There’s been a lot of buzz about Meshtastic lately, and with good reason. The low-power LoRa-based network has a ton of interesting use cases, and as with any mesh network, the more nodes the…
Depends but I have some cheap esp based heltech knock offs from temu that do about 2km from being haphazardly taped into my upstairs windows. Power draw is about 200ma but I don’t bother with deep sleep or other optimizations. I’m in a flat suburban area.
I imagine it’d be much better if I whipped them up on the chimney with proper antenna but for something that just fits in my pocket they’re really impressive.
What’s the range and power consumption of these bad boys?
Depends but I have some cheap esp based heltech knock offs from temu that do about 2km from being haphazardly taped into my upstairs windows. Power draw is about 200ma but I don’t bother with deep sleep or other optimizations. I’m in a flat suburban area.
I imagine it’d be much better if I whipped them up on the chimney with proper antenna but for something that just fits in my pocket they’re really impressive.