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Title: Discoverable RNode interfaces? Author: Scooter Posted the: 23 Feb 2026 03:38 Category: rNode
Discoverable RNode interfaces?
I've just started playing around with RNodes. Reading through the docs it sounds like you can make RNode interfaces discoverable. I'm curious how people are using this functionality today? Is it possible to facilitate mobile RNodes' ability to "roam" between peering with different transport RNodes. That would be an amazing feature for channelizing spectrum in an area. But do these discoveries have to take place over another interface (e.g. TCP) or is it in any way possible for an RNode interface to configure itself to peer with another RNode entirely over Lora?
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Author: burgernode · Posted: 23 Feb 2026 14:11 · ❤️ 1
Reply: pretty sure this is a bug and should be fixed. Lets see what Mark will say.
Author: Scooter · Posted: 23 Feb 2026 23:20 · ❤️ 0
Reply: Thanks for the reply @burgernode. Are you saying the documentation is wrong and should be fixed or there is a bug in the implementation of Rnode interface discovery?
Author: Torlando · Posted: 24 Feb 2026 05:26 · ❤️ 2
Reply: Entirely over LoRa, no. It is possible for any interface to announce itself over any interface, but for you to receive any given announce (from a discoverable interface or otherwise) over LoRa, your RNode must "hear" the announce be broadcast from another RNode, and in order for that to happen, your RNode must be on the same settings. So, to have everything over LoRa, it's a bit of a chicken and egg problem. But, fwiw, you can browse discovered interfaces in Columba, and RNodes have a special button to copy the params and add it as an interface within Columba, so you could always swap your one rnode over to different settings easily
Author: Scooter · Posted: 24 Feb 2026 05:39 · ❤️ 1
Reply: Thanks for the info. That's great, and nice work on Columba. A lot of RNodes have BLE functionality. It would be cool to have the ability for RNodes to make their radio parameters known over BLE so that devices could choose to auto connect to rnodes as they roam. This would be pretty cool for a standalone microReticulum transport instance too.
Author: burgernode · Posted: 24 Feb 2026 19:28 · ❤️ 0
Reply: oh, i got it now, rnode announces its settings for others to copy, right?
Author: Torlando · Posted: 25 Feb 2026 06:12 · ❤️ 0
Reply: it's not really that RNode itself is announcing anything. the actual Reticulum runtime (probably RNS - the reference python implementation) does the announcing of how it has its interfaces configured. RNS is actually what tells RNode what params to use, not the other way around.
Author: Torlando · Posted: 25 Feb 2026 06:12 · ❤️ 0
Reply: And thank you for the kind words for Columba :)
Author: Torlando · Posted: 25 Feb 2026 06:13 · ❤️ 1
Reply: But yes, it would definitely be a cool feature of microReticulum - which ideally is packaged as a firmware for a board which has both lora and ble, and perhaps even wifi. It could announce its rnode interface (which would be useful over ble interface and whatever wifi connected interface, either tcp or autointerface)
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