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Speaker 1: this sense a cap T one thousand, this guy right here,
Speaker 1: which is a meshtastic note. Long story short. I really
Speaker 1: like this thing, but after using it for about a month,
Speaker 1: maybe six weeks or something like that, the only problem
Speaker 1: with it is the charging. Sometimes you can't get the
Speaker 1: thing to charge. Okay, this is I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a great piece of kit. It really is. When I'm
Speaker 1: at hamfests and whatnot, I keep this attached to my
Speaker 1: belt loop or my belt or maybe my backpack or
Speaker 1: something like that. And this thing has excellent range. You
Speaker 1: might be surprised by the type of range it has.
Speaker 1: The way to charge it is with this waterproof portback here.
Speaker 1: The way the charge is with this magnetic connection right here,
Speaker 1: and this cable that's a proprietary cable, so it's proprietary,
Speaker 1: so I already don't like it that much anyway. But
Speaker 1: sometimes when you connect that, it just simply will not charge.
Speaker 1: If you look right now, you might be able to
Speaker 1: see this flashing very faintly in the video. When you
Speaker 1: connect this and it actually takes a charge, this light
Speaker 1: will become bright and flash slower, and you'll hear a
Speaker 1: tone come across the thing as well. But oftentimes you
Speaker 1: can't get the thing to charge because for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't. It just doesn't act like it's connected.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing. Now I have found a way
Speaker 1: a way around that that I have found so far.
Speaker 1: I have a a high powered USB charging brick on
Speaker 1: my dresser in my bedroom at home. It plugs directly
Speaker 1: into the wall and it has five USB three point
Speaker 1: zero high powered charging port. It's not as high, not
Speaker 1: as high powered as USBC obviously, but high as high
Speaker 1: as you can get on USBA. And when I plug
Speaker 1: this into that, it seems to charge. Okay, I haven't
Speaker 1: had any trouble with it charging there, but I took
Speaker 1: this to orlandohem Cation in February and I was charging
Speaker 1: it trying to charge it via charging brick or battery box,
Speaker 1: and sometimes I got it work to work, and sometimes
Speaker 1: I didn't. And when I asked somebody from this is
Speaker 1: made by Seed Studios. I'll put a link to it
Speaker 1: in the description below. You can get them on Amazon
Speaker 1: as well. And when I asked Seed Studios about why
Speaker 1: they made this proprietary connector, they said they wanted it
Speaker 1: to be waterproof. Okay, okay, I can get that, but
Speaker 1: with this something like this, you're going to be carrying
Speaker 1: this in your pocket. So unless you're planning on going
Speaker 1: swimming with this device, I don't really see the need
Speaker 1: for it to be waterproof. If this was an external
Speaker 1: device you're gonna put on the outside of your house,
Speaker 1: your car, they're sure, okay, good, But with this thing
Speaker 1: and the battery will last for about two days, but
Speaker 1: it's really frustrating the field when you're using it, having
Speaker 1: good luck with it, go to charging it at night,
Speaker 1: you plug it in, it won't take a charge. The
Speaker 1: battery eventually dies on you because you can't get it
Speaker 1: to charge after connecting it to two charge two or
Speaker 1: three different chargers using two or three different cables. So
Speaker 1: that's my only complaint about it. Watch this video, this
Speaker 1: video that I recorded last month, and overall, if you
Speaker 1: can get this thing to charge, this is a fantastic unit.
Speaker 1: And I traded some emails with Seed Studios and I
Speaker 1: told them this is my problem with it, and they're like, well,
Speaker 1: let us know of what you think, like, use it
Speaker 1: in the field, let us know what you think about it.
Speaker 1: And I said, the charging is the only problem. And
Speaker 1: I said I'm gonna put that in the video. And
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, cool, yeah, fine, we'll we'll take that
Speaker 1: to heart when we get more information on it. So,
Speaker 1: and this has been reported to them already. I'm not
Speaker 1: the first one to tell them this. So you guys,
Speaker 1: check this videout. Let me know what you think of
Speaker 1: the comments below. This is the smallest, most compact mesh
Speaker 1: Tastic device that I have ever seen on the market.
Speaker 1: It is made by Seed Corporation Seed. It's just a
Speaker 1: perfect compact solution for Meshtastic to keep on your person
Speaker 1: when you're out and about, maybe at a show, maybe
Speaker 1: at a festival, maybe at a group gathering of some sort.
Speaker 1: We're gonna look at it right now. I picked this
Speaker 1: up at mesh Con at the Spec five mesh Con
Speaker 1: event that happened uh October of twenty twenty four, and
Speaker 1: I've tinkered with it a little bit. It's not a
Speaker 1: great device for long range because it's because that's that's
Speaker 1: how big it is right there. It's it's literally the
Speaker 1: size of a credit card. It's a little bit thicker
Speaker 1: this direction than a credit card, but it's literally the
Speaker 1: size of a credit card. That's it. Right there. There's another.
Speaker 1: I've actually got two of them, and it's got an
Speaker 1: internal battery. The internal battery will last about two days.
Speaker 1: And on this one I put a little I actually
Speaker 1: made this carabineer paracord rope thing. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you call these, but I bought one of these on
Speaker 1: Amazon one time and I looked at how it was wound,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, dude, I could I could totally do that.
Speaker 1: I could make that myself. So I made that and
Speaker 1: I put that on there with a little key ring
Speaker 1: on it. But let me show you what it looks
Speaker 1: like and what the size compares to and get the
Speaker 1: mestastic app out. We're gonna hook it all up and
Speaker 1: see what you're doing. Again. This is probably something that
Speaker 1: if you're gonna go to Hamvenchion or Orlando. Orlando's coming
Speaker 1: up soon. If you're gonna go to a place like that,
Speaker 1: or even like some sort of outdoor gathering with lots
Speaker 1: of people, maybe a camp out or whatever, and you
Speaker 1: want to keep a meshtastic device SLA like actually on
Speaker 1: your belt or something, this is gonna be great for that.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna it doesn't have an external intenta port.
Speaker 1: Switch over to the overhead here and show you there's
Speaker 1: no external intenta port. There's no there's nothing on it
Speaker 1: except for it's got a button right here to turn
Speaker 1: it on. It's got a small speaker right there. And
Speaker 1: then the charging port is this magnetic connection on the
Speaker 1: back here. It comes with this proprietary cable, so it's
Speaker 1: not USBC or anything like that. It is a proprietary
Speaker 1: magnetic cable. This right here. There's magnets right there on
Speaker 1: either side, so you like that and then plug it
Speaker 1: into USBA and that's how you charge it. It doesn't take
Speaker 1: long to charge at all. This battery right here in
Speaker 1: the back you can see, is the battery that's internal
Speaker 1: to it. This white part right here. I told you guys,
Speaker 1: I turned fifty last year. Right, So this right here
Speaker 1: says it's this is a model T one thousand Echo.
Speaker 1: They call it a Sense of Cap T one thousand
Speaker 1: from Seed Studios made in China, s E eed S
Speaker 1: Triple Ed Seed Studio. I'll show you the website here
Speaker 1: in a second. Sells for about forty bucks. And I
Speaker 1: can't really see because there's printing on the case over
Speaker 1: the top of it here. I can't really see what
Speaker 1: the size of the battery is. It does say it
Speaker 1: looks like it says three point seven volt right there,
Speaker 1: but I can't see the milliamp our size of the battery.
Speaker 1: Perhaps it says on the website here, which we can
Speaker 1: take a look at that real quick. This is the
Speaker 1: website for it. Like I said thirty nine nine, I
Speaker 1: couldn't find anyone in the USA that sold these. I
Speaker 1: checked my normal meshtastic providers and they didn't carry this
Speaker 1: specific model. But right now it says good news by
Speaker 1: two of the T one thousand Echo units and get
Speaker 1: two snap hooks for freeze, a special they're running right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: gives you a little diagram shows that there there's a
Speaker 1: guy right there with it hooked to the zipper on
Speaker 1: his hoodie. That's a good idea there. I did see
Speaker 1: somebody at the last belt in ham Expo we were at.
Speaker 1: There was a guy there that had this clip to
Speaker 1: his belt and he was just walking around with it.
Speaker 1: He's like, it's really easy to use, and it's non intrusive.
Speaker 1: It doesn't take up a lot of room. You don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about an antenna poking. I've had meshtastic
Speaker 1: devices on my belt and there's an intenna on it,
Speaker 1: and you know, sometimes you lean over, or you try
Speaker 1: to pick up something, or you just turning around, or
Speaker 1: you get into the car and you forget it's there,
Speaker 1: and either the entire unit kind of pops off your
Speaker 1: belt or the antenna gets bent and snapped. I have
Speaker 1: a really bad habit of bending antennas. So you don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about this. Uh. With that, there's nothing
Speaker 1: there at all. That's all there is to it. The
Speaker 1: antenna is internal. So let's check this out and see
Speaker 1: what it looks like with the meshtastic app. So if
Speaker 1: you can see this or not right now, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can see this in the camera. This
Speaker 1: one is flashing right now, which means it's powered on
Speaker 1: and this one is not. So we're gonna go with
Speaker 1: this one right here, because that's the one. I've got
Speaker 1: my care beaner clip on, all right. So to power
Speaker 1: it on you, to power it off in on you,
Speaker 1: you long press this button right here, all right. So
Speaker 1: hopefully you heard that it did a little beep tone
Speaker 1: and then now it's powered off because there's no flashing
Speaker 1: on the LED indicator right there, So we're gonna power
Speaker 1: it on there. It is took about three seconds, maybe four.
Speaker 1: You saw the LED pop on there, and now it's
Speaker 1: flashing white. It turns green for half a second when
Speaker 1: it powers on, and now it's flashing white. So now
Speaker 1: we're going to come in here to the Mestastic app
Speaker 1: right here, and I'm going to go here and I'm
Speaker 1: going to add a device Mestastic fe F six. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that GOV thing is. I'm going to
Speaker 1: I'm going to assume that this is an FVF six.
Speaker 1: Doesn't really say I'll tell you what. Here's how we
Speaker 1: test it. Let's turn it off. It might say in
Speaker 1: the box, but I don't have the box for this
Speaker 1: specific unit anymore. Yeah, okay, went away, But I wonder
Speaker 1: what that is. I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 1: So the only thing that comes in the box is
Speaker 1: the card itself in the charging cable. There's nothing else
Speaker 1: in the box. This is the box, right This is
Speaker 1: the box to the second one right here. This this,
Speaker 1: this box goes to this one. I don't have the
Speaker 1: box for this one anymore. But there's nothing like right here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no indication of what it's actually called. There's an
Speaker 1: FCCID input is five volts at zero dot three six amps.
Speaker 1: Nothing really else about what the mesh tastic is named.
Speaker 1: So we're going to assume that this FVF six is
Speaker 1: the one here, and the pairing pin code is one
Speaker 1: two three four five six. I know that because I
Speaker 1: watched the seed video instructions on this device. And here
Speaker 1: we go right there. Now we're connected. Okay, it's gonna
Speaker 1: want you to set your region first. United States is
Speaker 1: where I'm sitting, okay, And then I can and now
Speaker 1: we've got the arrow right there which says we're connected.
Speaker 1: All good there, and then I can go here and
Speaker 1: see I just beeped at me. I'm not sure why
Speaker 1: this one right here, this random O one WT forty
Speaker 1: seven is something I picked up the other day. It's
Speaker 1: not something that's there now hops away as question mark.
Speaker 1: But this right here, this FEF six is this little
Speaker 1: guy right here. So you just basically carry this thing
Speaker 1: around on your belt. I can rename it if I
Speaker 1: want to. Probably do that here in a minute. Carry
Speaker 1: this thing around on your belt, like I said, when
Speaker 1: you're at an event or a festival or something like that,
Speaker 1: and then if there's anyone else that has a meshtastic
Speaker 1: device set up on the premises there with like on
Speaker 1: a pole or a tower or something, then it'll be
Speaker 1: easy to do this, or it'll be easy to connect
Speaker 1: because you always have your smartphone with you anyway, so
Speaker 1: you can get your smartphone out and say, oh, there's
Speaker 1: somebody on mestastic right there. So I'm gonna test this
Speaker 1: at winter field Day, which is upcoming soon. We're gonna
Speaker 1: set up some Mestastic nodes at winter field Day at
Speaker 1: the end of January twenty twenty five, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: carry this around on me and see what kind of
Speaker 1: activity we can see during that event. Should be about
Speaker 1: eight or ten of us there, maybe some guests come
Speaker 1: along during the day and you know, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a fun event either way. But this is definitely a
Speaker 1: very cool device, like I said, because more than and
Speaker 1: quite frankly, the thing that I liked about it the
Speaker 1: best is that it doesn't have an external antenna. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you need something with an external antenna or with
Speaker 1: a better range on it, then there's certainly devices like
Speaker 1: that available out there. Okay, but if you want something
Speaker 1: that's just easy, you can literally put this in your
Speaker 1: wallet or your pocket. You're not gonna mess it up.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna damage it. You might end up if
Speaker 1: you sit on it or something. You put it in
Speaker 1: your back pocket and you sit on it, you might
Speaker 1: end up pressing that button powering it down, but it's
Speaker 1: not going to be I wouldn't suggest sitting on it really,
Speaker 1: that case is pretty tough, but you never know. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you could. You could use some of you
Speaker 1: Ham Radio guys that ordered triple and quadruple xl T
Speaker 1: shirts on my website. You guys, yeah, be careful with that.
Speaker 1: So but hey, I've broken stuff by sitting on it
Speaker 1: in my pocket many many times. But this is a
Speaker 1: neat device. I'm looking forward to using it actually in
Speaker 1: the Field. Thank you to Seed Studios for sending this
Speaker 1: to me, and I'll put a link to the website
Speaker 1: to the to the device on their website in the
Speaker 1: description below. You guys can go check that out. If
Speaker 1: you have any questions or comments, let me know. Let
Speaker 1: me know what the other I've got two or three
Speaker 1: other meshtastic devices that I want to do videos on,
Speaker 1: or that I that I have in my possession to
Speaker 1: do videos on. Let me know what mesh tastic devices
Speaker 1: you guys want to see, what kind of setup you
Speaker 1: want to see on this channel and we'll talk soon.
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