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New comment by _stiofan in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

_stiofan — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:44:02 +0000

I think that is more of a directional antenna approach? I’m more talking about triangulation, we used to be able to do it with cell towers and if you had 3 or more in range we could get pretty accurate location (now that seems to be locked down).

New comment by _stiofan in "Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM"

_stiofan — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:35:20 +0000

Oh, it’s been a few years, if I remember right it was an iso, I burnt to the SD and simply changed the details in a config.txt, I would have to dig out my old laptop to get the details.

New comment by _stiofan in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

_stiofan — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:41:49 +0000

I haven't messed with this yet, to me it seems like it could theoretically map all device locations, triangulating positions? Has that been addressed?

New comment by _stiofan in "Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM"

_stiofan — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:36:13 +0000

The pi zero's are great. I have a bunch of them. I used to use them as a tiny server for live webcams streaming to YouTube for customers, but YouTube now have a minimum sub count before you can go live, which sucks. These boards are pretty powerful.