Advice on proximity alert implementation

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Hello everyone, I have a use case: I would like to create a set of two meshtestic devices that will change an alarm when they are found in range and then when they are closer than 1 km.

I have beginner level Python experience, and also we willing to take the sub as a long-term project and learn some c++.

Do you have any suggestions on what could be easier to modify and fork a version of the code in the device or attach a set of raspberry Pi’s that will process the data through Python and act accordingly.

Also is anyone here experienced with modifying the code for meshtastic devices?

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Meshtastic has implemented a plugin interface.

By creating a plugin you can run custom code that should be easy to keep up to date independent of the device code.

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Hi!

@Spor7biker is right on.

The external notification plugin has examples on how to trigger alarms. The range test plugin has examples on how to get the distance between two devices.

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the other comments here are good. It is a tradeoff, you can learn C++ and do the plugin thing. That’s probably the way to go.

You could also use python from a rPi, but the hassles of using an extra computer might not be worth it.