Create a LoRa transceiver add-on in v2

[57Bravo]

I'm not sure how you'd package it, but it would be neat to integrate a LoRa transceiver in the next version of the board. You could use it to send and receive text like messages using LoRa gateways.

Use cases:

• Burst based text messaging
• One way broadcast paging
• SOS (that's a stretch without a GPS too, but maybe a coarse location could be calculated using multiple gateways w/o GPS.)

[Aemilivs]

Imagine rendering global mobile communication infrastructure obsolete by introducing Lora circuit and application utilizing public keys for it in beepberry lmao

[vitasam]

LoRa is a really good idea

[57Bravo]

I'm thinking something like what they do with atak-civ.

https://meshtastic.org/docs/software/community/community-atak

I mean, no gui. Just the concept of the LoRa bridge for messaging.

[vitasam]

Definitely no GUI!

And with mesh?

https://hackaday.com/2020/02/26/lora-mesh-network-with-off-the-shelf-hardware/

[57Bravo]

Someone on the uConsole forums posted this. It's like beepberry with an mcu and onboard LoRa. https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-deck

[57Bravo]

Here's another LoRa/berry device.

https://hackaday.com/2022/05/25/long-distance-text-communication-with-lora/

https://github.com/BigCorvus/LORA-QWERTY-Communicator