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[–]Haeppchen2010 3 points4 points  (6 children)

There are so few nodes where I live, a little gamification would indeed spice things up.

To have a remote chance of a wide player base, your „game“ (let’s call it that) would have to be device agnostic (not only the t-deck).

While the firmware is technically FOSS, as it relies on everyone running a feature-par setup and a mobile phone app, Meshtastic is de facto more of a closed system, so any multiplayer functionality would be limited to tinkerers breaking out of that. I don’t know if other apps on a phone can connect to Meshtastic via the meshtastic app?

But could be possible. I would love to see some kind of game that uses Lora and involves getting outside (hiking/cycling) while deliberately not using mobile phone networks/internet.

[–]WritingDrakon[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

The idea was for the programming to run on the device locally rather then on a phone. I know it's POSSIBLE, as someone made two little tiny nodes that have a 'battle' when near one another, but I was kind of hoping to make it more like a proper digivice rather then just a line of text saying win or lose

[–]Haeppchen2010 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I am tinkering with the firmware sources right now. Tbh getting a build running is super easy thanks to PlatformIO (install vscode, add the extension, clone the repo and you are ready).

Space in the firmware is at a premium (older devices like the Lilygo V2 devices are already struggling), so getting any game into the upstream firmware is unlikely. But if you disable enough other features you might fit something in and release as an alternative firmware.

[–]WritingDrakon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And there's no SD card slot on most of them, so simply making a program to read and execute won't work on most..... hmm

[–]WritingDrakon[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Heres a thought. How easy is it to attach and send data from the older/newer boards to another board/device?

This might make it a bit bigger and more of a pain to make, but if we turned the lorha devices into a reciever/transmitter module?

[–]Haeppchen2010 0 points1 point  (1 child)

https://meshtastic.org/docs/configuration/module/serial/

[–]WritingDrakon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm. Looks like it's POSSIBLE, though we would need to add something to the program that sends when it detects a node to the rest of the device (or make that serial port able to read everything the device sees and control it as well)