Help in prototyping a new Meshtastic device based on the seeedstudio WM1110-A tracker

Development Hardware
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Hi Meshtastic People!

I’m willing to create a tracker based on the Wio Tracker 1110 Dev Board from Seeed.

In order to do that I’ve asked on the discord, and followed these instructions:

At this point I tried to look for the board from the smartphone meshastic app. A device showed up, but after 10 attempts it could not connect.

If I read the platformio.ini file [2] I see the default_envs parameter set to tbeam. Don’t see any wio-dev-1110.

is this ok?

Also: how do I tell the board I have addedd a oled screen on the i2c, a pushbutton and a WS2813 LED?
In other words, this is my board in a dev level stage:

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Any advice is appreciated!

[2]

[platformio]
default_envs = tbeam
;default_envs = pico
;default_envs = tbeam-s3-core
;default_envs = tbeam0.7
;default_envs = heltec-v1
;default_envs = heltec-v2_0
;default_envs = heltec-v2_1
;default_envs = heltec-wireless-tracker
;default_envs = chatter2
;default_envs = tlora-v1
;default_envs = tlora_v1_3
;default_envs = tlora-v2
;default_envs = tlora-v2-1-1_6
;default_envs = tlora-v2-1-1_6-tcxo
;default_envs = tlora-t3s3-v1
;default_envs = lora-relay-v1 # nrf board
;default_envs = t-echo
;default_envs = canaryone
;default_envs = nrf52840dk-geeksville
;default_envs = native # lora-relay-v1 # nrf52840dk-geeksville # linux # or if you'd like to change the default to something like lora-relay-v1 put that here
;default_envs = nano-g1
;default_envs = pca10059_diy_eink
;default_envs = meshtastic-diy-v1
;default_envs = meshtastic-diy-v1_1
;default_envs = meshtastic-dr-dev
;default_envs = m5stack-coreink
;default_envs = rak4631
;default_envs = rak10701
;default_envs = wio-e5

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Which environment did you choose when building and uploading? I believe currently the wio-e5 environment in that branch does not fit into the flash, so I don’t think building could have been successful. Unfortunately support for this is not ready and it if it would in the future, it’s likely only a stripped down version of the firmware.

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I’m successfully building and uploading for that board, from that specific branch. Is that correct? Here is a screen grab of the whole process.

Not the wio-e5 but the WM1110 board.

It says success, but it doesn’t work. Any help appreciated.

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Oh, sorry, I thought you were referring to the wio-e5.

Unfortunately the LR1110 is also far from working, there is no RadioLib support yet. The pull request also says “DOES NOT WORK”.

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Hi.
Thanks for your replies. They are super useful indeed.
Understood, Wio tracker dev needs some time to be added.

I have a Wio-E5-LE Dev Kit as well. How can I use this to prototype a meshtastic device?

What I did:

  • switch back to master (because apperntly is supported)
  • commented ;default_envs = tbeam and uncommented default_envs = wio-e5

When I try to build it says this.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help, you are great.

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Unfortunately as I mentioned is that device also not yet supported. It doesn’t fit in flash and the file system is not working.

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thanks for your replies!