About

What this site is, how the nodes were mapped, and background reading on how Meshtastic works.

• Meshtastic device roles

  What roles like Client, Client Base, Repeater and Router mean, summarised from the official Meshtastic documentation.

How the nodes are mapped

Nodes are recorded by hand from the Meshtastic mobile app’s node list, around Castlegar, British Columbia. For each node the app shows the name, node number, user ID, role, and when the node was first and last heard. A node appears here when it is heard on the local mesh; readings are a snapshot, so “last heard” reflects the moment of mapping, not a live status.

What is Meshtastic?

Meshtastic is an open-source project that turns small, inexpensive LoRa radio devices into a decentralised mesh network: each device (a “node”) passes messages along to others, so the network reaches further than any single radio could. The nodes talk to each other over long-range radio, independent of cell towers or internet providers, and to your phone over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. The project’s own documentation is at meshtastic.org.

Why there is no search

This is a static site: plain HTML with no server or database, which is what the hosting platform serves. It cannot run a search box, so the Index page lists every node by name and by user ID instead, and is kept up to date as nodes are added.