One map. A lot of radios. Possibly too many overlays.
A free mapping, planning, monitoring, and situational-awareness platform built for the entire OKI Mesh community.
What is MeshBuddy?
MeshBuddy is a free mapping, monitoring, planning, and situational-awareness tool built for the OKI Mesh community. It brings the entire OKI Tri-State area into one interactive map: live mesh activity, communications infrastructure, RF planning tools, weather, solar activity, traffic cameras, aircraft, and other overlays that all seemed like a good idea at the time. (They were.)
Under the hood it combines live MeshCore node data with open public datasets — FCC records, FAA obstacles, OpenStreetMap infrastructure, NOAA space weather, and more — so the state of the network and the world around it live in one view instead of eleven browser tabs.
You don't need to be an RF engineer to use it. If you can click a checkbox, you can add an overlay. Whether you should add all of them at once is between you and your GPU.
Questions MeshBuddy helps answer
Answers provided by data. Follow-up questions provided by the data.
The Feature Constellation
Four groups. One map. Zero restraint.
Mesh Intelligence
- Live MeshCore nodes
- Repeaters, clients, rooms, sensors
- Node status and health
- Route and analytics tools
Infrastructure
- Broadcast towers
- FCC ULS sites & cellular towers
- VMS and public-safety towers
- FAA obstacle data
- OSM communications infrastructure
Situational Awareness
- Weather radar & traffic cameras
- ADS-B aircraft
- Solar activity & space weather
- HamClock
RF & Planning
- Distance rings & RF Command Center
- Site Planner
- Terrain and elevation
- Per-node solar forecasts
- Coverage and path analysis
The goal is not to replace the people who understand the network. It is to give them better tools.
And give the rest of us fewer reasons to stare at the map and say, “Well, that's weird.”
Built for the OKI Mesh Community
MeshBuddy is provided free to the OKI Mesh community as a working toolset for:
Always Improving. Occasionally Behaving.
MeshBuddy is actively developed, shaped by:
- Real-world use across the mesh
- Community feedback
- New public data sources worth wiring in
- Whatever the network needs next
- Ideas that sounded much easier before implementation began
No SLA, no uptime guarantee, no official support desk — just steady improvement and honest tooling.
MeshBuddy is an independent community project. It is not an official service of MeshCore, OKI Mesh, the FCC, NOAA, NASA, the FAA, or the mysterious repeater that only seems to work when nobody is testing it.
Built for the mesh.
Powered by radios, maps, open data, and an unreasonable number of overlays.