MeshCore in Scotland/Places/Central Scotland/Livingston
MeshCore in Livingston
Open ground between Edinburgh and the Forth valley, which makes West Lothian better connected than its size suggests.
Livingston 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 Livingston
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 Livingston
The fixed radios doing the relaying, nearest first. Distances are from the centre of Livingston.
And 9 more within 25 km.
Joining from Livingston
There is no local region code for this area yet. Repeaters here run sco alone, which works.
Where another repeater would help
21 repeaters are already up around Livingston, 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 Livingston
Is there a mesh network in Livingston?
Yes. 21 repeaters and 22 nodes were heard around Livingston in the last five days, and everything heard there reaches the rest of the Scottish mesh.
How do I join the MeshCore mesh in Livingston?
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 Livingston use?
There is no local region code for this area yet. Repeaters here run sco alone, which works. sco is the scope every Scottish radio sets; the local code only adds where traffic should stay.
Where is the nearest MeshCore repeater to Livingston?
SCO BGT 1 mack, 6 km from the centre of Livingston. The page lists every repeater heard within 25 km, nearest first.
Nearby
The next places along the mesh.