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2026-09-24 04:09:24 UTC

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oh, last time I heard about pjon was at least 6-7 years ago 😁 honestly havent seen an application using it

2026-08-12 19:26:06 UTC

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yes, colliding packets is a problem, so a possible solution is to set the smallest spreading factor i.e increase speed so packets take less airtime.

2026-08-12 18:17:22 UTC

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oh! 🙄 last time I check, it wasn’t there. 😄 I’ll burn it and see how it works! However I still would probably have the problem described here- which is a reticulum vs physical radio layer problem https://rns.recipes/forum/general/lora-transport-topology-question

2026-08-12 15:12:00 UTC

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if nrf52 xiao gets proper rnode firmware this would enable aolar nodes massively because is cheap. I used it allover for Meshtastic nodes and can’ twait to get stable #reticulum node on if possible at all.

2026-08-05 15:07:39 UTC

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if you haven’t yet, you have to experience the feeling when you get voice/image over LoRa with #reticulum HAMs are not happy for clogging the air and the duty cycle policy is violated, but, hey… it’s fun 😄

2026-07-27 11:03:17 UTC

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what the hell, I just updated to 1.4.1 yesterday 😂

2026-07-21 14:38:40 UTC

🤔 oh, wow. Mark Qvist’s opinion on the growing interest over #reticulum (excerpt from “This is not a Teahouse.txt” file in the latest release):
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2026-07-07 19:45:16 UTC

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shouldnt be too hard to make with Rpi zero for example.

2026-07-06 14:53:40 UTC

New release of #reticulum Meshchat here: https://github.com/liamcottle/reticulum-meshchat/releases/tag/v2.4.0

2026-06-28 16:53:09 UTC

Oh, shit! One afternoon working under the sun and PLA bent so that the box cant be closed. I guess device heat and sun heat melted the PLA. Back to PETG then.
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2026-06-15 10:43:58 UTC

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I appreciate it’s the only iOS app now, but there are some essential function missing - for example I can’t manually announce myself

2026-06-12 16:11:45 UTC

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arent there any decoder plugins to show at least the unencrypted part? You should be able to identify the node announces at least

2026-06-10 14:21:12 UTC

Is anyone aware of iOS #reticulum app? If I had apple dev account I’d tried to build but I don’t have one. I see #ratspeak are planning one but now earimate release time is indicated.

2026-06-08 19:03:51 UTC

it seems #reticulym 1.3.5 is out in the python packages, but GitHub still shows 1.3.4 as last release.

2026-06-08 10:20:27 UTC

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I think you should stick to microRecticulum. C++ is the most well established and it’s in my opinion more AI friendly (because of much more training examples).

2026-06-06 21:33:10 UTC

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nice! However this kindnof breaks because sideband and meshchatx inject more data into LXMF packets for telemetry. I didn’t get into details too much tbh. In general anyone can add ‘protocol layer’ on top of reticulum by attaching a packet named scope. I for example was thinking of experimenting with specific telemetry packets, like Meahtastic has.

2026-06-06 17:39:38 UTC

#reticulum transport solar node on a high point in the wild. Hopefully this will increase the stability of the 5km connection we are experimenting with. Firmware still has a bug - sometimes it doesn’t dedupe announcements and hops keep incrementing in loop, but it would do fine for the experiment.
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2026-06-01 14:39:48 UTC

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what do you mean “die”- end node fails to send proof of link establishment?

2026-06-01 14:25:41 UTC

This is insane. I hooked Claude to #FreeCad via MCP and managed to prompt myself to the same object I did manually a month ago. The barrier to entry is very low now. Obviously you need to know the terminology to ask what the AI should do. I can image if I’m a proper engineer/ CAD designer, the productivity boost would be huge!
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2026-06-01 03:53:52 UTC

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interesting! I came up to the same problem of broken LINK packet forwarding through a transport node. Did you fix it in the end? I’ve been fiddling with microreticulum_firmware and Seeed Xiao nrf52840 because I want to set up efficient solar transport node. The board is not officially supported but I used Claude to make it work and fix the link transport bug - it’s been a month journey 😄

2026-05-31 16:24:13 UTC

Here’s a cool StarTrek LCARS interface for watching #reticulum nodes status by polling ‘rnprobe’ to collect the data. The initial idea was to poll solar transport nodes as there is no other way to find if they are still alive or not 😄
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/670/103/404/461/258/original/47cb5d7058389e38.mp4

2026-05-24 18:55:37 UTC

Behold! 😁The first standalone #reticulum LoRa camera, running micropython reticulum. I made a custom pcb which I’ll share separately. After TCP only interface tests were successful, I decided to use seeed’s wio sx1262 for lora interface. This lora board was already working fine with xiao esp32s3 and shouldn’t have problems with esp32s3-cam board. As it turned out I was right,. I now need to bindle this with solar panel, bms and at least two 18650 batteries. Esp32s3 is a power hungry board.
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2026-05-17 11:20:28 UTC

I've finally made a video about #micropython #reticulum firmware (both plain and t-deck specific ones). I’m now able to demonstrate the image and voice sending and receiving capabilities over LoRa<—>TCP, which shows the real power of reticulum https://youtu.be/GdOzYJ3gv4k

2026-05-12 17:24:42 UTC

Whoa success! I managed to send audible voice msg from t-deck #reticulum to MeshChat. Three days struggle 😭 The culprit was the tight loop of screen refreshing, keyboard poll, LoRa poll and i2s mic capture. It turns out esp32 core was skipping bytes from the mic which caused the codec to encode partial voice, causing inaudible msg. I gave preference to i2s bus and now the msgs are good enough and go over LoRa to meshchat successfully. Now i have voice and image transport on t-deck!

2026-05-11 04:24:29 UTC

I spent all day yesterday (I shouldn’t have): 1. Trying to resolve microreticulum transport issue. I can’t test/fix properly unless I reduce the dbm of tree nodes and simulate network and not going up and down the roof all the time; 2. Tried to implement voice msg in t-deck #reticulum micropython firmware. I got the receiving part ok on codec2 3200, but can’t make it send proper voice. There’s some weird math going on which I can’t fix right now. I suspect the mic capture quality is bad.

2026-05-09 08:08:44 UTC

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I guess i need to read a bit more for #reticulum mode gateway and mode boundary, which apparently can isolate segments of the mesh. What i found is that it’s not good idea to put mode full on LoRa interface and suck all TCP traffic into the Lora mesh.

2026-05-09 08:03:24 UTC

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2. Afaik there was no guard in microreticulum firmware, so once the flash was filled in, the routes are not saved, announce cache is not saved
3. This causes ping-pong of own announces between transport nodes, filling up the air, before the #reticulum dedupe threshold is triggered.
4. I’ve put a guard to delete old cache files once the the free space reaches 25%
The joy of experimentation and going up and down the roof few times 😂

2026-05-09 07:59:03 UTC

When I’ve put up #reticulum nodes out in the wild and the (LoRa part) network grows, some problems start to surface, mainly due to hardware constrains. It turns out nrf52840 based nodes are good for battery efficiency, but the insufficient flash, is kind of bummer. The problem was
1. routing is saved on the flash - 1 file per heard node. However LittleFS works with 4kb per block, which means we are wasting precious space as most of the block is empty. So the free 76kb is exhausted really fast

2026-05-02 15:06:58 UTC

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I’m using this this lib: https://github.com/Bodmer/TJpg_Decoder and honestly, Claude did the C part for me :) What is S3 SIMD? I might check, although the camera module produces around 6kb jpegs and i don’t know what i can optimize more - the image comes kind of pixelated. Camera can produce better resolutions but because I intend to transfer those over LoRa i need small size, so quality is compromised a bit.

2026-05-02 14:53:16 UTC

I’ve added jpeg view on the #reticulum t-deck #micropython chat app. Looks so cool 😁 I have to make a video about this. Basically when t-deck sends “image” keyword to the camera node, the former gets back a camera capture and can show it on the screen. I do some centering and resizing to fit it on 320x240 on the deck’s screen. Again, for the sake of speedy jpeg decoding is a C module with micropython python bindings.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/505/532/887/726/430/original/897372db4882a5f0.jpeg

2026-04-27 12:14:02 UTC

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MacOS build doesn’t work.

2026-04-24 11:03:25 UTC

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Except just trying the phone calls on MeshChat i haven’t gotten deeper into LXST, I guess I should. I could try and heavily optimize the image before sending it over reticulum e.g. 256 colors, dithering etc, all these old retro tricks + compression, so it might be viable. But you are right, it will require a reading app.

2026-04-24 10:50:31 UTC

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I’ll put the micropython #reticulum port and try to get the camera driver working so that the board can take pictures and send it over lxmf if asked by another lxmf node (e.g. MeshChat or Columba/Sideband) 😁 Another option is to put a #nomadnet page and make the camera take regular image, which could be served by the node’s page. Everything on the node itself. Needles to say this could be done over LoRa and as [@fredy_pferdi](https://social.linux.pizza/@fredy_pferdi ) said - perfect for trail cam.

2026-04-23 10:19:44 UTC

There’s medium size IT event in august in my city. I’m planning to make a presentation about #reticulum . Giving my fair share in spreading the word. Average attendance is around 100 ppl but there’s some social media propagation too.

2026-04-11 18:52:20 UTC

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you can 😄
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2026-04-11 14:59:03 UTC

I have ported @npub1k7x…ceaf to LilyGo t-deck ( esp32s3) And I have no cardreader to put a game to test it right now. Have to wait couple of days. 😭😭#scummvm
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2026-04-10 04:53:07 UTC

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it’s a coverage issue and would be valid for all three - meshtastic, meshcore and reticulum. Think about putting repeater solar node between you and your nearest mesh neighbor. I do the same thing- I throw a disposable small one in the wild and it works great.

2026-04-09 21:17:25 UTC

New updates of the rnsd-menubar #reticulum #macos app. Searchable, clickable #nomadnet lists which open the pages. I think I’ll leave this app like this. No need to re-invent MeshChat. Chnages are uploaded to GitHub.
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2026-04-08 22:42:20 UTC

I've implemented imperfect rns:// scheme into MacOS rendering #reticulum #nomadnet pages through rnsd-menubar app. It basically converts micron to html, so it can be shown on the browser. Unfortunately I can’t open rns:// in the same tab I type the address - it has to be a new window - but it’s still Safari. This essentially can enable putting rns:// links in regular html pages <a> tags and if you click it will open the nomad page in new window.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/371/466/614/839/024/original/60a38ec291ab1f83.mp4
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2026-04-07 09:08:48 UTC

I’ve uploaded to GitHub my RNSD #reticulum MacOS menubar app. It’s a python app, so source code is easy to read. It’s basically a GUI wrapper of rnsd and its sister commands. You can put it in your startup apps on the MacOS to have a reticulum daemon running all the time. For the ones who don’t want to bundle it themselves, i’ve included a bundled executable in the Releases section, so you can just unzip and put it in your /Applications folder (app is not signed 😄) https://github.com/varna9000/rnsd-menubar
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2026-04-06 23:15:58 UTC

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Can’t believe this turns so professional 😁 #reticulum macOS menu app. I managed to bundle it in an .app file. Once everything is tested I’ll publish a release and the source to GitHub.
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2026-04-06 17:08:54 UTC

Anyone interested in MacOS rnsd #reticulum service as menubar icon? It’s kind of stitch job now but looks cool 😎
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/358/850/442/458/794/original/f6dc67e455a51dff.jpeg

2026-04-05 14:48:01 UTC

There’s some #retuculym discussion streaming right now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnpsdDnUbXM

2026-04-05 08:24:10 UTC

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yeah, no worries :)

2026-04-05 08:11:20 UTC

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I made the same mistake initially. You’ve flashed the wrong Micropython firmware, which supports small amount of ram. Go here: https://micropython.org/download/ESP32_GENERIC_S3/ and scroll down to the section Octal SPIRAM (8mb spiram variant) or even further down to the 4Mb ram variant firmware, depending on what board you have. Try first with the octal one (8mb spiram).

2026-04-04 14:34:20 UTC

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great! I’m thinking of defining a special scope rntranaport.telemetry which is actually allowed as per reticulum specs. The receiving side however need to be able to decode it too. I think Sideband has something similar. I’ll have more time to tinker and improve in couple weeks. If you have ideas PRs are welcome 😄

2026-03-30 14:51:21 UTC

No way! #reticulum Rnode on ch32v003! https://netmonk.org/works/rnode-on-os3-ch32v003/

2026-03-30 09:35:35 UTC

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good choice! As you said, they are cheap enough not to bother with the others. I got one working since yesterday with sds011 and bme280 sensors, serving a nomad page with the (almost) live data. Current uptime: 14h 8m 41s, so looking good 😊 Yesterday I’ve uploaded the latest changes to the repo btw (driver for sds011).

2026-03-29 19:52:11 UTC

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honestly, buying a board with more ram would be the easiest solution. There’s a c++ microeticulum firmware but it’s not complete. If they complete it, you should be able to use it on more memory constrained boards.

2026-03-29 19:50:13 UTC

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yes, this was my idea too. Or perhaps hook a solar with few batteries and leave it running. I’m going to test such node in transport mode so it acts as router on a tree in the fields.

2026-03-29 19:46:51 UTC

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just replied to you in the repo, but you just need board with more ram. Micropython itself consumes more than half of the your board’s ram. I could try to cross-compile the drivers into the firmware, which potentially could reduce ram consumption.

2026-03-29 19:39:51 UTC

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I’ll look into it. How much memory you got?

2026-03-29 19:39:07 UTC

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I just put it up. You can connect to tcp interface rn.varnatransport.com:4243 the node is announcing itself every minute. Added also a particle sensor readings to the page.

2026-03-29 19:37:49 UTC

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cool! Shouldn’t be too difficult to add more sensors. There’s lot of drivers for micropython. I just added for particle sensor sds011.

2026-03-29 19:34:55 UTC

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ok I'm leaving this flaky #nomadnet #reticulum setup on for few days. If anyone wants to test it try connecting to tcp interface rn.varnatransport.com:4243 The node announces itself every minute so you should see it and open the page.

2026-03-29 14:20:27 UTC

Just added particle sensor sds011 to the #micropython #reticulum firmware. On the image below you can see a #nomadnet page showing both bme280 and sds011 readings. I need a custom PCB to get rid of these jumper wires 😁 The lxmf node example can also return the value of the sensors, when it receives keyword “sensor”.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/312/876/937/325/463/original/45112221b3ca3533.jpeg
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2026-03-28 19:47:24 UTC

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Thanks. I usually use trees. You should try, if you haven’t yet.

2026-03-28 19:44:03 UTC

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cool! what’s the farthest point you mapped?

2026-03-28 17:44:06 UTC

I’m walking in the dusky foggy field like a freak, testing #reticulum transport node. 😂 It defo worked, as I was able to remotely switch on the led of another node at home which has minuscule antenna.
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2026-03-28 17:36:56 UTC

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i’ve mad solar nodes only with nrf52, so can’t really say about Esp32. It’s a software provlem in my opinion. I’m testing a fix now and will report back if it worked, at least for reticulum. There’s an open issue on meahtasric github about the same thing but not sure if anyone is working on it.

2026-03-28 13:49:47 UTC

I’m hitting the same problem with micro #reticulum firmware as with the #meshtastic one. Solar node’s battery can die if we have a week of cloudy skies. With microreticulum, the whole eprom data is written in a single LittleFS file. If the controller browns-out while writing on the EEPROM, it corrupts it and when the battery is charged back, the firmware fails with “eeprom not provisioned”. This makes putting a transport node in the wild pointless. I’ll see if I can make this more resilient.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/307/116/307/479/937/original/284a48e37b995347.jpeg

2026-03-26 21:06:31 UTC

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I have to look into this, not sure how practical it is but surely would look cool

2026-03-26 21:03:40 UTC

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thanks, that was 2 weeks ago and the node is now off, but will switch it back on in the next few days and will ping you

2026-03-25 22:18:20 UTC

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it seems the nodes are being duplicated because a node may announce different roles. I did some deduplication and colored such nodes with Jupiter like belts in the respective role they have. It will be less crowded (and cool) now. #reticulum #rnsmap3d
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2026-03-25 22:02:09 UTC

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I’ve uploaded this version here, if you want to have a go https://github.com/varna9000/rns-map-3d

2026-03-25 20:48:53 UTC

And just for the giggles, here's the #reticulum visualization in 3d 😁
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/291/776/974/032/932/original/25ee1237417439e0.mp4

2026-03-25 20:28:14 UTC

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it’s like supernova of announcements 😄 I think this is usable on Lora Meshes only.

2026-03-25 20:04:55 UTC

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wow! I just ran it on a node, connected to two TCP interfaces, it’s getting wild! LOL
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/291/605/423/369/621/original/0b022e5eb4f93dd6.mp4

2026-03-25 14:56:52 UTC

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jokes between colleagues 😄 I usually curse it

2026-03-17 21:52:24 UTC

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not that i want to use meshtastic after tasting reticulum 😄, but we’ve got nice mesh locally and reticulum over meshtastic interface worked ok for me on MediumFast preset. I can just take advantage of the infrastructure.

2026-03-17 21:48:39 UTC

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i’ll give it a try with real time clock module. I’ll just schedule once a day(or week) reset. it should work independently since it has its own coin cell bat. Better than climbing trees every other day 😂

2026-03-17 21:19:01 UTC

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did it work?

2026-03-17 18:53:52 UTC

I got this ridiculous unresolved problem with #meshtastic Randomly solar nodes stop working and microcontroller doesnt work unless reset. Battery is fine and being charged ok so might be firmware issue. There’s issue on github but it’s unresolved. So i’m thinking of hooking ds3231 rtc module and program an allarm to trigger reset of meshtastic micro. It’s a hack but should work.

2026-03-17 18:43:02 UTC

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fallout vibes 😄

2026-03-10 19:18:05 UTC

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I’ve made a micropython port of reticulum and LXMF, but I haven’t uploaded to the repo the last major changes - Direct link messaging. I’ll upload it shortly there. Here’s the repo: https://github.com/varna9000/micropython-reticulum

2026-03-10 19:14:50 UTC

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can you check if you can click on the Message link at the bottom of the page and see the mp3 easter egg :) this file is downloaded directly off the microcontroller 😄

2026-03-10 19:12:00 UTC

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I’ve set it to announce itself every 60 seconds, so it should appear in your announce list shortly after you connect.

2026-03-10 17:58:10 UTC

I need volunteers for a test. I’m hosting #nomadnet #reticulum page on my experimental micropython esp32s3 node. Could you connect with nomadnet capable browser (MeshChat would do fine) with a tcp interface to rn.varnatransport.com:4243 and see if you can load the page? On the page there’s a link with mp3 - easter egg message (2kb) 😁 The page is hosted on the esp32s3 itself (below). I’ll leave the node online for few hours to see if it’s stable with more than one link (me).
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/206/163/556/323/275/original/c170a1e0b85ecc1a.jpeg

2026-03-10 15:21:26 UTC

Someone had torn all 4 tyres’ valves of my trailer. What a lowlife!
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2026-03-04 09:57:16 UTC

Now that I have basic #reticulum features on #micropython, should we add some oled output? 😁 Also, I’m thinking of some basic GUI for my T-deck, for LXMF node (send and receive). That would be glorious! I have played before with micropython and T-deck’s LoRa, so I just need to get the screen and keyboard libraries from it. Hopefully things have gotten easier with those drivers since I’ve visited that project 3 years ago. https://github.com/varna9000/t-deck-lorawan-micropython

2026-03-03 21:12:12 UTC

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Latest changes (mainly #Nomadnet node for page hosting and bug fixes) uploaded to the repo: https://github.com/varna9000/micropython-reticulum

2026-03-03 20:48:15 UTC

After some more testing, I could load #nomadnet #reticlum page over LoRa. The page is hosted directly on the esp32s3. I made also dynamic loading of the bmp280 sensor data 😄 If you just run normal node, the example node responds to “sensor” keyword and echoes back the sensor data. So either works fine on all three tested interfaces - TCP, UDP and LoRa (Rnode).
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/167/226/860/151/014/original/e12a1ccd365fff16.jpeg

2026-03-03 12:59:53 UTC

Now it’s quite easy to hook bme280 via i2c and show sensor data on #reticulum #nomadnet page, just using standalone esp32. No additional hardware needed. The page is served off the esp32 with #micropython
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2026-03-02 20:07:47 UTC

Micropython #reticulum is progressing nicely. I've just added:
1. Transport mode - routing packets between enabled interfaces
2. TCP client interface
I’ve tested sending announcements from laptop via UDP and TCP and I can see on the SDR the packets being re-transmitted over the LoRa interface. Changes are uploaded to the GitHub repo.
Next: Might be a stretch but I’m looking into hosting/serving NomadNet page on the micropython Node 😁
https://github.com/varna9000/micropython-reticulum

2026-03-01 22:26:46 UTC

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no worries, I’m happy if I can contribute to the community. I really like Reticulum and would love to see it used more widely. I think having python on the microcontroller, running reticulum would help with that.

2026-02-28 18:32:02 UTC

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Here’s a teaser what can be done on #reticulum with the #micropython port 😁 Looks like I’ve been using old memory restricted esp32 board and I kept running out of memory. Replacing the board with esp32s3, made a HUGE difference. Now everything is stable! https://youtu.be/Z38h_L_7n5E?si=3fieMshC2d7J3X5F

2026-02-28 16:09:34 UTC

I have some good news on the pprogress of the #micropython port of #reticulum. We can have an echo bot running on UDP interface. It’s still not stable enough, but we are getting there.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/149/114/598/147/659/original/2893dfc79392c611.jpeg
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/149/114/599/800/815/original/7d95cb76e05a24f0.jpeg

2026-02-22 14:01:32 UTC

Now I can control GPIO with messaging a #reticulum node over LoRa. The target node is autonomous, running micro-reticulum firmware with some changes to accept gpio control and its status. Here I’m blinking a led via LXMF from MeshChat.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/114/627/294/028/935/original/c961369d3721dd53.mp4

2026-02-19 06:20:56 UTC

Whoa! New sci-fi interface app for #reticulum https://github.com/FreeTAKTeam/Reticulum-Community-Hub
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2026-02-15 08:47:45 UTC

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i saw the video, but it takes a raspberry pi to take the picture. My idea is to get autonomous esp32, without additional hardware. The problem is that esp32-cam doesnt have enough pins. It does however have free uart, so perhaps it could run one of those integrated lora modules such as ebyte e220 as serial reticulum interface.

2026-02-14 09:52:18 UTC

I’ve got an idea. Autonomous remote solar Esp32-cam board, connected via lora to #reticulum, taking pictures on request or periodically and sending to chat/nomadnet 🤔🤔

2026-02-12 21:16:40 UTC

I'm trying to test Sideband #reticulum app. I’ve got T-deck Rnode connected via usb to my Nothing phone v1, but it seems the app can’t see the Rnode interface. It shows “Down”. I’m not usually Android user, do i need to do something explicitly? I’ve enabled USB debug just in case, but it doesn’t change anything. Any ideas?

2026-02-12 19:21:26 UTC

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I’ll report the power consumption in the next few days. For 6h it’s now 4.10V, which is not significant drop IMO

2026-02-12 12:59:22 UTC

Here’s my setup with Xaio nrf52 with the compiled micro #reticulum firmware in Transport mode. Currently battery is 4.11V, will measure it tomorrow, although there’s not much sun these days. Also there’s no really traffic except my other node’s announcements.
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2026-02-10 15:33:07 UTC

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@circfruit/116037087731758544
Here’s my forked GitHub repo for the two additional boards for micro #reticulum . Since I don’t have VSCode, so all is done via command line. I’m also using UV for the python dependancies, since it’s much easier. If you fork it , get UV and run ‘uv sync’ and it’ll download all the dependancies. Then you can run either of the scripts for flashing the respective board. https://github.com/varna9000/microReticulum_Firmware/blob/master/CUSTOM_BOARDS.md
#note1335…j68n

2026-02-08 21:32:06 UTC

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I mean, someone has already done the hard work, but the only (probably) power efficient board is the RAK4631, the rest are all esp32s, which are power-hungry. RAK is also expensive, but the Xiao is just $10, so it could be a game changer if it works good. See the regional repo which I elaborated on: https://github.com/attermann/microReticulum_Firmware

2026-02-08 21:27:24 UTC

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yes, it is autonomous! microreticulum firmware has minimal stack in it, so it runs without additional HW. I’ve got another regular rnode and when I send announcement, I can see it in Xiao’s serial logs. See blow. The logs is a bess because newlines are not properly printed 😄
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/037/125/269/469/009/original/d392b9834b430965.jpeg

2026-02-08 21:17:25 UTC

Quite a good progress today on micro #reticulum (Rnode) firmware. I’ve managed (with the help of Claude) to make board definitions and build the firmware for Seeed Xiao nrf52840. The motivation behind this is the low power capabilities for the board. I want this to act in Transport mode, put a solar panel and batter on it and put it somewhere in the wild and forward the traffic, essentially extending reticulum over LoRa. I’m still to test it in the wild and see what the efficiency would be.
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2026-02-02 10:01:51 UTC

Finally got my hands on #reticulum this weekend. This is incredible! I’m sending voice and images over LoRa also webpages!! Reticulum deserves more popularity! #meshtastic #meshcore
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/000/451/438/517/374/original/e21106198c580148.mp4

2026-01-18 09:05:04 UTC

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I just had a look at the repo, are you suppose to download all models and LoRas listed there to get started? Seems unclear.