whould it be possible to theorectically recieve messages othe bluetooth to the T-Beam which are then forwarded over meshtastic PS (I’m a developer with the FreeTAKServer project)
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Yes, there is an existing bluetooth API (with ‘okay’ documentation). That’s what the android app uses to send/receive messages/locations. Other apps could use it as well. There is also meshtastic-python which is a python API for sending/receiving messages using the serial/USB version of that protocol.
Your project looks cool btw.
Welcome on board @LEfArEMe!
Implementing Meshtastic to be used together with FreeTAKServer should be pretty easy with meshtastic-python. Well, as long as FTS messages are not too long, to fit within one mesh packet at a time.
Restricted message lengths shouldn’t be a problem, as I believe ATAK is designed to be able to cope with short messages. Although, this should be taken in to consideration, while planning the implementation.
Hopefully we get a working Meshtastic implementation to FTS! What is the planned time frame for this project?
Thanks just to clarify the meshtastic python api can recieve data from other sources correct?
actually the TAK message format tends to get rather long that’s why were implementing our own serialization method the timeline isnt really known currently due to the fact that we havnt recieved the T-Beam yet.
Yep! It has send and receive apis (and you can send your own binary packets as you wish)
Perfect thank you so much