Nah just jump in at 17. Though if you ask me, the OG DarkAlex was the best.

TL;DR, the original DarkAlex was the guy who basically singlehandedly built all the custom firmwares for PSP hacking back in the day. That massively influenced me while I was growing up. So when I started becoming an engineer myself and building things, I wanted to pay homage to them. So, since my name is Alex too, I made my username the same Dark-Alex. The 17 is just a distinguisher from the original dev. 17 is just a lucky number in my family so it made sense to add.

Yep that was me. Hello again!

Sure thing! My bad for missing that in the rules. I’d posted before but neglected to read the rules again for updates. Sorry about that!

Oh I’m looking into this IMMEDIATELY! 😂 That’s awesome!! Does it also form a mesh?

That’s exactly the reason why I made it only work with user-defined aliases. That way it forces you to think of how to cover the most ground command-wise without needing anything interactive or too much response data. It’s slow but it’s functional and that’s really all I wanted from it. I can have scripts on my server that fix things and just invoke them with this.

They’re encrypted with a PSK encrypted with either AES128 or AES256. It’s built into the Meshtastic firmware so that’s not something I have to handle directly, thankfully!

I started thinking about using the LoRa protocol directly for this too! My biggest concern is overwhelming the mesh. But I also had no idea what protocol would work so thanks for mentioning PPP. I haven’t thought about that since I was a kid! That would be really cool though!

Maybe just for a POC someday?

Also: how are you liking MeshCore? Did you have to pay for a license to use it? How expensive is the mesh you’re building? That is something I’ve started thinking about too for this exact reason 😂

Ah I see what you mean. Yep I totally misunderstood what you meant. Yes I did think about that but I wanted to be able to control my servers too, hence MeshExec. ☺️

Thank you! ☺️

I could except it would need Internet access to subscribe or publish to an MQTT broker. I wanted remote control when both I don’t have Internet access when I’m away from home, and my home itself has no Internet access.

For MQTT packets to be forwarded over the mesh, there needs to be at least one MQTT gateway connected to it that has Internet access.

Sadly no I’m not, but I was very inspired by him when I was in that scene! PSP hacking was my first experience with customizing any kind of device beyond what average users can do and it’s what made me fall in love with computers as a kid. I don’t think I’d be the software engineer I am today or even in this field if it wasn’t for him. My name is Alex so I thought I could pay homage to him by choosing a similar username, since he had such a massive impact on my life ☺️

To answer your question, I built it for a few reasons:

• I wanted to learn Rust, so I used this project to do that
• I really love TUI’s and I pretty much live in my command line at work, and since I already automate everything I can to make my work life easier, I wanted to be able to do the same with my homelab
• I think it looks cool
• For fun. If no one else ever gets use out of it, that’s okay! I just really enjoyed building it and I’m excited to build out more of it.

But also: Why not? ☺️

So really, you would only use this if you like TUIs or want a command line tool for interacting with your Servarrs. If you have no use for it, that’s totally fine too!

The one actual use I’ve found people say they use it for is people who don’t want to expose the web interface to interact with their Servarrs and only interact via SSH. Then they like to use this instead.

… Well that’s… Concerning…😅

What browser are you using? I want to try to recreate it!

Thank you so much! I really hope it lives up to the hype it’s getting 😅

Thank you for the feedback. I appreciate you!

To answer your question, I built it for a few reasons:

• I wanted to learn Rust, so I used this project to do that
• I really love TUI’s and I pretty much live in my command line at work, and since I already automate everything I can to make my work life easier, I wanted to be able to do the same with my homelab
• I think it looks cool
• For fun. If no one else ever gets use out of it, that’s okay! I just really enjoyed building it and I’m excited to build out more of it.

But also: Why not?

So really, you would only use this if you like TUIs or want a command line tool for interacting with your Servarrs. If you have no use for it, that’s totally fine too!

As for container support: if you mean if there’s a docker version, yes there is. If that’s not what you meant, then my bad!

No hate perceived on my end! To answer your question, I built it for a few reasons:

• I wanted to learn Rust, so I used this project to do that
• I really love TUI’s and I pretty much live in my command line at work, and since I already automate everything I can to make my work life easier, I wanted to be able to do the same with my homelab
• I think it looks cool
• For fun. If no one else ever gets use out of it, that’s okay! I just really enjoyed building it and I’m excited to build out more of it.

But also: Why not?

That’s amazing. Hello fellow Alex! 😂

You’re the first person to catch the reference! Sadly, no I’m not. But I was a prolific PSP modder as a kid so I knew his name and was very familiar with him. So, in my adult life, since he had such a big impact on me, my username is made after him! My real name is Alex so it just kind of worked.

Of course! There’s a lot of work remaining to be done to add support for other features, Servarrs, etc. So contributions are very welcome! ☺️