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🌐 Bridging Bitchat + MeshCore: Resilient communication when infrastructure fails

Bitchat = Bluetooth mesh on phones you already have (~100m range)
MeshCore = LoRa long-range mesh (km+ with cheap hardware)

The bridge connects them. Your phone talks to the city-wide mesh network.
Perfect for disasters, protests, internet shutdowns.

Code: https://github.com/jooray/MeshCore/tree/feature/bitchat-bridge

Releases: https://github.com/jooray/MeshCore/releases

Read more: https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/01/18/bridging-bitchat-and-meshcore-resilient-communication-when-you-need-it-most/

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Awesome to see this come to fruition! You should have named it Me Shat 💩

I wish instead of bitchat we would try to use Samiz more and get it on iOS as well

> Your phone talks to the city-wide mesh network No, my phone is talking to one specific LoRa device, and given the Bluetooth range on my phone, there's a 100% certainty that this LoRa device belongs to me. So instead of using the proven software from the MeshCore authors, I'm like an idiot using B...

solipsist · 7w

nostr:nprofile1qqsrc2zasv9lgvcnttnpcusmw5xwzxh9ktscwufd0gt347numfjfu5qpramhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerhv9j856t9wd3kjct2v4jx2m3wwpkqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcyk40hl take a look, two technologies we were talking about bridged together

Your amazing thank you.

Is there any way the average person can run a cheap/easy device to specifically just act as a relay to help widen network reach?

Honza Pobořil · 6w

Do I understand correctly this is like “MeshCore repeater firmware”? So I deploy it to the lora device on the roof with a big antenna and my phone will talk to this repeater directly, no need to have “companion firmware”.