Planet cUG

2025-08-27, Innsbruck
such a nice little movie. I laughed, sang along, and cried.

by gregoa at 2025-08-28 00:00:00 UTC

2025-08-26, Innsbruck
stupid 1990s nonsense. and funny.

by gregoa at 2025-08-27 00:00:00 UTC

2025-08-25, Innsbruck
what can I say? so sad.

by gregoa at 2025-08-26 00:00:00 UTC

2025-08-24, Innsbruck
well, ok.

by gregoa at 2025-08-25 00:00:00 UTC

Yesterday a meshtasticer went to Kellerhochhütte and spent the night there.

Also my node in Wattens was able to hear the node up there, even if my node looks to west and not east:

the meshtastic node up there had some nice side effects: Wide-range to munich and also augsburg and the mesh network really big.

Note the number of hops and also the distances in the following stat:

by Bernd H. Steiner at 2025-08-24 10:46:53 UTC

Playing around with a Lilygo T-deck 868 with now for some days.

As the t-deck has an own keyboard, no bluetooth connection with a smartphone is necessary to send messages. The Meshtastic Ui has some nice features, e.g.: Mesh detector: Listens for meshtastic nodes, useful for exploring, if you are within a/the mesh. Can last some time as the nodes only send beacons from time to time.

RSSI and SNR tool: Useful for detecting the appr. position of nodes. By the way: When they send gps data, you can also use the map feature (at the moment I copy positron 0-14 to my sd card).

by Bernd H. Steiner at 2025-08-24 10:29:02 UTC

2025-08-23, Innsbruck
I really haven't seen it before.

by gregoa at 2025-08-24 00:00:00 UTC

After installing 17 GB of map tiles on my sd card I took the next step: Creating own tiles only for Austria using https://github.com/mattdrum/map-tile-downloader

Austria with tiles sized 1-12 only has apprx. 200 MB and 8000 tiles, now trying up to 13 and 14.

Update: Austria 0-13 has 31000 tiles

by Bernd H. Steiner at 2025-08-22 09:37:07 UTC

Got a lilygo t-deck for meshtastic today. Flashing and config no problem.

It is also possible with the Meshtastic UI to use a "map feature" but therefore you have to copy map tiles onto a SD card.

Some tile sets are available for download e.g. here

But the system has some implications: You have different zoom levels and the zoom is done by splitted up tiles. So all of Europe has 15 GB of data, but the main problem: More than a million files and all are small, only some kilobytes.

Means: You have to format the SD card with very small blocks and also then the unzipping and copying of the tiles takes a loooot of time

by Bernd H. Steiner at 2025-08-21 20:04:34 UTC

Here we go: Heard today the node "Router Schwaz 1" via two hops. Means there should be a coverage in Schwaz too. Interesting there was no signal for this node yesterday.

by Bernd H. Steiner at 2025-08-20 19:17:08 UTC

2025-08-19, Innsbruck
good. very good, despite some drama. or maybe it was the right drama. mostly, the mother-son part was a bit too much maybe.

by gregoa at 2025-08-20 00:00:00 UTC

Went to Kellerjoch yesterday to do some meshtastic experiments up on 2.200 Meter ASL. Hardware: a Heltec V3 paired with my smartphone via Bluetooth.

First result: Nearly the same amount of nodes as "down" in the Inntal valley. But: The Node "IBK Nord" could be received with a good signal of -113 dBm. Crazy, a WLAN worse than -80 or -90 dBm would be rated not working...

Node "IBK Nord" has a very good position indeed: I can also receive and use it from Wattens (with a weaker signal).

For my tests, this means: A message sent from Kellerjoch first traveled to IBK Nord and was then relayed back to my device in Wattens. We will see this in the message history later.

But first I did try a long-fast message to all reachable nodes (up to 3 hops) and got some replies. Please note the node Weerberg, this one was new for me. Meshtastic devices everywhere ;-) And you can see the hops (Sprungweite) already visible here.

Now I did send messages to my node in Wattens, they were acked by the mesh:

Back at home I looked into the meshtastic device there and the test messages were there, not received directly but via one hop:

And finally the stats of the device at Kellerjoch before switching it off:

by Bernd H. Steiner at 2025-08-19 23:07:10 UTC

from "a handy gallery", at 2025-08-19 18:13:41 UTC

by gregoa at 2025-08-19 18:13:41 UTC

2025-08-18, Innsbruck
no comment needed :)

by gregoa at 2025-08-19 00:00:00 UTC

When you have normal "peaks" aroung 200-300 kms and then there is ONE outlier at 900 kms: Changes the whole stat ;-)

by Bernd H. Steiner at 2025-08-18 06:55:15 UTC

Ranking now solid: Number three in Austria and top 100 worldwide, still improving a little bit. As the ranking is the average distance of the last 30 days, small steps forward.

Please note the new MAX with 934 kms, unbelievable, this is rank 4 in the all time stats, the leader with 969 kms, rank 5 has "only" 816 kms.

by Bernd H. Steiner at 2025-08-17 10:50:32 UTC

2025-08-12, Innsbruck
first dark. then deep. then weird. then I don't know.

by gregoa at 2025-08-13 00:00:00 UTC

By the way: More stats, this time for the OGN receiver (general stats for the receiver here).

It makes a lot of fun to see the Austrian/international ranking and my receiver moving up the ranks ;-)

The ranking is based on the average of the daily maximum distance of the last 30 days.

by Bernd H. Steiner at 2025-08-12 07:14:21 UTC

Some stats about meshtastic after one week: More nodes/traffic as I thought. Right now 17 nodes, but already 63 nodes heard (ok, also via hops).

AirUtilTX: In Europe, Meshtastic devices using the EU_868 frequency bands are subject to an hourly duty cycle limit of 10%. This means that the device will stop transmitting when it reaches this limit and resume when the time allows.

Regarding a better antenna: EU_868 is limited to 27 dBm *with* antenna: The maximum power allowed for Europe is +27 dBm ERP (Effective Radiated Power).

by Bernd H. Steiner at 2025-08-12 06:56:14 UTC

2025-08-11, Innsbruck
excellent.

by gregoa at 2025-08-12 00:00:00 UTC

2025-08-10, Innsbruck
no "must-see" movie but also not un-amusing.

by gregoa at 2025-08-11 00:00:00 UTC

2025-08-09, Innsbruck
some lengths, but a good documentary about the early 70ies in the USA.

by gregoa at 2025-08-10 00:00:00 UTC

2025-08-08, Innsbruck
quite funny.

by gregoa at 2025-08-09 00:00:00 UTC

2025-08-06, Innsbruck
a beautiful & funny movie.

by gregoa at 2025-08-07 00:00:00 UTC

from "a handy gallery", at 2025-08-06 18:11:02 UTC

by gregoa at 2025-08-06 18:11:02 UTC

2025-08-05, Innsbruck
beautiful movie.

by gregoa at 2025-08-06 00:00:00 UTC

2025-08-03, Innsbruck
quite ok.

by gregoa at 2025-08-04 00:00:00 UTC

Das erste mal mit Co-KV eine Klasse übernehmen. Das war sehr spannend; und zwar für uns beide.



In dieser Folge haben wir uns zusammengesetzt und einen Rückblick über unser erstes Jahr gemacht. Es war ein sehr angenehmer Nachmittag und wir freuen uns schon beide auf das kommende Jahr.

Aber horcht selbst!

2025-08-02 00:24:13 UTC

2025-08-01, Innsbruck
well-made, nice, moving documentary.

by gregoa at 2025-08-02 00:00:00 UTC

from "a handy gallery", at 2025-08-01 19:06:24 UTC

by gregoa at 2025-08-01 19:06:24 UTC