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Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had worked on creating a mesh network of ESP32-based boards, like the dirt-cheap nodeMCUs, to use as an interface to Reticulum. 2.4GHz has decent range and bandwidth, the boards are real cheap, and there are existing meshes like ESP-NOW that work.

I don't know if it makes more sense for them to function as members of their own networks, managing the whole thing, or if using one more like a RNode would make sense, but I'm curious as to what's already out there.

RNode runs on ESP32, but not ESP8266 which nodeMCU uses.

It does, but what I want is something that runs a connection over the wifi interface, not a node that runs over a LoRA connection, which unless I'm missunderstanding, RNode assumes.

Sorry, hadn't had my coffee :)

I don't think ESP8266 is powerful enough to run microReticulum. There's a lot of crypto happening on the device, and transport nodes need quite a bit of storage.