So I have been using Meshtastic for a bit over a month now, and I’ve been hearing about MeshCore, which sounds interesting, although it’s much smaller. Tonight, I decided to give it a test, and while there’s nobody around me who I can test with, my initial impressions of the firmware is that it’s early, but good. With that said, from everything I can tell, the applications to control it from Android and iOS do not appear to be open source. And I absolutely refuse to become interested in something that is not open source. So that’s a big no-no for me. If I am wrong, I would definitely be willing to try it again. But if I am right, the only way I would consider using it is if somebody else writes an app that is open source.
The application is freemium, written by one of the devs from the Reticulum project. The core is open source so anyone can write a client for it. We’re in the early days so I imagine more clients will pop up.
Well, when there’s a fully open source app, I will give it another look. But until that point, I’m not touching it again.