#meshcore
It turns out that if you place the Seeed SenseCAP Solar P1 Node strategically, it can withstand the harsh Dutch winters.
https://meshcore.jorijn.com/year.html
In mid-January, we experienced two or three weeks of no sun, only snow and rain. The charge dropped to 65%, but a few hours of sun brought it back to over 90%.
It hasn't fallen below 85% since then. What a neat little device.
Here's something I've been working on recently:
A monitoring system for MeshCore that gathers metrics from your repeater and companion nodes, stores them in a SQLite database, and creates a static site with interactive charts. It offers views for day, week, month, and year of battery and radio statistics. The system can be deployed via Docker or using native Python scripts.
Live demo: https://meshcore.jorijn.com
Source: https://github.com/jorijn/meshcore-stats
Remember me saying I was staring down the #meshcore / #meshtastic rabbit hole?
I set up a MeshCore repeater node with a small solar panel on our roof. My inner nerd craved stats, so I built a thing to extract them. Very fun and educational.