My RAK goodies arrived. Very nice and professional. And the PCB is tiny tiny - about 2/3 of a credit card sized.
I want to make some progress with @danv on the mqtt-matrix bridge first. But hopefully I’ll have support in for this board added to meshtastic in the next two weeks.
With this good news I went ahead and ordered:
2x Starter Kits
2x GPS Modules
2x Displays (They are SSD1306 and can be found elsewhere, but I’d like to see what they recommend)
2x WiFi Modules (in the off chance WiFi will be important in the future, but may not be necessary)
1x Solar Enclosure
1x Debug and Flash Tool
It looks like J11 IO1 and IO2 would need to be tapped in for Power and User buttons?
So early support for this board is now in mainline. I’m going to do a device release in a day or two to fix some other bugs and it will be included in that zip. However, since some of ya’ll are receiving these boards already I wanted to give you a drag-and-drop install-able image that should work pretty well.
Two caveats:
The android app will need an update before it talks BLE to these boards (oops) - I’ll do that soon.
There are still some TODO items, see the attached link
That was fast! Much faster than RAK getting my order out the door, ha.
I’ve already started working on a case design to fit on PALS webbing. I’m trying to make the whole thing at least splash-proof, but it will be higher cost than the T-Beam cases.
The board certainly is a nice size though, about 2x 18650s side by side.
I just ordered my first two devices last night, too bad I didn’t see this first. After I get more comfortable with them, getting them solar powered for long term deployment will definitely be my next goal.
It would be possible to add support for that module (though the small RAM is pretty limiting). Alas, I didn’t buy that version so I’ll need to order it to be able to debug. (I can try adding it as a build target but it would be untested)
Will definately get the 4630 from now on, just didn’t want to put these 4600 to waste. If you add them as build target I can try to learn how to debug them.
That’s how it always is for me. I buy it and then it goes on sale or gets an update lol. Who knows, maybe they threw a few extras in my kit. I did plug Meshtastic in the comments.