MeshCore in Scotland/Places/Central Scotland/Edinburgh
MeshCore in Edinburgh
Arthur's Seat, Blackford Hill and the Pentlands give the city more high ground than most, and the Forth carries signal north into Fife better than anything inland.
Edinburgh right now: nodes heard in the last 5 days within 25 km, every one of them reaching the wider Scottish mesh. Updated 12:59 UTC.
Get on the mesh in Edinburgh
Four steps, about an evening, roughly £25 of hardware.
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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.
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Step 2
Flash the firmware
Fresh firmware from meshcore.io for your exact board. Never keep what came pre-installed.
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Step 3
Set scope and path
Pair over Bluetooth, then set the radio preset,
scoscope and 3-byte path hash. -
Step 4
Say hello
Open
#scotland, check its scope issco, and post. Someone will almost always answer.
Repeaters around Edinburgh
The fixed radios doing the relaying, nearest first. Distances are from the centre of Edinburgh.
Joining from Edinburgh
Repeaters here carry edi on top of sco.
Where another repeater would help
12 repeaters are already up around Edinburgh, so the ground worth covering now is the edge rather than the middle: the villages and glens where the town's repeaters stop being heard. The coverage map shows where that line falls.
Questions about Edinburgh
Is there a mesh network in Edinburgh?
Yes. 12 repeaters and 14 nodes were heard around Edinburgh in the last five days, and everything heard there reaches the rest of the Scottish mesh.
How do I join the MeshCore mesh in Edinburgh?
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.
What region code do repeaters in Edinburgh use?
Repeaters here carry edi on top of sco. sco is the scope every Scottish radio sets; the local code only adds where traffic should stay.
Where is the nearest MeshCore repeater to Edinburgh?
NUMC-MC, 3 km from the centre of Edinburgh. The page lists every repeater heard within 25 km, nearest first.
Nearby
The next places along the mesh.