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RAKwireless rolls out WisMesh RAK3312 Meshtastic LoRa starter kit (linuxgizmos.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz
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[–] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I really don't understand the esp32 Lora radios, they use so much power they're useless for anything battery powered. I only use one as my home gateway since it has WiFi and I keep it plugged in. It hops through my low power tree node as a proxy.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I've got a Haltec V4 running on battery/solar as a rooftop node. It's got a 10ah battery, but it's solar panel came loose and is currently very poorly aligned. On a cloudy set of days, it drops to about 80%. That said, I had to disable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to do it. So really, not using ESP32 features, just it's 1W transmitter. My dedicated MQTT node is also ESP32, with Wi-Fi enabled, but it's constantly plugged in.

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    • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    The best devices!

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