I've been reading about Reticulum, which is a network stack that can run over just about anything, including LoRa.
It’s not compatible with Meshtastic so it's either/or with choosing one to run on a node.
It's kinda interesting. It's intended to allow running any application over the network and it will be securely and privately routed.
Meshtastic and Reticulum aren't really comparable. Meshtastic is more of a messaging application that uses the LoRa radio. Reticulum, by itself, is infrastructure to put applications on.
There are messaging applications that work on Reticulum using Lightweight Extensible Message Format (LXMF). I think these applications can work similar to how Meshtastic works, though I'm not sure if it can do anything like a "default" channel like Meshtastic for just broadcasting messages.
I guess I have another rabbit hole to explore.
There doesn't appear to be any iOS apps for talking to a Reticulum LoRa node, so not sure this is something I'll commit to.
My stationary node will continue to run Meshtastic for now.
#Meshtastic #Reticulum #OffGridCommunication #Nerd
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