Room servers are simple BBS systems (bulletin board servers). They are used to store messages that can be retrieved by users at a later time.

These are the additional settings to the above-mentioned “General Settings,” which we recommend all Room Servers use.

Admin password

It is recommended that you change the default password “password” to a secure personal password to prevent third parties from making changes to the repeater.

Gast password

The default guest password is “hello” and can be left as is. If this is not desired, set a password that can be shared. 

Advert-Intervall

With the following two settings, repeaters can automatically make themselves known.

Zero-Hop-Advert

0 – Disable, as this is only a local advertisement that is essentially unnecessary. The Flood Advert setting below also covers zero-hop advertisements.

Flood-Advert

48 – Set this value to 48 hours to avoid unnecessary traffic. Companion nodes do not need to know about repeaters in order to use them, so it is not really important that repeaters send many adverts.

RX delay

0.0 – This is currently the best setting recommended by the MeshCore community.

TX delay

0.5 – This is currently the best setting recommended by the MeshCore community.

Enable Repeater

Room servers can also act as repeaters. However, they do not have the full range of functions that normal repeaters have. This setting is disabled by default.

Time

It is very important for MeshCore that the repeaters are set to the correct time, as otherwise problems with the adverts may occur. The easiest way is to use “remote management” via the Android or iOS app with a companion node. For RAK-based repeater nodes, it is recommended to add the RTC module.

Map

For repeaters, it is strongly recommended to add them to the official MeshCore map. This can be done directly via the MeshCore Android or iOS app.