Overview of the Meshtastic Radio Mobile App Interface and Settings

This video explores what the Android app looks like, how to use the main screens, and what various settings and menu options it has. It gives a good feel of how you'd use Meshtastic radio communications from the app to control the radio settings and to communicate. I did a previous video that dealt with a non-technical intro to what Meshtastic radio is, and this is well worth just watching first if Meshtastic is completely new to you.

Meshtastic is license-free, so anyone can use it, and has really started picking up in popularity in the last year, so much so, that stock has often not been available for a month or two at a time. It's a really fun way to also connect to neighbours nearby, or keep in contact in the wilderness when out hiking.

Regarding position, you need to enable the position reporting, and for fixed position I set an offset of around 300m so that it does not give my exact location. The newer settings also allow you to set the amount of fuzzing of location automatically.

CHAPTERS:
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Intro 00:00
Messaging 02:15
Resend a message 06:01
Connected Radio Nodes 07:52
Map 11:27
Sharing a channel 11:36
Switching between radio devices 11:41
Demo send/receive message 12:51
Set Long Name / Radio Region 14:07
Use phone location 14:57
Quick Chat options 16:04
User Settings 16:31
Channel Settings 17:16
Adding a Private Channel 20:10
Device Settings 20:55
Position Settings 22:34
Power Saving Settings 23:35
Network Settings 24:02
Display Settings 25:00
LoRa Settings 26:03
Bluetooth Settings 30:24
MQTT Settings (filter topic) 30:54
Serial Settings 33:09
External Notifications Settings 33:54
Store & Forward Settings 34:29
Range Test Settings 35:49
Telemetry Settings 36:36
Canned Messages Settings 37:25
Audio Settings 38:11
Remote Hardware Settings 38:28
Neighbor Info Settings 38:49
Ambient Lighting Settings 39:22
Detection Sensor Settings 39:32
Paxcounter Settings 39:43
Exporting/Importing Settings 39:53
Reset Visible Nodes 41:02
Outro 41:30

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[cheesefries]

THANK YOU! This is the best video about the app I've seen so far, and trust me I've been searching!

[enricofermi]

Wait a minute! You didn't show us 3D printing and sequence after sequence of soldering and piles of wires and zener diodes and stuff. How are we supposed to learn to operate our Meshtastic node?