Set shortName via python API

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Hi all,

I’ve loked around about this but I can’t find an asnwer, is possible to set the shortName via python API?

Thanks for the support.

Regards.
Manuel

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I don’t think that is possible.
You can set owner using ‘–setowner’ and a shortname is created based on that.

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If you are using the “meshtastic.py” script, then yes, you can’t set the shortname. However, if you are writing your own python script, you can.

import meshtastic
device = meshtastic.SerialInterface()
device.setOwner( 'really long name', 'shr')
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in practice, i’ve found for non-interactive use, that you may have to sleep or call device.waitForConfig() or else the API may not be fully ready before you start doing things like setting the owner.

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oops I had intended that to be the normal behavior. I’ll fix the release so that if you have connectNow=True to the constructor (the default behavior), it will wait for config before returning.