Discover the key differences between Reticulum and Meshtastic in this detailed comparison of their features and capabilities! This video explores how Reticul...

In my opinion:

Meshtastic is MUCH easier to set up. Reticulum is very difficult to set up and requires a lot of time/work at the moment.

Reticulum has a lot of potential for more protocols, networking, apps, etc…
Meshtatic is very much made for messages and finding nodes.

Both work with LoRa.

Ive played around with both and was more successful with meshtastic (and meshcore). But Reticulum impressed me because I could send images over LoRa and could work with just about any networking. Which was interesting!

This is a good video showcasing RNode/Reticulum here: https://youtu.be/BsAMeMp1hlg?t=657

  • civ@lemmy.civl.ccEnglish
    0·
    4 months ago

    Looks like Reticulum is no longer being developed (creator essentially made it read only) and there’s no active forks.

    • Jean-luc Peak-hard@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      24 hours ago

      It’s still being actively developed. There’s been multiple releases in just the last few weeks and all through the year. He’s just not posting immediately to github as he’s built-in git support over the reticulum network [0] and it seems that’s his primary way of releasing source updates.

      Once you have rns installed [1] (and configured to connect to the broader network) you can run the following command to get the latest source files:

      # From the 1.3.4 release notes [0]
rngit release rns://7649a50d84610232d1416b41d2896aff/reticulum/reticulum fetch latest:all --signer bc7291552be7a58f361522990465165c

      That said, rns is mostly feature complete. Now its up to others to built tools/apps on top of the network. For anyone not aware, here’s some apps/tools to try/check out:

      • Columba: Modern Android app that supports browsing nomadnet pages and chat.
      • Nomad Network: Browse nomadnet pages, chat, group chat, host nomadnet pages, etc.
      • Retipedia: Serve up wiki pages.
      • Sideband: Swiss-army knife reticulum network Android app.
      • MeshChatX: (appears to be down right now) - A GUI-oriented alternative to nomad network.
      • rBrowser: Browse nomadnet pages.
      • LXST Phone: - Make calls over rns!

      Lastly, for anyone still reading, there’s a few ports being developed that are compatible with the python implementation:

      [0] https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/releases/tag/1.3.4

      [1] https://pypi.org/project/rns/