Welcome to North Wales Lora Mesh.
North Wales Lora mesh is a community enthusiast long-range mesh radio network used for encrypted short text messages and small amounts of sensor data over lora mesh radio network, which is standalone, encrypted , and doesn't rely on the internet. It covers most regions of the UK, and other countries around the world. Lora project boards and some ready-made devices are the backbone of the network and can mesh together over large distances. We currently use MeshCore.io software and device firmware for our mesh.
Please visit MeshCore.io for more info on how to get started and where you need to go to flash your companion/repeater devices with the latest MeshCore firmware if you already have a device.
Once you have the latest firmware on your chosen device, please use the following settings below on the device to mesh with the existing devices within our region and beyond.
**Repeater settings:**
EU/UK EU/UK (Narrow), Switzerland
Frequency (MHz) - 869.618
Bandwidth (kHz) - 62.5
Spreading Factor (SF) - 8
Coding Rate (CR) - 8
Name: set to local region-landmark-operator (wls-*-*)
Duty Cycle: 10 (set dutycycle 10)
Advert Interval: 240 (set advert.interval 240)
Flood Advert Interval: 48 (set flood.advert.interval 48)
Flood Max Advert: 21 (set flood.max.advert 21)
Flood Max: 21 (set flood.max 21)
Flood Max Unscoped: 8 (set flood.max.unscoped 8)
Loop Detection: Minimal (set loop.detect minimal)
Path hash mode: 3-byte (set path.hash.mode 2)
AGC reset interval: 500 (set agc.reset.interval 500)
TX Delay Factor: 1.4 (set txdelay)
Multi ACKs (set multi.acks 1)
Regions: Add the following (wls, wls-nws, ioi, wls-sws)
Default Region: Leave unset
**Companion Settings:**
EU/UK EU/UK (Narrow), Switzerland
Frequency (MHz) - 869.618
Bandwidth (kHz) - 62.5
Spreading Factor (SF) - 8
Coding Rate (CR) - 8
Path Hash Size: Under Experimental Settings, set your Default Path Hash Size to 3-byte
Regions:
Add the following (wls, wls-nws, ioi, wls-sws)
Default Region: Leave unset
**Channels and Scope:**
Public = Scope: None
#test = Scope: None
#wales = Scope: wls
#anglesey = Scope: wls-nws
#northwales = Scope: wls-nws
#ireland = Scope: ioi
#norniron = Scope: ioi
