The Pinedio LoRa adapter lives thanks to Meshcore and pyMC_core!

The Pinedio USB LoRa adapter endured spamming a message at the byte limit to a Heltec V3 node for 30 seconds without issue.

#meshcore #pine64 #pinedio #lora

Is your PINE64 RSS feed sad and lumpy? (It doesn't contain the full blog post, only a description) Well we have great news for you! We now publish the full blog post in your RSS feed (that's 65% more blog post per blog post!), don't know why it wasn't like that before, but there we go.

If you don't see this change already please update your RSS feed: pine64.org/blog/index.xml

Also appending the previous update with some new content in a blog post: pine64.org/2026/05/18/may_2026…

The PineDio USB LoRa Adapter is at the focus of a new effort to begin progress on potential new LoRa devices. MeshCore is the current protocol target for the USB LoRa Adapter along with help from the pyMC_core library project.

The current problem with the device is that the crystal oscillator is heating up too much and can cause clock frequency drifting instability. In a nutshell that means your messages come out garbled. This may eventually be fixed with a TXCO (Temperature-Compensated Crystal Oscillator) to maintain a stable clock frequency.

#pine64 #pinedio #lora #meshcore

I’m going to Arctangent festival later this year and there is no cell signal so I’m taking these three Heltecs and giving two of them to close friends so I can find them at the festival!

I’m going to be running Meschore on all three (my experience of Meshtastic is it sucks all of the air out of the room and good luck sending a message to any of those contacts you found).

So if anyone else is going and wants to hop on the same mesh, this is your heads up!

#lora #meshcore #atg #arctangent

We're making progress on building a #Meshtastic network across PHL! In the past few weeks we've shown it's possible to send messages 5 miles or more across the city via #LoRa nodes in high places. If you work in a tall building, get in touch!

For beginners, we're running our Meshtastic 101 class on Sunday, 7/30 at 1 p.m.:
iffybooks.net/event/meshtastic…

Our next two virtual Meshtastic meetups are Thursday, 7/27 and Thursday, 8/3 from 7 to 9 p.m.:
iffybooks.net/event/virtual-me…
iffybooks.net/event/virtual-me…

My #LoRa driver for the #PineDio USB adapter (and also the #Pinephone backplate) from @PINE64 is now available in #AUR thanks to a contribution from hamblingreen !

Link to AUR : aur.archlinux.org/packages/pin…

What a great timing! I've just finished a demo of a basic #LoRa chat app between my Pinephone an my computer (using the USB adapter)!

See this video : video.codingfield.com/videos/w…

I'll clean and publish the code soon™️

The seventy-fourth edition of my weekly collection of news about #LinuxPhones (@PINE64 #PinePhone, #PinePhonePro, @purism #Librem5 and such), #LinBits, is out!

linmob.net/linbits-73-weekly-l…

This week in Linux Phones: #libhandy 1.5.0, #Fluffychat 1.0, #NemoMobile running on two more devices, #postmarketOS adds support for another Snapdragon 845-based phone, #LoRa backplate fun and more!

You all love the @PINE64 #Pinephone, right?

You also like #LoRa, right?

If so, you'll love this : LoRa on the Pinephone!

YES, thanks to the LoRa backplate, you can send and receive LoRa messages on the Pinephone!

codingfield.com/blog/2021-11/a…

CC: @lupyuen

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