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    • Scrappy Doo
    • Poochie (on The Simpsons but he was a parody)
    • Pretty much any child character added halfway through the show’s run

    Edit: The character of Jenny on Unhappily Ever After. She was played by Stephanie Hodge, and she was supposed to be the star of the show. Everyone hated her character, and she eventually got written off, came back as a ghost, and then abruptly left again.

    The series was initially written as a starring vehicle for Hodge, whose character Jennifer was the focus of the first few episodes. However, the series soon turned its focus to Jack Malloy, a schizophrenic, alcoholic, and lazy husband who was kicked out of the house in the pilot episode. … By the show’s third season, Tiffany Malloy had become the breakout character, and Cox became the de facto co-star of the show along with Pierson.

    In the fourth season, producers decided to kill off Jennifer’s character, but returned her as a ghost. After continuing to torment her family as a poltergeist known as “Dead Mom”, the Malloys realize that the show doesn’t work without Jennifer as their common enemy. Jennifer is then brought back to life after a metafictional sequence, commonly used in the show, in which a network executive enters the house and explains to the characters that, due to the jokes no longer being funny, “Dead Mom” is no longer dead. Jennifer then returns and is overjoyed to be restored to life, until she sees the gigantic mess the family left for her to clean up. Jennifer throws a massive temper tantrum and vows to take terrible revenge. Nevertheless, Hodge decided to leave the show anyway, and several episodes after Jennifer’s “resurrection”, she eloped with a lesbian lover and was never seen again.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhappily_Ever_After












  • i should clarify a generic radio repeater that inst meshtastic but is able to repeat LORA signal

    Well, the numbers I gave would be the same since those Meshtastic “modes” are just profiles for different LoRa settings, and the same LoRa Settings + frequency slot still applies (Meshtastic just runs on top of that).

    I think what you’re looking for is a dumb signal repeater, but I’m not super knowledgeable of the pros/cons/legality of those for the entire 915 MHz band. You’d be repeating anything in that frequency range, not just LoRa. And those also repeat noise the same as signal. Basically, it could end up making things worse in the long run by introducing noise.

    Probably best to just coordinate with or start a community mesh group and settle on a specific frequency and LoRa settings.


  • AFAIK, the only way to truly turn them off is to remove the battery or cut the positive lead and splice in a switch. Only drawback is the switch has to be on for it to be able to charge, so that’s a bit awkward. The “soft off” when you hold the power button is just deep sleep.

    Mine frequently wake up from deep sleep but not after 5 minutes. More like 3-4 days. Which makes keeping a few always charged difficult.

    Edit: I just checked the Power settings in the app (they’ve changed it a bit since I set mine up). The longest it can deep sleep is 72 hours it seems. Maybe yours is set to 5 minutes?


  • I don’t think what you’re trying to do is very practical.

    For US 915, there are between 52 (SHORT_TURBO) and 208 (LONG_SLOW) frequency slots. Each node has to use the same LoRA parameters (called mode presets in Meshtastic) as well as the same frequency slot in order to communicate (or relay).

    LoRa signals are low bandwidth (125, 250, or 500 kHz) so there are a lot of frequency slots. In addition to having one radio for each frequency slot, you would also have to have one for each LoRA parameter preset in that frequency slot. Nodes can only operate in one mode and frequency at a time.

    So to cover all cases, you’d need:

    • 52 nodes operating in SHORT_TURBO mode
    • 104 nodes operating in SHORT_FAST
    • 104 nodes operating in SHORT_SLOW
    • 104 nodes in MEDIUM_FAST
    • 104 in MEDIUM_SLOW
    • 104 in LONG_FAST mode
    • 208 in LONG_MODERATE mode
    • Plus another 208 in LONG_SLOW mode

    Source for those counts

    That’s a total of 988 nodes to cover all, and that’s not even getting into the fact that they’d be talking over each other.

    Basically, if you want to be a generic repeater (note the docs clearly state to not run repeater mode willy-nilly), it’s best to stick with LONG_FAST, set your custom channels as primary (if you even want to have custom channels, that is), and create a LongFast secondary channel with the default dummy encryption key. Then manually set your radio frequency to the one used by the default LONG_FAST setting (908.875 MHz).

    That’s basically what I do and lets me have my own private channels while also relaying for and being able to make contact with anyone else using the default config.


    Edit: Coordination of local frequencies, etc is usually done by forming a Meshtastic community group. Then you could just join (or start) that group and use a standardized frequency and LoRa parameters.