Got a new mesh Tastic device, a couple of them, the Think node M one and M two. These come from Ella crow. Elli crow was gracious and kind enough to send those to me, and we're going to talk about those and how they compare it to a few other nodes today. So this is the This one's kind of cool because you can adjust the screen brightness with
the power knob. Turn this power knob on and off here, and if you turn it up there, the screen gets brighter and brighter and brighter to there, and you turn it all the way to the left like that, and it goes back to the screen that you can see easily in the sun. And then you've turned it one click to the left, it'll power off the device. Kind of a neat thing there. This one here is smaller
and a little bit less capable in my opinion. I'm going to send some messages back and forth today between my sense of cap T one thousand to these two and just kind of show you what meshtastic looks like. You've probably seen that before, but in case you've never heard of these think nodes, these are fairly new. The Think one M two is the smaller guy right here, This one does not have removable antenna, is a fixed antenna smaller. It's got a black screen with blue text
on it, which I kind of prefer. I like it a little bit better. According to the website here, it's got a ESP thirty two S three chip in it. Powered by an ESP thirty two S three chip you can see right here. It sells for forty three to ninety on the Lacrow website. I'm gonna share a link to this in the description blow once again, these were sent to me by Ella Crow, so I appreciate them reaching out. They've got a lot of different things on this website over here. Mestastic Laura when a bunch of
other stuff besides just meshtastic. So check out the website. In the description blow. The cool thing about this M one Now, the M one is larger, more powerful, and has a few more functions. I would have called the M two the larger one. So the M one is the larger and better one. The M two is the smaller and less capable one. Nothing wrong with the M two, It's just it's got the ESP thirty two chip on it. But the M one here has the NRF chip on it,
right here this new NRF fifty two eight forty. But the cool thing about this chip is I have a couple of other nodes from other brands with this chip, and the battery on this chip lasts two to three times as long as any of the ESP thirty two chips here. So it's anohing wrong with the ESP thirty two chip has been around for a long time. Most of your helltechs have it ESP thirty two chip in them. A lot of your older Spec fives and seed studios stuff have ESP thirty two chips in it. A lot
of ESP thirty two chips out there. But this NRF chip is a little bit newer, and the battery life on it is much much longer than what the old ESP thirty two chip is. So I've, you know, just something that's different between these two nodes. This one also has a GPS function. Now, if we go over here, go back over here to the overhead. You can see right here the scroll buttons up and down right here on the unit are for scrolling through what you see
on the screen. Turn the screen up right there, and then once you see the screen, you can see the nodes that have been meshed on the screen there. You can page through them here and send messages that way, or you can read messages. You'd have to send messages with the app. Still, this is a toggle switch off and on right here where you can turn the GPS off and on, so you have the option for GPS and you don't have to use it all the time,
which I thought was a cool feature. I thought that was a cool feature that you didn't have to use the GPS one hundred percent of the time. If you ever wanted to go in and turn the GPS off for whatever reason not use it at all, you could totally do that. So let's connect to mesh tastic and see what it looks like on the screen. There's been a lot of updates lately to the latest version of the Android app. I don't have an iPhone, so I
can't tell you about the iPhone app. But traditionally speaking, the iPhone app has had more than the Android app as far as meshtastic goes. I think the developers just work on it more, or maybe it's been around longer and there's more features on the iPhone app than the Android app traditionally, but this Android app certainly has a lot of features on it today, and they've definitely been working on it and developing it more so I've been
very pleased to see that lately. All right here on the screen for the Android app for Meshtastic, we see, okay, that's the long fast room. So I'm going to go back over here to nodes. Okay, a MYKC five HWB pocket, the one at the top here. This is the node that I still carry with me on a daily basis.
This is my T one thousand sens acap node testing a couple other nodes that might end up replacing that one, because that is a fantastic node for receiving, but transmitting is a little bit lack because of the small antenna in it, but it does have an excellent receiver. But you see those the think node M two and M one there at the top of the screen. And then this is some other stuff I've seen over the last few days since I've reset my node database, which I
guess I need to do again. Right there, so I'm going to put let's see, I'm going to go to conversations and we're just going to do long fast here, and I'm going to say, okay, test from pocket right there, I'm gonna send that. And now we've got these beeping at us right here. Both of these are beeping at us right here, so I don't know if you can hear that in the microphone or not. They've got the long notification string on them, which you can go into
the app and change that. I can connect the app here to either one of these nodes, and I can change the notification to only notify for one second. I think the fault is like thirty seconds. I have no idea why they default to a thirty second notification per message. If you're in a high density environment with mestastic and you're you're having a lot of people send messages at
one time, then that gets really annoying really fast. But you can see test from pocket on the screen of both of those right there, and okay, stop that one. And these don't have keyboards on them, and unfortunately I can't reply from the node. I can see the message, and then I can open up my Connected Advice my iPhone or Android, whichever it might be, and then we can go in there and reply to it that way. But at least you can read the message on the screen.
So if a conversation is going on and someone's talking, and it's like, hey, they're talking to somebody else. They're not really talking to me. I heard the notification sound. I looked up. I was like, oh, there's two other guys talking. I'm not part of this conversation. I don't have to grab my phone and get it out and look around for, you know, to try to reply to it.
So but one of the things I really like about this one again, it's the last thing I'll say about this one here, is that this antenna is I said early on this antenna was that this is the Pocket M two. Again. I think they're named backwards. I think the M two should be the bigger one because it's the higher number. I mean, that's just my opinion. I just think that's a little bit strange. But this is the M one and this is the M two right here. So the M two has got this fixed antenna right here.
It does not move at all. Power button right there, paging through the menus button right there. I can go and hit that and it toggles through the screen right there, just like that shows me my battery case five HMBBF two fifty. That's the note in my truck. It saw that a few days ago. It says unknown age pocket was two minutes ago. It's less than that. Actually, M one, which is this guy? This is the i'd see. I'm getting confused. I want to call this one the M two,
but it's not. It's the M one. The one is the bigger and more robust one with more features. And then long fast is the last message the room and the last message heard. And then the last screen shows the battery voltage, the time, and a few other pieces of information. There that's the M two device right there. It says M two on the bottom there. This is the M one and it has a removable antenna. So this is great because you can attach an external antenna
to it and get a little bit better. You can put a longer antenna, moor a high gain rubber duck antenna on it. You can attach an external antenna to it and put a magmount on your vehicle. Today's video is not officially sponsored. However, it's unofficially sponsored by my Amazon store, which I have a list of mestastic devices on. I put the N one node on this list from Amazon, and even though it has a twenty percent off coupon right now, it's still about thirty dollars higher than the
Lacrow website. Okay, it's seventy nine here on Amazon, and it's about fifty three here well about yeah, about twenty five dollars fifty three here on their website, So go to their website. I'll share that in description Blow. But on my Amazon store, I do have a lot of things, including this antenna right here. This is the external intenda that I have on my truck right now. It's a
magmunt antenna for nine hundred and fifteen megahertz. Laura works perfectly, has an essumate connector on it, so check that out. That will be in the description Blow as well. But having a removable antenna like this gives you a little
bit more versatile options for nodes. You could hang this in the truck and run an antenna outside, or you could put a larger antenna on it and set it on you know, like an outside table at a campsite or even in your backyard something like that and get a little bit better range out of it, simply because it does have a removable antenna. So does anyone use these as Have you guys ever seen these nodes before? Is anyone using the M one or M two from
Ella Crow think node. I'd like to know what you think about these in the description blow what kind of applications do you use them for? And this little one with the non removable antenna, this M two, I can't imagine myself using that. I just this would be a good one. To leave it home or something like that. You wouldn't want to put that in a bag or
a pocket because I'm afraid this would get broken. Okay, So you could use this as like a secondary node, because all these nodes are meshing together, right, So you could use this as a secondary node. You got a node on the outside of your house. Cool, You could put this one in your kitchen or in your office or in your bedroom and have it just meshed out there and kind of repeating signals and just turn it on client mute mode and have it as part of
the network. And then this guy right here, you could easily run in a vehicle or with a larger antenna at a campsite or outside in your backyard or somewhere remotely and have the range extended on it, because not only does it have a longer battery life, but it has an SMA connector with a removable antenna that you can add something longer too, so a couple different versatility options there from ellacrow Think Nodes, I'd like to know what you guys think in the description blow check out
the links to everything we talked about today, and we'll catch you next time.