see https://github.com/gmag11/painlessMesh
this is mesh technology for esp8266 family of wifi microcontrollers is the a node available to be part of this mesh technology.
i am running a raspberry pi zero as a master which has a node red running on it . this then collects data and shows it on a dashboard . i am using mqtt nodes to handle this now. but this creates a dependency with router and rssi value is bad for distant client modules .So i am planning to move my esp8266 client's to mesh technology which makes them router independent.
a solution is to use esp32 or esp8266 to receive and pass data by uart to raspberry pi , but is there a clean solution.
I have not met this before, but it appears to be dedicated to ESP hardware, it seems it will only run on those devices.
Are you sure it is reliable? I see it has not been updated for two years, and there are a number of unaddressed issues at Issues · painlessMesh / painlessMesh · GitLab
I think you have already stated the best solution.
A device is either part of a mesh, which the device running Node-Red most likely wouldn't be... Or the closest one acts as a go-between to the device running Node-Red.
And as a mesh is generally meant as the communications backbone, the data itself would possibly be best using MQTT across the whole mesh anyhow.
Perhaps like this? (just from a quick Google... and it looks rather old, but again, just the first one that popped up)
Here is a more current one...
Agree that the UART to Pi connection shouldn't be needed. Especially if you have a 1 or 2 ESP32's in the mix somewhere. They should be more than enough to act as MQTT hubs for the other devices.
Also noting that ESP devices already have a mesh network defined by Espressif so you might not need PainlessMesh.
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