# sudomesh/disaster-radio

A (paused) work-in-progress long-range, low-bandwidth wireless disaster recovery mesh network powered by the sun.

Repository: https://github.com/sudomesh/disaster-radio
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/disaster-radio
Homepage: https://disaster.radio
Language: HTML
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-05-22T14:51:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 83, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3284, "days_push": 103, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1129, forks 123 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:42.045169+00:00)

## What it is
Disaster Radio is a work-in-progress long-range, low-bandwidth wireless mesh network project for disaster recovery, powered by solar energy and built on ESP32 hardware with LoRa radios. It includes firmware, a web-based chat app, hardware schematics, and companion Android and mapping apps, though it is currently paused and seeking a new maintainer.

## Use cases
- communicate off-grid during disasters when cell networks are down
- build a solar-powered LoRa mesh network for emergency messaging
- set up long-range low-bandwidth chat between ESP32 devices
- experiment with LoRa mesh networking firmware
- deploy community-owned emergency communication infrastructure

## When to avoid
- you need a production-ready, actively maintained project
- you need high-bandwidth data transfer rather than short text messages
- you require commercial support or a permissive license (no license is specified)

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: networking, p2p, chatbot, embedded
- domain: networking, embedded-systems, censorship-circumvention, self-hosted
- platform: embedded, iot, cross-platform
- tags: lora, mesh-network, disaster-recovery, solar-powered, esp32, firmware, offline-communication

## Member repositories
- sudomesh/disaster-radio (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:42.045169+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:38:27.703938+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sudomesh/disaster-radio (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:42.045169+00:00, sha 9a596a9b5dc9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.