I’m now at a point where I can detect 152 nodes in my city. 25 are listed as “online.”

Yet the only contact I’ve gotten is the occasional “hello world” and once or twice a response to my own “hello world.”

It’s possible that nobody has anything to say, but I also suspect the network isn’t robust enough to maintain contact and facilitate a real conversation between random strangers.

Has anybody else here managed to actual chat with someone they don’t know?

  • TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz
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    1 month ago

    Ive only just added a node; well actually 2 - but I have to say i’m rather confused by the messages I get!

    I couldn’t see any nodes nearby on the meshtastic maps so I have one default ish node that I paired with my phone, and then another that I setup to do the mqtt uplink/downlink stuff.

    I see messages popping up on the mqtt node from time to time, but have no idea if they’re directed at me or not, or who they came from - its a bit confusing for a newbie!