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#3494951 24-May-2026 15:49

richms:

When I last looked there was something happening in meshtastic to start to do routing of stuff but I lost interest as there was noone within reliable radio range of home.

Looking at your advert path, your in an excellent spot for coverage. around there we have a ton of solid high sites maintained by a few community members.

a home repeater works great for infill and indoor coverage.

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#3494985 25-May-2026 06:31

scottjpalmer: Are any of the Wellington or Marlborough MeshCore folk here?

I have a few repeaters on the way 😁, would be nice to fill out the network here in Wellington.

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#3495017 25-May-2026 10:07

Huge effort by the Naki folk over the weekend unfortunately requiring a helicopter visit as part of it.

However, there is now a reasonably stable link connecting back up Waikato to New Plymouth. This also means that the link down to levin is also back in action so we are getting very close to linking up wellington too!

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#3495023 25-May-2026 10:31

Hey that's awesome! I wonder if anyone here has any experience with getting permission to put repeaters on council/public land or what the general consensus is on that 🤔.

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#3495038 25-May-2026 11:01

haydenw:

Hey that's awesome! I wonder if anyone here has any experience with getting permission to put repeaters on council/public land or what the general consensus is on that 🤔.

There are a few, i think bay of plenty may be the largest area of landowner deployments a bit of detail on those ones here MESHCORE locations : Bay of Plenty | BlowonthePie - For New Zealand Scanner Codes and more

There are a few grey deployments, but we tend to try to avoid these, the community is pretty mature about deploying in places where there is permission and where there isnt it's always something that does not stick out like a sore thumb.

meshed.kiwi has a few resources such as a form for deployment, rare that this is used but handy should it be required for a commercial site.

in general it's a great resource.

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the one place that is heavily avoided is DOC land, that tends to be very strict on process to gain rights to deploy anything on their land thats both costly and a nightmare to go through.

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#3495048 25-May-2026 12:16

Thanks for those references and I agree, not too keen on installing anything without the permissions. Cheers

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#3508638 4-Jul-2026 20:02

Andy Kirby still being a jerk re MeshCore trademark

https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/07/04/help-us-save-meshcore

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#3508647 4-Jul-2026 22:28

Well so long as the rest of the world has the trademark and he only has it in some irrelevent little island on the other side of the world, then all is fine. Mighty make it so that people in the UK cant get the right app in the app stores but they could just make another version with a different name for them.

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#3511101 13-Jul-2026 18:41

Think I have everything re-flashed over to meshcore now. Just realized that on my t deck I have the meshos one from the uk site and thats the one that AK has made which is a bit ewww.

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#3511119 13-Jul-2026 20:18

richms:

Think I have everything re-flashed over to meshcore now. Just realized that on my t deck I have the meshos one from the uk site and thats the one that AK has made which is a bit ewww.

There is an opensource version, also is a site out there that likely cant be posted here but they break the key generation on meshos each time AK updates it.

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#3512317 18-Jul-2026 01:07

hio77:

richms:

Think I have everything re-flashed over to meshcore now. Just realized that on my t deck I have the meshos one from the uk site and thats the one that AK has made which is a bit ewww.

There is an opensource version, also is a site out there that likely cant be posted here but they break the key generation on meshos each time AK updates it.

I would rather not be using his product. Will look into the opensource version, but from what I have tried meshcore doesnt seem to work as well for the get the t-deck out and send a message home as I was hoping it would do.

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#3514369 26-Jul-2026 10:27

This is such a great project! Thanks for sharing it. I've ordered a companion node to play with. I live on a fairly elevated section in Nelson. I plan on setting up a repeater sometime soon.

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#3514386 26-Jul-2026 12:35

MonolithNZZ:
This is such a great project! Thanks for sharing it. I've ordered a companion node to play with. I live on a fairly elevated section in Nelson. I plan on setting up a repeater sometime soon.

Nelson is a hive of MeshCore activity!

Have a look at https://meshcore.baird.io/#/map

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#3514390 26-Jul-2026 13:20

scottjpalmer:
MonolithNZZ:

This is such a great project! Thanks for sharing it. I've ordered a companion node to play with. I live on a fairly elevated section in Nelson. I plan on setting up a repeater sometime soon.

Nelson is a hive of MeshCore activity!

Have a look at https://meshcore.baird.io/#/map

They have built a great network, keen guys with good access to high locations. Topography is in their favour with ranges surrounding the area.

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#3514399 26-Jul-2026 15:20

I think theres something wrong with my tdeck because at the glenfield mall scan and no repeaters. Didn't even get mine inside on the workbench from the end of the driveway.

I drove up to the mall running mesh mapper and not a single response.

I'll go home the long way and see if I get anything.

Edit: nothing was got.

Edit again: Opened it, and found the little antenna at the bottom had its cable floating in mid air, not on the connector at all. In the process I have dropped the power switch part of the case on the carpet (3 times now) trying to get it back together and now I cant find it. Same colour as the carpet in the bedroom which makes it hard. Now also dropped one of the black screws which is not exactly a standout on charcoal coloured carpet either.

Once I find the toggle I will try it again and see if there is any damage to the radio from no antenna (unlikely at these power levels) and if its all good look at modding it to have a SMA at the top to put something decent onto it.

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