Radio with lora usb dongle?

[anothercarolina]

Hi @ianb527 welcome to the meshtastic community!

Fortunately there is already a development with a lora usb dongle

Meshtastic/Portduino/Pinetab now (kinda/barely) works

(Not ready for end users yet, but this was fun) So the ‘arduino on linux’ API layer seems mostly functional now. This allowed us to get meshtastic running on the “pinetab lora USB module” - which is essentially a USB to SPI to SX1278 radio. This is also the same hardware that is built into the lora versions of the pinetab (when they start shipping them). But there are a couple of reasons this might be useful for non pinetab users: Lots of devtype people have asked about running meshtastic …