Armbian + Meshtastic == mPWRD-OS

• Has meshing-around BBS loaded
• Full set of common dev tools needed to load mesh projects

• 🐧 Debian 13 trixie based.
• ❤️ Built with Armbian userpatches framework.
• 🛜 meshtasticd pre-installed and working out of the box.
• 🐍 meshtastic CLI pre-installed.
• 📡 contact Meshtastic TUI pre-installed.
• 🧙 mpwrd-menu simple OS / Meshtastic management utility.

See: Board Support wiki page.

1. Flash the latest image from the build tool, using balenaEtcher or a similar tool.
   • For boards with eMMC: Flash with rkdevtool. (Guide coming soon).
2. SSH into the device (or connect with Serial), login with default credentials. You will be prompted to change this upon first login.
3. Run mpwrd-menu to setup Meshtastic, change settings, and more!

To get a image to flash to SDcard for the femtofox follow these directions. I use a Ubuntu 24.04 Virtual Image to follow the steps below.

1. Checkout armbian/build and enter the dir

git clone https://github.com/armbian/build.git
cd build

2. Checkout this repo as "userpatches"

git clone https://github.com/spudgunman/mPWRD-OS userpatches

3. Compile!

./compile.sh luckfox-pico-mini build KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no

This example will build the configuration at config-luckfox-pico-mini.conf

The output image will go into .. build/output/images

Once booted and system is setup radio is lit up and working.. edit the /opt/meshing-around/config.ini as needed to install sercvice run from the /opt/meshing-around directory sudo bash etc/install_service.sh

your mPWRD-OS device should now be running meshing-around bot!