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Latest revision as of 11:40, 12 November 2025

The meshcore repeater node hosted at the space.

The plan is to upgrade it

Antenna todo

  • See if we can get the current antenna higher
  • Replace antenna cabling to be shorter and/or thicker

Node upgrade

Right now it's running on a t-beam 1.1, would upgrading it make sense? For example, https://www.tinytronics.nl/nl/development-boards/microcontroller-boards/met-lora/heltec-wireless-stick-lite-v3-lora-868mhz-esp32-s3-sx1262

To decrease the distance and thus loss from the radio to the antenna itself, the idea is to place the node outside on the antenna pole.

Possible outdoor housings:

(will have to figure out how to mount it to the pole)

Parts we already have:

  • BME280, to measure condition inside the enclosure
  • INA3221, to measure power draw from battery/solar/etc
  • 3.7v 4000mah battery, do we need better? is this battery still good?
  • 12v solar panel (aetios)
  • solar charger thingy (folkert)
  • Lilygo T-beam v1.1, do we want to upgrade?