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Quick setup



Repeaters

Xiao WIO nRF
Specs:
Low power consumption nRF52840 microcontroller and Wio-SX1262, supporting BLE5.0 and LoRa (862-930MHz)
Lora 910MHz antenna is external U.FL and IPEX conector
Bluetooth 2.4GHz antenna is internal
Has an integrated 0.1A lithium ion battery charger
Purchase link:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010599348765.html
Programming:
Use the official repeater firmware at https://meshcore.io/flasher
NOTICE: This nRF board requires a bluetooth OTA bootloader
To be able to update Over The Air update the bootloader

Quick Repeater Commands
Use those commands for your Ottawa repeater
To access the command line use https://meshcore.io/flasher top right console, or connect to the repeater with you companion using admin console in the repeater contact on your companion:
set path.hash.mode 2
set advert.interval 240
set flood.advert.interval 47
set flood.max 16
set loop.detect moderate
region def yow|* on|* onqc|* can|* na
region allowf *
region default yow
region save

Channel between Ottawa and Montréal
#onqc
We started using the meshcore channel #onqc to chat with Montréal through the region wall (Rigaud) in a flood # group channel. the way to do this is to add the channel then, in the channel, click the top right 3 dots, then set region scope.
If the list is empty then you can populate the region list in 3 dots, tools, discover regions then check onqc, OR in settings default region scope, +, add region onqc.
Sending a message with onqc passes through to Montréal, but Montréal has to add the same onqc region scope on the #onqc channel for their reply to pass through the region wall as well and be a 2 way communication.