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Meshcore and -tastic have the huge problem that the encryption keys are bound to the device and not the app.

I've been using the T-Deck Pro and T-Lora Pager, so the device is the app.

I agree, there's way too much going on in the firmware, just make a dumb Lora-bluetooth bridge. Hell, just integrate a Lora radio in a phone.

The base software is open, you could potentially do it!

:)

Honestly: MC and MT are classical bloated Arduino projects with a giant single big-loop and an interrupt coming from the LoRa modem.

Both projects are hitting their limits because of this. Every new feature and every bug fix causes endless amount of pain and breakage.

I was involved in both - and gave up because of this.

IMHO both projects need some kind of thin-client which delegates most of the functionality into the client. Only keep some basic LoRa/Message Buffer/Routing/Battery Saving functionality in the hardware itself.

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