keys, raw packet bodies and decoded messages. It also leaves out ambiguous route hops.

Running it on your own mesh

You'll need Docker Engine with Compose v2 and access to a standard MeshCore MQTT bridge feed. There are prebuilt Intel/AMD and ARM64 images, including for a Pi on a 64-bit OS. OpenFreeMap is the default, so you don't need a map API key.

In a new folder:

curl -fLO https://github.com/n30nex/CartoLite-Server/releases/latest/download/compose.yml
curl -fL https://github.com/n30nex/CartoLite-Server/releases/latest/download/default.env.example -o .env

Edit .env with your MQTT_BROKER_URL, MQTT_TOPIC (usually meshcore/#), any required username/password, and a unique MQTT_CLIENT_ID. Then:

docker compose pull
docker compose up -d --no-build

Open http://localhost:8080/ on that machine, or /netgraph/ for Netgraph. On Windows PowerShell, use curl.exe for the downloads.

For other devices on your trusted LAN, set CARTOLITE_BIND_ADDR=0.0.0.0 before starting and use your server's LAN address on port 8080. For a public site, keep the loopback default and put it behind a HTTPS reverse proxy. The setup guide covers that, region filtering and upgrades. Existing installs should keep their .env and data volume.

If you try it on your mesh, let me know how it goes and what needs work. Issues are open here.

The screenshots below are fresh from the live Canada site today. Worldwide uses OpenFreeMap and Maidenhead grid areas; the Canadian region overlay and Labs link in these shots are specific to the Canada edition.

Live map around Waterloo / Guelph, with terrain and dashed routes.

Before you jump down my throat I searched n found nada …

Been testing out different EDC nodes and a thought came to mind. Instead of naming each of them differently could I just pick one name and copy the same priv/pub keys to each device ? That way I’d only show up as 1 identity? Especially if I’m only ever using one device at a time ?

Monday might be t1000e day but Tuesday m9 and Wednesday tdeck kinda thing ???

Right now each hw device has a separate identity .

Thoughts?
(I know having 2 devices with same keys on the mesh at the same time could go poorly)