Meshchat

What does it do?

• It can send and receive messages, files and audio calls with peers;
• Over your local network through Ethernet and WiFi, completely automatically.
• Over the internet by connecting through a server hosted by yourself or the community.
• Over low-powered, license-free, ISM band LoRa Radio, with an RNode.
• ...and via any other interface supported by the Reticulum Network Stack.
• It communicates securely. Messages can only be decrypted by the intended destination.
• It can communicate with any other existing LXMF client, such as Sideband and Nomadnet.
• It can download files and browse micron pages (decentralised websites) hosted on Nomad Network nodes.

Features

• Supports sending and receiving messages between Reticulum MeshChat, Sideband and Nomadnet.
• Supports receiving and saving images and attachments sent from Sideband.
• Supports sending images, voice recordings and file attachments.
• Supports saving inbound and outbound messages to a local database.
• Supports sending an announce to the network.
• Supports setting a custom display name to send in your announce.
• Supports viewing and searching peers discovered from announces.
• Supports auto resending undelivered messages when an announce is received from the recipient.
• Supports sending messages to and syncing messages from LXMF Propagation Nodes.
• Supports running a local LXMF Propagation Node so other users can use your device for message storage and retrieval.
• Support for browsing pages, and downloading files hosted on Nomad Network Nodes.

Beta Features

• Support for Audio Calls to other Reticulum MeshChat users.
• Audio is encoded with codec2 to support low bandwidth links.
• Using a microphone requires using the web ui over localhost or https, due to AudioWorklet secure context.
• I have tested two-way audio calls over LoRa with a single hop. It works well when a reasonable bitrate is configured on the RNode.
• Some browsers such as FireFox don't work as expected. Try using a Chromium based browser if running via the command line.

Getting Started