I am currently here. I bought what I assumed was meshtastic preloaded, ttgo , but doesnt seem to connect. Does that mean I have to flash again?
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Hey,
this is definitely not a meshtastic preloaded device. I think this is âSoftRFâ firmware.
You are right, you have to flash the fw yourself. Pretty easy, just follow the instructions on github.
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oh, well and one is missing the antenna 
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I am not sure if it is save to power up a device without a antenna connected.
Maybe someone has some info about this?
Regarding the missing antenna: maybe you will buy a Moxon anrenna which really does a great job.
Got it working and they both work, the antenna i assume is just for better signal strength.
Not too sure how I would go about getting a replacement, does the 923 mhz matter for a replacement antenna?
The great thing about transmitting without an antenna is that you can safely burn the lora chip definitely
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welp not much i can do but break it and buy a new one cause it took more than a month to come in
You could even poke a specific length of wire into the center pin of the connector. Would be better than nothing! Around 81mm sticking out would be close for 1/4 wavelength at 923MHz. There are much better homemade antennas out there and Iâm sure someone could point you in the right direction with a more technical answer.
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Yeah Iâm gonna look for some small cooper wire to jam in there
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Will probably work better than the supplied ones!
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bummer - FWIW if you send an email to the TTGO corp acct linking to this thread, I bet they will give you some money back for the antenna and that it didnât have the right software. I bet theyâd like to know about the screwup. That wonât help with the long time required for shipping though - sorry about that.
It looks like I made it. No idea what I changed⌠lol
I hope its okay to attach my problem down here as it goes in the same direction:
I got two v.1.1 TBeams and tried to flash it with the EU865 file using the esphome-flasher as recommended on the meshtastic tutorial for newbees as me.
The Error I get (with different files): âUnexpected error: could not open port âCOM5â: PermissionError(13, âZugriff verweigertâ, None, 5)â
What am I doing wrong? Iâm new to this and I suspect that its a quiet simple mistake by me as the errors are always the sameâŚ
Thanks for your help in advance!
Welcome to the forum @Speedy and guten Abend,
is COM5 the only port in the combobox/dropdown menu? If so you probably selected the wrong com port.
Otherwise, which OS (windows, linux, mac) are you using?
Thx mate.
It all worked out 2mins after I wrote this and struggled hours beforeâŚ
The ports are okay somehow, as I could flash the second one on port COM4. Iâm using win10. Looked like my connection cable had some trouble, after a while it worked so thanks for your answer!
Youâre welcome. Glad to hear that you made it already.
Does anyone in here were using TTGO T-BEAM 923 MHz cause I have a hard time with it. Can anyone guide me?
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Can you please explain a little more what we should guide you? 
Regarding 923MHz: This frequency region is not added yet i think. I would suggest open an issue on github.
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Sorry for the late reply. The first thing i do when i got the tbeam board, i try to upload the firmware by using the esp32 software only that has been suggested but it doesnt work. So I tried to do manually by installing the gui software, platform.io and few other things and i didnt know that we need to do that. So i try again to upload the firmware and it work. Itâs funny just to think about it. And regarding about the 923MHz, I was using the closer one to it which is the Japan which used 913MHz and it works just fine for now i guess. 
Thanks @drewsed for your concern.
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in on linux how do i flash this t-beam 1.1 with meshtastic?
whats the command and where do the bin file need to be?