Gristle Crüe Weekly Call, 3–9‑22

Atten­dance is grow­ing, good to see new and vet­er­an faces! Great dis­cus­sion and Q&A about all things Heli­um, includ­ing which plat­forms to use for what, a new app option with dis­count code for G‑Crüe mem­bers, and a new Ana­lyt­ics option. Here we go!

00:00 — Intro

03:02 — Hotspotty

Get Region­al Aware­ness
Set­ting Commissions

8:18 — Heli­um­Track­er — https://heliumtracker.io/

10:15 — Heli­um Ana­lyt­ics — https://heliumanalytics.io/

12:52 — Q/A — Why would you have mul­ti­ple sub­scrip­tions?
Hotspot­ty, Heli­um­Track­er, Patri­um — Track­ing Rewards
https://www.patrium.app/

Heli­umVi­sion — Place­ment — https://app.helium.vision/

16:53 — Watchi­um — https://watchium.disk91.com/
New app by Paul (disk91) to address Hotspots going down using met­rics like the amount of Wit­ness­ing hap­pen­ing.
Code to use to try: WATCHIUMBETA75

18:53 — Q/A — Do bob­cats slow down when Hot
Can use Rasp­ber­ry Pi Heat Sinks

Fol­low Up Ques­tion — Hotspots in the Cold
Cold is fine.

21:47 — Olivia Wire­less — Good option for data plans on Light Hotspots — NOT cur­rent Hotspots.
https://www.oliviawireless.com/

Data cost on Light Hotspots are going to be Low

24:18 — Q/A — Are you using RUT240 ?

Yes. RUT240, IBR200 or IBR650C (Expen­sive),
Have heard of oth­ers suc­cess­ful­ly using a GL-X750

25:17 — Q/A — Col­lege Dorm

You can use a Wifi Hotspot. You can also try to use a Man­go (GL-MT300N-V2) with a VPN

26:32 — Light Hotspots Data Useage

Reg­u­lar (cur­rent) Hotspots spikes to 450 mbps.
Light Hotspots use 800 bps to 1 kpbs

27:22 — Q/A — If the net­work becomes suc­cess­ful will the data earn­ings off­set a cell router SIM card plan?

Depends how much data is flow­ing through the hotspot. In many cas­es, no. For the next few months, the focus on earn­ings will be on PoC earn­ings, NOT data earnings.

28:12 — Q/A — How much does wind effect an antenna?

Low­er gain anten­nas with a wide pat­tern, not so much. On high­er (9+) gain with nar­row­er pat­terns, the swing will effect signal.

31:07 — Wifi Smart Plug

TP-Link or Kasa

32:30 — Q/A — How to do easy payouts?

Hotspot­ty
-Con­tacts
-Gen­er­ate Reports

44:50 — Koin­ly — https://koinly.io/
Works well with TurboTax

45:42 — Replac­ing SD Card in RAK — https://docs.helium.com/troubleshooting/replace-sd-card/

02_17 Hotspots won’t upgrade but synced — Try Quay for the lat­est updates. That’s what I (Nik) use for DIY, not sure how it will work for a pro­duc­tion, but that’s where most of the man­u­fac­tur­ers pull from. Syn­chro­bit and Ker­link com­pile the min­er from scratch and don’t use Docker.

51:59 — Off­grid on Water Tow­er with oth­er radios (cell placements)

• Inter­fer­ence depends on pow­er the cell anten­nas are putting out
• Ver­ti­cal Off­set of at least 5m, in some cas­es 25m required for full pow­er cell towers.
• Saw Fil­ter or Cav­i­ty Fil­ter options
• Water stops radio waves, so think about placement.

Ques­tions for Next Week

56:08 — Sim­u­la­tion on How to Start a City

1:04:15 — Heli­um Pirate Radio DIO

Con­nect­ing Peo­ple to Hotspots and Hotspots to People

1:04:56 — Q/A — Who are you inter­view­ing next?

Scott at DeWi — resched­uled
Max at PPL Anten­na — rescheduled