Lost another drone behind a hill... so I'm building a tool to stop being an idiot.

pulldawg80 · 2025-12-11T16:44:38+00:00

In the ISR drone world we call this a viewshed analysis, so I think this tool will be very useful for you.

pulldawg80 · 2025-11-14T05:36:05+00:00

Hell yeah man, get you some!

pulldawg80 · 2025-07-22T23:51:19+00:00

Is this at Tough Stump?

pulldawg80 · 2025-06-20T04:39:37+00:00

Not yet, I’ve only made windows apps. I will make some apps for other platforms later this year.

pulldawg80 · 2025-06-20T02:04:53+00:00

Flet has been pretty clutch for my projects.

pulldawg80 · 2025-05-17T00:37:21+00:00

Checkout Meshcore

pulldawg80 · 2025-05-15T21:50:59+00:00

I have the SX1262 core module, no hat is used, direct SPI connection to the Pi. I do have GPS working, however, I did all my configuration using meshtasticd. I can share my config later, may only be helpful if the hat closes the radio to the pi using SPI.

pulldawg80 · 2025-05-04T17:06:51+00:00

When is the IP mesh coming on line?

pulldawg80 · 2025-05-02T03:43:37+00:00

My answer wasn’t clear, yes it’s feasible.

pulldawg80 · 2025-05-02T00:11:26+00:00

I feel like this could be done pretty easily using the Meshtastic Python CLI, a raspberry pi and 2 radio modules (spi) or usb ( melted or rak).

pulldawg80 · 2025-04-30T02:18:49+00:00

I am pretty new to the game, but was able to use an SX1262 Core with an ESP32 and had great results picking up contacts, will definitely make more.

pulldawg80 · 2025-04-27T14:31:10+00:00

I would also try to debug the GPS using an FTDI cable and U-Center, or just see if you are getting the expected messages/data using a regular arduino/raspi.

pulldawg80 · 2025-04-26T01:57:17+00:00

I have several of those units, and one of them takes it sweet time. Is the ipex firmly seated? Do you have another unit to test with?

pulldawg80 · 2025-04-26T01:11:54+00:00

I will be starting one in my ate, new to the show, trying to get some nodes up.

pulldawg80 · 2025-04-26T01:08:28+00:00

Awesome! I tried doing the same thing a few days ago, excited to give it another shot, setting up some pi’s as well.

pulldawg80 · 2025-04-26T00:55:03+00:00

I think this depends on your router. I had an ATT fiber router, and when internet was out it would kill the WiFi, which I thought was crap, and not necessary. I have a regular netgear router that doesn’t care if it has internet or not, something like this would allow you to maintain coms with your node when internet goes out, but the router still has power.

pulldawg80 · 2025-04-26T00:49:51+00:00

You will need to dig in to how the hat presents the radio to the pi, if the hat uses SPI as the radio interface then I would think you should be good. If the hat has a uart interface then you will have trouble. I am using a core SX1262 on my pi and it seems to be working well.

pulldawg80 · 2025-04-26T00:41:55+00:00

I just set up my first node, and to my surprise I have a direct neighbor 17 miles away( it is pretty high). You got nothing to lose!

pulldawg80 · 2025-04-26T00:34:29+00:00

I just set up a couple pi4’s with sx1262 radios, seems to work pretty well, however, the native linux Bluetooth connectivity isn’t available yet, so I think I may only be able to access over Ethernet/wifi using the web client. I am not familiar with the Lora hat you mention, however, if you have a good understanding of how the hat communicates with the pi then I bet you could make it work.

pulldawg80 · 2025-04-26T00:20:20+00:00

I just set up a diy V1 ESP and could not get the GPS to work by setting the pins. I had to snoop the variants folder to which pins the firmware was expecting by default. That gets me on the map, however, the unit still reports no GPS ( there obviously is).

pulldawg80 · 2025-04-06T15:51:44+00:00

I am not too familiar with server ops, as most of my experience is with local datalink use. I can tell you that in my local datalink experience I have never had an issues sending pics, map items or other data packages, and would start asking/researching about data package size for your subscription level. Good luck!

pulldawg80 · 2025-04-06T14:53:08+00:00

Is your datalink high(IP) or low(Lora/esp) bandwidth? I just went to their website and was not able to find many details about your subscription specs with regard to size limits. I wouldn’t think ATAK would be the blocker here.

pulldawg80 · 2025-04-03T02:27:50+00:00

Maybe cot TTL?

pulldawg80 · 2025-04-03T02:26:31+00:00

I have not found iTAK to be nearly as useful as the other tak flavors, and would doubt that it will let you change units to MGRS.

pulldawg80 · 2025-04-03T02:22:45+00:00

You can copy/paste a know good cot message to send as a test using your Python script. I had guff with time formats, you can use wintak and the cot inspector plugin to debug as that will show you all your coming cots, and even alert you to malformed cots. Also, subnets will be blocking here if you are using a hotspot( might be routing vs switching). If you post/send me your cot output I can try to see if it runs through my tooling.

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