Ack. Have one solar node already. Just need to scout a high point.

Oh, I will have to check that out. I was only aware of the official proprietary crapp and meshcore-open.

I feel like I need to clarify my position a little bit. I'm actually in no way against meshcore, and from what little I have used meshcore open, I actually think it does some things way better than meshtastic, that they could definitely learn from. The two biggest things right now that come to mind are 1. Mesh core companions don't relay messages except in that new outdoors mode, which takes them off of the standard mesh and puts them all together on a separate frequency. Makes total sense to me. Though I can see where meshtastic is coming from, making every client also repeat messages, I would think a better option would be for a compromise, where meshtastic would do a 50-50 split, when you very first created the node, and it would choose a 0 or 1, and if it was set to 0, it would be client mute, and if it was set to 1, it would be a client, and therefore, re- so you'd have the best of both worlds, and if it was set to 1, it would be a client, and therefore, re-lay messages, so you'd have the best of both worlds. 2. The region scopes seem like pure gold to keep area specific chatter in that area and reduce congestion on the wider mesh outside that area. This is a feature that I absolutely think meshtastic should adopt in some way.

There aren't any other mesh core nodes in my area, and the only reason I even tried mesh core open was to see if there were, and because at the time I had two LORA radios, and I gave one of them away so I only have one now. With that said, at some point in the future, I will be flashing my node back to meshcore and will definitely give your application a look at that time. One thing to be aware of is that I am a blind user and therefore require a screen reader. So, if any of your buttons are unlabeled, I will definitely be telling you about it. You might want to take a look at meshcore-open to see if you need help with labeling your buttons because they seem to do a really good job at it.

I did think of a question. In the recent versions, meshcore added an outdoor functionality where you could run companions as temporary repeaters if you didn't have any infrastructure. Well, we don't have any infrastructure in my city, and so I was wondering if meshngr exposes that new function yet. I know that meshcore-open does not.

I was surprised about companion nodes not repeating, but I came to understand why. I was running a repeater and the community gently told me to just turn it off. You can cover the whole city with three repeaters. There are more than three of course, but I was basically not helping anything, I was taking precious airtime. The repeater nodes are pretty cheap and you need to really think where you put them - as high up as possible, with the best visibility. Most users given this option would be like me "I want to help the network". But I was not really helping, I was just using airtime in an area that was perfectly covered.

I was surprised about companion nodes not repeating, but I came to understand why. I was running a repeater and the community gently told me to just turn it off. You can cover the whole city with three repeaters. There are more than three of course, but I was basically not helping anything, I was taking precious airtime. The repeater nodes are pretty cheap and you need to really think where you put them - as high up as possible, with the best visibility. Most users given this option would be like me "I want to help the network". But I was not really helping, I was just using airtime in an area that was perfectly covered.I was surprised about companion nodes not repeating, but I came to understand why. I was running a repeater and the community gently told me to just turn it off. You can cover the whole city with three repeaters. There are more than three of course, but I was basically not helping anything, I was taking precious airtime. The repeater nodes are pretty cheap and you need to really think where you put them - as high up as possible, with the best visibility. Most users given this option would be like me "I want to help the network". But I was not really helping, I was just using airtime in an area that was perfectly covered.

No idea, have not tried it.