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* Touch boards get a drawn on-screen keypad rather than requiring a hardware keyboard. The V4 is the board this feature exists for, so it has to be usable there. The console draws its own keys and reads touch straight from the board driver, which is already independent of LVGL (lvglTouchRead is only an adapter feeding it). * wada.ui gets a console backend behind the same names. This is far more capable than 'no UI' implied: console mode still owns a real pixel panel, and writePixelsRGB565 already exists outside LVGL on four of the six display drivers. So canvas works (the app's buffer is already RGB565) and map works (tiles are already decoded RGB565, and the projection has no LVGL in it). What is actually lost is LVGL's interaction model, not its drawing: scroll containers, focus groups, flex layout. The backend reimplements a simpler version of those, which is the bounded real work. LGFXDisplay and ST7796LCDDisplay need a writePixelsRGB565 wrapper over LovyanGFX's pushImage; until then caps().canvas is false there and apps adapt. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A real touchscreen UI for your mesh radio. · open source · GPL-3.0
Touch-UI MeshCore companion-radio firmware for the LilyGo T-Deck / T-Deck Plus, Heltec V4 + TFT and eight other boards (ESP32-S3).
An LVGL touch UI — map, chat, contacts, channels, settings — split out of
meshcomod. The app depends on a
MeshCore fork via PlatformIO lib_deps.
Boards
See DEVICES.md for the full support matrix, install paths and per-board status.
- LilyGo T-Deck / T-Deck Plus — env
LilyGo_TDeck_companion_radio_touch(stable) - Heltec V4 + TFT + CHSC6x touch — env
heltec_v4_tft_companion_radio_usb_tcp_touch(stable) - Tanmatsu (ESP32-P4) — built from
tanmatsu/(ESP-IDF), ships via the Tanmatsu app store — sideload guide for running your own build - Elecrow ThinkNode M9 — env
ThinkNode_M9_companion_radio_touch(beta) — keyboard & d-pad guide - RAK WisMesh Tap V2 (RAK3312) — env
rak_tap_v2_companion_radio_touch(beta) - LilyGo T-Lora Pager — envs
tlora_pager_lr1121_companion_radio_touch/tlora_pager_sx1262_companion_radio_touch(stable) — keyboard shortcuts - Heltec V4-R8 + Expansion Kit V2 — env
heltec_v4_r8_tft_companion_radio_usb_tcp_touch(stable) - LilyGo T-Display P4 — built from
tdisplay_p4/(ESP-IDF); AMOLED by default,WADA_P4_LCD=1for the TFT-LCD SKU - Attaky Mesh Series — env
attaky_mesh_series_companion_radio_touch(beta)
Architecture
This repo holds only the app: the companion_radio glue, the ui-touch
LVGL UI, each board's glue/variants, and platformio.ini. The MeshCore
core is not vendored here — it's pulled as a library via lib_deps from the
ALLFATHER-BV/meshcomod monorepo
(the same repo as the non-touch firmware), pinned by a lean source-only core-*
git tag. The touch-app files this repo owns (TouchPrefsStore, WifiRuntimeStore,
the transports, …) are dropped from the lib via -DMC_VENDORED_TOUCH_APP so they
aren't compiled twice. The build is byte-identical to the original in-tree
meshcomod firmware.
Build
PlatformIO pulls the core fork and all libraries automatically:
pio run -e heltec_v4_tft_companion_radio_usb_tcp_touch # Heltec V4 TFT
pio run -e LilyGo_TDeck_companion_radio_touch # LilyGo T-Deck
# or just `pio run` to build both
Flash with the NVS-preserving 4-component chain (bootloader / partitions /
boot_app0 / firmware at 0x0 / 0x8000 / 0xe000 / 0x10000) so saved Wi-Fi
credentials survive — not a merged image, which 0xFF-pads and wipes NVS.
Contributing
Contributions are welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md. One topic per PR; inbound contributions are accepted under the project's GPL-3.0 license.
License
GPL-3.0-or-later — see LICENSE. wadamesh is copyleft: anyone who distributes a build or a fork must also make their source available under the GPL. This keeps the UI open and concentrates community effort instead of fragmenting it into closed forks.
wadamesh incorporates and depends on MeshCore (MIT, © Scott Powell / rippleradios.com) and other third-party components — see NOTICE for the full list and their licenses. MeshCore-derived files keep their MIT notices; the combined work is distributed under the GPL (MIT is GPL-compatible). The MeshCore fork that wadamesh builds against stays MIT on purpose, so its Wi-Fi/BLE hooks remain upstreamable to MeshCore.