Not sending user info?

I finally got meshtastic up and running using some super cheap android phones. I am able to send messages between 2 devices. on the sending side it says N: hello but on the receiving end it shows ???: hello and it doesn’t show up on my phone, do i need to change a setting or is that how it is supposed to work?

I had the same issue at my first try. I ended up reflashing boch devices and clearing all app data on the phones.

Dont know what happend there and what step fixed it. It never happened again, i could not repoduce…

  • Pair both devices with Bluetooth
  • set a name for both
  • set channel setting at one device and
  • share the key or datamatrix to other device
  • open confirm and have fun

I’ll give that a shot when I get home, thank you

It sounds it is related to the ‘user id broadcast packet’ (the packet has a better name, but haven’t the time to seek for the real name :wink:).

You could try to insert, or modify, your user information for the node that does show up as ??? (to get the node rebroadcast the user information). One might also get the same symptoms, if I have understood correctly, if one uses unknown symbols or characters within the name field.