[Feature request] Community Profiles

[dasistdaniel]

Hi,

I recently started using MeshCore with a Companion and a Repeater, not realizing there was already an active community nearby. As a result, I initially used the default repeater settings, which turned out to be less than ideal for the local network.

Would it be possible to add Community Profiles to either the flashing process or the Companion app? This would allow communities to provide optimized configuration profiles for their networks, including settings such as scopes, making it much easier for new users to join with the correct configuration from the start.

This reduce configuration mistakes, and make onboarding much easier for new users joining existing MeshCore communities.

Greetings Daniel

[benaltair]

I found the presets confusing as well, as many regions are moving away from the base continental presets due to congestion and conflicts with other types of mesh networks. For instance here it's the power utility that causes congestion.

I wonder if even helper text stating that it's worth researching your area for mesh settings if they won't be included directly could be helpful for newbies. Or consulting the repeater map to see frequencies. That's how I eventually connected to the mesh in my area.

[thaforze]

For the larger Meshcore communities it would be great if the Meshcore app could assist not only with the radio settings but only with the regional scopes. As it stands many repeaters are starting to filter out unscoped messages. Also larger communities need the option to get everybody on a 2byte or more path length.

[benaltair]

Including present length and regions in a profile could be helpful.