Questions: How high is your base/node sending radio? Was the receive unit/radio complety inside car for this range test? I figure if you got out of car and held receiver unit up it would get further. Reason I ask is because I am fixing to order part to make a solar node based on your videos. I need to make a 15 mile hop from node to node. I was hoping to get 7 miles from one node to a ground/person unit. That way I figure if the other end was also up high I could conceivably make the 15 mile hop. Course no better way than to try it and see. :)
Range will vary greatly depending on your area so my results won't be the same as another location. We have a video that should help you figure out if reaching each of your locations is possible ruclips.net/video/-aZ9JbweQJg/видео.html
@The_Comms_Channel thanks for the reply as always. I don't know what I am doing wrong. So far I got a wizblock setup that i want to do a solar node build with. Pretty much copied your video. I added a 5dbi alfa 915 antenna straight to a ipex to N connecter cable. Funny thing is I think the little included circuit board antenna might be performing better than the ALFA. Certainly doing just as good which makes no sense to me. Got it on top of a 12 foot ladder. It won't even get to the end of my road. I didn't think these things would be hard to get working right. Once the batteries show up I can finish the build then run it up a tree 30+ feet and hope for the best. Maybe it is all the trees in area that is blocking the signal. Not sure. Let down that other people can get good range. I saw another guy with two hand helds with one inside truck get over a 1.5 miles. I have to have second one outside truck to even get to end of my road 500 yards. Hopefully when my heltec wireless paper comes in it will do better. After figuring out RTL-SDR setup 10+ years ago I figured this would be easy. Certainly seemed much easier.
@@stevewinwood3674 You should definitely be getting further than that. This sounds like a similar situation where I wasn't getting any power output, but I doubt it's the same cause. Could be a bad board, bad cable, bad antenna, a number of variables. Does the included circuit board antenna get much further?
@The_Comms_Channel all about the same distance. Whether using pcb antenna, tiny stick, or alfa 913. It is possible I messed up the ipex connection to the board, but I don't think I did that until after poor results were present. Or maybe it was like that already. I am another issue not being able to Bluetooth pair unless I select no pin. I am gonna purchase another board just to be sure.
@The_Comms_Channel hey Brother, in all my messing around with this device I have figured out one quirk that you might wanna pass along to others. So I serial connected VIA meshtastic web client to a RAK wizblock stater kit. To skip the story and give the information. When you change the fixed pin for Bluetooth pairing. Don't change it to a 4 or 5 digit pin. Either the meshtastic software or the RAK board or whatever will let you change it to a 4 digit pin, but you will get an error trying to pair unless pin us at least 6 digits.
Folium, which is what this tool uses can create heat maps, and I was looking into that initially but it was more for heat maps based on the number of markers rather than SNR like I was going from. Might still be possible with some work though.
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Thanks! I'll have a look at your PR soon. Just working on the next video at the moment.
Questions:
How high is your base/node sending radio?
Was the receive unit/radio complety inside car for this range test? I figure if you got out of car and held receiver unit up it would get further.
Reason I ask is because I am fixing to order part to make a solar node based on your videos. I need to make a 15 mile hop from node to node. I was hoping to get 7 miles from one node to a ground/person unit. That way I figure if the other end was also up high I could conceivably make the 15 mile hop.
Course no better way than to try it and see. :)
Range will vary greatly depending on your area so my results won't be the same as another location. We have a video that should help you figure out if reaching each of your locations is possible
ruclips.net/video/-aZ9JbweQJg/видео.html
@The_Comms_Channel thanks for the reply as always.
I don't know what I am doing wrong.
So far I got a wizblock setup that i want to do a solar node build with. Pretty much copied your video. I added a 5dbi alfa 915 antenna straight to a ipex to N connecter cable. Funny thing is I think the little included circuit board antenna might be performing better than the ALFA. Certainly doing just as good which makes no sense to me. Got it on top of a 12 foot ladder. It won't even get to the end of my road. I didn't think these things would be hard to get working right. Once the batteries show up I can finish the build then run it up a tree 30+ feet and hope for the best. Maybe it is all the trees in area that is blocking the signal. Not sure. Let down that other people can get good range. I saw another guy with two hand helds with one inside truck get over a 1.5 miles. I have to have second one outside truck to even get to end of my road 500 yards. Hopefully when my heltec wireless paper comes in it will do better.
After figuring out RTL-SDR setup 10+ years ago I figured this would be easy. Certainly seemed much easier.
@@stevewinwood3674 You should definitely be getting further than that. This sounds like a similar situation where I wasn't getting any power output, but I doubt it's the same cause. Could be a bad board, bad cable, bad antenna, a number of variables. Does the included circuit board antenna get much further?
@The_Comms_Channel all about the same distance. Whether using pcb antenna, tiny stick, or alfa 913.
It is possible I messed up the ipex connection to the board, but I don't think I did that until after poor results were present. Or maybe it was like that already. I am another issue not being able to Bluetooth pair unless I select no pin.
I am gonna purchase another board just to be sure.
@The_Comms_Channel hey Brother, in all my messing around with this device I have figured out one quirk that you might wanna pass along to others.
So I serial connected VIA meshtastic web client to a RAK wizblock stater kit.
To skip the story and give the information. When you change the fixed pin for Bluetooth pairing. Don't change it to a 4 or 5 digit pin. Either the meshtastic software or the RAK board or whatever will let you change it to a 4 digit pin, but you will get an error trying to pair unless pin us at least 6 digits.
Is there a way or tool that will create a heat map from the tests? Appreciate your videos too!
Folium, which is what this tool uses can create heat maps, and I was looking into that initially but it was more for heat maps based on the number of markers rather than SNR like I was going from. Might still be possible with some work though.
it would be great to have this run on a laptop and receive the protobuffs over the serial port from the radio to plot the map live.
Something I'm looking into doing with raspberry pi 🙂 I think this is a better way to run the test