Starting a Community Mesh
How to bootstrap a new regional mesh network and grow your community.
📖 Start Here — Starting a Community Mesh Guide
This book is for people who want to start or grow a LoRa mesh community - from bootstrapping the ...
Planning Your Network
Is There Already a Network in Your Area?
Is There Already a Network in Your Area? Before starting a new mesh network, check whether an exi...
Choosing Your Protocol and Channel
Choosing Your Protocol and Channel The two dominant LoRa mesh protocols for community networks ar...
Setting Channel Keys and Network Identity
Your channel configuration defines who can communicate on your mesh. Getting it right from the st...
Infrastructure Agreements and Permissions
Getting your repeater or backbone node onto high-elevation infrastructure dramatically improves c...
Growing Your Community
Finding Volunteers and Repeater Sites
Finding Volunteers and Repeater Sites The practical limit on any mesh network's coverage is the n...
Using RegionMesh Geographic Scoping
Using RegionMesh Geographic Scoping RegionMesh is a third-party community naming convention for M...
Onboarding New Members Effectively
Your onboarding process determines whether new members stay active or quietly disappear after the...
Community Events and Meetups
Regular events keep the community engaged and accelerate network growth. Events serve three purpo...
Bootstrapping a New Network
Starting from Zero: Your First Repeater
Every community mesh started with one person who put up the first node. This page is for that per...
Recruiting Repeater Hosts
The fastest way to grow coverage is to recruit hosts for additional repeaters - people who will l...
Naming Conventions and Network Hygiene
Good naming conventions make the network easier to use, debug, and grow. Establish them early - r...
Community Operations
Growing Your Network
How to recruit hosts, run community events, document your network, and manage growth at scale.
Running Mesh Events and Demonstrations
The fastest way to grow a mesh community is to let people experience the network firsthand. Event...
Network Documentation Standards
A community mesh network that isn't documented is one resignation or one hardware failure away fr...
Handling Network Growth and Congestion
A Meshtastic network that works well with five nodes may behave poorly at fifty. Managing growth ...