Brilliant! The whole "Citizen's Band" chat thing is interesting but the BBS functionality will elevate this to a proper information service. I was a BBS user back in the 1980s starting at 300 baud. In those days, an Apple ][ with a 20 meg hard disk made for a plenty capable host. Today an RP2040 with a tiny uSD card should be able to fill that role.
I have this running on a RPi3 with Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS server image. I'm familiar with Linux so it wasn't too tough. I realized I wasn't getting the VM bash prompt because I had to run the 'source' command before running the command to invoke the VM. At least I think that's what it was. Thanks for the tutorial and happy meshtastic to you all.
Using your video I was just able to get this running on a Rasperberry Pi 4B running the latest Debian Bookworm. Using a Heltec V3 via serial at the moment but I'd like to use TCP/IP and connect to my TBeam router on the roof.
I don't recall seeing any special firmware requirements but for the record I'm running 2.3.13 (latest beta). I was testing using the RPi Chromium browser to remote update my device.
I have old Ubuntu on orange pi lite. Can I install this bbs on it, too? Then I just connect a Heltec or waveshare+pi pico board via USB, with meshtastic on it, and it should work?
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Brilliant!
The whole "Citizen's Band" chat thing is interesting but the BBS functionality will elevate this to a proper information service. I was a BBS user back in the 1980s starting at 300 baud. In those days, an Apple ][ with a 20 meg hard disk made for a plenty capable host. Today an RP2040 with a tiny uSD card should be able to fill that role.
You are right. This takes it to a whole new level thanks to the creator TC2.
Very cool. This will obviously increase the usefulness of Meshtastic greatly. Thank you for the video and step-by-step instructions.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent video. Got me up and running. Can't wait to see what else this can do.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the super ground-up demo. Fabulous potential this mesh !
Thanks for watching
I have this running on a RPi3 with Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS server image. I'm familiar with Linux so it wasn't too tough. I realized I wasn't getting the VM bash prompt because I had to run the 'source' command before running the command to invoke the VM. At least I think that's what it was. Thanks for the tutorial and happy meshtastic to you all.
Glad to hear you got it working !
Using your video I was just able to get this running on a Rasperberry Pi 4B running the latest Debian Bookworm. Using a Heltec V3 via serial at the moment but I'd like to use TCP/IP and connect to my TBeam router on the roof.
I believ there are still problems with connecting via TCP/IP to meshtastic nodes.
running well on linux mint 21.3 thankyou so much for this
Good to hear
also running on a raspberry pi using raspberry pi linux
I was thinking about trying it glad to see someone is running it this way. Are you using PiOS?
@@zacharyjohnson7192 Yes, the pi400 is doing lots of little jobs, this is just another string in its bow.
Well done !
Great video, will install it this week on a rpi. Question, do you need to install a particular version of Meshtestic on the Heltec module?
I don't recall seeing any special firmware requirements but for the record I'm running 2.3.13 (latest beta). I was testing using the RPi Chromium browser to remote update my device.
@@endurodriversuper, I will go that way. Thanks
I am trying this with a pi zero 2 but getting errors. No luck yet.
I have old Ubuntu on orange pi lite. Can I install this bbs on it, too? Then I just connect a Heltec or waveshare+pi pico board via USB, with meshtastic on it, and it should work?
Yes - I think it will work. I installed it on Ubuntu 22.04.4
What is BBS software?
Bulletin Board System