Speaker 1: This is the Specter from Spec five.
Speaker 2: It is an all in one turn key solution for
Speaker 2: a mesh Tastic node that you carry with you.
Speaker 1: And that's the size of it right there. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about that today.
Speaker 2: I went to mesh Con in October of twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four down at the Spec five facility and it was
Speaker 2: a good It was a small event, it was some
Speaker 2: good information and it was but it was the first
Speaker 2: year they did it, and I hope they do it again.
Speaker 2: Since then, I've had Daniel from Spec five on the
Speaker 2: live stream and he talked to us about a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff that Spec five is working on. Spec five
Speaker 2: is a manufacturer. They take existing mesh Tastic devices, build
Speaker 2: cases for them, build systems, form and that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: They're working on some new firmware as well. So this
Speaker 2: is the Spec five specter. You can see how This
Speaker 2: is my three x three patch here that I've got
Speaker 2: and my Android smartphone is right here, so I've got
Speaker 2: it zoomed in pretty close, so you guys can see
Speaker 2: it a little bit better. We'll get some more close
Speaker 2: ups of it. You can see that's basically a held
Speaker 2: Tech V three case that's inside of there. This is
Speaker 2: the two buttons on the bottom of the case right there,
Speaker 2: that push buttons on the actual board, and then on
Speaker 2: top of it is an Android. I don't even know
Speaker 2: what kind of Android device this is, but this is
Speaker 2: an Android. This is a full smartphone from Android. It's
Speaker 2: a full smart phone from Android.
Speaker 1: We can turn this on here and go there.
Speaker 2: It's got the Meshtastic application right there pre installed. I
Speaker 2: didn't put this in so you see right there, it's
Speaker 2: called S five Spector. Of course, you can rename that
Speaker 2: anything you want to. You can rename a short name.
Speaker 2: Region is US. That's the QR code that you can
Speaker 2: scan to join a room, create a customized room, whatnot.
Speaker 2: It's got a map right there. Of course, these are
Speaker 2: other nodes that it's seeing right now. This right here,
Speaker 2: this was from several days ago. That's my truck node though,
Speaker 2: is that is It's another Spec five It's called a
Speaker 2: Spec five beacon, I think, is what I have in
Speaker 2: my truck right now. It's got a small solar panel
Speaker 2: and it do another video about that soon. And then
Speaker 2: of course we've got the long fast room there and
Speaker 2: I need to add my customized rooms to it, but
Speaker 2: I haven't done that yet. So we can go back
Speaker 2: here to the main menu. It's got these check tastic Now,
Speaker 2: these are applications that have been developed by Spec five,
Speaker 2: and there are games you can play. So it got
Speaker 2: mesh Chess, check Tastic, so I think it's Checkers, and
Speaker 2: then's Spec five mesh tastic something right there.
Speaker 1: What does that say?
Speaker 2: There's different games you can play over the mesh to,
Speaker 2: you know, just kind of keep yourself entertained to whatnot.
Speaker 1: So kind of some cool propriety.
Speaker 2: It's not proprietary necessarily, but Spec five did write the
Speaker 2: applications for all that. And then we got your settings
Speaker 2: and gallery whatnot, camera, calendar, file manager, got chrome. I
Speaker 2: put chrome on there. There's my photo the play store
Speaker 2: and download anything from the play Store you want to.
Speaker 1: So there's my photos right there. I haven't connected that yet.
Speaker 1: That's fine. I haven't really.
Speaker 2: Done much with this yet. But a couple of the
Speaker 2: guys I know who had this. Someone put wind link
Speaker 2: on it, which I thought was a good idea. You
Speaker 2: could put APRS droid on it. You can use it
Speaker 2: for you put various ham radio type applications on this
Speaker 2: and it'll be a good addition to your pack or
Speaker 2: to just your your edc carry that will enable Meshtastic
Speaker 2: but also have other hand radio type applications on it.
Speaker 2: There's the buttons up down buttons on it for the
Speaker 2: volume and whatnot. The one drawback about it that I
Speaker 2: will say is that it has two charge ports for it,
Speaker 2: so you charge the phone and the mesh Tastic board
Speaker 2: back here independently. They are both USBC, so you can
Speaker 2: charge them via the same cable, but they're charging one
Speaker 2: end of time, so you might want to look for
Speaker 2: some sort of splitter cable that has two USB C
Speaker 2: ports on it where you can charge everything at the
Speaker 2: same time. But just because you charge the phone up
Speaker 2: doesn't mean you're charged the Meshtastic radio. So that's that's
Speaker 2: one kind of drawback I think, you know for it,
Speaker 2: kind of like that I don't know they've got this
Speaker 2: cut out here because the.
Speaker 1: Camera is usable on the phone.
Speaker 2: This is your power power button and screen on off button,
Speaker 2: and it's just and of course it comes with this
Speaker 2: SMA antenna that you can change out. You can put
Speaker 2: a longer intenna on it. You can put an external
Speaker 2: magmunt on your vehicle and hook it up that way.
Speaker 2: I have an external magmunt on my vehicle, but I
Speaker 2: have another radio that I use for.
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Speaker 1: The antenna.
Speaker 2: The antenna that sticks out is a little bit like
Speaker 2: it's so small that you're you're tempted to put it
Speaker 2: in your pocket when you're walking around places, and if
Speaker 2: you look, you can kind of see the antenna's little
Speaker 2: bent right there, because I put it in my pocket
Speaker 2: and the antenna got bent. So take the antenna off
Speaker 2: if you want to.
Speaker 1: Put it in your pocket, or just don't put it
Speaker 1: in your pocket.
Speaker 2: I do wish it had some sort of belt clip
Speaker 2: or maybe some sort of molly case for it. There
Speaker 2: might be a molly case you can find that you
Speaker 2: can put that in and stick it as a clip
Speaker 2: on the back of your your backpack or your go
Speaker 2: bag or your your man pack or whatever something like that.
Speaker 1: So that's one another drawback.
Speaker 2: Two drawbacks with it that I've found is that it's
Speaker 2: independent charging of the phone and the meschastic device. The
Speaker 2: phone itself is small, so it has a small battery.
Speaker 2: This battery will last about a day, okay, And then
Speaker 2: you know, for what it is, that's not bad. It's
Speaker 2: not bad. For what it is, it's not great. I
Speaker 2: know my was gonna show you this is my z
Speaker 2: fold four. So that's how much smaller it is than
Speaker 2: the z fold four. In fact, it's even smaller with
Speaker 2: the antenna than my z fold four is. So it's small,
Speaker 2: it's lightweight, it's compact, it's full Android. I forget, I
Speaker 2: even forget what version of Android is running. Let's look
Speaker 2: at that real quick. So this is running Android nine.
Speaker 2: I kind of thought it was in a newer version
Speaker 2: of Android than that. It is running a custom build
Speaker 2: called Servo and it's on v one dot dot twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three twelve fifteen servos, so it's probably it actually
Speaker 2: probably needs to be updated because that's from December of
Speaker 2: last year, so there might be an update for it.
Speaker 2: I'll have to check that later. But it is Android nine,
Speaker 2: so I was I thought it was Android twelve. Honestly,
Speaker 2: I thought that's what it was. But it's just Android nine.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if the version of Android is
Speaker 2: older because this is an older device, or and maybe
Speaker 2: you can update it.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if the memory on this device. I
Speaker 2: don't know if it'll justify a newer version of Android.
Speaker 2: But I mean, the long and short of it is,
Speaker 2: just don't put any personal information on this, okay. Put
Speaker 2: create yourself a new Google account with a play store,
Speaker 2: access something that's random that doesn't have all the rest
Speaker 2: of your Google stuff, Download and install whatever apps you
Speaker 2: want to on this, and use it just for a
Speaker 2: ham radio off grid device to use wind link APRS droid.
Speaker 2: It's got bluetoo so you can connect it to like
Speaker 2: a moby linked TNC or the d KME with D
Speaker 2: seventy five that has a built in TNC and you
Speaker 2: can use APRS droid with that.
Speaker 1: In fact, that might be a fun video. I might
Speaker 1: try to do something like that soon.
Speaker 2: And it's just it's a very like I said, it
Speaker 2: was an all inclusive, all just turnkey solution for mesh
Speaker 2: tastic right there.
Speaker 1: Spec five is the company. Specter is the name of
Speaker 1: the device.
Speaker 2: I will put a link in the description below for that,
Speaker 2: so go check that out and thanks for watching today.