MeshCore in Scotland/Regions/Fife

MeshCore in Fife

A peninsula between two firths, high in the middle, with Edinburgh on one side and Dundee on the other. The densest MeshCore coverage in Scotland.

Get on the mesh The settings
41Nodes heard
35Repeaters
4Companions
2Rooms
3Towns covered

Fife 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 Fife

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 Fife

Each has its own page with the repeaters around it.

PlaceCouncil areaNodesRepeatersCode
DunfermlineFife3129fif
KirkcaldyFife2924fif
St AndrewsFife74fif

The region code

What a repeater in Fife should carry.

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

fif 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 fif sco
region put ioi *
region put wls *
region allowf sco
region allowf fif
region allowf ioi
region allowf wls
region denyf *
region default sco
region save

Questions about Fife

Is there MeshCore coverage in Fife?

Yes. 41 nodes have been heard across Fife in the last five days, 35 of them repeaters, and everything heard there reaches the rest of the Scottish mesh.

What is the MeshCore region code for Fife?

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

Which places does Fife cover?

Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, St Andrews. Each has its own page with the repeaters heard around it.

How do I join the mesh in Fife?

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

Central ScotlandTaysideEvery place