Package meshtastic
an API for Meshtastic devices
Primary class: SerialInterface Install with pip: "pip3 install meshtastic" Source code on github
properties of SerialInterface:
- localConfig - Current radio configuration and device settings, if you write to this the new settings will be applied to the device.
- nodes - The database of received nodes. Includes always up-to-date location and username information for each node in the mesh. This is a read-only datastructure.
- nodesByNum - like "nodes" but keyed by nodeNum instead of nodeId
- myInfo - Contains read-only information about the local radio device (software version, hardware version, etc)
Published PubSub topics
We use a publish-subscribe model to communicate asynchronous events. Available topics:
- meshtastic.connection.established - published once we've successfully connected to the radio and downloaded the node DB
- meshtastic.connection.lost - published once we've lost our link to the radio
- meshtastic.receive.text(packet) - delivers a received packet as a dictionary, if you only care about a particular type of packet, you should subscribe to the full topic name. If you want to see all packets, simply subscribe to "meshtastic.receive".
- meshtastic.receive.position(packet)
- meshtastic.receive.user(packet)
- meshtastic.receive.data.portnum(packet) (where portnum is an integer or well known PortNum enum)
- meshtastic.node.updated(node = NodeInfo) - published when a node in the DB changes (appears, location changed, username changed, etc…)
We receive position, user, or data packets from the mesh. You probably only care about meshtastic.receive.data. The first argument for that publish will be the packet. Text or binary data packets (from sendData or sendText) will both arrive this way. If you print packet you'll see the fields in the dictionary. decoded.data.payload will contain the raw bytes that were sent. If the packet was sent with sendText, decoded.data.text will also be populated with the decoded string. For ASCII these two strings will be the same, but for unicode scripts they can be different.
Example Usage
import meshtastic
import meshtastic.serial_interface
from pubsub import pub
def onReceive(packet, interface): # called when a packet arrives
print(f"Received: {packet}")
def onConnection(interface, topic=pub.AUTO_TOPIC): # called when we (re)connect to the radio
# defaults to broadcast, specify a destination ID if you wish
interface.sendText("hello mesh")
pub.subscribe(onReceive, "meshtastic.receive")
pub.subscribe(onConnection, "meshtastic.connection.established")
# By default will try to find a meshtastic device, otherwise provide a device path like /dev/ttyUSB0
interface = meshtastic.serial_interface.SerialInterface()
Expand source code
"""
# an API for Meshtastic devices
Primary class: SerialInterface
Install with pip: "[pip3 install meshtastic](https://pypi.org/project/meshtastic/)"
Source code on [github](https://github.com/meshtastic/python)
properties of SerialInterface:
- localConfig - Current radio configuration and device settings, if you write to this the new settings will be applied to
the device.
- nodes - The database of received nodes. Includes always up-to-date location and username information for each
node in the mesh. This is a read-only datastructure.
- nodesByNum - like "nodes" but keyed by nodeNum instead of nodeId
- myInfo - Contains read-only information about the local radio device (software version, hardware version, etc)
# Published PubSub topics
We use a [publish-subscribe](https://pypubsub.readthedocs.io/en/v4.0.3/) model to communicate asynchronous events. Available
topics:
- meshtastic.connection.established - published once we've successfully connected to the radio and downloaded the node DB
- meshtastic.connection.lost - published once we've lost our link to the radio
- meshtastic.receive.text(packet) - delivers a received packet as a dictionary, if you only care about a particular
type of packet, you should subscribe to the full topic name. If you want to see all packets, simply subscribe to "meshtastic.receive".
- meshtastic.receive.position(packet)
- meshtastic.receive.user(packet)
- meshtastic.receive.data.portnum(packet) (where portnum is an integer or well known PortNum enum)
- meshtastic.node.updated(node = NodeInfo) - published when a node in the DB changes (appears, location changed, username changed, etc...)
We receive position, user, or data packets from the mesh. You probably only care about meshtastic.receive.data. The first argument for
that publish will be the packet. Text or binary data packets (from sendData or sendText) will both arrive this way. If you print packet
you'll see the fields in the dictionary. decoded.data.payload will contain the raw bytes that were sent. If the packet was sent with
sendText, decoded.data.text will **also** be populated with the decoded string. For ASCII these two strings will be the same, but for
unicode scripts they can be different.
# Example Usage
```
import meshtastic
import meshtastic.serial_interface
from pubsub import pub
def onReceive(packet, interface): # called when a packet arrives
print(f"Received: {packet}")
def onConnection(interface, topic=pub.AUTO_TOPIC): # called when we (re)connect to the radio
# defaults to broadcast, specify a destination ID if you wish
interface.sendText("hello mesh")
pub.subscribe(onReceive, "meshtastic.receive")
pub.subscribe(onConnection, "meshtastic.connection.established")
# By default will try to find a meshtastic device, otherwise provide a device path like /dev/ttyUSB0
interface = meshtastic.serial_interface.SerialInterface()
```
"""
import base64
import logging
import os
import platform
import random
import socket
import sys
import stat
import threading
import traceback
import time
from datetime import datetime
from typing import *
import serial
import timeago
import google.protobuf.json_format
from pubsub import pub
from dotmap import DotMap
from tabulate import tabulate
from google.protobuf.json_format import MessageToJson
from meshtastic.util import fixme, catchAndIgnore, stripnl, DeferredExecution, Timeout
from meshtastic.node import Node
from meshtastic import (mesh_pb2, portnums_pb2, apponly_pb2, admin_pb2,
telemetry_pb2, remote_hardware_pb2,
channel_pb2, config_pb2, util)
# Note: To follow PEP224, comments should be after the module variable.
LOCAL_ADDR = "^local"
"""A special ID that means the local node"""
BROADCAST_NUM = 0xffffffff
"""if using 8 bit nodenums this will be shortend on the target"""
BROADCAST_ADDR = "^all"
"""A special ID that means broadcast"""
OUR_APP_VERSION = 20300
"""The numeric buildnumber (shared with android apps) specifying the
level of device code we are guaranteed to understand
format is Mmmss (where M is 1+the numeric major number. i.e. 20120 means 1.1.20
"""
publishingThread = DeferredExecution("publishing")
class ResponseHandler(NamedTuple):
"""A pending response callback, waiting for a response to one of our messages"""
# requestId: int - used only as a key
callback: Callable
# FIXME, add timestamp and age out old requests
class KnownProtocol(NamedTuple):
"""Used to automatically decode known protocol payloads"""
name: str
# portnum: int, now a key
# If set, will be called to prase as a protocol buffer
protobufFactory: Callable = None
# If set, invoked as onReceive(interface, packet)
onReceive: Callable = None
def _onTextReceive(iface, asDict):
"""Special text auto parsing for received messages"""
# We don't throw if the utf8 is invalid in the text message. Instead we just don't populate
# the decoded.data.text and we log an error message. This at least allows some delivery to
# the app and the app can deal with the missing decoded representation.
#
# Usually btw this problem is caused by apps sending binary data but setting the payload type to
# text.
logging.debug(f'in _onTextReceive() asDict:{asDict}')
try:
asBytes = asDict["decoded"]["payload"]
asDict["decoded"]["text"] = asBytes.decode("utf-8")
except Exception as ex:
logging.error(f"Malformatted utf8 in text message: {ex}")
_receiveInfoUpdate(iface, asDict)
def _onPositionReceive(iface, asDict):
"""Special auto parsing for received messages"""
logging.debug(f'in _onPositionReceive() asDict:{asDict}')
if 'decoded' in asDict:
if 'position' in asDict['decoded'] and 'from' in asDict:
p = asDict["decoded"]["position"]
logging.debug(f'p:{p}')
p = iface._fixupPosition(p)
logging.debug(f'after fixup p:{p}')
# update node DB as needed
iface._getOrCreateByNum(asDict["from"])["position"] = p
def _onNodeInfoReceive(iface, asDict):
"""Special auto parsing for received messages"""
logging.debug(f'in _onNodeInfoReceive() asDict:{asDict}')
if 'decoded' in asDict:
if 'user' in asDict['decoded'] and 'from' in asDict:
p = asDict["decoded"]["user"]
# decode user protobufs and update nodedb, provide decoded version as "position" in the published msg
# update node DB as needed
n = iface._getOrCreateByNum(asDict["from"])
n["user"] = p
# We now have a node ID, make sure it is uptodate in that table
iface.nodes[p["id"]] = n
_receiveInfoUpdate(iface, asDict)
def _receiveInfoUpdate(iface, asDict):
if "from" in asDict:
iface._getOrCreateByNum(asDict["from"])["lastReceived"] = asDict
iface._getOrCreateByNum(asDict["from"])["lastHeard"] = asDict.get("rxTime")
iface._getOrCreateByNum(asDict["from"])["snr"] = asDict.get("rxSnr")
iface._getOrCreateByNum(asDict["from"])["hopLimit"] = asDict.get("hopLimit")
"""Well known message payloads can register decoders for automatic protobuf parsing"""
protocols = {
portnums_pb2.PortNum.TEXT_MESSAGE_APP: KnownProtocol("text", onReceive=_onTextReceive),
portnums_pb2.PortNum.POSITION_APP: KnownProtocol("position", mesh_pb2.Position, _onPositionReceive),
portnums_pb2.PortNum.NODEINFO_APP: KnownProtocol("user", mesh_pb2.User, _onNodeInfoReceive),
portnums_pb2.PortNum.ADMIN_APP: KnownProtocol("admin", admin_pb2.AdminMessage),
portnums_pb2.PortNum.ROUTING_APP: KnownProtocol("routing", mesh_pb2.Routing),
portnums_pb2.PortNum.TELEMETRY_APP: KnownProtocol("telemetry", telemetry_pb2.Telemetry),
portnums_pb2.PortNum.REMOTE_HARDWARE_APP: KnownProtocol("remotehw", remote_hardware_pb2.HardwareMessage),
portnums_pb2.PortNum.SIMULATOR_APP: KnownProtocol("simulator", mesh_pb2.Compressed),
portnums_pb2.PortNum.TRACEROUTE_APP: KnownProtocol("traceroute", mesh_pb2.RouteDiscovery)
}
Sub-modules
meshtastic.admin_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.apponly_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.ble
meshtastic.ble_interface
-
Bluetooth interface
meshtastic.cannedmessages_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.channel_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.config_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.device_metadata_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.deviceonly_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.globals
-
Globals singleton class …
meshtastic.localonly_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.mesh_interface
-
Mesh Interface class
meshtastic.mesh_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.module_config_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.mqtt_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.node
-
Node class
meshtastic.portnums_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.remote_hardware
-
Remote hardware
meshtastic.remote_hardware_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.rtttl_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.serial_interface
-
Serial interface class
meshtastic.storeforward_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.stream_interface
-
Stream Interface base class
meshtastic.supported_device
-
Supported Meshtastic Devices - This is a class and collection of Meshtastic devices. It is used for auto detection as to which device might be connected.
meshtastic.tcp_interface
-
TCPInterface class for interfacing with http endpoint
meshtastic.telemetry_pb2
-
Generated protocol buffer code.
meshtastic.test
-
With two radios connected serially, send and receive test messages and report back if successful.
meshtastic.tests
meshtastic.tunnel
-
Code for IP tunnel over a mesh …
meshtastic.util
-
Utility functions.
Global variables
var BROADCAST_ADDR
-
A special ID that means broadcast
var BROADCAST_NUM
-
if using 8 bit nodenums this will be shortend on the target
var LOCAL_ADDR
-
A special ID that means the local node
var OUR_APP_VERSION
-
The numeric buildnumber (shared with android apps) specifying the level of device code we are guaranteed to understand
format is Mmmss (where M is 1+the numeric major number. i.e. 20120 means 1.1.20
Classes
class KnownProtocol (name: str, protobufFactory: Callable = None, onReceive: Callable = None)
-
Used to automatically decode known protocol payloads
Expand source code
class KnownProtocol(NamedTuple): """Used to automatically decode known protocol payloads""" name: str # portnum: int, now a key # If set, will be called to prase as a protocol buffer protobufFactory: Callable = None # If set, invoked as onReceive(interface, packet) onReceive: Callable = None
Ancestors
- builtins.tuple
Instance variables
var name : str
-
Alias for field number 0
var onReceive : Callable
-
Alias for field number 2
var protobufFactory : Callable
-
Alias for field number 1
class ResponseHandler (callback: Callable)
-
A pending response callback, waiting for a response to one of our messages
Expand source code
class ResponseHandler(NamedTuple): """A pending response callback, waiting for a response to one of our messages""" # requestId: int - used only as a key callback: Callable # FIXME, add timestamp and age out old requests
Ancestors
- builtins.tuple
Instance variables
var callback : Callable
-
Alias for field number 0