Mesh client
Queue a text on the radio. Show when it is waiting, hopping, or delivered. Stop at a short length so one photo cannot fill the channel.
Mock · not a shipped app
The app people would actually use
A phone cannot speak LoRa by itself. This app pairs with a WisMesh radio over Bluetooth, or joins the hub Wi-Fi when you are at the hub. Neighbors read the status note and send a short text. The two people on call watch link quality, shed Starlink or the charging outlet, and mark a battery for a live swap.
Sample Hanalei data. Nothing here is on the air. Back to the plan
Hanalei · no cellularRadio paired
Hanalei hub
Roads, water, and aid
Kūhiō Highway is open to Princeville. The Hanalei bridge has a weight limit. Water filling at this hub until 6. Aid is at the school gym.
Path
WisMesh radio over Bluetooth. Two hops to Princeville. Fair.
Charging outlet
Phones only. The outlet turns off if the battery reserve is needed.
What a neighbor sees
The status note
This is the cached note at the nearest hub: roads, water, and aid. It stays on the hub even when the phone has no cellular service. The phone is reading it through a paired WisMesh radio, or over the hub’s Wi-Fi if you are standing there.
Quality
Say which hop is good, fair, or weak, and which towns you cannot reach from where you are standing.
Load and power
The on-call view turns down Starlink and the outlet before the radios die, and walks a battery swap without dropping the hub.