Welcome to Mode-X Mesh
Mode-X Mesh is a long-range, off-grid communications network you own and run yourself. Small low-power radios - "nodes" - pass messages from one to the next, hop by hop, so a text can travel for miles across a chain of devices without any phone signal, broadband or mains power.
It's built for the moments the usual networks aren't there: hiking and camping, festivals and events, rural areas with no coverage, community resilience, or simply keeping a private channel open between friends and family that doesn't depend on anyone else's infrastructure.
What you can do with it
- Send messages to everyone nearby, to a town or region, or privately to one person - encrypted end to end.
- See the network on a live map: who's online, how nodes connect, and how far the mesh reaches.
- Share your location (only if you choose to) so friends can find you, or keep it completely private.
- Read sensors - temperature, humidity, pressure - from nodes across the mesh.
- Stay connected off-grid with nothing but the radios themselves. Add internet at any single point and the whole network can reach the wider world.
How it's different
Mode-X Mesh works like the best community mesh networks but is tuned to be faster, more efficient and friendlier to use. Nodes automatically join the channels for the town and region they're in, take on the most useful job for their situation, and step back gracefully when their battery runs low or they're on the move - all without you having to manage any of it.
Every private message is encrypted on the device before it's ever transmitted. Even the servers that draw the public map only ever see what you explicitly choose to make public.
What you need
- A compatible LoRa radio node (an ESP32-S3 board with an SX1262 radio).
- The Mode-X Mesh app for Android, to pair with and control your node.
- A few minutes to flash the firmware from your browser - no software to install.
The next page walks you through getting your first node on the air.
New to mesh networking? The short version: every node is both a phone and a relay tower. The more nodes there are, the further everyone's messages travel. You're not just joining the network - you're extending it for everyone around you.