no problem :)

I am so sorry for the late response, https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DF5Ry0R First, this is an affiliate link, Second I have not tested it, I will actually order it and test it with NRF52, it is worth it now. I will try to find a better board with Ipex support test it and link it on my website

I mean you kinda of looking at from the wrong way, In the company I work for, it was a time saver. A department of engineers in embedded systems can upload some measurements then another department can quicky run some questions to write the findings for a customer. They both don’t know anything about SQL and ti is even faster than the tool we built for them. Since they have to filter through 1TB of data. Yes it needs a lot of optimization to get it perfect.

But I mentioned llama, which is self hosted

https://adrelien.com/what-is-meshtastic-full-guide-on-how-to-get-started/ Here, I also gave some usecases

https://adrelien.com/what-is-meshtastic-full-guide-on-how-to-get-started/

No idea what eli5 means

Maybe I misunderstood you, but how can you use existing ones without carrying a node?

Hope you liked the information.

Hmm, yeah. Well for me I am not an expert guy. I am looking to get license free comm device, I see Meshtastic with text comms and PMR with voice.