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[Feature Request]: Meshing via wire interface (USART)

Open h0lad opened this issue 11 months ago • 1 comments

Platform

ESP32

Description

Hey All!

as 2.6 is coming up I'd have a quiet specific wish:

It would be great to have meshing via a spare USART.

Why? The plan is to build a 433MHz/868MHz router hub. And the only option to do this right now switching on the incredibly power hungry Wifi-modem on on my ESP32 (which then enables me to use either MQTT or the new LAN-meshing in v2.6) - what still relies on infrastructure.

Thank you!

h0lad avatar Feb 16 '25 08:02 h0lad

Hi! Yes, we're excited for 2.6 as well.

Several of the developers are also interested in dual radio nodes.

See also:

  • https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/issues/1638
  • https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/issues/4760

It appears to be a little bit more work than adding another UART, so at the moment looking at it for 3.0

fifieldt avatar Feb 16 '25 09:02 fifieldt