My Reticulum Experience


Heltek V4 setup

Heltec V4

Make sure to use the proper antenna attachement at the top of the PCB of the V4

Buying new antennas for this (SMA connector) as node at home only got to ~.15 miles away before dropping signal

SMA Antenna

Heltec T114 Buy This for Cruise/EDC


Reticulum Stuff

Reticulum Interface Discovery

Read and impliment the "Discovering Interfaces Section"

Reticulum I2P Section to Connect to Internet

Firewall Settings:

tldr; check your Windows Firewall settings I had problems with this recently. When I installed and ran the Reticulum MeshChat software on Win11 I was prompted to allow the software to connect (usual Windows Firewall prompt). I accepted. Couldn't connect to a second device (Android running Sideband) that was only "local Wifi/Ethernet" with TCP disabled. Checking the Windows Firewall on the first machine I could see that Reticulum was allowed "public" but not "private". Gave it "private" as well and the two were able to connect just fine and I can see the second machine in the Network Visualizer.

No IP

Setup Bootstrap Node to Connect Wifis together