Finding Other Meshtastic Users

Are you lookin to connect with other Meshtastic users? In this video I provide some methods and resources for finding Meshtastic user in your local area. Links to the websites I used.
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[mumblesjustin]

If location is an issue you could turn gps and smart position off and turn fixed position on and set a location down the street.

[Buy-n-large]

There is no lack of privacy in meshtastic, you are completely allowed to not share your location if you don't want it shared.

[KARMA-vuii]

When I enter the MQTT settings in Meshtastic, there is a switch for Precise Location, You can also set the radius of your approximate location up to 7 miles.

[RabeHK]

As a German speaking person from Switzerland I find the Kühl cap cool 😂

[michaelray]

Been playing with this too, you an force specific coordinates, works well ive done it

[KH]

No info on the “ implicit ack from another node” response when I send a message to other nodes

[SnowRaver-pv]

All these videos about LoRa and similar are like "yo you can message people!"
And I'm like "yo i don't want to message weirdos in my area..."
I got interested for a rural driveway to get alerts for deliveries and such. But I'd prefer video feed as well so that's beyond LoRa.

[leoguy]

to clarify. these nodes on the map are not all connected to mqtt. its enough if your node gets recieved by a node that is connected to mqtt. A node connected to mqtt sends every message that it recieves to mqtt

[guydauderman]

I’m in spicewood and picked up 62 nodes today. Longest distant was 29 miles. I set the location with my phone. However I did it a little ways from my actual location got that reason.

[rolandridder]

will another (offgrid) node hitting a MQTT Node be tracked on the MQTT server as well?

[brad]

Approximate location should be a default for the map in my opinion.

[mikemcdonald]

yeah should be an opt in if you care to share your location or not.

[slappomatthew]

Tons of cheap mesh units with no gps if you’re concerned with that privacy. Only 1 of my mesh devices has gps and it’s my personal portable unit. All my permanent home units have no gps

[KJRZOnTheAir]

The Canvas site removed all of the data cause someone drew some nasty adult stuff on it…

[TavisBogue]

I heard the canvis map was down bc people were drawing inappropriate symbols on it.

[mene]

As of two days ago I started seeing a handful of nodes about 125 km from my location. Which is very cool, bit also weird because those are the only ones I see. There is nothing inbetween.Maybe because those are very high up at 550 m, and I'm fairly high at 350 m. MQTT is off, and I've set "ignore MQTT".
What I also don't understand is that the app says "Connected: 12 of 35 online", but the users tab only lists 5 nodes. Still much to learn for me.

[wesleyjones]

Is there a way to view topics. For instance msh/US/?

[ashton]

Dang since this video was put out, it has literally doubled. That is truly crazy. I’m just curious if there is any way to tell if they are 433mhz or 915mhz. I read somewhere that the UK is 433 and US is 915 but I unfortunately got the 433 before learning about this😅

[jamiesmith]

Europe obviously likes this. Is there a more popular US version?

[christianknight]

If they are helium mining, can that show up?