Work in progress

This is a custom firmware being developed for the LilyGo T-Deck, currently it is experimental & buggy.

I am terrible at C++ and still am trying to wrap my head around the language's logic, so most of this code has been shit out and written like a cowboy.

The project started out with as IRC bridge for Meshtastic over MQTT, just so I could say "we have IRC over radio", which later led to me modifying the official Meshtastic firmware to add extended features. I am deep in the rabbit whole of embedded development and am starting from scratch making this an entirely custom firmware.

This is being developed in my free time as a fun project. It is no where near being useful.

Previews

Flashing the Firmware

Using VS Code

1. Add your user to the dialout group: sudo gpasswd -a YOURUSERNAME dialout (You will need to re-login after adding your user to the dialout group for it to take affect)
2. Install Visual Studio Code
3. Install the PlatformIO plugin
4. Hold down the trackball on the device, turn it on, and plug it in to the computer.
5. Press F1 and select PlatformIO: Build
6. Press F1 and select PlatformIO: Upload

Using ESP Tool

1. Take the firmware.bin file from the release page and download it. (no releases yet, we still building)
2. Install esptool: pip install esptool
3. Hold down the trackball on the device, turn it on, and plug it in to the computer.
4. Confirm the serial device in your /dev directory (Your device will likely be /dev/ttyAMC0 or /dev/ttyUSB0)
5. Flash the device: esptool.py --chip esp32 --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --baud 115200 write_flash -z 0x1000 firmware.bin

Roapmap

• Wifi scanning & selection menu
• Saved wifi profiles
• IRC Client
• /raw command for IRC client to send raw data to the server
• Add scrolling backlog for IRC to see the last 200 messages
• ChatGPT
• SSH Client
• Wardriving
• Gotify
• Meshtastic
• Notifcations (All notifications will go here, from IRC, Gotify, Meshtastic, or anything) (Need to add internal speaker support for notification sounds)
• Status bar (Time, Date, Notification icons, Wifi icon, Battery icon with Percent)
• Trackball support
• Serial logging + debug logs stored in memory that can be viewed on the device itself.
• Allow specifying the IRC server, port, TLS, nick, etc...
• Proper disconnection & reconnection handling

Known issues

• Messages that exceed the screen width and wrap to the next line will throw off thje logic of calculating the max lines able to be displayed on the screen. Messages eventually go off screen.
• Input messages exceeding the screen width go off screen, and need to wrap and create a new input line, pushing up the backlog of messages.
• Some colors are not working when its only a background color or only contains a space

Contributors

Join us in #comms on irc.supernets.org if you want to get your hands dirty.

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