meshtastic-flasher 1.0.89

Graphical user interface to flash Meshtastic firmware to devices

Meshtastic-gui-installer

Cross Platform GUI for installing Meshtastic Firmware. It also checks and updates the RAK 4631 and LilyGo T-Echo bootloaders.

Example showing esp32 device:

Example showing a RAK WisBlock Core RAK4631:

Advanced Options

Settings

Installation

• For the single file executable see Releases. There is a readme.txt that shows the steps to get started.

• Steps to install from PyPi (if you do not want the single executable method described above):

Linux/Mac:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install meshtastic-flasher

Windows command prompt: (assuming Python3 was installed from https://www.python.org/downloads/ and python --version reports 3.6+):

python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install meshtastic-flasher

To run, type in "meshtastic-flasher" from a command prompt.

Here is are two screen shots showing an installation on windows after starting a "command prompt":

And the same session (but showing the text):

c:\>mkdir some_dir

c:\>cd some_dir

c:\some_dir>python --version
Python 3.9.9

c:\some_dir>python -m venv venv

c:\some_dir>venv\Scripts\activate

(venv) c:\some_dir>python -m pip install --upgrade pip
Requirement already satisfied: pip in .\venv\lib\site-packages (21.2.4)
Collecting pip
  Using cached pip-22.0.3-py3-none-any.whl (2.1 MB)
Installing collected packages: pip
  Attempting uninstall: pip
    Found existing installation: pip 21.2.4
    Uninstalling pip-21.2.4:
      Successfully uninstalled pip-21.2.4
Successfully installed pip-22.0.3

(venv) c:\some_dir>pip install meshtastic-flasher
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(venv) c:\some_dir>meshtastic-flasher

If you close that command prompt, but want to run meshtastic-flasher again:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.1415]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME>cd c:\

c:\>cd some_dir

c:\some_dir>venv\Scripts\activate

(venv) c:\some_dir>meshtastic-flasher

Updating

To update a pip-installed installation, run the following commands:

Linux/Mac:

source venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade meshtastic-flasher

Windows command prompt:

venv\Scripts\Activate
pip install --upgrade meshtastic-flasher

Advanced options

To go into the Advanced options page, press the "A" key.

The options are:

• Update mode for esp32 devices
• RAK Bootloader update (for RAK4631 nrf52)

Other options

• The ability to change Device Settings has been added.
• The ability to do a "factory reset" is an options in the Settings page (Admin tab).
• "Hotkeys" and "Tips" are also options
• Advanced options has several capabilities: view the equivalent of meshtastic --info, backup Device configuration to yaml file, restore Device configuration from yaml file, and send a simple text message

Installation for Development

• Setup virtual environment and install required packages

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
# or if on windows: venv\scripts\activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install .

To lint

pylint *.py

or

make lint

To test

pytest

for more info

https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_Python

https://pygithub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html

https://meshtastic.org/

https://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-device

Tested on

• Ubuntu 20.04, 21.04, and 22.04 (x86_64)

If you get this error:

qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because not Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vkkrrdisplay, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, xcb.
Aborted.

Then this might solve the issue:

sudo apt-get install '^libxcb.*-dev' libx11-xcb-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libxrender-dev libxi-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev

• Fedora 33 (x86_64)
• Manjaro 21.2.3 (x86_64)
• Linux Mint 20.3 (x86_64)
• MacOS (arm and x86)
• Windows 7, 8.1, 10, and 11 (may work on other versions)
• ArchlinuxArm with the following commands:

pacman -S qt6 pyside6
pip install meshtastic-flasher

Known limitations

The following are known limitations:

• Raspberry Pi is not available, since it is arm-based and there are no pre-built libraries for PySide. There is an interesting link here: https://github.com/piwheels/packages/issues/4#issuecomment-772058821 .

• Ubuntu 20.04 is the version used for testing, it may work with other versions (Known issue with Wayland https://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-gui-installer/issues/8 )

• Ubuntu 18.04 will not work as PySide6/Qt6 libraries are not available.

• Many linux arm variations will work as Qt does not support arm. See https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/supported-platforms.html

• If you just run the pip install meshtastic-flasher outside of a fresh python virtual environment (like say on a mac that has used brew to install things) you may get this error:

    from meshtastic_flasher.installer import main
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/meshtastic_flasher/installer.py", line 20, in <module>
    from meshtastic.util import detect_supported_devices, findPorts, detect_windows_needs_driver

If you get this error, then install in a python virtual environment as described in the Installation step above.

• Windows 11 works with CP210x Universal Windows Driver, and you must start the command prompt as Administrator

• Windows 10 will not work with python v3.8.0 due to issue https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56757044/pyside2-dll-load-failed-the-specified-procedure-could-not-be-found/70533728#70533728 . It has been tested on python 3.10 on Windows 10.

Note to Devs

Please keep code as simple as possible. PyQT has a tendency to get complicated.