Those little batteries finally turned up, along with your post on the subject this morning. That was a nice start to the day. Thank you for this, and for your advice on antennas, which I'm glad I listened to. M
My hardware arrived today. I can't say it's been a pleasant experience. I picked up a few nodes at one time, one of which was about 80km away, but nothing since. My second node has been put in a consolidated package, which is taking the slow route to get here, so it'll be another week at least before I have another node to test with on site. Are you using the SX126X_ANT_SW setting? This is included with the board settings now, unlike at the time your video was posted.
Enabling admin on your nodes to remote manage them then using pythonCLI you can interface with your whole mesh network. You can set virtually any setting. I use it more than anything
@Simon Phillips No PI3b? tried it on arm64 and libyaml-cpp0.7 let me down on the dependency , not only that i tried pointing to /boot/config.txt as i never had /boot/firmware/config.txt . i cannot install meshtasticd .....meh ive run out of pi4 but have a load of 3b+
Ah that's what it is .. I'm using Rasbian bullseye and was pulling my hair out . I was working on some ais servers also and this is the result of too many hours at the screen . Ha! Ubuntu no wonder there was no /boot/firmware folder ....damn! Will reimage and post back .Tnx
I didn't find this in any of the instructions relating to meshtasticd docs I saw. I had to uncomment this in the config.yaml for it to work on the Rpi 5. ### Set gpio chip to use in /dev/. Defaults to 0. ### Notably the Raspberry Pi 5 puts the GPIO header on gpiochip4 gpiochip: 4 It is obvious once you read the comment but I wasn't looking for it.
i cant seem to connect to the webserver at all. meshtastic is running and i can see it all working on the logs but i cant connect to adjust settings at all. any ideas?
Those little batteries finally turned up, along with your post on the subject this morning. That was a nice start to the day.
Thank you for this, and for your advice on antennas, which I'm glad I listened to.
M
That sounds good. Let us know how you get on !
My hardware arrived today. I can't say it's been a pleasant experience. I picked up a few nodes at one time, one of which was about 80km away, but nothing since. My second node has been put in a consolidated package, which is taking the slow route to get here, so it'll be another week at least before I have another node to test with on site.
Are you using the SX126X_ANT_SW setting? This is included with the board settings now, unlike at the time your video was posted.
It's always useful to haave several nodes on hand for testing against each other !
Enabling admin on your nodes to remote manage them then using pythonCLI you can interface with your whole mesh network. You can set virtually any setting. I use it more than anything
That's great advice. I haven't tried setting up an admin channel yet...
It's especially helpful for remote nodes administration and battery usage allowing you to turn off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
Great Video. Question? Can you use the lite version of bookworm (without desktop) ?
Yes you certainly can. This is sort of what I was doing in the video since I did not use the Raspberry Pi desktop at all.
Yes the battery is NOT a CR1220. It is a ML1220.
Exactly. It is an important difference since one does not want to try charging Lithium batteries ;-)
How do you update the FW to a later version? Thanks
@Simon Phillips No PI3b? tried it on arm64 and libyaml-cpp0.7 let me down on the dependency , not only that i tried pointing to /boot/config.txt as i never had /boot/firmware/config.txt . i cannot install meshtasticd .....meh ive run out of pi4 but have a load of 3b+
I never had a Pi 3. Only model 4 plus now a 5 which still had problems with Meshtastic and Ubuntu las time I tried it.
Ah that's what it is .. I'm using Rasbian bullseye and was pulling my hair out . I was working on some ais servers also and this is the result of too many hours at the screen . Ha! Ubuntu no wonder there was no /boot/firmware folder ....damn! Will reimage and post back .Tnx
I have had this running for a couple of weeks now and I want to upgrade to the newer firmware but can't seem to get it upgraded
You mean the rasPi firmware ? I tend not to upgrade that unless it is necessary eg. for Nvme booting.
I didn't find this in any of the instructions relating to meshtasticd docs I saw. I had to uncomment this in the config.yaml for it to work on the Rpi 5.
### Set gpio chip to use in /dev/. Defaults to 0.
### Notably the Raspberry Pi 5 puts the GPIO header on gpiochip4
gpiochip: 4
It is obvious once you read the comment but I wasn't looking for it.
Thank you. I will give this a try !
Mine doesn't worked on Pi 5. Could you please help me?
ERROR | ??:??:?? 10 Failed to find SX1262 radio
i cant seem to connect to the webserver at all. meshtastic is running and i can see it all working on the logs but i cant connect to adjust settings at all. any ideas?
Strange. I just pointed my browser to: raspi . What do you see on your screen when you first go to this url ?
curious if you’ve run into the bug where you can’t send longer messages. Short seem to work fine but anything over like 70 characters seems to fail.
It works fine for me but I am not sure what the longest message is that I sent.