LoRaWAN/Mesh

Some research on LoRa (not LoRaWAN) mesh networking projects.

Projects

Meshtastic

"An opensource hiking, pilot, skiing, Signal-App-extending GPS mesh communicator"

• Website
• GitHub Org

disaster.radio

A "disaster-resilient communications network powered by the sun", "off-grid, solar-powered, long-range mesh network built on free, open source software and affordable, open hardware."

• Website
• GitHub Repo

Ripple

GitHub Repo, Instructable

• Dedicated messenger (no phone) project [1]

Comparison

	Meshtastic	disaster.radio	Ripple
Supported Devices	TTGO T-Beam TTGO LORA32 Heltec LoRa 32	TTGOv2 TTGO T_Beam Lopy more information	?
Apps	Android only	Android App Webbased GUI, hosted on devices
GPS	recommended	not used	?

Notes & other research

• RPi PCB for RFM95

Standalone Messengers

• Armachat
  • Hackaday [2]
  • Hackaday.io [3] [4]
  • Tindie [5]