Activities

Activity hubs

One page per thing a person sets out to do, so the answer to "what do I install, with what hardware, and what do I do first?" sits in one place. Each hub says what the activity is, which programs and which hardware the catalog carries for it, how to install them, a first useful task, what needs a network and what does not, and what was measured and what was not. The detail stays in the guides and package pages each hub links to; a hub does not copy it.

The lists of programs and hardware on every hub are generated from the catalog (scripts/gen_activity_hubs.py), so they cannot drift from it. The prose around them is written by hand.

Hub	For
GPS, position and time	A receiver, gpsd, your position on a map, and the clock when the network is gone
APRS	Position reports, messages and weather over VHF, with Direwolf and a map client
Meshtastic	A ready-made LoRa text mesh, from the desktop
Reticulum	Encrypted networking over LoRa, packet, cable or a local network
MeshCore	A stub: not yet carried, and what the route to it is

Every program also has its own page in the package reference, and Applications by activity lists the whole catalog the way the desktop menu is laid out.