This is a 560 watt hour 36v scooter battery and a heltec board I’ve packaged up in a trash bag. Zip tied it to a tree, you can find it on the meshtastic map in Los Angeles. So far I’ve gotten a signal to bounce back to my house from 10+ miles away.
Anyone in LA want to give it a try? Its been running for about a week non stop so far.
Super Cool! Btw to prevent the node from sleeping (ever) for this application you’ll want to use the new --set-router mode we just added. Also it will use much less current. Docs are still a bit spotty on it (and no gui yet on the Android app) but see the alphatest thread for details.
Expected runtime before recharging? Or, will the tree die first? 
awesome! looks like i’ll be taking a trip up the hill!
hahaha, I really have no idea! I’ll be checking its voltage when i go up there to update the software. It would be great if it could do a couple months!
The feature will be available in the Android app really soon 
I’m in Lincoln Heights but I’ll try to hit tonight!
awesome!, the base station should be named “homebase” and ill be either datadrian or adrian tbeam. send me a shout so i can look out for a message
Nice node! What software were you using for the RF prediction?
Hey, looks like the second one from this post:
