Mesh-Citadel BBS
Bot AlphaMeshCore-connected BBS inspired by Citadel BBSes from the 1980s. Lightweight system designed to run on a solar-powered Raspberry Pi Zero with a low-power nRF52-based LoRa node running USB companion firmware. Supports user registration, login, room navigation, message reading and posting, private mail, and a permission system. Communicates over MeshCore via py-meshcore.
- Maintainer
- taedryn ↗
- Kind
- Bots
- Maturity
- Alpha
- Language
- Python
- Licensing
- Source available
- License
- Forklift-Certified-0.69.420
- Platforms
- Linux Raspberry Pi
Capabilities
Interfaces
- ✓ CLI
Connections
- ✓ Serial
- ✓ USB
Capabilities
- ✓ Messaging
- ✓ Channels
- ✓ Contacts
Node role
- ✓ Companion
Install
- Source Open ↗
Project signals
popularity 2026-08-08 verification 2026-08-08
- GitHub stars
- 47
- Forks
- 4
- Watchers
- 5
- Open issues
- 2
- Contributors
- 3
- Release downloads
- 0
- Latest downloads
- 0
- Source available
- Yes
- Releases available
- No
- Signed releases
- No
- CI builds
- No
- Documentation
- Yes
- Alpha software; designed for solar-powered Raspberry Pi Zero + nRF52 LoRa node.
- Inspired by 1980s Citadel BBS; uses py-meshcore for MeshCore communication.
- Forklift Certified License — not OSI open-source; source-available only.