MeshAnd: see your Meshtastic team live on the OsmAnd map (Android, open source)

[mategogiberidze]

Hi all, I'd like to share a small app I've been building. MeshAnd connects to your own radio over Bluetooth and shows everyone in your mesh on the OsmAnd map, the offline map many of us already navigate with. On a hike or a ride you don't have to switch between a map app and a radio app.

• teammates as coloured points on the OsmAnd map, updated live
• a team list inside OsmAnd, nearest first, with navigation to each person
• trails, shared map pins (sent as a short meshand: lat,lon text, so everyone else can read them in the Meshtastic app), and "teammate not heard" alerts
• a GPS check that flags radios re-sending an old position
• coming next, now in field testing: chat, using the phone's GPS for a radio whose GPS is stuck, and a battery/airtime card for your radio

It's built on the official Meshtastic Kotlin SDK, so thanks to everyone working on it. MeshAnd only transmits what you choose to send, and never changes your radio's settings. It's Android-only, because only OsmAnd for Android lets other apps draw on its map.

While setting up our radios we checked the position defaults against the firmware source: 60 min broadcasts, the default-channel limits, and which roles break live tracking. The notes are here: https://meshand.app/docs/radio-setup/. Corrections are welcome.

Free and GPL-3.0: https://github.com/mategogiberidze/MeshAnd. It's an independent hobby project, written with an AI coding assistant and tested on T-Beam Supremes. Feedback, bug reports and tests with other radios would help a lot.