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Configuring Your Meshtastic Radio
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Find Your Friends at Music Festivals with a Digital Compass Direction Distance that You Can Build for Around 50
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Build a Mesh Network Beacon for Your Music Festival Totem for Around 50
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What is a Meshtastic Radio
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Pairing the Meshtastic Radio with Your Bluetooth SmartPhone
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LoRa Communication Frequency Bands
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How to Determine If You have the Proper USB Type-C Data Cable for the Heltec V3 LoRa IoT Development Board
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Installing the Windows Device Driver for the Heltec V3 LoRa IoT Development Board
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Meshtastic Tips & Tricks #1 - Using Spaces in Channel Names
First, save the channel without space(s) in its name. Then edit the channel again after it's saved. You'll find that the Meshtastic app allows you to add space( . . .
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Arlo Security Camera App Cannot Run on C23 Ultra SmartPhone. WTF!
I replaced my previous SmartPhone with a no-brand C23 Ultra 5G unlocked SmartPhone from Amazon. After I installed the Arlo security camera app and launched it, . . .
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Meshtastic Pitfall #3 - Keeping the Data Cable Plugged In
I was flashing Meshtastic 2.5.8 Beta onto a new Heltec V3 board, so I plugged the data cable into both the board and the computer. After successfully flashing t . . .
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Adding a Bluetooth Thermal Label Printer to Microsoft Windows 11
I figured it out! here's what I did, I went to youtbe and found a video by Ram Kumar [How to Install Bluetooth Mobile Printer, 2 inch Mobile Printer to Windows . . .
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Hart 20V Power Tools Battery Interface
The most effective workaround seems to be using the circuitry from an old Hart battery and connecting the 20 volts from a new battery to that circuitry. I hav . . .
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How to Use the Hart 20V Battery on Milwaukee 18V Tool?
Dan, That would be pretty easy. Refer to the " Milwaukee M18 Power Tools Battery Interface " article.
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How to Determine the Frequency Band of a Heltec V3 LoRa Board?
If you look at the bottom of this board, you'll see two resistors--LF and HF--mount points located above the Heltec Automation Brand (see photo below). For 915 . . .
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Meshtastic Pitfall #2 - Losing Configuration When Battery Runs Out
I learned this pass weekend that running the battery on the Meshtastic radio all the way down is not a good thing. Because when I did, my Meshtastic radio compl . . .
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Text Message Communication at EDC with Meshtastic
If you don't want to build one yourself, you can buy a completed one--LILYGO T-Echo--off Amazon: LILYGO T-Echo Meshtastic LoRa SX1262 Wireless Module 915MHz T . . .
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Light Up EDC Las Vegas 2025 on the MeshMap!
My girlfriend and I are going to EDC LV 2025. We are each taking a Meshtastic radio with us. So we can text each other and track each other even without carrier . . .
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How Much Does a Meshtastic Radio Weigh?
A friend asked me how much it weighs. So here it is: 2.57 oz. Includes: CyberNet Case, Heltec V3 board, 1200 mAh battery, antenna. Pretty simple and cost-effect . . .
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Meshtastic Pitfall #1 - Broadcasting You Location to the Entire Mesh Network
After playing with Meshtastic for a few days, I learned my first critical mistake. I broadcasted my GPS location to the entire mesh network. The way Meshtastic . . .
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What is LORA MODE 1?
On a brand new Heltec V3, after powing it on, it will eventually go into LORA MODE 1. Then if you let it sit, the LED will turn bright white. And if you hold th . . .
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What is LORA MODE 0?
When I power on a brand new Heltec V3 board, after initializing, it goes into "LORA MODE 0" as shown in the pic below. What it this mode? I can't seem to find a . . .
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First Day on the Meshtastic Mesh Network
I just got my Meshtastic radio put together and working; see a photo of my build in the Meshtastic Client Power Consumption thread. And I already see a number . . .
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