It looks great!

True! And with the new Client_Base :D

It starts off as a “cheap” hobby, then you look a year later and you are buried in devices.

The only issue you may have with the 1W is that they will be able to send to nodes that will probably not be able to contact you back. Because they are lower power.

So while you may be able to send really well, receiving may be a bit more difficult.

Ive heard of people saying that the 1W will muddy up the radio space since its basically one node “screaming” over others. Im not 100% buying it as 1W is still pretty quiet compared to other electronics in other spectrum. But thought I would mention it.

I usually direct people over to helteks because they are cheap and you can get 2 of them in the same box. For more info you can check out the official meshtastic site.

Or check out https://rootaccess.org/wiki/Meshtastic/rev447/#-quickstart

If you go with the defaults at least at first, you can see if its something you want to invest your time into. Worst case, you have a couple of these things you can give out to a couple of ham friends. You can go pretty deep with the hobby, but its fun (in my opinion).

Very true!

Do you have solar setup or is it direct connect within the house?

I hope at some point, both will do interop. Its causing a bit of a splintering of the community…which really doesnt need to happen (mostly on discord and reddit from what I have been seeing). We are so small to begin with. And its not the devs doing it, it seems to be the community themselves. Which is again unfortunate.

Its like a worse pager system. But it does not use the internet or anything centralized. It makes it look like texting on apps.

First time Ive heard about Milk-V Duo S. Interesting. Looks very cheap!

will do! Thanks again!

Piped.chrisco.me

I removed a couple. Mostly porn. I dont really need that for the family. But that was 2 servers out of hundreds.

So!! I went from 60 instances to over 900 in the span of less than 24 hours! Also most of the content is pretty good. So thats nice.

Hell yeah! Thats an awesome setup.

no rush! thanks.

Also if you want to add my little instance and see more dog videos: https://piped.chrisco.me/c/teddy_the_dog/videos feel free to add

https://piped.chrisco.me/

to the list

So im not seeing the option for “Automatically follow platforms of a public index” after federation.

I believe(?) I found it under Settings->Configuration->Basic:

Automatically follow instances of a public index
⚠️ This functionality requires a lot of attention and extra moderation.
See the documentation for more information about the expected URL

Im going to replace the main https://instances.joinpeertube.org/ with your index and see what happens.

Ill give it a shot and let you know how it goes!

Looking forward to the new book! DCC 😁

Nice!