I’m sure much of this has been answered already, so bear with me. I am not a computer guy and I have to look up 90% of the abbreviations and terms used when trying to learn this stuff.
My goal is to have the ability to have radios on the ground supported by “relay” nodes. The issue I have come across is the ability to change groups/channels, etc… and include the relay nodes if there is no one within range with a phone to control that particular node. I want to be able to admin control the relay nodes from the ground radios. Is this possible? Could I change the channel name and send that to all radios, including one used as a relay with no one present, and have that channel put into use and maintain the mesh network under a new channel?
There actually is exactly this. I haven’t played with it, and I’ve been away from the project for most of the summer. Last I heard there were some bugs needing to be squashed on the admin channel functionality as well as a bug with the relay/“Router” nodes dropping packets. I think the router node issue has been worked on but I’m unsure of it’s exact status.
Regardless, take a stab at playing with the Router settings on meshtastic.org and the above link for the remote management. If you see anything weird in your testing let us know!