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Meshtastic for cycling? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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Sometimes when I go cycling I take a buddy or two and we sometimes get split, and i was thinking that having something to tell me how distant we were from each other would be cool. Yeah, there are apps that do that, but they arent foss, they send your location to who knows where, and they massively drain your battery. I saw that there are some varriants of lilygo devices with gps and a screen, but how practical are they really? How fast do they update? How is the battery? Is somewhere using them for a use case similar to this one?

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[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I've found a heltec with an nrf52840 with gps and all on aliexpress ;) Im gonna watch some more videos and decide if this is the route I want to go, thanks!

[–] toaster@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Did you go with this? It's a really cool use-case.