Datamining Meshtastic - Statistics of a small sized network in Southern Germany
From 31.12.2024 - 10.1.2024 I was running a heavily modified Meshlytics on my Meshtastic station.
The setup was rather simple: 5dBi omnidirectional antenna mounted onto a T-Beam that was connected into my local Wi-Fi to extract MQTT. Everything was placed onto my small balcony next to my office.

My location is in a deep valley - so only 3-4 stations with very low signal levels (-120dBm to -145dBm) are reachable. These stations are placed in strategically good positions by the local community, offering me a gateway.

Looking at the relation RSSI vs. distance to my station, it looks even worse. Not that dense point cloud as not every station is sending their GPS position.

But let’s have a look at the number of stations I can see from here.

And the types of data being put on the waves. You can see: our network is not really chatty. Position reports, Nodeinfos, and Telemetry are dominating the game.

The valley position has the downside that all stations are far away in terms of hops.

The RSSI plot of the entire network shows: it lives from the robustness of LoRa.

Last but not least, the channel utilization and TX time reports might be interesting for comparison.
