ScotMesh RNS Network
Learning resources
From the ScotMesh wiki
Where to learn more about Reticulum and find other people using it, beyond this wiki. Most of these are maintained by the wider Reticulum community; the list of community links is adapted from the Reticulum community wiki (reticulum.miraheze.org/wiki/Learning_Resources_%26_Community), which keeps a longer one.
Start here
reticulum.network
What it is: The official site, by Reticulum's author.
The Reticulum Manual (reticulum.network/manual)
What it is: The authoritative reference: concepts, configuration, every interface type, the utilities. Worth reading end to end once.
The Zen of Reticulum (reticulum.network/zenofreticulum.html)
What it is: The philosophy and goals behind the design, in a page.
Bootstrapping connectivity (reticulum.network/connect.html)
What it is: How to reach the peers you want, from the official site.
Reticulum community wiki (reticulum.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page)
What it is: Community-written guides, hardware notes and a much longer resource list than this one.
rns.recipes
What it is: Community site with a forum (rns.recipes/forum) and a directory of public transport nodes (directory.rns.recipes).
Awesome Reticulum (awesome-reticulum.net)
What it is: A curated list of Reticulum projects and tools.
Explainers and guides
• The Reticulum Network and How it Works (linuxinabit.codeberg.page/blog/reticulum), a written explainer, and the same author's video Reticulum Network: How it Works and Why it's SO GOOD (youtube.com/watch?v=q8ltLt5SK6A).
• Installing RNS and NomadNet on Linux (letsdecentralize.org/tutorials/nomadnet.html), a step-by-step tutorial ending at your first Nomad Network page.
• Reticulum Protocol Textbook (lew-palm.de/reticulum), a longer, more formal treatment of the protocol.
• Own the Internet (nodestar.net/#playbook), a community playbook for building mesh networks, written for the person who wants to start.
• Michael Faragher's Reticulum Primer (reticulum.betweentheborders.com/primer.pdf) (PDF). Written for an older version, so out of date in places, but still a good introduction.
Talks
• Unstoppable Networks for The People (media.ccc.de/v/38c3-reticulum-unstoppable-networks-for-the-people), Mark Qvist's talk at the Chaos Communication Congress, 2024 (YouTube mirror (youtube.com/watch?v=iHLLDnRRYKI)). The best hour-long introduction there is.
• Building Networks with Reticulum (youtube.com/watch?v=bKXHGDpmh24), qbit, 2025.
• How do announces work in Reticulum (youtube.com/watch?v=PFRS_Fqk2Go), 2026, a short one on the mechanism behind paths.
• Understanding Reticulum Sovereign Communication Networks (youtube.com/watch?v=9093D7NA0gI), 2026.
Apps and software
MeshChatX (meshchatx.com)
What it is: All-in-one client: messaging, calls, files, Nomad Network browser, interface editor. Bundles Reticulum.
Runs on: Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
Sideband (github.com/markqvist/Sideband)
What it is: Messaging, telemetry and remote control, by Reticulum's author. Bundles Reticulum.
Runs on: Android, Windows, macOS, Linux
Retichat (apps.apple.com/us/app/retichat/id6762225314), Columba (github.com/torlando-tech/Columba-iOS)
What it is: Messaging clients for iPhone. Newer than the others; we have not used them ourselves yet.
Runs on: iOS
Nomad Network (github.com/markqvist/NomadNet)
What it is: Terminal client: messaging, and browsing and hosting pages inside Reticulum.
Runs on: Anywhere Python runs
Reticulum (github.com/markqvist/Reticulum)
What it is: The stack itself, with the rnsd, rnstatus, rnpath, rnprobe, rncp, rnx and rnodeconf tools.
Runs on: Anywhere Python runs
LXMF (github.com/markqvist/LXMF)
What it is: The messaging layer the clients share, and lxmd, the propagation node daemon.
Runs on: Anywhere Python runs
unsigned.io
What it is: RNode hardware and the RNode firmware, from Reticulum's author.
Choosing a client says which of these we recommend and why.
Where people talk
• On Reticulum itself: the community RRC hub, 28c7c1a68c735693aa8e6b8193ed44b2, and the ScotMesh room on our own hub.
• The rns.recipes forum (rns.recipes/forum), also reachable inside Reticulum at 9ce92808be498e9e05590ff27cbfdfe4.
• The Reticulum Matrix space (matrix.to/#/#rns-space:yatrix.org), with regional rooms.
• r/reticulum (reddit.com/r/reticulum) and the Reticulum Zulip (reticulum.zulipchat.com).
• GitHub discussions (github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions) on the Reticulum repository, where the author answers questions.
Other regional networks
Communities doing what ScotMesh does elsewhere; useful for seeing how others solved the same problems.
• ChicagoLand Mesh (chicagolandmesh.org/guides/reticulum) (USA)
• MichMesh (michmesh.com) (USA)
• Reticulum Nederland (reticulumnet.nl) (Netherlands)
• Réseau Libre (lora.reseaulibre.ca) (Montreal, Canada)
• MESH::IBK (mesh.it-syndikat.org) (Innsbruck, Austria)
• The regional forum (rns.recipes/forum/regional) on rns.recipes lists more.
ScotMesh
• The ScotMesh Discord (discord.gg/ytxfyuDmSt), where most of the community talks.
• scotmesh.uk, the community site and forum, for everything ScotMesh does, Reticulum or not.
• rns.scotmesh.net, the backbone node's own page and live status.
• rnode.scotmesh.net, the flasher.
• About ScotMesh on this wiki.
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