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Telegram bot that forwards messages to and from Meshtastic device
The purpose of this bot is to act as a bridge between local Meshtastic conference and Telegram chat room. Nicks (Your Name field for Meshtastic) are passed through in both directions.
See official Meshtastic Python list
Legend:
Python 3.8+ is required.
When enabled, this bot listens on specified port and renders device map.
Default value is 3600 seconds. Can be changed using ?tail=xxx
query string, e.g.
https://mesh.0x21h.net/?tail=7200
cat mesh.ini.example|egrep -v '^#' > mesh.ini
mesh.ini
mesh.ini
mesh.ini
Meshtastic section to reflect your device configuration (usually not required, for Linux at least)sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
gpasswd -a youruser dialout
/start.sh
/start
- basic command to confirm that bot is up and running/nodes
- return list of known nodes (including those reachable via other hops)/qr
- return active QR code for configuring new Meshtastic devices/map
- return link to map/distance
- print distance to other Meshtastic devices (in meters)
Sample answer:UR5YBM-aa60: 19m
UT3ULJ: 2,316m
/ping
- ping currently connected Meshtastic node and get response.
Sample answer:Pong from UR5YBM-aa60 at 10.00 SNR time=9.632s
/stats
- get some stats for current node
Sample anwser:Locations: 1234. Messages: 20
/reboot
- request Meshtastic device reboot. Requires respective admin privileges.
/uptime
- returns bot version/uptime
$ ./mesh.py --help
usage: mesh.py [-h] {post2mesh,run,command} ...
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
commands:
{post2mesh,run,command}
commands
post2mesh site command
run run
command Send command
Sending messages to Meshtastic device:
$ ./mesh.py post2mesh -m "test"
Sending commands to Meshtastic device:
$ ./mesh.py command -c reboot
This bot has experimental support for MQTT-only mode.
If you want to use the bot without Meshtastic hardware, you need to edit mqtt.ini
file and
enable MQTT
section in mesh.ini
file.
This requires setting [Meshtastic]
section device
to mqtt
.
This bot provides bi-directional text messaging with APRS nodes using APRS-IS. Meshtastic nodes with valid amateur call signs will be announced to APRS network. See
[APRS]
configuration section.