I’m still fighting with Amazon to get my first pair of devices delivered, I went with heltec v3s to get started.
But looking at the meshmap.net, it’s very very sparse around me. How likely is it that the are nodes that aren’t on the map?
Hopefully I can check it out myself soon!
It’s only pulling anyone with mqtt from my understanding.
Yeah I believe you’re right. Though I didn’t find anyone else locally even going to the highest hill in town
My area shows two nodes on meshmap, my heltec v3 sees 100 nodes, of which 50 are on the map in the meshtastic app. Different locations probably have different results, but I’d say that you’ll be pleased when your nodes arrive, I was!
FWIW only about half the nodes around me have location broadcast enabled. The rest don’t appear on the map but they’ll show up if you receive their nodeinfo packets
There’s way way more nodes around me IRL and I see new nodes every day. Join us! Make sure you buy a good antenna, the ones that come with heltec v3 are only useful for receiving but are no good for transmitting unless to another device that’s basically touching it.