I would be incredibly interested in this if it could work with Home Assistant and didn’t require any kind of proprietary software to run.

Agreed. If it doesn’t work with Home Assistant or requires me to use an account to use it, I’m completely not buying it.

Nostr is a weird being. You are correct that it is not peer-to-peer like Monero is. However, it’s not quite federated in the same way that ActivityPub is.

When using Nostr clients, you actually publish your same data to like six different relays at the same time. It has the built-in assumption that some of those relays are going to be down at any given time and so by publishing to like six at once you get data redundancy.

Right, but even if individual instances go down, you don’t end up with headlines all over the world of half the internet being down. Because half the internet isn’t down, the network is self-healing. It temporarily blocks off the problem area, and then when the instance comes back, it resynchronizes and continues as normal.

Services might be temporarily degraded, but not gone entirely.

Monero, Nostr, Lemmy, and Mastodon did not go down. Why? Because they are decentralized

Ipfs or possibly arweave

No, it’s totally free and open source, and you can host it on your own server if you wish.

I’m assuming that they were more referring to the outage that occurred today that pulled a ton of the internet services, including signal offline temporarily.

You can have all the encryption in the world, but if the centralized data point that allows you to access the service is down, then you’re fucked.

Have a look at Reolink.

Unfortunately, you need the app to set it up the first time, which you can only get on Google Play or the iOS App Store, but I don’t think you need an account for them at all.

Note: I do not own any, but I was doing some research to see about using them with Home Assistant.

Meshtastic?

If so it runs on the ISM bands EU868MHz and USOL915MHz and uses chirp spread spectrum as its modulation. Packet radio such as APRS uses 2m ham band normally and is AFSK AX.25

It sounds like your area is probably outgrowing longfast. They actually wrote an entire blog post about this particular issue.

https://meshtastic.org/blog/why-your-mesh-should-switch-from-longfast/

Edit: meshcore sits between MediumSlow and MediumFast meshtastic presets. So 40 nodes are trying to use a preset that is slower than what mesh core was using for very few nodes.

I don’t care how bad meshtastic is because mesh core does not have open source client applications and therefore I won’t touch it with a 10 foot pole.

I’m one of those go-open source or go-home people.

Though, meshtastic have been doing some things recently to try to improve the routing, such as removing the repeater functionality entirely from the software, because repeaters did not show up in your list, and making it more difficult to use router mode so it gets used incorrectly less.

They just recently added a new client base mode that will act as a router for nodes in its favorites list, but act as a client for everybody else. So all you have to do is put up your node in your tree, or on your pole, or on your roof, and favorite your portable nodes, and it will act as a router for those, but it will act as a client for everybody else.

I believe they have also either entirely removed or turned telemetry way, way down so that it does not transmit telemetry very often or only on request. I’m not totally sure which.

What’s the channel utilization in your area? If you have 40 devices now, it may be time to move to a faster preset.

I think this is actually a very interesting thing.

Back in January, I purchased my first meshtastic node, and while it’s not solar powered, I know a lot of the repeaters are.

I have a Heltec MeshPocket which is a 10k mAh backup phone battery and meshtastic node. With how little power the meshtastic node uses i think i will get 30-45 days before needing to recharge.

I live in hurricane country so it is possible to be without power for a while.

Small solar panel

I liked the fact that the yellow had all the radios but did not ever buy one because I had to put it together myself and being blind makes that incredibly difficult.

I thought about getting the green and just getting the cards to do Z-Wave, etc. But haven’t done so yet since I’m currently using a Raspberry Pi 4 that somebody got me for Christmas a few years back

Keepass or bust

I’m in two large groups and quite a number of smaller ones.

For the most part, I have notifications muted on most things, except for a couple of very small groups that don’t get chats often.

I’m not sure exactly what notification style I’m using because I can’t remember, but I do know that I do not have Google Play Services or Google Apps of any sort.

Some shitcoins dropped 80%. Monero and bitcoin held up well though

https://simplex.chat/docs/directory.html

I use it daily