Software

A collection of software we find interesting enough to outline on top of the official list:

Apps

Those are programs that run on a phone or tablet:

• official Android app, also shipped on F-Droid
• official iOS app

Note that those won't work without a LoRa transmitter, to which you typically connect over Bluetooth.

Computer clients

Those are clients that run on a normal computer (as opposed to a phone "app"):

• commandline client and Python library: can be used to talk to devices (packaged in Debian)

• rudimentary GTK client (packaged in Debian)

• contact (messaging)

• connect (LoRa-less client)

BBS and bots

A BBS (Bulletin Board System) is a server hooked up to Meshtastic to provide information, storage, etc.

• TC2-BBS-mesh: mail, channel directory, stats, fortune

• Frozen BBS: another BBS, rust

• hops: bot from nyme.sh

• meshing-around: "BBS" like functionality, ping, weather alerts, shell commands, games, quizzes, messaging, testing (one of the Puget mesh projects)

Gateways and bridges

A "gateway" is a server that will connect Meshtastic to another service or network.

• Gateways:

  • aprstastic: APRS gateway (one of the Puget mesh projects)
  • siltamesh: XMPP bridge
  • jeremiah-k/meshtastic-matrix-relay: Matrix bridge

• Monitoring:

  • hacktegic/meshtastic-prometheus-exporter: Prometheus metrics exporter, counts packets, signal levels, sensor data, last report time per node
  • cordelster/mesh-metrics: metrics sent over a Prometheus push gateway, odd design
  • tcivie/meshtastic-metrics-exporter: MQTT to TimescaleDB/Grafana monitoring, behind dash.mt.gt
  • Meshmonitor: maps, analytics, traceroutes, triggers

Flashing tools

• reflashtic: batch flashing tool I wrote, derived from work a friend did on a similar bash script

• meshfirmware: "automatic" flasher (one of the Puget mesh projects)