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for being a member of the community. The video you're about to watch was recorded last month and it's about this sense a cap T one thousand, this guy right here, which is a meshtastic note. Long story short. I really like this thing, but after using it for about a month, maybe six weeks or something like that, the only problem with it is the charging. Sometimes you can't get the thing to charge. Okay, this is I mean, this is
a great piece of kit. It really is. When I'm at hamfests and whatnot, I keep this attached to my belt loop or my belt or maybe my backpack or something like that. And this thing has excellent range. You might be surprised by the type of range it has. The way to charge it is with this waterproof portback here. The way the charge is with this magnetic connection right here, and this cable that's a proprietary cable, so it's proprietary,
so I already don't like it that much anyway. But sometimes when you connect that, it just simply will not charge. If you look right now, you might be able to see this flashing very faintly in the video. When you connect this and it actually takes a charge, this light will become bright and flash slower, and you'll hear a tone come across the thing as well. But oftentimes you can't get the thing to charge because for whatever reason, it just doesn't. It just doesn't act like it's connected.
That's the only thing. Now I have found a way a way around that that I have found so far. I have a a high powered USB charging brick on my dresser in my bedroom at home. It plugs directly into the wall and it has five USB three point zero high powered charging port. It's not as high, not as high powered as USBC obviously, but high as high as you can get on USBA. And when I plug
this into that, it seems to charge. Okay, I haven't had any trouble with it charging there, but I took this to orlandohem Cation in February and I was charging it trying to charge it via charging brick or battery box, and sometimes I got it work to work, and sometimes I didn't. And when I asked somebody from this is made by Seed Studios. I'll put a link to it in the description below. You can get them on Amazon
as well. And when I asked Seed Studios about why they made this proprietary connector, they said they wanted it to be waterproof. Okay, okay, I can get that, but with this something like this, you're going to be carrying this in your pocket. So unless you're planning on going swimming with this device, I don't really see the need
for it to be waterproof. If this was an external device you're gonna put on the outside of your house, your car, they're sure, okay, good, But with this thing and the battery will last for about two days, but it's really frustrating the field when you're using it, having good luck with it, go to charging it at night, you plug it in, it won't take a charge. The battery eventually dies on you because you can't get it to charge after connecting it to two charge two or
three different chargers using two or three different cables. So that's my only complaint about it. Watch this video, this video that I recorded last month, and overall, if you can get this thing to charge, this is a fantastic unit. And I traded some emails with Seed Studios and I told them this is my problem with it, and they're like, well, let us know of what you think, like, use it in the field, let us know what you think about it. And I said, the charging is the only problem. And
I said I'm gonna put that in the video. And they're like, okay, cool, yeah, fine, we'll we'll take that to heart when we get more information on it. So, and this has been reported to them already. I'm not the first one to tell them this. So you guys, check this videout. Let me know what you think of the comments below. This is the smallest, most compact mesh Tastic device that I have ever seen on the market.
It is made by Seed Corporation Seed. It's just a perfect compact solution for Meshtastic to keep on your person when you're out and about, maybe at a show, maybe at a festival, maybe at a group gathering of some sort. We're gonna look at it right now. I picked this up at mesh Con at the Spec five mesh Con event that happened uh October of twenty twenty four, and I've tinkered with it a little bit. It's not a great device for long range because it's because that's that's
how big it is right there. It's it's literally the size of a credit card. It's a little bit thicker this direction than a credit card, but it's literally the size of a credit card. That's it. Right there. There's another. I've actually got two of them, and it's got an internal battery. The internal battery will last about two days. And on this one I put a little I actually
made this carabineer paracord rope thing. I don't know what you call these, but I bought one of these on Amazon one time and I looked at how it was wound, and I'm like, dude, I could I could totally do that. I could make that myself. So I made that and I put that on there with a little key ring on it. But let me show you what it looks like and what the size compares to and get the mestastic app out. We're gonna hook it all up and see what you're doing. Again. This is probably something that
if you're gonna go to Hamvenchion or Orlando. Orlando's coming up soon. If you're gonna go to a place like that, or even like some sort of outdoor gathering with lots of people, maybe a camp out or whatever, and you want to keep a meshtastic device SLA like actually on your belt or something, this is gonna be great for that. It's not gonna it doesn't have an external intenta port. Switch over to the overhead here and show you there's
no external intenta port. There's no there's nothing on it except for it's got a button right here to turn it on. It's got a small speaker right there. And then the charging port is this magnetic connection on the back here. It comes with this proprietary cable, so it's not USBC or anything like that. It is a proprietary magnetic cable. This right here. There's magnets right there on either side, so you like that and then plug it into USBA and that's how you charge it. It doesn't take
long to charge at all. This battery right here in the back you can see, is the battery that's internal to it. This white part right here. I told you guys, I turned fifty last year. Right, So this right here says it's this is a model T one thousand Echo. They call it a Sense of Cap T one thousand from Seed Studios made in China, s E eed S Triple Ed Seed Studio. I'll show you the website here in a second. Sells for about forty bucks. And I can't really see because there's printing on the case over
the top of it here. I can't really see what the size of the battery is. It does say it looks like it says three point seven volt right there, but I can't see the milliamp our size of the battery. Perhaps it says on the website here, which we can take a look at that real quick. This is the website for it. Like I said thirty nine nine, I couldn't find anyone in the USA that sold these. I checked my normal meshtastic providers and they didn't carry this
specific model. But right now it says good news by two of the T one thousand Echo units and get two snap hooks for freeze, a special they're running right now. Okay, gives you a little diagram shows that there there's a guy right there with it hooked to the zipper on his hoodie. That's a good idea there. I did see somebody at the last belt in ham Expo we were at. There was a guy there that had this clip to his belt and he was just walking around with it.
He's like, it's really easy to use, and it's non intrusive. It doesn't take up a lot of room. You don't have to worry about an antenna poking. I've had meshtastic devices on my belt and there's an intenna on it, and you know, sometimes you lean over, or you try to pick up something, or you just turning around, or you get into the car and you forget it's there, and either the entire unit kind of pops off your belt or the antenna gets bent and snapped. I have
a really bad habit of bending antennas. So you don't have to worry about this. Uh. With that, there's nothing there at all. That's all there is to it. The antenna is internal. So let's check this out and see what it looks like with the meshtastic app. So if you can see this or not right now, I don't know if you can see this in the camera. This one is flashing right now, which means it's powered on and this one is not. So we're gonna go with this one right here, because that's the one. I've got
my care beaner clip on, all right. So to power it on you, to power it off in on you, you long press this button right here, all right. So hopefully you heard that it did a little beep tone and then now it's powered off because there's no flashing on the LED indicator right there, So we're gonna power it on there. It is took about three seconds, maybe four. You saw the LED pop on there, and now it's flashing white. It turns green for half a second when
it powers on, and now it's flashing white. So now we're going to come in here to the Mestastic app right here, and I'm going to go here and I'm going to add a device Mestastic fe F six. I don't know what that GOV thing is. I'm going to I'm going to assume that this is an FVF six. Doesn't really say I'll tell you what. Here's how we test it. Let's turn it off. It might say in the box, but I don't have the box for this specific unit anymore. Yeah, okay, went away, But I wonder
what that is. I don't even know what that is. So the only thing that comes in the box is the card itself in the charging cable. There's nothing else in the box. This is the box, right This is the box to the second one right here. This this, this box goes to this one. I don't have the box for this one anymore. But there's nothing like right here. Yeah, there's no indication of what it's actually called. There's an FCCID input is five volts at zero dot three six amps.
Nothing really else about what the mesh tastic is named. So we're going to assume that this FVF six is the one here, and the pairing pin code is one two three four five six. I know that because I watched the seed video instructions on this device. And here we go right there. Now we're connected. Okay, it's gonna want you to set your region first. United States is where I'm sitting, okay, And then I can and now we've got the arrow right there which says we're connected.
All good there, and then I can go here and see I just beeped at me. I'm not sure why this one right here, this random O one WT forty seven is something I picked up the other day. It's not something that's there now hops away as question mark. But this right here, this FEF six is this little guy right here. So you just basically carry this thing around on your belt. I can rename it if I
want to. Probably do that here in a minute. Carry this thing around on your belt, like I said, when you're at an event or a festival or something like that, and then if there's anyone else that has a meshtastic device set up on the premises there with like on a pole or a tower or something, then it'll be easy to do this, or it'll be easy to connect because you always have your smartphone with you anyway, so you can get your smartphone out and say, oh, there's
somebody on mestastic right there. So I'm gonna test this at winter field Day, which is upcoming soon. We're gonna set up some Mestastic nodes at winter field Day at the end of January twenty twenty five, and I'm gonna carry this around on me and see what kind of activity we can see during that event. Should be about eight or ten of us there, maybe some guests come along during the day and you know, it's gonna be
a fun event either way. But this is definitely a very cool device, like I said, because more than and quite frankly, the thing that I liked about it the best is that it doesn't have an external antenna. Okay, if you need something with an external antenna or with a better range on it, then there's certainly devices like that available out there. Okay, but if you want something that's just easy, you can literally put this in your wallet or your pocket. You're not gonna mess it up.
You're not gonna damage it. You might end up if you sit on it or something. You put it in your back pocket and you sit on it, you might end up pressing that button powering it down, but it's not going to be I wouldn't suggest sitting on it really, that case is pretty tough, but you never know. I mean, you know, you could. You could use some of you Ham Radio guys that ordered triple and quadruple xl T shirts on my website. You guys, yeah, be careful with that.
So but hey, I've broken stuff by sitting on it in my pocket many many times. But this is a neat device. I'm looking forward to using it actually in the Field. Thank you to Seed Studios for sending this to me, and I'll put a link to the website to the to the device on their website in the description below. You guys can go check that out. If
you have any questions or comments, let me know. Let me know what the other I've got two or three other meshtastic devices that I want to do videos on, or that I that I have in my possession to do videos on. Let me know what mesh tastic devices you guys want to see, what kind of setup you want to see on this channel and we'll talk soon. Seventy three