--- title: Mesh Network Telephony Over Bluetooth On Android Phones description: MeshLive is an Android app that builds a decentralized Bluetooth mesh network for voice and video calls. It runs entirely as software, needing no dedicated... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mesh-network-telephony-over-bluetooth-on-android-phones-p6v8b4tlc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Mesh Network Telephony Over Bluetooth On Android Phones | daily.dev og:description: MeshLive is an Android app that builds a decentralized Bluetooth mesh network for voice and video calls. It runs entirely as software, needing no dedicated... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mesh-network-telephony-over-bluetooth-on-android-phones-p6v8b4tlc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/P6v8b4tlc.png og:image:alt: Mesh Network Telephony Over Bluetooth On Android Phones og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Mesh Network Telephony Over Bluetooth On Android Phones **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MeshLive is an Android app that builds a decentralized Bluetooth mesh network for voice and video calls. It runs entirely as software, needing no dedicated hardware. Calls are end-to-end encrypted for voice and video, though two-way video calling is still experimental; more testing has gone into one-way video broadcasting. Each user gets a unique scannable identifier but otherwise appears under a random name that rotates every 15 minutes. Range is limited because it uses ordinary smartphone Bluetooth hardware, and each phone forwards the signal for about 20 meters. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How does the MeshLive Android app create a Bluetooth mesh network for calls without special hardware? MeshLive is an Android app that uses ordinary Bluetooth hardware already in phones to relay voice and video calls between nearby devices, with every phone forwarding the signal to others in range. Calls are end-to-end encrypted, each user has a scannable identifier, and an anonymous display name rotates every 15 minutes for non-contacts. _Developers exploring peer-to-peer or offline-first mobile apps can find similar decentralized projects on daily.dev._ ### What is the range limitation of Bluetooth mesh networking apps like MeshLive on smartphones? Each phone in the MeshLive Bluetooth mesh network can only forward signals to other phones about 20 meters away, since it relies on standard smartphone Bluetooth radios rather than dedicated long-range hardware like LoRa or directional antennas. This makes range the main limiting factor compared to LoRa-based mesh systems. _Anyone weighing Bluetooth versus LoRa for mesh communication projects can track these trade-offs on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Bitchat for Gaza - messaging without internet](https://daily.dev/posts/bitchat-for-gaza---messaging-without-internet-0wbsttkfa) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Mesh, Automattic's CRM for everyone, comes to Android](https://daily.dev/posts/mesh-automattic-s-crm-for-everyone-comes-to-android-ehxfu2hjf) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [bitchat](https://daily.dev/posts/bitchat-mjk4hiufp) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging](https://daily.dev/posts/my-first-impressions-of-meshcore-off-grid-messaging-3qdngsnoq) · Michael Lynch · 66 upvotes · 6 comments --- Tags: [#android](https://daily.dev/tags/android), [#encryption](https://daily.dev/tags/encryption), [#bluetooth](https://daily.dev/tags/bluetooth), [#lora](https://daily.dev/tags/lora) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/mesh-network-telephony-over-bluetooth-on-android-phones-p6v8b4tlc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Mesh Network Telephony Over Bluetooth On Android Phones","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/mesh-network-telephony-over-bluetooth-on-android-phones-p6v8b4tlc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/mesh-network-telephony-over-bluetooth-on-android-phones-p6v8b4tlc"},"datePublished":"2026-10-25T17:24:27.751Z","dateModified":"2026-10-25T17:24:54.373Z","description":"MeshLive is an Android app that builds a decentralized Bluetooth mesh network for voice and video calls. 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