Subj : Re: Thinknode M5
To   : nblade
From : pyrewyrm
Date : Sat Apr 11 2026 05:50 pm

 nb> So I guess that gets to a question I have about Meshtastic. Does it just
 nb> send  messages?

Yes, Meshtastic is text only.

 nb> In the case of your weather station, does it just send a
 nb> message that is formatted a certain way (say JSON) and then at the the
 nb> other end does it just
 nb> accept that message and then do something with it? Or is there a way to
 nb> send some 
 nb> sort of data packets via the mesh network? 


Meshtastic has support for telemetry/sensor data transmission.
It also supports arbitrary byte data payloads via Python API.

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