Is this project abandoned?

[pedjas]

Long time no updates. Is this abandoned?

[RealBenAnderson]

I guess the lack of an answer is your answer 😜 Sadly, I think most Meshtastic projects are being abandoned as people switch to MeshCore, which is a much more reliable protocol for public mesh networks. Meshtastic is still good for smaller private meshes, which is what it was always meant for.

[garethmo]

yeah it looks like it, , may have tto start it up again.. pitty looked quite promising. @RealBenAnderson meshtastic has come a long way :) i wouldnt say meshcore is better now.

[Soltares]

Hi everyone!

Indeed MeshSense hasn't seen too many updates of late and that's for a couple of reasons.

Most prominently, the underlying Meshtastic JS library that MeshSense uses for interaction with the hardware was archived 1 year ago. (#160) The new version of the JS library was merged with the Meshtastic Web Monorepo and is less convenient to use. An attempt was made in #149, but has some pending challenges -- particularly in regards to bundling and distribution.

I am honestly surprised that the old version of the library continues to function with devices today. Eventually, I would expect upstream Meshtastic changes to break the original JS library. This makes it difficult to justify adding functionality to MeshSense when there is a crumbling foundation.

Some additional challenges include Bluetooth on certain MacOS versions crashing webbluetooth and getting serial connectivity working with distribution across platforms.

With time and effort, I'm sure there are solutions to these problems, but time is unfortunately fleeting. Factoring in family and other commitments, it's difficult to prioritize passion projects. That being said, this project is open-source and ready for you or anyone to build upon! Assistance in testing PRs would also help greatly.

Hope this helps clarify, and thanks for your interest in MeshSense. 👍

[Bombero474]

My meshsense install stopped loading. multiple reinstalls, with no luck. I just uninstalled it and moved on. Maybe the library finally broke or a windows update broke it.

[RealBenAnderson]

yeah it looks like it, , may have tto start it up again.. pitty looked quite promising. @RealBenAnderson meshtastic has come a long way :) i wouldnt say meshcore is better now.

You might not say it, but I gladly will! I've been using Meshtastic for years and only got more and more frustrated with it as they bloated it with more and more features without fixing any of the core reliability issues. If what you want is a reliable public mesh, MeshCore is worth looking at. Meshtastic was never designed for this, and it has major problems that they've never been able to patch over to make it suitable for public use. MeshCore, on the other hand, was designed for public use from the beginning.

MeshCore also has some active projects similar to MeshSense, like CoreScope, which works really well and gets frequent updates with new features. All your Meshtastic nodes support MeshCore. Try it. If you don't like it, just flash everything back. At this point, the only remaining use case for Meshtastic is TAK. MeshCore is better at everything else.