#PinePhone can now be purchased year round, wireless charging and #LoRa cases coming in June, keyboard case coming this summer
@lupyuen great news. No idea what I'll use Lora for practically but I'm curious to play on it.
@ramob
I'm really curious about the #Pinephone #LoRa case, too. Personally I would *love* to see a #FOSS #privacy friendly alternative to #Tile / #Trackr. I mean, LoRa would have a much better range than Bluetooth, better security I suspect and meanwhile Tile and Trackr have become privacy nightmares demanding always on location tracking and having your phone be used by their network even when you're not using their app.
A LoRa beacon+speaker could be *so* much better!
@lupyuen
@federico3
I can't recall the exact spec/bandwidth right now but yes, I do remember it being really low. Still, it'll be interesting to see what folks do with this iteration of it and what happens in future editions. Even if an element just turns into IRC bridges to Lora haha
@Blort @lupyuen
@ramob
@Blort @lupyuen
according to this, IRC or pure-text IM will be unusable in any city due to time sharing with other users:
https://lora.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#data-rates
@federico3
Am I reading this right for LoRa restrictions?:
"
If you use The Things Network (free public community LoRaWAN network), the following fair use policy applies:
The uplink airtime is limited to 30 seconds per day (24 hours) per node.
The downlink messages are limited to 10 messages per day (24 hours) per node.
"
It makes sense there's be restrictions but this seems excessive. (Could be I'm just not fully sped up on the full limitations)
@Blort @lupyuen
@federico3
I was tracking the low bandwidth but I hadn't read the time limitations @Blort @lupyuen
@ramob @Blort @lupyuen
You are reading it right. LoRa and LoRaWAN are designed for very small amounts of data, e.g. a thermometer sending a reading every 30 mins. I think there's a bit of overselling and hype going on.