Start

What it is

Reticulum (RNS) is a networking stack where every node has a cryptographic identity and can talk over any medium — LoRa (via an RNode), packet radio, serial, Wi-Fi, TCP — encrypted end-to-end by default. No DNS, no IP addresses to hand out, no internet required.

Install

Reticulum is a Python package:

pip install rns

That installs the stack plus its CLI tools: rnsd, rnstatus, rnpath, rnid, rncp, rnx, rnodeconf.

Your first node

Start the daemon:

rnsd

On first run it writes a default config to ~/.reticulum/config with basic peer connectivity. Check status any time with:

rnstatus

To run over LoRa, edit that config and enable an RNode interface — the file ships with commented examples for LoRa, TCP, UDP and packet radio.

Next → Workshop.

Verified 2026-06-16 against reticulum.network and the RNS manual. Reticulum does not bridge to Meshcore or Meshtastic.