Would love to see something like this for Bluetooth/wifi. Maybe Wifi Aware will be that.
I think local-first networking is going to be an important part of local-first apps.
LoRa itself is sub-mbps though.
Can a wifi mesh with no internet connection be made between different routers / access points?
Really I am wondering if people cooperating by operating wifi areas t could expand quickly in more populated places.
Perhaps the trick would be to run them all the wifi networks fully open?
Yeah basically how does one create a city wide mesh with a few hundred people involved?
Does this mean Meshtastic is evolving toward a more general purpose system with multiple interfaces (not only LoRa) and other applications (beyond messaging) ?
It seems like it's really only missing a few things.
The big things needed for IoT, as I see them:
* The ability to use it as an Arduino library
* Global routing without preconfiguring the relays, as in Amazon Sidewalk or The Things Network
* Some more generic abstraction for telemetry and control, as in Mobus
* The ability for a firmware to define custom config options that the app can set(Something like a JSON schema, maybe local only because of bandwidth)
I actually started a few discussion threads on some of these, and did a few proofs of concept for the P2P global routing.
But I don't particularly want to spend much time on it unless it seems pretty clear it might actually get merged one day.