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====== Review of Related Projects and Products ======

Searched web, mastodon, and cruiser's forum for lora and lorawan related stuff.

===== Boat Specific =====

==== Commercial ====

Good article coving some commercial products: https://www.yachtingmonthly.com/gear/remote-boat-monitoring-tech-for-peace-of-mind-83272

BRNKL - barnacle: ~4000USD, no subscription, works with other brand sensors, video.

Boat Officer - https://shop.boatofficer.com/ Various boxes ~400 EUR
LoRaWAN / TTN

=== Float Hub ===

[[https://floathub.com/store]]
[[https://media.floathub.com/doc/FloatHubManual_0.4a.pdf]]

Series of boxes from 150 to 290 USD, with NMEA input and connections for bilge pump sensor and solar power monitor (these seem to be voltage measurements.) Some have NMEA 2000. Sends data over wifi or cellular to a hosted web service. Has web interface, API, and more recently a phone app. Logs data for up to three days when no internet.

Uses the NMEA 2000 library by Timo Lappalainen, not NMEA certified.

WiFi config by initial AP showing config webpage for WiFi station mode.

==== Open source ====

[[https://open-boat-projects.org/en/lora-bootsmonitor/|LoRa Bootsmonitor]]

Also possibly relevent:
[[https://open-boat-projects.org/en/universelle-windsensor-firmware/]]

[[https://www.segeln-forum.de/board/195-open-boat-projects-org/|Open Boat Projects Forum]]
===== Other LoRa messengers =====

https://www.msglab.co/project/lo-ra-msg
Keyboard and screen, made from adafruit modules. Circuit Python.
Author says: "The code is of veeery low quality. I can't stress this enough."

meshtastic - Software project. Looks very popular, plenty of activity in discord. Many features. Mostly used on ESP32 devboards, a couple of nRF52 devices. Some boards on aliexpress come with it preflashed.
It has telemetry and serial modules,
and code for common environmental sensors already.
GPLv3, but CLA demands an exclusive licence!!!
https://cla-assistant.io/meshtastic/protobufs#recreate-this-contributor-license-agreement


Meshcom
Seems to be a verion of meshtastic configured for amateur radio use.


loratype https://loratype.org/ @loratype@fosstodon.org
board with keyboard and eink screen
Uses or will use meshtastic firmware I think.
E22 module, with Semtech's SX1262 or SX1268 RF chip I think.
ESP32

Armachat
Near no documentation.
Dev maybe continued in a fork for RPi pico.
Keyboard, screen
https://github.com/bobricius/armachat
SAMD21G18 for desktop version (pocket version use SAMD21E18
RFM95
Not maintained for 2 years.

disaster.radio:
ESP32 + SX1276. Arduino framework. Web interface over wifi or app to bluetooth.
LoRaLayer2 mesh protocol

==== Ripple LoRa Mesh ====

Looks similar to Meshtastic, but not open source. Weirdly, has MIT style licence on the provided binaries, but no source code.

[[https://github.com/spleenware/ripple|Ripple Github]]

==== MeshCore ====

Open source core, commercial applications planned. Designed to use repeaters, with mobile/client nodes not repeating messages. Uses some routing algorithm. Developed by Andy Kirby. Related to Ripple somehow, or is this another different project with the same name??

[[https://github.com/ripplebiz/MeshCore]]

[[https://buymeacoffee.com/ripplebiz/some-big-news]]

===== Other decentralised mesh networks and messengers =====

  * briar
  * quaal
  * irdest
  * ssb
  * [[:reticulum|Reticulum]]