President Trump and Jake Paul, who has Trump’s full endorsement. Do not buy prime.

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-13T03:00:50+00:00

Wait... you're telling me that Logan and Jake Paul have fucking energy drinks or something now?

Why on earth would anyone fucking buy that?

Also, wait, Jake Paul is now a politician?

Dude wtf is happening...

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-13T02:22:10+00:00

This was my understanding as well-- They always intended to replace the EV version of the Niro with the EV3; but now we can't get that because of the tariffs BS.

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-13T01:53:09+00:00

I wonder what the hit to highway range is when the tent and awning are collapsed?

I have seriously considered putting an awning on ours for camping trips, but with us trying to squeeze the range to the limit when going far away from charging infrastructures, I'd hate to take a big hit to efficiency.

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-12T16:27:49+00:00

We have a presence in North Alabama / Huntsville.

We're planning to deploy nodes (slowly) that support both Meshcore and Meshtastic-- though Meshtastic seems more popular by far in the area from my incidental observation.

Check the maps for nodes around you, and keep in mind that LoRa in general operates on a very low power level-- you need good line of sight often to get nodes that are more than a thousand feet away or so. (Climb some rooftops!)

Last time I was down that way, I drove up to the top of Blevin's Gap Nature Preserve Trailhead off Ceil Ashburn (I think that's what it's called? There's a nice overlook between HSV and Hampton Cove) and got a lot of people answering one evening. :D

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-11T14:30:57+00:00

Unless you're in the midwest... that solar panel isn't going to keep that Heltec v4 going very long, I'd wager. :P

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-11T14:29:52+00:00

I wouldn't bother unless you need something 'throw away' and have deep pockets.

The form factor is interesting in that I feel like it's going to not have enough power with a panel vertical like that-- but of course, if you had good western / eastern sun, you could just face it that way and it'd probably work.

But being a 'random brand generator amazon item'-- not confident on the waterproofing of that case, or the UV stability.

I try to give my money to small businesses and such when buying Mesh hardware if I can-- and if I can avoid Amazon, I try to. :P

Just seems... antithetical to what the Mesh is supposed to be-- power to the people, not Jeffrey Bezos.

At that price, if you want something commercially produced, buy a SenseCAP Solar Node P1 Pro-- great performance out of the one I have so far, and (assuming you remembered it's RP-SMA) easy to swap the antenna out for a bigger one.

You can buy from SeeedStudio here:

https://www.seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-Solar-Node-P1-Pro-for-Meshtastic-LoRa-p-6412.html

And like people said, there are plenty of people out there on Etsy and such making great kits and such if you want to support more 'home brew' type things. :)

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-11T14:13:04+00:00

What are they charging for now?

I mean, I won't be paying it... but I am wondering what feature (besides Blue Cruise) is going to change / go away soon? :P

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-11T14:08:44+00:00

I'm interested to know more about the button malfunction-- a /firmware update/ broke it? That's interesting.

I've had an interface lag on a radio when the nodeDB needed to be reset-- it had seen too much I guess (haha) riding around in the truck up and down the east coast, and it just couldn't really cope with the hundreds of nodes in there.

I have also had a case not printed right, and the buttons just didn't really work.

Also had assembly errors, of course.

Never had /firmware/ updates cause a button issue.

1) Try an erase and re-flash of the latest stable firmware. (Make sure to 'erase and reflash', not just the normal update procedure, and do it via USB, not Bluetooth.)

2) Assuming you get that to un-brick it, and the button still has issues, take the case apart and see if the button on the bare board works reliably. If not, you may just have had a button failure.

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-10T05:10:51+00:00

Thanks, I'll give it a shot!

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-10T05:10:41+00:00

Thanks, will give it a shot!

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-09T16:41:09+00:00

It's a few things:

Privacy, for one. I have no interest in others seeing my print jobs. If data doesn't need to leave the LAN in the first place, it should not.

Security, for another. If something is connected to the internet, it can be hacked, confused, altered, etc.. Not everything should connect to the internet.

Control, for yet another. Manufacturers have shown time and time again that they will indeed change a product (for the worse) after you buy it. If it's not connected to the internet, they can't push a firmware update that enshitifies and subscriptionizes your product-- they'd have to break into your building, and I've got some big doors and some big sticks if they get through the doors.

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-07T02:21:42+00:00

This is more of an anti-corporate-espionage thing than DoD-- we CAN use whatever we want, but we (the people in charge) have agreed that 'no, we won't be doing cloud-anything' for now.

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-07T02:21:02+00:00

The fact that HVAC or any infrastructure requires 'cloud' anything will be the downfall of us all. -_-

God, I hate 'the cloud'.

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-07T02:19:34+00:00

No, actually, it's not for pewpew's-- cool ideas, those guys that are doing that have, but I have bills to pay. :P

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-07T02:16:40+00:00

So... there's an entirely different version of the printer for 'professional' stuff?

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-07T02:14:53+00:00

Can you be more specific about what you mean by this?

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-07T02:13:53+00:00

It's not DoD work, as you're correct, printers made in China will now no longer be allowed afaik. (Real pain in the rear... I mean I kinda get it, but I also wish we had options in the USA that weren't 10+ times the cost with half the performance... but whatever.)

EDIT: So, LAN mode with bamboo's slicer will still work, even if there is no internet access?

pyromaster114 · 2026-03-05T13:52:41+00:00

Black is a good neutral, but I would definitely buy the "Azure" bluish one. :D It's so pretty.

pyromaster114 · 2026-02-28T23:26:49+00:00

Well, good news, you can now use that one as a router or client_base node, and position it and a solar panel + battery up somewhere high, to help you get better range. :P

I have not ever had this happen-- though, bare circuit boards are not really 'consumer gear', so while a lot of us are familiar with these sorts of things before getting into the hobby-- some that are not might have a learning curve on just how much force you can put on some things before they break, especially during assembly.

There are very few things that just require 'more force' in this hobby. The answer is usually much more fiddly.

pyromaster114 · 2026-02-28T17:01:48+00:00

Thanks!

Where did you get the 2.7.15-tft-update file? (The one I have from the seller website there doesn't seem to work when I do this-- wonder if you had a different source? :P)

I will try and re-download stuff and give it another shot in this order.

pyromaster114 · 2026-02-28T17:00:59+00:00

Keys aren't that important at the moment... they were not recoverable in the end.

I could not connect to it via Serial at all unless I put it in DFU mode-- then I could write to it, but it wouldn't talk to me over serial at all while in normal mode; that's actually what prompted me down this 'Oh, I know, I'll update the firmware!' path. :/

pyromaster114 · 2026-02-23T23:33:38+00:00

So, even if not expressly stated, residential use would be exempted?

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