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DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com Joined: 2026-02-21

Hey ya'll, I've been looking at the Station G2 for a long time as a home node, but I've also been waiting an equally long time for it to come back into stock. It seems like its never going to at this point, so I want to find a comparable alternative. Does anyone have any recommendations?

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip Joined: 2024-01-08

For a CLIENT_BASE to bounce your hand held off of I would go with the seeed solar p1 pro

fratermus@piefed.social Joined: 2026-01-09

Good home nodes?

home node as in base station or as in repeater? If one has a repeater/client_base node outdoors I don't think it matters much what one uses indoors.

My MT setup is

base: Heltec e290 (eInk) flashed with client_mute
repeater: seeed sensecap solarnode P1 flashed with client_base
mobile: T114 client_mute

My MC setup is

base: a Heltec V3 flashed with companion
repeater: a PeakMesh-built solar node based on the RAK4631. Flashed with client_base
mobile: wismesh tag flashed with companion

Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-07

Mine's been working great, it is super easy to setup and I have not touched it in 2 months so far.

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