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Integrations & Automation
Bridging Meshtastic with APRS, external services, and scripting automation via the Python library.
Meshtastic APRS Gateway
What is APRS? APRS - Automatic Packet Reporting System - is an amateur radio protocol designed for real-time tactical digital communications. Originally developed by Bob Bruninga (WB4APR), it carries position data, weather reports, text messages, and telemetry...
Meshtastic Python Scripting
The meshtastic Python Library The official meshtastic Python library provides programmatic access to any Meshtastic device. It exposes the full device API: sending and receiving messages, reading/writing configuration, querying node lists, requesting telemetry...
Gateway Setup Guides
Step-by-step setup guides for Raspberry Pi MQTT gateways and MeshCore Linux room servers.
Raspberry Pi MQTT Gateway Setup
What This Achieves The Meshtastic node acts as the MQTT gateway, bridging LoRa packets to an MQTT broker (it uplinks/downlinks LoRa<->MQTT using its own network connection or the connected client's). Mosquitto running on the Raspberry Pi is just the broker: it...
Practical Power System Design
Solar System Sizing Guide
Goal Size your battery to survive N cloudy days, and size your panel to fully recharge that battery against your worst-month (winter) sun — with real positive margin, never sized "exactly" to the minimum. Step 1 - Measure Your Device's Actual Current Draw Use...
Charge Controller Selection and Wiring
Why You Need a Charge Controller Solar panels produce unregulated voltage - a nominally "12 V" panel can output up to 22 V open-circuit. A charge controller protects the battery from overcharge, manages the multi-stage charge profile (bulk, absorption, float),...
Buying Your First Node
Hardware Buyer's Guide for Beginners
Philosophy Don't over-buy for your first node. Start with one device, get familiar with the software, learn what the network feels like in your area, and then expand. A $25 Heltec and your phone will teach you more in a weekend than reading specs for a month. ...
Meshtastic Repeater Setup
Step-by-step setup, role selection, and channel configuration for Meshtastic repeaters.
Router vs. Repeater Role — Which to Choose
Overview of Device Roles Meshtastic firmware supports several device roles that control how a node behaves on the mesh. For infrastructure nodes the historically relevant roles are ROUTER and REPEATER, but note that REPEATER is deprecated as of firmware ~2.7.x...
Initial Setup Walkthrough
Prerequisites A Meshtastic-compatible device (T-Beam, Heltec, RAK WisBlock, etc.) flashed with current firmware - use the official flasher at flasher.meshtastic.org. A phone with the Meshtastic app (iOS or Android) or a Chrome-based browser for the web clie...
Channel Configuration for Infrastructure Nodes
What Are Channels? Meshtastic supports up to 8 simultaneous channels (numbered 0 - 7). Channel 0 is the primary channel used for most mesh traffic. Channels 1 - 7 can carry separately encrypted traffic for specific groups or purposes. PSK - Pre-Shared Key Eac...
Advanced Meshtastic Repeater Topics
Store and Forward, position reporting, and telemetry for infrastructure repeater nodes.
Store and Forward
What Is Store and Forward? Store and Forward (S&F) is a Meshtastic server module that buffers text messages for nodes that are temporarily offline. When a client node comes back within range, the S&F server can replay text messages the client missed while it w...
Position and Telemetry for Infrastructure Nodes
Why Position Accuracy Matters An accurate position lets your repeater appear correctly on meshmap.net and in the Meshtastic app's node list. (Note that meshmap.net is a third-party map and only shows nodes reporting to the public MQTT server, so it is not an a...