# archy-messh

Research + firmware project exploring a single LoRa device that can speak,
relay, and repeat between three independent mesh networking protocols:

- **Meshtastic**
- **MeshCore**
- **Reticulum** (via RNode-style modem firmware)

Goal: one ESP32-based device that acts as a tri-protocol repeater/bridge —
not a fork of any single project, and not affiliated with or dependent on
the `archy` (Archipelago) codebase. This repo is intentionally standalone.

## Status

Architecture phase done — see `docs/ARCHITECTURE.md` for the protocol
research, hardware constraints (target: Heltec WiFi LoRa 32 V3), and
phased plan. **Phase 0** (host-side bridge across 3 separate stock-firmware
boards) is written — see `host-bridge/` — but not yet hardware-tested; no
LoRa boards have been attached to the dev machine this was written on.

## Layout

- `docs/` — protocol research notes and architecture/design docs
- `host-bridge/` — Phase 0: Python bridge relaying text between real
  Meshtastic/MeshCore/RNode-Reticulum boards over each project's official
  client protocol
- `firmware/` — Phase 1+ embedded firmware (once Phase 0 is validated on hardware)
- `hardware/` — reference hardware notes / board selection

## Non-goals (for now)

- Not reimplementing any of the three protocols from scratch in v1
- Not targeting non-ESP32 hardware initially
- Not touching/depending on the `archy` (Archipelago) repo in any way