No WiFi? No Problem! Long-Range is Finally Easy?!

Click this link https://boot.dev/?promo=GREATSCOTT and use my code GREATSCOTT to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev. Sign up for Altium Develop and see the difference: http://altium.com/yt/greatscott! (AD, Paid Promotion) Previous LoRa videos: https://youtu.be/ItZwa1AdrpU https://youtu.be/2YJHcGQnpAk You can get the shown components here: (affiliate links) Amazon.com: https://amzn.to/49K7EZZ Meshnology Website: https://goo.su/cfMWSE Heltec ESP32 LoRa V3: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_c31GNXOf Heltec GPS LoRa: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_c3tqg3Hd Light Barrier: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_c41NUGyR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greatscottlab Twitter: https://twitter.com/GreatScottLab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/great.scott.lab/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@greatscottlab Discord: https://discord.gg/zuAvkAuhsY Support me for more videos: https://www.patreon.com/GreatScott?ty=h In this video we will be having a closer look at Meshtastic and LoRa. Now LoRa is a long range wireless communication method that I previously used around 5 years ago. Back then the selection of dev boards was limited and the available code and software was not the easiest. But now we get Meshtastic which apparently makes LoRa easy. Is that true? We will find out in this video by making my shed a bit more secure ;-) Let's get started! Websites that were shown in the video: https://flasher.meshtastic.org/ https://meshtastic.org/ https://github.com/meshtastic/home-assistant https://github.com/jgromes/RadioLib https://github.com/ropg/heltec_esp32_lora_v3 https://github.com/beegee-tokyo/Meshtastic-Sensor-Network https://github.com/sandeepmistry/arduino-LoRa Thanks to Boot.dev for sponsoring this video 0:00 My Wireless Problem! 3:03 Hardware Overview 4:07 Flashing Meshtastic 4:43 Configuring Meshtastic 5:18 My Range Test 7:20 Meshtastic for my DIY Project? 8:37 RadioLib Alternative 9:45 Verdict