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This content introduces MeshCore, a decentralized communication system that enables messaging without internet or cellular reliance, offering a resilient alternative for local and private communication.
Have you ever wondered what would happen
if the internet went down? I'm not
talking like a global outage. I mean
just like maybe just in your area, maybe
a disaster or something like that
happens or maybe this has happened to
you. There's some crazy stuff going on
in the world, so I wouldn't be
surprised. But how if this happens,
would you contact loved ones and family
and friends? Welcome to the world of
mesh communications. This little device
here, about the same size as a
smartphone, can send messages without
the internet. It has a super modern e-
in display which is always on and it
will easily connect you to the Meshcore
network without the internet. Now,
Meshcore coverage will vary depending on
your location, but there's a good chance
that if you're in the UK, Europe, or the
United States, you should find you'll be
able to access a Meshcore mesh. Now,
good news. If you find you're not in a
mesh core coverage area, you can easily
buy cheap repeaters like this here, and
you can create your own mesh to
communicate with friends and family. And
then as the wider mesh's coverage area
increases, your mesh will automatically
become part of the wider mesh so you can
benefit from longer range
communications. So it's quite early days
for Meshcore, but already we're seeing
quite a lot of users chatting away on
this public channel here. So, you know,
people experimenting with different
things and setups and it's really cool
to see these text messages popping
through from other like-minded people in
the area. And this, of course, is not
using the internet. This is done purely
over the mesh. I'm sure a lot of the
older viewers watching will remember the
old CB radio days where you used to just
fire up a CB radio and just start
chatting to locals in your area. It was
the kind of earliest form of social
media. Well, it really reminds me of
that. Look, we've even got a jokes
channel. Of course, you don't just have
to talk to community members on here at
all. You can use this purely for private
messaging, which is end to-end
encrypted, and no one can obviously
snoop on your messages or anything like
that. And you can just open DMs and just
chat away like you would do in any other
sort of system like WhatsApp. You can
also use a smartphone here, which we've
got the Mesh Core app running, but you
will need to use an extra radio because
the smartphone doesn't have the radio
hardware built in to access the mesh
network. So, I really love the concept
of small devices like this being able to
talk to each other without any reliance
on cell infrastructure or the internet,
any wired communication. So this is
purely wireless. So this is using a
technology called lower operating in the
868 MHz band in Europe and it'll be
different in some of the other countries
there as well. But it's licenseree. So
you don't actually have to pay for this
service at all. So more about the device
itself. So Lily Go are pretty well known
for making devices like this. They're
kind of like almost like developer um
products where you know they're not
supposed to be perfect. there supposed
to be kind of like almost like examples
of what you can do with the technology
inside. So, this uses like ESP32
um as as the main sort of processor
driver in this thing. Um but you can see
I love this kind of clear um you know
plastic that they've got on the back
here. So, you can actually see all the
all the stuff inside. Big battery in
there. Not actually sure what the
capacity of that is. Um you've got GPS
in here. One thing I will say about this
device is that the antenna system seems
to work extremely well. It gets a GPS
fix very fast and the lower performance
like for the mesh stuff is extremely
good. Actually, it's one of the better
devices I've I've ever used in this form
factor considering it hasn't got, you
know, like an external antenna like a
lot of this other stuff we use has
external antennas here. But the device
itself, yeah, I mean, Scott, who makes
the Ripple firmware um for this, he he's
just been through hoops, I think, trying
to obviously get this to work as well as
possible. Um he's even got obviously
maps drawing on here pretty nicely. Um
you know, compared to some of the e- in
stuff that I've got, I've got
smartphones that have e- in screens.
This is not far off the performance of
those, even though those are like quite
supposed to be quite high tier devices,
but with an e- in display, you're never
going to have um really really snappy uh
high frame rates. It's just not not
going to happen. That's not really the
purpose. But the display on this is so
vivid, and that is the thing about this.
It's just you can read it um all any any
light apart from darkness. That's
another thing that I'll come on to. Um,
there's no backlight and that's a a real
real shame for this device because I
feel like if it had a backlight, it
would be easily good enough to use as a
daily driver um for mesh stuff. But
yeah, I mean, even the keyboard
backlight, it's been disabled at the
moment cuz it's so terrible. There's
like a row of LEDs under here that just
don't even light the keyboard up
properly. I don't really know what
happened there, but um yeah, Lily go, if
you're watching, you could easily just
put in a a display with a backlight and
just sort this backlight on the keyboard
because you have done this before. Um on
the T deck plus, this is a T deck plus
here. Um backlight on this backlight on
the keyboard, you know, it looks fine.
It looks worse in the daylight actually,
but it's kind of kind of fine. So, this
is a T deck plus. You can use this with
meshore as well. Um, and yeah, this is
probably my main device actually for me.
I'll leave that there so you can have a
look at it if you haven't seen it
already. Um, yeah. So, more about this
device really. It's nice, easy to use.
Um, you can go into the text messaging
quite easily. It's not the fastest
response in the world, but it's
certainly not bad. It's certainly not
bad at all for for an e- in display.
Again, Scott has worked on the driver
for this to get this um running as
smooth as possible. But if you say
compare it to um the T deck here and you
sort of just say like, you know, I don't
know what I was saying on that one. High
response. What's that mean? But yeah, I
think I was probably um just on
autopilot there. You can see how quick
that is um in comparison to um the this
this pro here. It's it's Yeah, it's not
really pro, is it? But anyway, so all
the stuff you can do on this um device.
This is the latest version of the um the
user interface. Uh it's obviously going
to be slightly ahead of this T deck at
the moment. Certain things like we've
got um message display here. So if you
tap on an actual message, then you can
see the full message in there rather
than wait for it to sort of scroll
across there. Um, that's something I've
been asking for for a long time on on
this to actually uh have a display with
all the information. Path shows you your
path. For this particular one, it didn't
didn't capture the path there. But um,
normally if you're in here and you tap
on one of these messages like this, um,
then you can see the path that it's come
through, the repeaters in the system
that it's kind of gone through. So yeah,
this device, I mean, I I really like it.
The form factor is a winner for me. And
you've even got this like um kind of smartphoneesque
smartphoneesque
uh sort of SIM card holder, which is
where you put the SD card. The cool
thing about this as well is if you take
the SD card out of this device and put
it in this one, then it's just like
moving your SIM card across when you're
using a mobile phone. So, you can use
that um and it will just copy across or
just move your data across from one to
the other. So, you don't have to set up
a new device. all your settings and
everything else will be um transported
across. Might be slightly wrong with
this particular device because these are
different. So, there's some differences
between uh the two here, but I really
love this interface on here. It just
works on the e- in display so well. Um
and yeah, it's just it's just brilliant.
And this there's just something cool
about maps like this on a on an e- in
display. I don't know why. It's just
it's pretty awesome. Um so, yeah, that's
about it, guys. If you want to know more
about this um then yeah just join our
discord. There's more information sort
of coming as we're sort of you know
finding more and more information about
it and learning about this device as
well with the software and everything
else. Um what else can I say about it?
Yeah, the the vibrate is pretty intense
on this one. So you have got quite a
good vibrate alert uh on this device. Um
it sounds like sort of vibrating phones
in films if you know what I mean. sort
of really really aggressive. Um, so at
the moment there's no sound on this. I
don't know if that's going to come soon.
Again, Scott was having trouble with the
imple implementation
of that. So hopefully that will come
soon. And yeah, check this out guys.
It's on LIGO's website and you can
actually order it right now. There it's
not like shown out of stock like a lot
of the other stuff. So yeah, follow
along if you're not subscribed already.
Subscribe to this channel for more more
stuff like this. Um, like, subscribe,
follow our Meshcore YouTube channel as
well for more in-depth stuff about
Meshcore and how it all works. And I
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