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bidirectional Meshtastic
Friday, October 10 2025
location: 940 feet west of Woodworth Lake, Fulton County, NY
I can't say I worked particularly hard in the remote workplace today, especially given that mostly what I was thinking about was how best to pass messages between a Meshtastic LoRa mesh and the environment provided by the web interface of my ESP8266 Remote Control system. Today I built out the rest of what needed to be built, including a way to send messages via Meshtastic that started in my web UI. I had all of this working fairly reliably by the end of the day.
At the end of the workday, Charlotte was in desperate need of a walk, so I set out with her down the Lake Edward Trail while carrying a Heltec Meshtastic device capable of broadcasting GPS coordinates. I didn't even make it to the bottom of the slope west of the cabin before turning north and following the contour and then gradually climbing up to the line of cliffs and then continuing along the top of them all the way to the trail that cuts through those cliffs down to the Woodworth Lake Outflow Creek. From there, I walked along the lakeshore and returned to the cabin via the Mossy Rock Trail. In that walk, I'd lost Charlotte within about five minutes, though she evidently had her own adventure, because she didn't return to the cabin for some time after we set out.
Later when I looked at the GPS data I'd collected, I was delighted to see many of the GPS points I'd sent had been recorded, and this was received from a device within the semi-faraday-shielded inside of the cabin. Imagine the range I will have once I have mesh repeaters high in a tree at the top of our driveway, with line-of-site coverage to most places within a half mile!
Gretchen had made a lot of lentil soup for a specific meal we'd be having later this weekend with guests, so we had a little of it tonight for dinner. At the time I was very embroiled in some sort of Meshtastic-bridge-related degugging, so I was working mostly in the loft area on my work-issued laptop (which is capable of editing all of the ESP8266-Remote-related files except for those in the Ardunino environment).
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The lake this evening. Click to enlarge.
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