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This software is 100% open source and developed by a group of hobbyist experimenters. No warranty is provided, if you'd like to improve it - we'd love your help. Please post in the chat.
## Meshtastic Android app
The source code for the (optional) Meshtastic Android app is [here](https://github.com/geeksville/Meshtastic-Android).
Soon our first alpha release of will be released here:
[![Download at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geeksville.mesh](https://play.google.com/intl/en_us/badges/static/images/badges/en_badge_web_generic.png)](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geeksville.mesh&referrer=utm_source%3Dgithub%26utm_medium%3Desp32-readme%26utm_campaign%3Dmeshtastic-esp32%2520readme%26anid%3Dadmob&pcampaignid=pcampaignidMKT-Other-global-all-co-prtnr-py-PartBadge-Mar2515-1)
## Supported hardware
We currently support two brands of radios. The [TTGO T-Beam](https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000119152086.html) and the [Heltec LoRa 32](https://heltec.org/project/wifi-lora-32/). Most users should buy the T-Beam and a 18650 battery (total cost less than $35). Make
sure to buy the frequency range which is legal for your country. For the USA, you should buy the 915MHz version. Getting a version that include a screen
is optional, but highly recommended.
We don't yet distribute prebuilt binaries. But soon (by Feb 22) we will have a file that you can fairly easily install on your radio via USB. Once our software is installed, all future software updates happen over bluetooth from your phone.
We don't yet distribute prebuilt binaries. But soon (by Feb 22) we will have a file that you can fairly easily install on your radio via USB.
For a nice 3D printable case see this [design](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3773717) by [bsiege](https://www.thingiverse.com/bsiege).
## Installing the firmware
Prebuilt binaries for the supported radios is available in our [releases](https://github.com/geeksville/Meshtastic-esp32/releases). Your initial installation has to happen over USB from your Mac, Windows or Linux PC. Once our software is installed, all future software updates happen over bluetooth from your phone.
The instructions currently require a few commmand lines, but it should be pretty straightforward. Please post comments on our group chat if you have problems or successes. Steps to install:
1. Purchase a radio (see above) with the correct frequencies for your country (915MHz for US or JP, 470MHz for CN, 870MHz for EU).
2. Install "pip". Pip is the python package manager we use to get the esptool installer app. Instructions [here](https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-pip-for-python/).
3. Run "pip install --upgrade esptool" to get esptool installed on your machine
4. Connect your radio to your USB port
5. Confirm that your device is talking to your PC by running "esptool.py chip_id". You should see something like:
```
mydir$ esptool.py chip_id
esptool.py v2.6
Found 2 serial ports
Serial port /dev/ttyUSB0
Connecting....
Detecting chip type... ESP32
Chip is ESP32D0WDQ6 (revision 1)
Features: WiFi, BT, Dual Core, 240MHz, VRef calibration in efuse, Coding Scheme None
MAC: 24:6f:28:b5:36:71
Uploading stub...
Running stub...
Stub running...
Warning: ESP32 has no Chip ID. Reading MAC instead.
MAC: 24:6f:28:b5:36:71
Hard resetting via RTS pin...
```
6. Install the correct firmware for your board with "esptool.py write_flash 0x10000 firmware-_board_-_country_.bin". For instance "esptool.py write_flash 0x10000 release/firmware-HELTEC-US-0.0.3.bin". You should see something like this:
```
~/development/meshtastic/meshtastic-esp32$ esptool.py write_flash 0x10000 release/firmware-HELTEC-US-0.0.3.bin
esptool.py v2.6
Found 2 serial ports
Serial port /dev/ttyUSB0
Connecting......
Detecting chip type... ESP32
Chip is ESP32D0WDQ6 (revision 1)
Features: WiFi, BT, Dual Core, 240MHz, VRef calibration in efuse, Coding Scheme None
MAC: 24:6f:28:b5:36:71
Uploading stub...
Running stub...
Stub running...
Configuring flash size...
Auto-detected Flash size: 8MB
Compressed 1184800 bytes to 652635...
Wrote 1184800 bytes (652635 compressed) at 0x00010000 in 57.6 seconds (effective 164.5 kbit/s)...
Hash of data verified.
Leaving...
Hard resetting via RTS pin...
```
7. The board will boot and show the Meshtastic logo.
8. Please post a comment on our chat so we know if these instructions worked for you ;-). If you find bugs/have-questions post there also - we will be rapidly iterating over the next few weeks.
## Meshtastic Android app
The source code for the (optional) Meshtastic Android app is [here](https://github.com/geeksville/Meshtastic-Android).
Soon our first alpha release of will be released here:
[![Download at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geeksville.mesh](https://play.google.com/intl/en_us/badges/static/images/badges/en_badge_web_generic.png)](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geeksville.mesh&referrer=utm_source%3Dgithub%26utm_medium%3Desp32-readme%26utm_campaign%3Dmeshtastic-esp32%2520readme%26anid%3Dadmob&pcampaignid=pcampaignidMKT-Other-global-all-co-prtnr-py-PartBadge-Mar2515-1)
# Development
The following sections are probably only interesting if you want to join us in developing the software.

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# High priority
Items to complete before the first alpha release.
* rx signal measurements -3 marginal, -9 bad, 10 great
* only send 10% of phone gps positions on the network
* post sample video to signal forum
* support non US frequencies
* make an install script to let novices install software on their boards
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# Medium priority
Items to complete before the first beta release.
* rx signal measurements -3 marginal, -9 bad, 10 great, -10 means almost unusable. So scale this into % signal strength. preferably as a graph, with an X indicating loss of comms.
* assign every "channel" a random shared 8 bit sync word (per 4.2.13.6 of datasheet) - use that word to filter packets before even checking CRC. This will ensure our CPU will only wake for packets on our "channel"
* Note: we do not do address filtering at the chip level, because we might need to route for the mesh
* Use the Periodic class for both position and user periodic broadcasts
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# Low power consumption tasks
General ideas to hit the power draws our spreadsheet predicts. Do the easy ones before beta, the last 15% can be done after 1.0.
* don't even power on the gps until someone else wants our position, just stay in lora deep sleep until press or rxpacket (except for once an hour updates)
* (possibly bad idea - better to have lora radio always listen - check spreadsheet) have every node wake at the same tick and do their position syncs then go back to deep sleep
* lower BT announce interval to save battery
* change to use RXcontinuous mode and config to drop packets with bad CRC (see section 6.4 of datasheet) - I think this is already the case
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* given that the max number of nodes in this mesh will be like 20 (for normal cases), I bet globally updating this db of "nodenums and who has the best rssi for packets from that node" would be useful
* once the global DB is shared, when a node wants to broadcast, it just sends out its broadcast . the first level receivers then make a decision "am I the best to rebroadcast to someone who likely missed this packet?" if so, rebroadcast
# approach 3
* when a node X wants to know other nodes positions, it broadcasts its position with want_replies=true. Then each of the nodes that received that request broadcast their replies (possibly by using special timeslots?)
* all nodes constantly update their local db based on replies they witnessed.
* after 10s (or whatever) if node Y notices that it didn't hear a reply from node Z (that Y has heard from recently ) to that initial request, that means Z never heard the request from X. Node Y will reply to X on Z's behalf.
* could this work for more than one hop? Is more than one hop needed? Could it work for sending messages (i.e. for a msg sent to Z with want-reply set).
# Pre-beta priority
During the beta timeframe the following improvements 'would be nice' (and yeah - I guess some of these items count as features, but it is a hobby project ;-) )

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#!/bin/bash
set -e
VERSION=0.0.3
COUNTRY=US
COUNTRIES="US EU CN JP"
rm .pio/build/esp32/firmware.bin
export PLATFORMIO_BUILD_FLAGS="-DT_BEAM_V10 -DAPP_VERSION=$VERSION"
pio run # -v
cp .pio/build/esp32/firmware.bin release/firmware-TBEAM-$COUNTRY.bin
SRCMAP=.pio/build/esp32/output.map
SRCBIN=.pio/build/esp32/firmware.bin
rm .pio/build/esp32/firmware.bin
export PLATFORMIO_BUILD_FLAGS="-DHELTEC_LORA32 -DAPP_VERSION=$VERSION"
pio run # -v
cp .pio/build/esp32/firmware.bin release/firmware-HELTEC-$COUNTRY.bin
for COUNTRY in $COUNTRIES; do
COMMONOPTS="-DAPP_VERSION=$VERSION -DHW_VERSION_$COUNTRY -Wall -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Isrc -Os -Wl,-Map,.pio/build/esp32/output.map -DAXP_DEBUG_PORT=Serial"
export PLATFORMIO_BUILD_FLAGS="-DT_BEAM_V10 $COMMONOPTS"
echo "Building with $PLATFORMIO_BUILD_FLAGS"
rm -f $SRCBIN $SRCMAP
pio run # -v
cp $SRCBIN release/firmware-TBEAM-$COUNTRY-$VERSION.bin
cp $SRCMAP release/firmware-TBEAM-$COUNTRY-$VERSION.map
export PLATFORMIO_BUILD_FLAGS="-DHELTEC_LORA32 $COMMONOPTS"
rm -f $SRCBIN $SRCMAP
pio run # -v
cp $SRCBIN release/firmware-HELTEC-$COUNTRY-$VERSION.bin
cp $SRCMAP release/firmware-HELTEC-$COUNTRY-$VERSION.map
done
zip release/firmware-$VERSION.zip release/firmware-*-$VERSION.bin
echo BUILT ALL

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[![Youtube video demo](desk-video-screenshot.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlNbMbVZlHI "Meshtastic early demo")
# Update 1
* 02/20/2020 - Our first alpha release of the radio software is ready for early users. If you'd like to try it, we'd love your feedback. Click [here](https://github.com/geeksville/Meshtastic-esp32/blob/master/README.md) for instructions.
## Meshtastic Android app
The source code for the Meshtastic Android app is [here](https://github.com/geeksville/Meshtastic-Android).
Soon our first alpha release of will be released here:

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*.bin
*.bin
*.map
*.zip

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#define NUM_CHANNELS_EU 10
// CN channel settings
#define CH0_CN 470f // MHz
#define CH0_CN 470.0f // MHz
#define CH_SPACING_CN 2.0f // MHz FIXME, this is just a guess for 470-510
#define NUM_CHANNELS_CN 20
// CN channel settings
#define CH0_JP 920f // MHz
#define CH0_JP 920.0f // MHz
#define CH_SPACING_JP 0.5f // MHz FIXME, this is just a guess for 920-925
#define NUM_CHANNELS_JP 10

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RTC_DATA_ATTR int bootCount = 0;
esp_sleep_source_t wakeCause; // the reason we booted this time
#define xstr(s) str(s)
#define str(s) #s
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Application
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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#endif
// Hello
DEBUG_MSG(APP_NAME " " APP_VERSION "\n");
DEBUG_MSG("%s %s\n", xstr(APP_NAME), str(APP_VERSION));
// Don't init display if we don't have one or we are waking headless due to a timer event
if (wakeCause == ESP_SLEEP_WAKEUP_TIMER)
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if (useBluetooth)
{
DEBUG_MSG("Starting bluetooth\n");
BLEServer *serve = initBLE(getDeviceName(), HW_VENDOR, APP_VERSION); // FIXME, use a real name based on the macaddr
BLEServer *serve = initBLE(getDeviceName(), HW_VENDOR, str(APP_VERSION)); // FIXME, use a real name based on the macaddr
createMeshBluetoothService(serve);
// Start advertising - this must be done _after_ creating all services