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Meshtastic 64 – A meshtastic radio for the Commodore 64

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123 points geerlingguy | 1 comments | 23 Sep 25 23:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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simonjgreen ◴[27 Sep 25 09:36 UTC] No.45394385[source]▶
Pretty cool. I wish Meshtastic had more focus on routing and a way to safely do store & fwd. It’s difficult to actually mesh well with it. I run a few solar powered higher altitude nodes and provide reasonable coverage but I’ve observed many messages never reach their destination.
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1. NoiseBert69 ◴[27 Sep 25 09:59 UTC] No.45394478[source]▶
Looking at their GitHub there are some things upcomming

- They want to make device telemetry opt-in. This will cause the network to be more quiet

- A few patches ended up in master for handling corner cases of their flooding and next-hop routing algorithm

- There's also a merge request ("Add packet replay feature") which maybe can solve the reliability problem

Currently bigger Meshtastic networks are very very unreliable. I almost cannot traceroute a device that is one or two hops away. And our channels are not very saturated (10-20% ChUtil).