buildroot-meshtastic

Buildroot packaging for Meshtastic and dependencies.

Intended for use with embedded Linux devices:

• LuckFox Pico Series
  • Compilation working with uClibc-ng
• Sipeed LicheeRV Nano
  • Primary testing target currently, working!
  • Compilation working with musl
• Milk-V Duo Series
  • Untested
  • Compilation working with musl
• Raspberry Pi Zero series
  • Untested
  • Compilation working with glibc

Should work with other devices supported by Buildroot as well.

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Usage

Prebuilt images are provided in the Actions tab.

Build it yourself!

1. Clone the Buildroot repository for the target device
2. Clone this repository into the external/ directory
3. Enable the packages in the Buildroot "external" menuconfig

   cd buildroot
   make BR2_EXTERNAL=/absolute/path_to/external/ menuconfig

4. Build the image

   cd buildroot
   make

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What's Included?

Packages

Package	Description
meta-cli-tools	Meta-Package for installing common CLI tools
meshtasticd	Meshtastic 'native-linux' daemon
meshtasticd-web	meshtasticd web server
python-meshtastic	Meshtastic python library (untested/revisit)
python-meshing-around	BBS / Bot for meshtastic

Dependencies

Package	Description
host-compat-python-pip	host-dep for multiple packages
host-compat-poetry-core	host-dep for multiple packages
host-compat-python-click	dep for host-python-platformio
host-python-tabulate	dep for host-python-platformio
host-python-platformio	host-dep for meshtasticd
liborcania	dep for meshtasticd-web
libyder	dep for meshtasticd-web
libulfius	dep for meshtasticd-web
python-dotmap	dep for python-meshtastic
python-tabulate	dep for python-meshtastic
python-pypubsub	dep for python-meshtastic
python-print-color	dep for python-meshtastic
python-geographiclib	dep for python-geopy
python-geopy	dep for python-meshing-around
python-ephem	dep for python-meshing-around
python-maidenhead	dep for python-meshing-around
python-openmeteo-sdk	dep for python-openmeteo-requests
python-openmeteo-requests	dep for python-meshing-around

Vendor-specific Dependencies

Package	Description
lichee-cvi-pinmux	Used for mapping pins on LicheeRV Nano, already included on Milk-V Duo.

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References

• Keeping customizations outside of Buildroot