Wardriving is a self-hosted, web-first tool that maps measured RF coverage for your Meshtastic LoRa mesh. A passive "ear" node ingests RF position traffic, wardriver and recon phones report hearings over the internet, and a live map turns those records into coverage cells — no MQTT dependency, no simulation, no guessing.
Live coverage from the server's own RF ear + wardriving observations. Cells are the single-source-of-truth status summary of the recorded dot-facts inside them (see How the map is honest below).
Coverage comes from real RF reports, not terrain math. A server node listens on
#wardriving; participants' phones pair to a Meshtastic radio and map the
mesh as they move. The result is a map of where the mesh is actually heard.
Runs on your own hardware (GPL-3.0). No vendor account, no API key, no
MQTT broker. It is built as a from-scratch server adapting the MeshMapper
concept to Meshtastic, and the author of FreqMapper shares that lineage.
Dots are precise GPS facts. Cells are just a summarized query view of the recorded dot-facts inside them — one cell shows the top-rung status recorded there. Imprecise fixes are filtered from the map (not counted), and a cell's colour is the single source of truth the whole UI shares.
Survey mode, adaptive back-off, and a CLIENT_MUTE ear keep the tool honest to the mesh it maps — a coverage mapper should never flood the very network it surveys.
Open the live map to inspect current coverage by cell, node presence, and recent routes — or pull GeoJSON into any GIS or the official Meshtastic app as a network layer.
Tune a Meshtastic radio to your mesh's #wardriving channel, pair a phone
browser, and drive the areas that need proving. Every cell you record is dated and
queryable — an honest contribution to the map.