Meshtastic-python feature in Android app

[jdstroy]

@apt105

trying meshtastic --host 192.168.42.1 --info seems to just reset the device wifi, changing the SSID & password to blank, the CLI then times out. Though this also happens when trying it from my PC. @geeksville is this a new bug?

That sounds like this. What device firmware version are you using?

@apt105

It doesn’t seem to like the port that it sends to meshtastic though. I’ve tried stripping out the /proc/self/fd/ but that obviously doesn’t work either. I’m currently reading through the various github pages on it, but not getting anywhere yet.

It sounds like the Android API for doing this requires an already-open file descriptor. Also, you probably can’t access the UART that way directly; something (libusb?) needs to know how to use the opened fd and translate it into a serial byte stream on one side, but the other side would need to use the opened fd to interact with the USB UART bridge.

@apt105

But then I can’t seem to even get the example usbtest code to work after being compile, that just gives me this error:

~ $ termux-usb -e ./usbtest /dev/bus/usb/001/002
usbtest.c:13: int main(int, char **): assertion "!libusb_init(&context)" failed
/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/libexec/termux-callback: line 3: 13676 Aborted
$TERMUX_CALLBACK "$@"

libusb_init() failed. You’ll have to dig into why – but this seems like a likely explanation.