{"id":471166,"date":"2026-06-11T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/471166\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:04:09","slug":"meshcore-and-haiku-a-match-apparently-made-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/471166\/","title":{"rendered":"Meshcore And Haiku: A Match Apparently Made In Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, we\u2019re not talking about cultural appropriation of Japan\u2019s most famous form of short poem\u2013this is the other Haiku, the open-source descendant of BeOS, which now has a fully-native meshcore chat client called\u00a0<\/a>Sestriere, thanks to the efforts of one [Atomozero]. Of course you\u2019ll need a LoRa radio to act as a modem, but anything that speaks USB serial\u2013 which is any of the ESP32-based offerings on the market\u2013should work.<\/p>\n

This is interesting in that we don\u2019t see many desktop applications leveraging LoRa networks\u2013 meshtastic or meshcore\u2013 so for one to appear for the relatively-obscure BeOS derivative is just neat. It\u2019s also a nice peice of work: the chat window is full featured, organizing your contacts, and communicating not just with text but emojis and reaction GIFs. GIFs seem a bit extravagant for LoRa bandwith, but apparently it works. There are also Codec2-based voice messages, another thing that we didn\u2019t expect to see over LoRa, since most \u2018chat\u2019 projects restrict themselves to text messaging<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The chat window. One nice thing about Haiku APIs is that look-and-feel isn\u2019t in question.<\/p>\n

The software will also map all the nodes with which you are in contact, both diagrammatically and geographically, overlaid on OpenStreetMap tiles. The network map conveniently colour-codes your contacts by the link quality, but what\u2019s even more interesting is the WireShark-inspired packet sniffer built into the software to let you keep a really close eye on traffic on the mesh network.<\/p>\n

Neither Haiku or MeshCore are to everyone\u2019s tastes, but as an OS it is a worthy daily driver,<\/a> even if you have to jump through some hoops to install it if you have a UEFI-only system.<\/a><\/p>\n

If you need more range, try a Yagi.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No, we\u2019re not talking about cultural appropriation of Japan\u2019s most famous form of short poem\u2013this is the other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-471166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}