This is python bot for meshtastic intended to run on raspberry pi. Bot can be used to measure signal strength using ping, show telemetry and position data from nodes and send messages to channels/nodes.

Python depencies

pip install meshtatic pyserial

Start this on your home node.

git clone https://github.com/OH1KK/Meshtastic-mesh-replier.git
cd Meshtastic-mesh-replier
chmod +x mesh-replier.py

./mesh-replier.py

You should see messages

Connected to radio. My node ID: 1129887680 (0x4358b7c0)
Waiting for messages

and then you should se messages received from radio. There are messages, telemetry, position reports. They are visible on screen as they arrives. Same data is also logged into /tmp/mesh-replier.log

Then send 'ping' message from another node to your node.

If your node hears it, it replies

pong 2025-05-11 15:06:46. rxSNR 6.25 dB RSSI -63 dBm (direct)

and if packet is relayed through another node then you see reply like

pong 2025-05-11 15:07:53. rxSNR 6.5 dB RSSI -30 dBm (relayed via 24)

mesh-replier.py sets http listener to port 8080 and listens for message requests.

Sending message to channel

curl "http://192.168.1.123:8080/?ch_index=0&sendtext=Testing%201234"

Sending message to single node

curl "http://192.168.1.123:8080/?dest=ea0a0b88&sendtext=Testing%201234"

This assumes that your raspi has ip address 192.168.1.123.