> LoRa as implemented by the chips used in affordable Meshtastic devices is really more suited to operating many small disjoint mesh networks on separate channe

> LoRa as implemented by the chips used in affordable Meshtastic devices is really more suited to operating many small disjoint mesh networks on separate channels My impression was that many of the folks who wanted a big shared mesh migrated to MeshCore, which I'm less familiar with. My use case is in fact a small disjoint mesh network, but even that requires proper configuration and can be unreliable due to things like misconfigured nodes (mine or others). I'd be happy to specify the region and form factor (handheld, fixed router, mobile router, tracker) but it would be nice if the nodes could automatically configure the right role, rebroadcast mode, hop limit, timeouts, etc on their own. I'm not asserting it's possible, just that I don't otherwise see it breaking out of the hobbyist niche. > A full scan would take hours. My apologies, I misspoke, I agree that trying every frequency/bandwidth/spread factor/coding rate combination would be impractical, at least for battery-powered nodes. Instead of "scan different channels" I should have said cycling through the half-dozen modem presets for a specific region.