ChatterBox: Your Private Off-Grid Comms

Don’t immediately lose contact with everyone in your area if the grid goes down. Have a backup in place. Get your own secure off-grid cluster up and running now!

  • Not dependent on infrastructure or centralized services (cell/internet/grid)

  • Local messaging, broadcasts, & location sharing with trusted people

  • Mesh algorithms forward messages along a smart path utilizing all devices

  • Out-of-range / powered-off devices can receive messages up to 24 hours later

  • Encrypted and digitally signed

  • Uses LoRa license-free frequency range

  • Digitally signed delivery confirmations when a message is received

How ChatterBox Delivers

Even to Powered Off Devices

Broadcast: Message blasts securely across your cluster

Direct: Instant via RF (LoRa)

Mesh: Your cluster works together

Communicators

Send & receive messages, track locations, and more

Nodes

Extend range of your cluster or comms channel, store messages, improve cluster resilience

Using ChatterBox

ChatterBox is designed for anyone to be able to just pick up and use, intuitively. You don’t need to understand encryption, RF, or configure a bunch of settings, or have an amateur radio license. You don’t need to have a phone or any app.

How different message types are delivered

View Your Messages

See Other In-Range Devices

Combine communicators and nodes however you need to. You can add more devices at any time.

Communicator

A standard communicator is simply a Lilygo T-Deck Plus running the ChatterBox firmware.

This gives you the ability to send encrypted/signed messages, as well as share/track location of other communicators and nodes in your cluster.

Upgraded Communicator

This is big step up, still based on the T-Deck platform by Lilygo. This gives you the ability to easily customize your antenna, higher capacity battery, dedicated realtime clock, and more.

GPS Node

This mesh node performs all mesh functions and also regularly reports its location to the cluster. This could be useful as a fixed or mobile base station.

Proximity Node

A proximity node has all the features of the GPS node, along with an added mmwave proximity/people sensor.

You can be notified of motion via mesh, optionally add a relay switch (you can control remotely), or have it automatically triggered when motion is detected.

E-Paper Mini Node

Considered a top option for a base station, solar setup, or anything that doesn’t need GPS.

OLED Mini Node

Performs slightly better than the E-Paper node, but there isn’t much to the display. Based on the Lilygo T3S3.

Heltec E290 Node

Newest addition, with a 2.9” E-Paper display. Does not use an SD card (only flash).

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