{"id":32,"date":"2025-10-09T22:19:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.w8par.org\/?p=32"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:15:45","slug":"meshtastic-quick-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kb.w8par.org\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Meshtastic Quick Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Update firmware (<a href=\"https:\/\/flasher.meshtastic.org\/\">https:\/\/flasher.meshtastic.org\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under Radio (<a href=\"https:\/\/meshtastic.org\/docs\/configuration\/radio\">https:\/\/meshtastic.org\/docs\/configuration\/radio<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>LoRA\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Set Region<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>User\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Enable Amateur Mode<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Set Callsign \/ Shortname (See <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.w8par.org\/?p=12\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kb.w8par.org\/?p=12\">Node Naming Convention<\/a>)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(If this is an unmonitored \/ Tower node): Set unmessagable<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This requires setting your node type to type Router, and then changing your node type back to client.  This setting gets set automatically with router and will stay set.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Position\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Set Location (disable all but elevation) to fixed, broadcast one hour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bluetooth\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Change the bluetooth pin! (if required)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Under Module (<a href=\"https:\/\/meshtastic.org\/docs\/configuration\/module\">https:\/\/meshtastic.org\/docs\/configuration\/module<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Telemetry\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Enable power telemetry once an hour as required<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: When you change the node to router in order to set unmessagable, it sets the location broadcast to 12 hours. So you&#8217;ll need to set it back to an hour depending on the order you do things in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update firmware (https:\/\/flasher.meshtastic.org\/) Under Radio (https:\/\/meshtastic.org\/docs\/configuration\/radio) Under Module (https:\/\/meshtastic.org\/docs\/configuration\/module) Note: When you change the node to router in order to set unmessagable, it sets the location broadcast to 12 hours. So you&#8217;ll need to set it back to an hour depending on the order you do things in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meshtastic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.w8par.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.w8par.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.w8par.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.w8par.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.w8par.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kb.w8par.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/kb.w8par.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.w8par.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.w8par.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.w8par.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}