MeshCam is an open, self-hostable mesh of solar trail cameras: leaf cams sleep in the woods, relays form a backbone, and a single gateway on your internet pushes images to the app. No cell modem per camera, no per-camera fee.
The firmware, PCB files, ingest API, and web app are open. The hosted cloud is a convenience you can pay for or replace with your own — it's never a lock-in.
Leaf, relay, and gateway firmware — ESP32-S3 running camera capture, Reticulum LoRa mesh, and on-device tiny-ML together.
public at launchKiCad schematics and board files for the leaf, relay, and gateway nodes, plus the enclosure build guides.
public at launchThe open network + ingest API spec. Bring your own nodes — they're first-class citizens on the same cloud.
public at launchThe self-hostable gallery + ingest service (FastAPI + React). Run the whole backend yourself; the hosted cloud is a convenience, never a lock-in.
public at launchLicensing is being finalized and the code cleaned up before these open. Join the waitlist and we'll announce when they're public.
The web app runs on FastAPI + Postgres + S3-compatible object storage (we use Garage). Mesh gateways POST images to its ingest API; you review them from any browser. Full setup instructions ship in the web-app repo at launch.
Poke around a seeded instance with demo wildlife photos, or read the story behind the project.