What up with everyone using the acronym LoRa. It is becoming confusing.
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We ran out of acronyms a long time ago.
In other words, a ROOAALTA.
When talking about LoRa, I always think about the wireless protocol/chip... Its been around for a long time (specially when capitalized like that) .... What other Lora are you talking about?
In generative AIs LoRAs are "Low-Rank Adaptions". Basically an overlay for existing networks to teach them new things.
perhaps LoRa is the name of the singularity and it is all coming together
It stands for Long Range, so would otherwise have been LR.
The documentation is a little lacking. What exactly is the range of each decide? I see the record of 100+ miles but can I easily connect people within a few miles?
What exactly does this do? Is it just a messaging app?
I've done my little stupid tests. I have 2 Heltec LoRa 32 V3s both with the stock antenna. Inside the city I can get 500m on LongFast and 700m on VeryLongSlow. The other node was placed inside a building on the 1st floor.
But that's obviously a terrible test.
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Not sure if they’ve improved it but meshtastic also used to require a module per device/phone so sadly you can’t dot them around and allow multiple people to share them like with group events.
Here's a video with a lot of guidance and examples of use: https://youtu.be/EAQI2ZSmxPU?si=lF5xr8fKyCRHEk7F
That's the video in this post
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