Got my first two devices on tuesday and I've been traveling around with them! Seems the t114 has much better range but is a less convenient package of course (and damn amazon didn't ship my GPS module, so now that is on the way with an upgraded antenna and a heltec v3 cause why not?)
I've been able to make a few connections, but I had a couple questions about some of them.
I've been able to connect to a few nodes around town, even got one reply, but there seems to be two categories of nodes, some "recognized" and some "unrecognized." Does anyone know why that could be? Can I still talk to them if they're unrecognized, and/or do they still route packets? Can I fix that or do the other nodes' owners have to?
Glad I finally got into it, been having fun and apparently my area has some activity (even if I'm in a deadzone at the bottom of a hill for now.)
Edit: Ok I keep forgetting about redlib so I think I don't have access to Ye Olde Country because VPN and I refuse all apps, but I just remembered and searched there! So if anyone else has this question like me it seems that:
Simply not enought packets have arrived to get that info
No nodeinfo received. Either wait longer or request user info manually.
And
These appear to be running an older version of the meshtastic firmware [pre-2.5] which likely do not have an updated public key.
...I think yes? Haha. As far as I understand it, as long as you do that, and then manually set the Freq Slot to your region's default (20 for US) then people can't see your GPS unless they have the primary key, but I'm not 100% on that myself!