Yeah I might upgrade to a 18650 cell that I reclaimed if the phone battery is too small.
For now I use it mostly for exploring meshtastic and trying to send a single message to someone else in the network xD
Thanks. Where did you get the channel from? "Show full details"?
I am in Germany. I would like to find a root topic for Berlin :)
Thanks I'll search around.
But chatting through the internet kind of defeats the point imo.
Also I tried to connect to mqtt but it did nothing. Do you have instructions for dummies how to set it up? I used the meshtastic module config docs and it didn't work ^^
Yeah my plan was without charging. But I found another solution anyways :)
Yeah I don't have one around ^^
Actually though that's not true, last night I found an old device of me that I could harvest a 18650 battery from.
That's cool, will you post your setup in the meshtastic community?
Honestly just get a heltec v3 from aliexpress, it's only like 12€.
The board works with the cellphone battery, even with just holding the wires to the contacts ^^
Yes exactly that's what I am trying to do. I just found a 3.7v battery in an ancient cellphone of mine, maybe that'll work as well.
Assuming that you're living in the US I think the secret is that disposable vapes aren't as abundant in Germany yet.
I don't have one. It's to tinker with my first esp32 board and lora.
It's basically a hobby. If you live somewhere super rural or something it might be interesting to chat with your neighbor or whatever but I think meshtastic is still too much in the alpha stage to be usable really.
It might be useful on a festival or something, where cell networks are overloaded and you and your friends can contact each other via meshtastic. Idk if that would work though.