MeshCore 4+
MeshCore Companion App
Liam Cottle
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
A simple, secure, off-grid, mesh communications app powered by the open source MeshCore project.
To use this app, you must have a supported LoRa radio device, that has been flashed with the latest MeshCore Companion Firmware.
Once you've installed the app, you will need to:
- Pair with your MeshCore device using Bluetooth.
- Set a custom display name.
- and, Configure your LoRa radio settings.
That's it! You can now advertise yourself on the network using the signal icon, and send messages to other users you have discovered on the same frequency.
When other devices on the network have been discovered, they will show up in your contacts list.
For more information, please visit the MeshCore GitHub page.
MeshCore Firmware
- https://github.com/ripplebiz/MeshCore
What’s New
Version 1.10.0
- added ability to upload contacts to internet map (repeaters and room servers)
- added ability to see radio settings when tapping nodes on internet map
- added ability to update own radio settings to those used by a node on internet map
- added marker clustering support to local and internet maps to improve ux and performance
- added new contact settings screen
- added new setting to enable/disable auto adding contacts from adverts, requires firmware v1.5.0
- added new discover screen that shows recently received adverts, requires app to be connected when advert is received
- added ability to add contacts from discover screen
- added distance away in contact details screen
Ratings and Reviews
Works as advertised
Great for setting up and testing out an experimental meshcore installation. Looking forward to see how it all (meshcore and the app) evolve over time and, hopefully, the community grows.
Excellent
This app is very intuitive and easily understood. Unlike a competitor app for a different network. It would be nice to easily update the firmware via the app for a future update. Other than that, nothing needs improving.
Fishy and dodgy
There is basically 0 reason for the app and some firmware to be closed source, considering a lot of it was built upon the same stacks of open source technology Meshtastic was.
I might be wrong, but seems like a classic bait and switch tactic to extort money off the community once enough of the nodes switched. I mean they even checked true for the in-app purchases option already with barely any features.
Developer Response ,
I've developed free, open source software for the community for over 10 years. I've contributed tens, of thousands of hours of time and effort into all of the various software I have released over the years. All of it for free...
This app is also free, and all functionality is available without having to pay anything. I think it's pretty reasonable to be able to ask for a small amount as an in app purchase to remove a short time delay when wanting to use some of the more advanced features, which aren't required for the core messaging experience, in order to fund my efforts in working on this project.
I don't think it's fair to demand anyone to make their work open source for others to copy and profit from. It's like you going to work, wherever that may be, and your boss saying "Thanks! No pay this week, but nice work! See you next week." But of course, you're entitled to your opinion, and you're free choose not to use this app. As you say, there's other open source software available for you to use already. So maybe that's the better option for your use case?
At the end of the day, we are people, and have feelings, so please be mindful when writing reviews, there's always someone on the other end that reads them.
App Privacy
The developer, Liam Cottle, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- Liam Cottle
- Size
- 51.9 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Liam Cottle
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Remote Management £5.99