37C3 community meet

[Erethon]

With 37C3 in Hamburg approaching fast (27-30/12) is there any interest for a meeting of the Reticulum community? If enough of us gather, we could try setting up a network in Hamburg over LoRa for the duration of the congress.

[markqvist]

Hey, that's a great initiative. I like the idea of this, and I'm actually going to be in that part of Europe at that time of the year, so I could probably be there as well.

[anm]

Yes, I am interested.

[Erethon]

The dates for the sale events are out https://events.ccc.de/en/2023/11/19/37c3-tickets-presale/.

I'll have some 868Mhz devices with me. If more people have boards that cover different bands we want to try setting up a mesh, let me know in advance so I can order boards that support other frequencies.

[anm]

I can bring a few 868MHz boards, but most are SX1262 which is apparently not supported. I have a LILYGO T-Beam v1.2 which I suspect is SX1276.

[Erethon]

As you noted, only SX1276 and SX1278 are currently supported unfortunately. The T-Beam should indeed work however!

[Erethon]

As the deadline (3/12) for requesting an assembly approaches, do we think we have enough people/interest in setting one up? I would be happy to spent a couple of hours per day geeking about Reticulum and spreading the word, but I think we'll need 1-2 more people to help run this.

[jooray]

I'm interested. Both in meet and to play with the network

[anm]

Is there an assembly? I am at congress now anyway, with a beard I can put RNode on.

I am also organising the Maritime Hackers meetup, where there will be at least two talks about LoRa projects. It should also be possible to join remotely - details to be confirmed.

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/en/event/maritime-hackers-meetup/

[Erethon]

Is there an assembly?

I didn't setup an assembly as interest didn't seem that high and I wasn't sure of my availability during congress.

[jooray]

We have a network here.

My LXMF address: 03941c092abfa8574c2bf93bf20800a8

Sideband rnode settings:

RGQWNTRTWBWABILCZX2CJILUCGQXGCFBMMDKC2OAUFSMBILOUCQXBIA=

For some reason, it did not import well when I tried it, so screenshot

[Erethon]

BW of 62.5 seems a bit low, I think 250k might be better.

I'll have a phone with me running Sideband starting tomorrow and a t-beam. Unfortunately, the way my hotel room is structured I don't think I can easily run a rnode from the hotel room.

[jooray]

250 it is

Current config

RGQWNTRTWBWABILCZYAAHUEQUF2BDILTBCQWGBVBNHAKCZGAUFXKBILQUA======

Awaiting your first message

[Erethon]

We ended up meeting with @jooray and chatting over Reticulum during the day. We discussed about meeting again tomorrow around 14:30, let's say near the colorful unicorn by the coffee nerds/house of tea. We can discuss LoRa/Reticulum then.

[strafplanet]

There may be a few of us meshtastic people dropping by, too :-)

(See #37C3LoRa:strafpla.net / https://matrix.to/#/%2337C3LoRa%3Astrafpla.net)

[Erethon]

We had a small gathering of seven people and discussed about LoRa/Reticulum/Meshtastic a bit. Hopefully more people are onboarded to the network now ;)

I'll leave this discussion open until the end of 37c3 in case people want to coordinate more. There's is also this meetup tomorrow that's LoRa adjacent.

[Erethon]

37C3 is now over, so I'm closing this discussion.