I had a change of plan. I’ve installed the Python API on one of the radio Pi systems, relocated the node that was hanging in the window up into the loft and connected it to the Pi directly. The node has been set back to using Bluetooth. Now I can get the raw(-ish) data via USB using the meshtastic app and also access the node from the phone. The mobile node – or rather the other node that is intended to be a mobile node when I get a battery etc. – is now disconnected. I will run this off a power bank at some stage and do some range testing but my power bank is currently not even in this continent…
The raw(-ish) data is quite interesting and gives some insight into how the device works, although still at quite a high level. Two examples:
DEBUG | 08:33:54 34116 [RadioIf] Lora RX (id=0x2c340449 fr=0x0c to=0xff, WantAck=0, HopLim=2 Ch=0x8 encrypted rxSNR=-13.75 rxRSSI=-130
INFO | 08:33:54 34116 [Router] Received DeviceTelemetry from=0xda5c870c, id=0x2c340449, portnum=67, payloadlen=24
I am going to code something to work this data into a useful output, just for fun of course.
In other news, apparently the MacOS app has now been updated to fix the missing messages.