Use case: off-grid data management with MCP servers

[sighmoan1]

Scenario: There is a power outage and people are being evacuated to rest centres. People turn up at a rest centre and it's full. Where should people running the centre redirect people to? If all the rest centres are communicating capacity back to the model (e.g. we tell the model how many beds we've got and message the model each time a bed is taken) and the model can read/write to SQLite or similar DB, then people can be given accurate information about where to go next.

Essentially, the idea is that if we have an LLM, we have an agent that can create and maintain a centralised datastore on a decentralised off-grid network. This could be useful with stock and flow problems in an off-grid context.

[sighmoan1]

Made this work. Needed https://github.com/SecretiveShell/MCP-Bridge, can't do it with the LM studio API. If interesting I can try to demo

[mr-tbot]

Interesting thoughts - I'm working on a more closed version of this too that is centered around disaster / end of days stuff.

Happy to take a look - I think you can do it with LM studio - it's pretty flexible but I would need more info. =)

[sighmoan1]

Sounds interesting - I've been looking at possible applications of meshtastic for humanitarian response

I could get MCP servers running over the chat interface to LM studio but not via the API. Made a video -

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[mr-tbot]

So - I have to give this some more deep thought- but I don't see why implementing MCP support should be a problem. =)

I'll aim for this on my next release - as well as begin to look at Meshcore support as well within the next couple versions. (meshcore might be a separate script so that people can run one of each on the same server and use them for cross network communication hubs)

Interested to hear more about your particular use case - feel free to reach out in DM or email [email protected]

[mr-tbot]

The main thing is this needs to move to a modular model - as I'm trying to avoid a large single whopper of a script - and not everyone needs all these more "advanced" features - but I think some sort of MCP support that gives a special UI that can be tailored per use case isn't a terrible direction.

I'd love to see this used in this manner... and I think the magic is sending "invisible" data over the mesh - I have to dig more into how things like GPS updates work - and a custom meshtastic module might be in order that allows packets to be sent between units quietly or classified by an identifier packet so it can give you data driven layouts, tables, graphs, maps, etc.