Hi Charles, We are working on the manual. Yes the switch on the LORA radio needs to be in the UP/ON position for the battery to charge. Disconnecting or turning off wifi when not in use sho...
@Kirk No problem any other questions lmk. Spec5 also is working on how to address the waveshare issue so hope they figure that out for other nomad users.
@sean Thank you for the all the help, I will give it a try, as soon as I can get enough time.
What settings on the phone and device are recommended for maximal battery life? With the phone on a LoRa device off, the phone drained to shutdown in <12hr with BT/WiFi on and display off. Also...
Have to use the cable provided sadly as most are too thicc to full seat into the usbc port. If want to fix it you can make the hole larger for all cables to fit.
@J nope, it has to be replaced with something else. Waveshare refused to address the issue.
is this something that can be fixed with a firmware update?
@J https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PND1GlMSrEM Basically it will not handle more than 56 bytes per message over longfast and also has shown to drift off frequency causing packets to only b...
this sucks real bad when you are cross-country driving and whenever you check it's no longer connected and down to 1 battery light.
can you explain what you mean by "known corruption issues?"
whoops did you save the image for it? If not will probably need to follow what was done in the forum post here: https://specfive.com/community/xenforum/topic/146067/danger-danger-will-robinon I ha...
I shut it down and turn it on again.Now it goes bricked. Black screen with _Normal white Raspberry Pi Welcome Screen at the start.
spec5@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get upgradeReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneReading state information... DoneCalculating upgrade... Done0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 t...
@Sigmund Was able to start from base rpi image and have a working updated mestastic firmware. One thing I noticed was the setting in /etc/meshtasticd/config.yaml was missing for this board but incl...
To everyone that owns a nomad, the waveashre sx126x xxxm that comes witht he nomad has known corruption issues now. It cant send longer messages and can even just not recieve or send messages to to...
Also note still cant seem to get the gps update since I got it.
I am sorry to spec5 for getting frustrated, I just had random small issues and was causing the nomad to be unuseable. First was the touch screen would freak out when would go to the edges (was a lo...
How did you guys get the gps to report on map? Only got it to every go through my phone not web app. I hate the rpi OS so im just going straight debian and re doing all the mesh stuff (there versio...
