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> Meshtastic routing is also completely broken. I am curious about that. What is in particular broken ? Any reason why Meshtastic is not using a well specifi

• wtallis 5mo ago
  I suspect protocols like B.A.T.M.A.N. would consume all available LoRa airtime just with neighbor discovery. On Meshtastic, nodes announcing their presence more than once per hour is seen as unnecessarily talkative. I also don't think it's possible to make Meshtastic into the kind of reliable and high-performance mesh network some users want without effectively dropping support for most battery-powered devices by requiring much more frequent transmissions to maintain connectivity and participation in the mesh.
  • adev_ 5mo ago
    > I also don't think it's possible to make Meshtastic into the kind of reliable and high-performance mesh network some users want without effectively dropping support for most battery-powered devices Interesting. Zigbee has this distinction between router node and non-router node. Routers are active members of the mesh (relay). Non-routers are just clients. Most battery devices in Zigbee acts generally as non-router. It is surprising that Meshtastic did not follow this pattern. Zigbee is not a young protocol.
    • sandos 5mo ago
      Meshtastic did, in a way. There are roles and settings to disable rebroadcasts, then you are effectively a client. And it is used to preserve battery.