T-Beam Meshtastic compatibility

[geotibi]

I have 2 x Tbeam with Meshtastic firmware installed and trying to get data from an SRR dongle using the UART interface but I cannot get something readable. Will this work with a T-Beam Meshtastic device from LILYGO? My goal is to have a mesh network similar like https://radio.jsh.de/ but using LORA and I want to avoid the telcom network (3/4/5G) due to missing coverage in some areas.

[lukipuki]

Hi, I remember you from this Discourse post 🙂

Yes, this will work. My aim is to have the same features as radio.jsh.de and more! In particular, you can put a phone with 4G next to one of the T-Beams (e.g. on top of a hill) and the punches will be transmitted over MQTT to the finish area.

Try these serial module settings with a T-Beam.

    baud: BAUD_38400
    enabled: true
    mode: SIMPLE
    rxd: 13
    txd: 14
    timeout: 1000    

You also need a serial channel created. IIRC this is all that's needed. If you want to use MQTT, then somewhat more configuration is needed but it's well documented.

Unfortunately I don't have time right now to write more documentation, we have a big national championship in a month, I'll polish this project more in May.