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Using Blackout Comms

Secure, Easy to Use, Expandable

  • Blackout Comms is easy to use, even by those unfamiliar mesh technology

  • Most devices are touchscreen and work similar to a texting app

  • Security is built-in and automatic (message signatures & encryption)

  • New devices can be flashed and added to your private cluster in minutes

  • To alert you, your device will vibrate, flash, and/or beep, depending on your hardware. The Heltec v4 will flash screen. Our custom T-Deck will vibrate or beep, other T-Decks will flash screen or beep. The Lilygo Pager will vibrate and flash screen.

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Message Delivery

  • Direct messages & broadcasts

  • DMs to in-range devices are sent and confirmed instantly, while out-of-range /powered off deliveries are routed via mesh

  • Signed delivery confirmations for DMs, cluster-accepted confirmation for broadcasts

  • Payloads are always encrypted and signed

  • Unpredictable frequency hopping for higher security and jam-resistance, DMs “striped” across multiple frequencies

  • Learn more

  • How far can Blackout Comms deliver?

Mesh Capabilities

  • Decentralized “mesh cache” securely stores and delivers packets until expired

  • DMs can be held/delivered by the cluster for up to 24 hours, broadcasts up to 2 hours

  • Asymmetric encryption ensures nodes/devices assisting in deliver cannot decrypt DMs

  • Cluster-wide connectivity, device presence, and location updates regularly as knowledge propagates throughout the cluster 24/7

  • Learn more

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Adaptive Device Awareness

  • Auto-propagating knowledge of devices and capabilities as they’re added to the cluster

  • Chain of trust allows devices to automatically trust & recognize new devices

  • Cluster-wide connectivity sharing enables smart path planning, even for devices that have never been within direct LoRa range

  • Last known and/or current locations and headings for all devices (with sharing enabled) are securely propagated cluster-wide

Live "Neighbors" View

  • View all trusted devices currently within LoRa range

  • Touch GPS icon to see relative location of nearby devices (if location sharing enabled)

  • RSSI helps you position nodes and antennas

  • Messages to neighbors are likely to be instantly sent and confirmed as meshing is likely unnecessary

  • Touch the antenna on the home screen (not the neighbors screen) to view live pings

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Location Sharing

  • All locations are encrypted during transmission and at rest

  • Live location data is shared directly to in-range devices, via mesh to out-of-range devices

  • If a device is powered off or out-of-range, the last known location is shown

  • Although no compass is integrated, a line will show your heading while moving

  • Learn more

Remote Commands / Sensors

  • Remotely view query any enabled device for its in-range neighbors, battery level, uptime

  • Remotely enable/disable GPS, DST, and adjust time zone for any enabled device

  • Proximity nodes accept commands related to enabling/disabling motion notification, querying last motion, and more

  • Experimental relay nodes enable remotely opening and closing circuits (switching on/off)

  • Remotely wipe/factory reset any device (only root can do this)

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Highly Configurable

  • Adjustable device and security settings

  • Cluster configuration options (when you create a new cluster) include name, center frequency and hopping settings

  • New devices automatically adjust to the cluster’s settings once they are onboarded by the root

  • You assign each communicator a name when you initialize it. That name/alias sticks with the device

  • Nodes are automatically assigned a random name.

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