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To remind viewers of the components of
the transceiver unit, I have reproduced
Meshtastic’s own image and added some
things that it leaves out.
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Lined up properly, it would take fewer
than 800 stations to completely span
Afghanistan from a user on the southwest
border to another user on the northeast
border. One thing we'll get around to in
the third video is that repeater radios,
set on high points in the landscape, make
connections between remote radios easier
since there will be few obstacles in the
vertical direction.
The task at hand is to get two Meshtastic-capable transceivers communicating with each other.
To do that:
In order to form a meshwork it is first necessary to connect two Meshtastic stations to each other.
Start with a new computer, tablet, smartphone, etc. Install a copy of Meshtastic on that device.
Assemble and power up a new Meshtastics transceiver.
The screen show “Communicating with device” while it is trying to set things up.
As soon as your pad, computer, or cell phone connects by Bluetooth with the new device it will show a screen with the newly acquired transceiver listed under “Available Radios.” You should click on the black dot next to your radio's designation.
CURSOR ON NEW RADIO'S NAME to click
Communicating with radio show up on Meshtastic Screen
avvavconnectionrequest
The radio device wants my computer to copy some numbers from its little screen by typing them into the box next to “Passcode.”
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As soon as you succeed in correctly typing the number displayed on the radio's view screen, the computer display will show the newly chosen unit as “Subscribed to mesh.”√
② Click on messages.
③ this is what you will see after going to messages
④ this is what you will see after going to bluetooth screen.
⑤ This is what you will see on the nodes screen.
9bb4isavailableradiobluetoodscreen
just_turned_on_a_new_transciever.
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When the new radio and the new instance of Meshtastic software are finally set up, this is the kind of screen that you will see.
avvavconnectionrequest
The radio device wants my computer to copy some numbers from its little screen by typing them into the box next to “Passcode.” Copy, then click “connect.”
screen shows box to type passcode into
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Screen shows ⓪ and Meshtastic 9xz0
bluetooth screen shows one connected radio