Anyone familiar with Python? GUI Install Improvements

[dafeman]

The GUI install tool we use is pretty handy and I’d say it has allowed a lot of people to get Meshtastic installed in quick time. I reckon it would be sweet to Meshtasticize it a little. Perhaps if you know Python you might be keen to fork it and take a look. https://github.com/esphome/esphome-flasher

The main changes I see that would be handy are:

• increasing the baud rate to 921600 (would allow debug to be displayed after flashing).
• pulling the release .bin files from github (a very minor inconvenience currently but would be handy).
• improving the display of the upload progress (seems to start overwriting itself in the log screen).
• add some sweet graphics (just b’cuz).
• could add a couple of links to handy websites (eg. https://meshtastic.letstalkthis.com/, https://www.meshtastic.org/, https://meshtastic.discourse.group/).

I’m no programmer but I did dig around and found where the baud rate was set but from that point, I got no idea! I’m sure it would be trivial to the right person.

Just a thought anyway.

[dafeman]

Just another thought. A stretch goal could be to incorporate some of the app functionality for messaging, settings, maps etc. Be handy for those of us with only one phone!

[geeksville]

I think this is a great idea and not a not super huge amount of work for someone that has some python experience.

[dafeman]

Bump. Plenty of new community members have been playing with the Python API. Any takers on this project?