Do your own range testing with "/ping" and "/test" on Meshtastic-AI!

[mr-tbot]

One thing not clearly mentioned in the readme is the use case of the /ping and /test commands...

Obviously a lot of people are testing this technology - some of them are in big cities with lots of nodes, and others are out in the country with less access to other Meshtastic users...

A lot of the time, even in big cities with lots of mesh nodes, it takes people a while to respond - which doesn't give you adequate information about:

• Whether your message is truly being received...

• How long it took your message to travel through the system...

• and whether you are able to receive a message back in your location.

Mesh-AI solves this conundrum by reliably answering "/ping" with "Pong!" and "/test" with your username and your set location string (telling people where they are being received from)...

If a /ping or /test message is received by the Mesh-AI node, it will immediately respond (with a 10 second delay to prevent congestion) - letting you know if you have connectivity in your current location without guessing.

This is a feature, that once implemented in an area, can be very useful for your local Meshtastic community...

We're all curious if we're being heard. Mesh-AI helps solve that problem.