this sucks real bad when you are cross-country driving and whenever you check it's no longer connected and down to 1 battery light.
this sucks real bad when you are cross-country driving and whenever you check it's no longer connected and down to 1 battery light.
can you explain what you mean by "known corruption issues?"
whoops did you save the image for it? If not will probably need to follow what was done in the forum post here: https://specfive.com/community/xenforum/topic/146067/danger-danger-will-robinon I ha...
I shut it down and turn it on again.Now it goes bricked. Black screen with _Normal white Raspberry Pi Welcome Screen at the start.
spec5@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get upgradeReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneReading state information... DoneCalculating upgrade... Done0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 t...
@Sigmund Was able to start from base rpi image and have a working updated mestastic firmware. One thing I noticed was the setting in /etc/meshtasticd/config.yaml was missing for this board but incl...
To everyone that owns a nomad, the waveashre sx126x xxxm that comes witht he nomad has known corruption issues now. It cant send longer messages and can even just not recieve or send messages to to...
Also note still cant seem to get the gps update since I got it.
I am sorry to spec5 for getting frustrated, I just had random small issues and was causing the nomad to be unuseable. First was the touch screen would freak out when would go to the edges (was a lo...
How did you guys get the gps to report on map? Only got it to every go through my phone not web app. I hate the rpi OS so im just going straight debian and re doing all the mesh stuff (there versio...
@Kirk Take a look at this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/908800/what-does-this-apt-error-message-download-is-performed-unsandboxed-as-root I'm going to try the procedure myself from scratch and...
Hello, I finally found time to work on this again. Cerated a new image on a new sd card went through the above install steps with no issues until I ran: "sudo apt install ./meshtasticd_2.5....
SpecFive will soon be announcing a partnership with a wonderful group of HAM operators. They run a non-profit and we'll be providing them with very discounted long-range S5 Relay systems. That will...
@Joe I think we need to get an airline to agree to mount a small repeater on a few of their tranports. I realize the regularatory requirements may be insurmountable. But if this could be acomplishe...
@Robert Thats very kewl! I'm just wondering what sort of mile radius a repeater at 35k ft can cover. Like maybe 600-800 miles perhaps?
@Sigmund Yes, I made a contact with a ham in Indiana. He was in the flight path and I was at 35k feet.
Received the nooelec unit and have it working with a Nomad. The good news is:1. It requires mini-USB power, but it conveniently powers off the Nomad itself. 2. It comes with a female to female conn...
@J Did you ever get the Link I sent you in Msgs? There are two icons at the top of the screen. A Bubble and a Bell. Click on the Bubble to see messages:
I wonder what kind of range is possible with a 33k ft repeater? Any reported contacts?
