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 I'm halfway there. and solar & batteries are thee shiiiit.   
 Running everything off grid.  Even running graphene OS on the cell. 

Would like to get the fellow coiners here on a mesh network. Been thinking about setting up some sort of mesh coms. What have you had success with?  
 There are much better mesh networks to setup but the simplest to get started with is two meshtastic devices and start having a play. 

The HeltecV3 boards (ESP32 with LoRa) is easiest to get started. 
The board is like ~$25 from many vendors. 
Can connect to MQTT server and get your messages broadcasted on public internet if you want
- I still need to do this. Trying to hone this in for the best privacy-focused setup I can have (MQTT isn't very private since the trade off is pushing data out to clearnet).