Hi everyone, I’m very new to LORA and Meshtastic and I’m looking to see if it can help me with a bit of home automation.

Currently I can control my entrance gate with a relay on a local MQTT network, however mobile internet near my house is very unreliable so opening the gate while I’m outside doesn’t always work well.

What I’d like to be able to do is open/close my gate with a meshtastic device that I could keep in my car. I understand that I could use a POE wisblock in my house as the meshtastic server that interacts with my local MQTT network, then I could use a device in the car to send the signal to open/close the gate to the wisblock server device which would be located about 50m away.

My question is, is there a device I can get for my car capable of displaying custom text such as below that would tell me when I’m in range of the wisblock and whether or not the gate is currently open?

Eg:

GATE: Connected  
GATE STATUS: OPEN

Alternatively, instead of text this could probably be achieved with 2 controllable LEDs

As well as the text, I’d like to have two buttons on the device which can send a message to open/close the gate. I understand that a lot of the meshtastic functionality like sending messages is done through the app, but I’d rather not depend on a phone at all if I don’t have to.

I’m happy to figure out all the programming myself, such as configuring the text, and automatically sending messages from the server to update the gate status. I’d just like to know if a device like this exists in the meshtastic space.

Thanks

  • Salamander@mander.xyzM
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    29 days ago

    It seems like as of right now meshtastic devices don’t have the ability to finely control LEDs/button actions to work for my use case. Which is a shame since I was hoping I could just buy a meshtastic device that has some programmable buttons inside a pre-built enclosure.

    Maybe they do have that ability already. I am not sure. I have mostly used Meshtastic devices for communication and I have played a little bit with LoRa modules for more basic sensors and logging. Perhaps someone else knows more about the Meshtastic-specific features when it comes to telemetry and triggering devices.