https://github.com/joshpirihi/meshtastic-mqtt

A python script to translate Meshtastic packets into a plain format. Currently sends positions to a Traccar instance, and publishes battery % and environmental plugin data to its own topic (eg for Grafana)
https://github.com/joshpirihi/meshtastic-mqtt

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A python script to translate Meshtastic packets into a plain format. Currently sends positions to a Traccar instance, and publishes battery % and environmental plugin data to its own topic (eg for Grafana)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/joshpirihi/meshtastic-mqtt
• Owner: joshpirihi
• Created: 2021-09-11T02:48:25.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-03-01T17:21:56.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-14T04:47:43.191Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: meshtastic, mqtt
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 70.3 KB
• Stars: 34
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 12
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Note: only functions with old v1.2 meshtastic device firmware

The newer version 2 of the device firmware supports JSON MQTT packets natively, so there is no need for this script.

# meshtastic-mqtt

A python script to translate Meshtastic MQTT location messages into a plain format that other systems can easily understand.  Currently takes position data and submits it to a Traccar instance, also publishes user info packets, battery levels and environmental plugin temperatures and humidity readings to mqtt as raw values.

The latest build of Meshtastic-device has support for publishing decrypted payloads, which you'll need in order to use this script.

There's a few config definitions at the top of meshtastic-mqtt.py that you'll need to change for your MQTT server.

# Installation

Clone the repo

`git clone https://github.com/joshpirihi/meshtastic-mqtt`

`cd meshtastic-mqtt`

Edit the main script and enter your broker and/or traccar host details

`nano meshtastic_mqtt/meshtastic_mqtt.py`

Install to your systen with pip

`pip install .`

Run

`meshtastic-mqtt`

There are some comments in meshtastic-mqtt.py that detail the tweaks needed to make this run under AppDaemon in Home Assistant.