Loriques is a solar powered Meshtastic LoRa gateway. Warning: Loriques is very much a work in progress.
- Designed to work with a small 6V solar panel. Like the Voltaic 6 Watt Panel
- EBYTE E22-900M30S 30dBm LoRa tranciever
- Untested; I picked this because it's in the Meshtastic supported LoRa ISM band, and it has one of the highest listed output power of LoRa modules.
- Selecting a good high-gain antenna for this module is TBD.
- ESP32S3 WiFi and BLE SoC
- OLED Display
- Holders for three 18650 Lithium Ion batteries
- MCP73871 Solar charge controller
- Optimized for solar charging and load sharing, but not a "true MPPT" controller. More info from Adafruit
- MAX17263 Battery fuel Guage
- HDC3020 Temperature and humidity sensor
- This is helpful for monitoring how waterproof your outdoor enclosure is.
- Very low noise, filtered 3.3V voltage regulator
- PCB designed to fit into the Polycase ML-46F Outdoor NEMA Enclosure
- ESP32 Firmware is not started yet!
- There are some big challenges here, like getting the ESP32S3 and it's radios in, and out of a low power state.