Open beehive telemetry

Solar ESP32 nodes in the hive, reporting temperature, humidity, weight and battery over a Meshtastic mesh to a FastAPI backend — and back out to your phone.

Read the docs The contract

Developed by Fablab Imperia APS.

• Four repos, one contract

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  Firmware, server, app and hardware ship on their own schedules. What holds them together is a versioned MQTT payload schema and HTTP API, published here at stable URLs.

  How it fits together

• The versioned contract

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  The MQTT payload schema, the API reference rendered from OpenAPI, and the matrix of which component versions are known to work together.

  Read the contract

• Built in the open

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  MeshBee is a volunteer project at Fablab Imperia APS. The boards, the enclosures, the code and these docs are all public, and the roadmap is a public board.

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How a reading travels

Hive nodes talk to each other over a Meshtastic LoRa mesh — no WiFi needed in the apiary. A reading hops across the mesh until it reaches a node with internet access, which acts as the gateway and forwards it over the internet to the MQTT broker.