[adev_]

> I also don't think it's possible to make Meshtastic into the kind of reliable and high-performance mesh network some users want without effectively dropping support for most battery-powered devices

Interesting.

Zigbee has this distinction between router node and non-router node.

Routers are active members of the mesh (relay). Non-routers are just clients.

Most battery devices in Zigbee acts generally as non-router.

It is surprising that Meshtastic did not follow this pattern. Zigbee is not a young protocol.

[sandos]

Meshtastic did, in a way. There are roles and settings to disable rebroadcasts, then you are effectively a client. And it is used to preserve battery.