Speaker 1: Got a new mesh Tastic device, a couple of them,
Speaker 1: the Think node M one and M two. These come
Speaker 1: from Ella crow. Elli crow was gracious and kind enough
Speaker 1: to send those to me, and we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about those and how they compare it to a few
Speaker 1: other nodes today. So this is the This one's kind
Speaker 1: of cool because you can adjust the screen brightness with
Speaker 1: the power knob. Turn this power knob on and off here,
Speaker 1: and if you turn it up there, the screen gets
Speaker 1: brighter and brighter and brighter to there, and you turn
Speaker 1: it all the way to the left like that, and
Speaker 1: it goes back to the screen that you can see
Speaker 1: easily in the sun. And then you've turned it one
Speaker 1: click to the left, it'll power off the device. Kind
Speaker 1: of a neat thing there. This one here is smaller
Speaker 1: and a little bit less capable in my opinion. I'm
Speaker 1: going to send some messages back and forth today between
Speaker 1: my sense of cap T one thousand to these two
Speaker 1: and just kind of show you what meshtastic looks like.
Speaker 1: You've probably seen that before, but in case you've never
Speaker 1: heard of these think nodes, these are fairly new. The
Speaker 1: Think one M two is the smaller guy right here,
Speaker 1: This one does not have removable antenna, is a fixed
Speaker 1: antenna smaller. It's got a black screen with blue text
Speaker 1: on it, which I kind of prefer. I like it
Speaker 1: a little bit better. According to the website here, it's
Speaker 1: got a ESP thirty two S three chip in it.
Speaker 1: Powered by an ESP thirty two S three chip you
Speaker 1: can see right here. It sells for forty three to
Speaker 1: ninety on the Lacrow website. I'm gonna share a link
Speaker 1: to this in the description blow once again, these were
Speaker 1: sent to me by Ella Crow, so I appreciate them
Speaker 1: reaching out. They've got a lot of different things on
Speaker 1: this website over here. Mestastic Laura when a bunch of
Speaker 1: other stuff besides just meshtastic. So check out the website.
Speaker 1: In the description blow. The cool thing about this M
Speaker 1: one Now, the M one is larger, more powerful, and
Speaker 1: has a few more functions. I would have called the
Speaker 1: M two the larger one. So the M one is
Speaker 1: the larger and better one. The M two is the
Speaker 1: smaller and less capable one. Nothing wrong with the M two,
Speaker 1: It's just it's got the ESP thirty two chip on it.
Speaker 1: But the M one here has the NRF chip on it,
Speaker 1: right here this new NRF fifty two eight forty. But
Speaker 1: the cool thing about this chip is I have a
Speaker 1: couple of other nodes from other brands with this chip,
Speaker 1: and the battery on this chip lasts two to three
Speaker 1: times as long as any of the ESP thirty two
Speaker 1: chips here. So it's anohing wrong with the ESP thirty
Speaker 1: two chip has been around for a long time. Most
Speaker 1: of your helltechs have it ESP thirty two chip in them.
Speaker 1: A lot of your older Spec fives and seed studios
Speaker 1: stuff have ESP thirty two chips in it. A lot
Speaker 1: of ESP thirty two chips out there. But this NRF
Speaker 1: chip is a little bit newer, and the battery life
Speaker 1: on it is much much longer than what the old
Speaker 1: ESP thirty two chip is. So I've, you know, just
Speaker 1: something that's different between these two nodes. This one also
Speaker 1: has a GPS function. Now, if we go over here,
Speaker 1: go back over here to the overhead. You can see
Speaker 1: right here the scroll buttons up and down right here
Speaker 1: on the unit are for scrolling through what you see
Speaker 1: on the screen. Turn the screen up right there, and
Speaker 1: then once you see the screen, you can see the
Speaker 1: nodes that have been meshed on the screen there. You
Speaker 1: can page through them here and send messages that way,
Speaker 1: or you can read messages. You'd have to send messages
Speaker 1: with the app. Still, this is a toggle switch off
Speaker 1: and on right here where you can turn the GPS
Speaker 1: off and on, so you have the option for GPS
Speaker 1: and you don't have to use it all the time,
Speaker 1: which I thought was a cool feature. I thought that
Speaker 1: was a cool feature that you didn't have to use
Speaker 1: the GPS one hundred percent of the time. If you
Speaker 1: ever wanted to go in and turn the GPS off
Speaker 1: for whatever reason not use it at all, you could
Speaker 1: totally do that. So let's connect to mesh tastic and
Speaker 1: see what it looks like on the screen. There's been
Speaker 1: a lot of updates lately to the latest version of
Speaker 1: the Android app. I don't have an iPhone, so I
Speaker 1: can't tell you about the iPhone app. But traditionally speaking,
Speaker 1: the iPhone app has had more than the Android app
Speaker 1: as far as meshtastic goes. I think the developers just
Speaker 1: work on it more, or maybe it's been around longer
Speaker 1: and there's more features on the iPhone app than the
Speaker 1: Android app traditionally, but this Android app certainly has a
Speaker 1: lot of features on it today, and they've definitely been
Speaker 1: working on it and developing it more so I've been
Speaker 1: very pleased to see that lately. All right here on
Speaker 1: the screen for the Android app for Meshtastic, we see, okay,
Speaker 1: that's the long fast room. So I'm going to go
Speaker 1: back over here to nodes. Okay, a MYKC five HWB pocket,
Speaker 1: the one at the top here. This is the node
Speaker 1: that I still carry with me on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: This is my T one thousand sens acap node testing
Speaker 1: a couple other nodes that might end up replacing that one,
Speaker 1: because that is a fantastic node for receiving, but transmitting
Speaker 1: is a little bit lack because of the small antenna
Speaker 1: in it, but it does have an excellent receiver. But
Speaker 1: you see those the think node M two and M
Speaker 1: one there at the top of the screen. And then
Speaker 1: this is some other stuff I've seen over the last
Speaker 1: few days since I've reset my node database, which I
Speaker 1: guess I need to do again. Right there, so I'm
Speaker 1: going to put let's see, I'm going to go to
Speaker 1: conversations and we're just going to do long fast here,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to say, okay, test from pocket right there,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send that. And now we've got these beeping
Speaker 1: at us right here. Both of these are beeping at
Speaker 1: us right here, so I don't know if you can
Speaker 1: hear that in the microphone or not. They've got the
Speaker 1: long notification string on them, which you can go into
Speaker 1: the app and change that. I can connect the app
Speaker 1: here to either one of these nodes, and I can
Speaker 1: change the notification to only notify for one second. I
Speaker 1: think the fault is like thirty seconds. I have no
Speaker 1: idea why they default to a thirty second notification per message.
Speaker 1: If you're in a high density environment with mestastic and
Speaker 1: you're you're having a lot of people send messages at
Speaker 1: one time, then that gets really annoying really fast. But
Speaker 1: you can see test from pocket on the screen of
Speaker 1: both of those right there, and okay, stop that one.
Speaker 1: And these don't have keyboards on them, and unfortunately I
Speaker 1: can't reply from the node. I can see the message,
Speaker 1: and then I can open up my Connected Advice my
Speaker 1: iPhone or Android, whichever it might be, and then we
Speaker 1: can go in there and reply to it that way.
Speaker 1: But at least you can read the message on the screen.
Speaker 1: So if a conversation is going on and someone's talking,
Speaker 1: and it's like, hey, they're talking to somebody else. They're
Speaker 1: not really talking to me. I heard the notification sound.
Speaker 1: I looked up. I was like, oh, there's two other
Speaker 1: guys talking. I'm not part of this conversation. I don't
Speaker 1: have to grab my phone and get it out and
Speaker 1: look around for, you know, to try to reply to it.
Speaker 1: So but one of the things I really like about
Speaker 1: this one again, it's the last thing I'll say about
Speaker 1: this one here, is that this antenna is I said
Speaker 1: early on this antenna was that this is the Pocket
Speaker 1: M two. Again. I think they're named backwards. I think
Speaker 1: the M two should be the bigger one because it's
Speaker 1: the higher number. I mean, that's just my opinion. I
Speaker 1: just think that's a little bit strange. But this is
Speaker 1: the M one and this is the M two right here.
Speaker 1: So the M two has got this fixed antenna right here.
Speaker 1: It does not move at all. Power button right there,
Speaker 1: paging through the menus button right there. I can go
Speaker 1: and hit that and it toggles through the screen right there,
Speaker 1: just like that shows me my battery case five HMBBF
Speaker 1: two fifty. That's the note in my truck. It saw
Speaker 1: that a few days ago. It says unknown age pocket
Speaker 1: was two minutes ago. It's less than that. Actually, M one,
Speaker 1: which is this guy? This is the i'd see. I'm
Speaker 1: getting confused. I want to call this one the M two,
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's the M one. The one is
Speaker 1: the bigger and more robust one with more features. And
Speaker 1: then long fast is the last message the room and
Speaker 1: the last message heard. And then the last screen shows
Speaker 1: the battery voltage, the time, and a few other pieces
Speaker 1: of information. There that's the M two device right there.
Speaker 1: It says M two on the bottom there. This is
Speaker 1: the M one and it has a removable antenna. So
Speaker 1: this is great because you can attach an external antenna
Speaker 1: to it and get a little bit better. You can
Speaker 1: put a longer antenna, moor a high gain rubber duck
Speaker 1: antenna on it. You can attach an external antenna to
Speaker 1: it and put a magmount on your vehicle. Today's video
Speaker 1: is not officially sponsored. However, it's unofficially sponsored by my
Speaker 1: Amazon store, which I have a list of mestastic devices on.
Speaker 1: I put the N one node on this list from Amazon,
Speaker 1: and even though it has a twenty percent off coupon
Speaker 1: right now, it's still about thirty dollars higher than the
Speaker 1: Lacrow website. Okay, it's seventy nine here on Amazon, and
Speaker 1: it's about fifty three here well about yeah, about twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars fifty three here on their website, So go
Speaker 1: to their website. I'll share that in description Blow. But
Speaker 1: on my Amazon store, I do have a lot of things,
Speaker 1: including this antenna right here. This is the external intenda
Speaker 1: that I have on my truck right now. It's a
Speaker 1: magmunt antenna for nine hundred and fifteen megahertz. Laura works perfectly,
Speaker 1: has an essumate connector on it, so check that out.
Speaker 1: That will be in the description Blow as well. But
Speaker 1: having a removable antenna like this gives you a little
Speaker 1: bit more versatile options for nodes. You could hang this
Speaker 1: in the truck and run an antenna outside, or you
Speaker 1: could put a larger antenna on it and set it
Speaker 1: on you know, like an outside table at a campsite
Speaker 1: or even in your backyard something like that and get
Speaker 1: a little bit better range out of it, simply because
Speaker 1: it does have a removable antenna. So does anyone use
Speaker 1: these as Have you guys ever seen these nodes before?
Speaker 1: Is anyone using the M one or M two from
Speaker 1: Ella Crow think node. I'd like to know what you
Speaker 1: think about these in the description blow what kind of
Speaker 1: applications do you use them for? And this little one
Speaker 1: with the non removable antenna, this M two, I can't
Speaker 1: imagine myself using that. I just this would be a
Speaker 1: good one. To leave it home or something like that.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't want to put that in a bag or
Speaker 1: a pocket because I'm afraid this would get broken. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you could use this as like a secondary node,
Speaker 1: because all these nodes are meshing together, right, So you
Speaker 1: could use this as a secondary node. You got a
Speaker 1: node on the outside of your house. Cool, You could
Speaker 1: put this one in your kitchen or in your office
Speaker 1: or in your bedroom and have it just meshed out
Speaker 1: there and kind of repeating signals and just turn it
Speaker 1: on client mute mode and have it as part of
Speaker 1: the network. And then this guy right here, you could
Speaker 1: easily run in a vehicle or with a larger antenna
Speaker 1: at a campsite or outside in your backyard or somewhere
Speaker 1: remotely and have the range extended on it, because not
Speaker 1: only does it have a longer battery life, but it
Speaker 1: has an SMA connector with a removable antenna that you
Speaker 1: can add something longer too, so a couple different versatility
Speaker 1: options there from ellacrow Think Nodes, I'd like to know
Speaker 1: what you guys think in the description blow check out
Speaker 1: the links to everything we talked about today, and we'll
Speaker 1: catch you next time.