The Pine Phone Pro arrived earlier this week. After a few unfocused, false starts I finally got it booting into Gnome and currently installing Waydroid over ssh.

My wife uses a cheesey coupon clipping app (iOS/Android) for doing the groceries and such. I'll need to take a look at what traffic flows in-n-out of this app to see what is being farmed and segregate/container off if required.

We are heavy Signal users but I may use this as an excuse to set up a XMPP server. Twas on the 'roadmap'.

Initial impressions are good. Definitely not as shiny and smooth as an iOS or Android device but - it's a phone. We spent half our lives with dumb rotary dialing doohickeys - we'll survive. lol

Pretty impressed with Gnome on a touch device so far. This is my first real experience with it. No 'klunkiness' so far but just scratching the surface.

It will be interesting to see how a non-technical person takes to it. I'm going to monkey with it myself for the first week or so to find the hard edges to save her the frustration.

I want to experiment with Android Auto - see what (if anything) is possible.

I also obtained a Seeed Studio Sensecap T1000-E (meshtastic, lora, etc.) to connect to this device. We'll see how far I get with that.

I really need a staff... Ha!

Wrote a little parser for meshcore packets tonight. It's still messy and a lot more to implement. But, it reads the container format so I'm happy for now.

I have meshcore packets flowing from multiple repeaters(on different frequencies) talking on wifi using udp broadcasts.

The repeaters automatically discover each other on the network and now I'm able to watch their chatter with a quick nodejs server.

@SrRochardBunson @redstateinsurgents

Related query. ST Microelectronics has a set of #LoRaWAN demo boards (P-NUCLEO-LRWAN2 and 3) for the 433/470 and 868/915 MHz #LoRa bands; has anyone tried repurposing them for #meshtastic?

@LukefromDC @fritzLetsch

Not to self and everyone else:

Look into a Flipper Zero & #LoRa #Meshtastic

@sebastian

Bio:

#IT, #networks, #science, #energy - #IoT, #LoRa, #LoRaWAN, #satellites #sysadmin

Has a #life outside work ... which ich a lot about #metal #poetry #plants #cacti #succuelnts #kenya

Idea for this PR is to add a network bridge mode for repeaters.

This will let you take multiple LoRa radios, setup meshcore repeater firmware and listen on any number of channels or with different antenna setups and bridge the routing across those different channels with a shared Wifi link(the two dotted white boxes).

I've tested it for a few days and it's pretty amazing to see meshcore automatically finding bridged routes.

https://github.com/ripplebiz/MeshCore/pull/96

Writing my first meshcore PR

It's still a work-in progress, but having a lot of fun learning this code base!

https://github.com/ripplebiz/MeshCore/pull/96

Rapidly moving my meshtastic nodes over to meshcore

Going very smoothly so far. Meshcore is notably very fast at message delivery and delivery confirmations back to the sender.

Thinking I'll leave my primary meshtastic infrastructure nodes up and build meshcore nodes to deploy next to them so as the network matures I can do head to head comparisons.

@defcon Nice -- capturing the zeitgeist as always.

Tor and Veilid were mentioned but where are the reticulum nerds at?

Who wants to start an unofficial reticulum defcon network for DC33?