Progress to include Hardware to meshtastic firmware stales

[radonslide]

Will hardware support still be included in Meshtastic?
Your pull request "meshtastic/firmware#7579" has now been given the status “Stale.”
It would be great if you could take a look at it.
I am already using four nodes based on your design and would be happy if the newer firmware could be used directly via the next releases.

Best regards, Michael

[brad112358]

I'm happy to hear someone has built this and presumably is finding it useful! It looks like I also missed the stale notice and now my firmware PR is closed. I'll try to get it re-opened and then, perhaps some comments that others are using this will help get the Meshtastic folks to at least merge my PR. I'm not sure how many users it will take to get them to release binaries or if most users are able to build their own firmware or not. I may have to maintain images here, at least for a while. Please let me know if you need updated firmware and which branch or tag you would want.

[radonslide]

I saw that the PR is open again.
Thank you very much. 👍

[brad112358]

Michael, How did your builds go? Do you have any feedback on my build instructions? Have you made any interesting changes or improvements in your builds? Feedback is always appreciated!

[radonslide]

Apart from installing a MINI GPS module, I did nothing other than what was described in your instructions. I think the design is absolutely fine, and everything is easy to understand. I just installed the whole thing in a small plastic distribution box with an N connector and put an Alfa antenna on top of it.

[radonslide]

Hope your PR is slowly making its way into the sources.
From what I've read, all that's missing is a "check label".
I took a look at the whole thing in vsCode to test it out and compiled my own updated firmware.
Everything works very well.
I couldn't wait. :)

Regards, Michael

[kuzk0]

Hi! Thank you so much for your work! I noticed that your PR has been successfully implemented in version 2.8.0.65c2486 and I'm certainly happy about it! After I repeated your project with the NRF52840, I didn't notice that I was using a slightly different module, namely CDEBYTE E22P-868M30S. And in the beginning it didn't work. I was afraid that everything had burned down, as I had not taken into account some precautions during the implementation of the project. Since I'm a beginner and soldering for the first time, this project was really easy for me with a minimum number of wires. But because of my carelessness, the node didn't work at the very beginning. And the current consumption at the time of sending the request was the same as in idle time, about 30 mA. Still, it's very interesting. I also rummaged through the documentation and found that the E22P-868M30S module has its own connection diagram.:

I tried to connect

NRF	E22P	Comment
VCC	EN	Wire
100	TX/RX CTRL	Already connected

And it worked! But this module has a different power diagram compared to the E22-900M33S, and with a gain value of 15 in the application, I still get about 100 mA of current consumption at the time the signal is sent.

I also tried downloading the latest firmware 2.8.0.65c2486, but unfortunately it didn't work. The node just didn't start. In any case, version >2.5 is more than relevant for my region, and thank you for your work!

I also noticed that you have a fork of the meshcore repository. Can I assume that the same project may have its own firmware?