Hi all
Great project all, i am looking to create a RPi Zero lora mesh of sensors around my city and i was wondering if this code would be able to be adapted to create the mesh so i can send the data to a pi 2 gateway to upload it onto adafruit.io or simmilar? As i can find no current python meshing projects on the internet that create meshes for python lora stuff.
Regards Jamie
yes - I suspect this would be fairly easy to do. This python library running on your RPi should be able to use the meshtastic radios as its ābackboneā. The library is still in alpha release, but if you find bugs we can fix em ;-).
@geeksville
what do you mean by ābackboneā i am hoping for it to be a fully pii solution with pi zeroās building the mesh and the 2 interfcaing with interntet
In theory this code could be ported to run on a PI (but it would be a fair amount of work). But the Pi doesnāt have a lora radio in it. So I think you are better off just running this code on something like a āTTGO LORA32ā and connecting it to the PI via USB.
@geeksville ok, thanks that makes sense and the python library is written to broker that connection?
How hard would it be to write a mesh creation script to run on the pi zero with rfm95 board?
pretty easy - take a look at the documentation and examples in the pip project. A few lines to send a packet and a few lines to receive one whenever it comes in.
thatās good, so no complex maths to do to build up the mesh of pi zeros and rfm95 chips?
Yes. All that is hidden from you.
Great thanks, so i can just use that api library and it will recognise the rfm95 connected to the gpio pins as a meshtastic device