MeshCore in Scotland/Regions/Central Scotland

MeshCore in Central Scotland

The belt between the two cities, where most of Scotland lives and where most of the mesh is. Nearly every message that crosses the country crosses this ground.

Get on the mesh The settings
51Nodes heard
43Repeaters
6Companions
2Rooms
8Towns covered

Central Scotland right now: nodes heard in the last 5 days, every one of them reaching the wider Scottish mesh. Updated 12:59 UTC.

Get on the mesh in Central Scotland

Four steps, about an evening, roughly £25 of hardware.

  1. Step 1

    Get a radio

    Any supported LoRa board for the UK 868 MHz band. Heltec and RAK boards are what most people here run.

  2. Step 2

    Flash the firmware

    Fresh firmware from meshcore.io for your exact board. Never keep what came pre-installed.

  3. Step 3

    Set scope and path

    Pair over Bluetooth, then set the radio preset, sco scope and 3-byte path hash.

  4. Step 4

    Say hello

    Open #scotland, check its scope is sco, and post. Someone will almost always answer.

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Places in Central Scotland

Each has its own page with the repeaters around it.

PlaceCouncil areaNodesRepeatersCode
EdinburghCity of Edinburgh1412edi
FalkirkFalkirk1917fal
GlasgowGlasgow City1714gla
GreenockInverclyde96—
HamiltonSouth Lanarkshire1210—
LivingstonWest Lothian2221—
PaisleyRenfrewshire1613—
StirlingStirling1312sti (proposed)

The region code

What a repeater in Central Scotland should carry.

cen is an agreed ScotMesh region code. A repeater in Central Scotland carries it alongside sco, so messages scoped to the region stay in the region and messages scoped to Scotland still reach it.

cen sits under sco, not the other way round, and never under ioi. Every Scottish repeater also carries ioi and wls so traffic can reach Ireland and Wales.
Repeater console
# parents before children
region put sco *
region put cen sco
region put ioi *
region put wls *
region allowf sco
region allowf cen
region allowf ioi
region allowf wls
region denyf *
region default sco
region save

Questions about Central Scotland

Is there MeshCore coverage in Central Scotland?

Yes. 51 nodes have been heard across Central Scotland in the last five days, 43 of them repeaters, and everything heard there reaches the rest of the Scottish mesh.

What is the MeshCore region code for Central Scotland?

cen. It sits under sco, Scotland's code, so a repeater here carries both: cen for traffic that belongs in the region and sco so the rest of the country can still reach you.

Which places does Central Scotland cover?

Edinburgh, Glasgow, Falkirk, Stirling, Livingston, Paisley, Hamilton, Greenock. Each has its own page with the repeaters heard around it.

How do I join the mesh in Central Scotland?

Any LoRa board for the UK 868 MHz band, fresh firmware from meshcore.io, the UK / EU Narrow radio preset and the sco scope. About an evening's work and roughly £25 of hardware.

Other regions

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