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Repeater Placement Principles
The Three Rules of Repeater Placement Every successful LoRa mesh deployment rests on three place...
Designing for Redundancy
Why Single-Path Mesh Is Fragile A tree-topology mesh - where each node has exactly one path back...
📖 Start Here — Network Planning Guide
This book is for people designing and managing community mesh networks - coverage planning, RF pr...
Environmental Sensors & Telemetry
MeshCore nodes can be equipped with environmental sensors to report weather data, air quality, an...
Using meshmap.net and Community Maps
meshmap.net is the primary public Meshtastic network map. It shows only Meshtastic nodes that hav...
RF Coverage Prediction Tools
Why Model Before Deploying Walking a coverage area with a radio after installing a repeater is va...
MeshMapper Wardriving Guide
MeshMapper Wardriving Guide MeshMapper is a platform for mapping actual measured RF coverage of a...
Field Testing and Coverage Verification
Why Field Test? Even the best RF prediction tools are only as good as their terrain models. Build...
Building a Mesh Network Dashboard
A community mesh network dashboard gives operators a real-time view of network health - which nod...
Link Budget Calculations
A link budget calculation estimates whether a radio path between two nodes will work reliably bef...
Mesh Network Capacity and Congestion
LoRa Channel Capacity LoRa is a low-data-rate technology. Unlike Wi-Fi, the RF channel is shared ...
RF Propagation Planning Tools
Several free tools can help you model coverage and plan repeater placement before deploying hardw...
Coverage Radius Estimation by Terrain Type
The Radio Horizon Formula The theoretical radio horizon for a single antenna at height h metres ...
Regional Scoping with ISO Codes (MeshCore)
Regional Scoping (MeshCore Region Filtering) MeshCore region scoping (region filtering) lets repe...
Path Hash Modes (MeshCore)
Path Hash Modes (MeshCore) Path hash modes control how repeaters identify themselves in routing p...
Coverage Planning Tools Overview
Coverage Planning Tools Overview Before deploying hardware, use these tools to estimate coverage,...
Urban Propagation
Urban Propagation at 915 MHz Dense urban environments present some of the most complex RF propaga...
Meshtastic Channel Number Selection Guide
Meshtastic has two distinct concepts that are easy to confuse. The LoRa Frequency Slot (lora.chan...
Extending Your Network to the Neighborhood
A two-node family setup is a solid start. Adding even one or two neighbors with nodes transforms ...
Your Family Communication Plan
Having mesh hardware is only half the plan. The other half is knowing what to communicate, when, ...