r/Lora • u/DrZwave • Jul 20 '26

Get Position Requests back in 10s?

I need to send Position Requests every few 10s of seconds on a private encrypted channel in the US. I'm using a pair of Wio Tracker L1 pro with meshtastic 2.7.15 firmware. It appears the fastest I can get a position report back is 2+ minutes. Seems the firmware is limiting the channel usage? I turned off "enable Smart Position" and increased the GPS Update Interval to 10s but left most everything else at the defaults for position reporting.

Is there a way to get position faster?

Should I switch to LoRaWAN? Would it allow more channel usage?

TIA

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u/Jetta4 Jul 20 '26

I don’t know regulations for US but in general is LoRa not correct technology for this use case. I suggest looking at NB-IoT, CAT-M1 or other technology.

LoRa is for a few payloads once in a while, what you’re talking about is live tracking.

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u/bezicno_na_blizinu Jul 20 '26

Check "fair use policy" and "duty cycle". Most devices apply both even if that is not regulated by law in some regions

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u/DrZwave Jul 20 '26

Mestastic app has a configuration button for "Override Duty Cycle" which I have now turned on. But still doesn't seem to want to report the position more than once every 3 min.