A public Reticulum transport node for Scotland — open to anyone, no registration.
Prefer a graphical app and no config files? Skip to Connecting with MeshChat below.
Add this to the [interfaces] section of your Reticulum
config, normally at ~/.reticulum/config:
[[ScotMesh Backhaul]]
type = TCPClientInterface
enabled = yes
target_host = rns.scotmesh.net
target_port = 4242
Restart Reticulum, then run rnstatus. You should see
the ScotMesh interface listed as Up.
That is the whole process. There is no account, no key to exchange and nothing to approve — Reticulum encrypts every link end to end by default, and addresses are self-issued from your own keys.
Reticulum is a networking stack that runs over anything — LoRa, packet radio, WiFi, or plain TCP/IP like this node. It gives you encrypted, addressable connectivity without DNS, registries or any central authority.
pip install rnsrnsd once to generate a default config, then stop it.~/.reticulum/config.rnsd again and check with rnstatus.The official manual covers everything in far more depth, and is genuinely worth reading if you want to understand what the network is doing.
Reticulum MeshChat is a graphical Reticulum app with messaging, file transfer and voice calls built in. It is the easiest way onto the network if you would rather not edit config files by hand — it manages its own Reticulum configuration for you.
Download it for Windows, macOS or Linux from the releases page. There are also Docker, Raspberry Pi and Android (via Termux) builds.
Then add ScotMesh as an interface:
rns.scotmesh.net4242The interface should come up as connected within a few seconds. Once it does, you are on the network — announces from other nodes will start appearing, and you can message anyone whose address you have.
It runs as a transport node, which means it does not just accept your connection — it relays traffic on behalf of others and announces reachable paths. Connecting here puts you in touch with the wider Reticulum network, not just with other ScotMesh operators.
The address is dynamic and updated automatically, so always connect by hostname rather than by IP.
Once you are connected, this node also serves pages inside Reticulum itself via
Nomad Network. Install it with pip install nomadnet,
run nomadnet, and browse to:
10a839df2c50635bcb0c8a299b9ca0f8:/page/index.mu
Nomad Network nodes announce themselves, so it should also simply appear in your node list within a few minutes of connecting.
MeshCore and Reticulum are separate networks with different designs. ScotMesh runs both — the tools above are for the MeshCore side.