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Kaj SchittecatandClaude Opus 5 9c47a9e50d touch: fixes on the merged PRs, and ship the T-Deck Max
Review of #531 turned up four things that had to be fixed before release:

- An unusable region name no longer discards the radio settings. The save
  returned early, so frequency, bandwidth, SF, CR and TX power were thrown
  away, and the rule rejects names with capitals or a "$private" scope, so
  anyone carrying an older region could not change their radio at all. On the
  pager that path is the silent blur save, so it failed with nothing on screen.
  Now only the region is skipped, and it says so.
- Restored useChainedFont() on the telemetry Show button: without the fallback
  chain that label is boxes in Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Greek.
- Region scanning installs unknown repeaters as transient contacts so their
  encrypted replies can be matched. They were never removed, so each scan left
  up to 16 nameless entries in the contact table (and in Contacts). They are
  dropped when the scan ends or the page closes.
- One radio request per scan tick. The loop ran through all 16 repeaters in a
  single 200 ms tick, which is that many key derivations back to back.

The V4-R8 also did not build (its src/ files see a vendored lv_conf.h, so the
new text-size fonts were missing) and then did not fit at 101.3%. It builds at
85.6% now: the board no longer carries the compiled-in translations it
inherited from the V4, which it never needed, since with 8 MB of PSRAM its
store works like any other 8 MB board.

T-Deck Max (#545) joins the release matrix: build list, flasher manifest,
DEVICES.md and the site's board list. Board names in the flasher lost their
em dashes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 14:04:24 +02:00

8.2 KiB

Supported devices

Current hardware support, install paths and maturity. "Stable" means the board ships on the stable release channel; "Beta" means it is new and lives on the test channel until the next stable promote. Install links: flasher.wadamesh.com (browser, Chrome/Edge over USB) and the GitHub releases.

Device MCU / radio Display and input Install Channel Status
LilyGo T-Deck / T-Deck Plus ESP32-S3, SX1262 2.8" 320x240 touch, QWERTY, trackball Web flasher (standalone) or Launcher app image Stable Fully supported, reference device
LilyGo T-Deck Pro ESP32-S3, SX1262 3.1" 240x320 e-paper touch, TCA8418 QWERTY Development build only Experimental Initial target; display, touch, keyboard, radio, GPS and microSD validation pending (#62)
LilyGo T-Deck Max ESP32-S3, SX1262 3.1" 240x320 e-paper touch, TCA8418 QWERTY Web flasher Experimental (new in beta_84) The Pro's hardware with the peripheral power rails and resets on an XL9555 expander and a BQ27220 fuel gauge; contributed and tested by the author of PR #545
Heltec V4 + TFT ESP32-S3, SX1262 2.4" 240x320 touch (CHSC6x) Web flasher Stable Fully supported; Expansion Kit sensors, V4.3 high-gain RX toggle
Tanmatsu ESP32-P4 + ESP32-C6, SX1262 4" 800x480, 69-key keyboard (no touch) Tanmatsu app store on the device (runs under the badge.team launcher, not web-flashable) Store tracks the test channel Fully supported; LoRa + Wi-Fi + Bluetooth simultaneously, standalone and companion in one
Elecrow ThinkNode M9 ESP32-S3, LR1110 2.4" 240x320 (no touch), I2C QWERTY + d-pad Web flasher Beta (new in beta_38) Hardware-complete community port by ded (#138): GPS, microSD, buzzer, lock screen, d-pad navigation
RAK WisMesh Tap V2 (RAK3312) ESP32-S3, SX1262 Touch display (LovyanGFX, 30+ fps) Web flasher Beta (new in beta_38) Early community port by Ethac.chen (#136); core mesh, chat and map working
LilyGo T-Lora Pager ESP32-S3, LR1121 or SX1262 2.33" IPS LCD, 480x222 (no touch), QWERTY + rotary encoder Web flasher (pick the build matching your radio) Beta (new in beta_45) Fully supported; keyboard-first navigation, microSD, map tile packs
Heltec V4-R8 + Expansion Kit V2 ESP32-S3 (8 MB octal PSRAM), SX1262 2.4" touch (CHSC6x) Web flasher Beta (new in beta_45) As the V4 plus microSD and the Expansion Kit sensors; buzzer supported
LilyGo T-Display P4 ESP32-P4 + ESP32-C6, SX1262 AMOLED or TFT-LCD, touch Web flasher (AMOLED) or the .bin for the LCD SKU Beta (new in beta_45) Two screen SKUs; fuel-gauge battery reporting, full TX power
Attaky Mesh Series ESP32-S3, SX1262 Touch display + front D-pad Web flasher Beta (new in beta_47) Community port by attakygit (#158/#169); detachable keyboard supported; the front D-pad + SELECT navigate the UI

Feature notes per board

  • T-Deck: the everything device: touch, physical keyboard, trackball cursor or d-pad navigation, microSD (deep 5000-message chat history, map tile packs, data storage), GPS on the Plus, notification sounds through the I2S speaker. Because the board has no battery-backed clock, Clock settings can optionally use a saved Wi-Fi network once after a true cold boot to obtain the time, then return Wi-Fi to off. This is off by default; saved open networks require a second explicit opt-in and unknown networks are never joined. Tap Sym or Alt for one symbol, or double-tap either to lock the symbol layer; this needs LilyGO keyboard-controller firmware with raw matrix mode (June 2025 or newer). Older controller firmware keeps normal typing and reports the unavailable latch mode on Serial.
  • T-Deck Pro: dedicated LilyGo_TDeck_Pro_companion_radio_touch development target for the GDEQ031T10 e-paper model. It uses a monochrome shadow buffer, coalesced partial refreshes, CST328/CST3530 touch detection and the Pro-specific TCA8418 matrix. Keyboard events are drained during the panel BUSY interval so a refresh cannot overflow the controller FIFO. Hardware validation is pending; see variants/lilygo_tdeck_pro/PORT.md.
  • T-Deck Max: LilyGo_TDeck_Max_companion_radio_touch. The same e-paper, keyboard and radio as the Pro, whose display and touch drivers it reuses; the differences are an XL9555 expander in front of the peripheral power enables and resets, a BQ27220 fuel gauge, and the three capacitive pads under the glass. See variants/lilygo_tdeck_max/PORT.md.
  • Heltec V4 + TFT: touch UI with the on-screen keyboard; the optional Expansion Kit adds environment sensors (home-screen chart) and a piezo buzzer. On the original Expansion Kit, tap IO for Back or hold it for one second to return Home; this reuses GPIO35, so that target no longer drives the same line as a TX LED. PWR remains the expansion board's hardware power control and is not readable by firmware. V4.3 boards get the switchable high-gain receive LNA toggle. Both V4 targets auto-detect an optional M5Stack CardKB at address 0x5F on the board I2C bus (GPIO4/3 on V4, GPIO17/18 on V4-R8). It provides text and focus navigation; the on-screen keyboard remains available when CardKB is absent or when the active field is tapped again. V4-R8 also offers font-only Normal, Large and Huge text presets under Display; controls retain their normal geometry so the compact screen stays navigable.
  • Tanmatsu: keyboard-driven UI (no touchscreen) with the coloured function keys mapped to tabs, ALT accent picker, UI scaling (Normal/Large/Huge), microSD for all persistent data. Ships through the Tanmatsu launcher store, updates arrive as store updates.
  • T-Lora Pager: no touchscreen at all — the QWERTY keyboard and the rotary encoder drive everything (Alt+turn free-scrolls a page; see TLORA_PAGER_SHORTCUTS.md for the full key map). Tap Fn/Alt for one symbol or double-tap it to lock the symbol layer; physical hold combinations keep their existing behavior. GPS, microSD, keyboard backlight, lock screen and notification sound through the onboard codec and amp all work. Two builds, one per radio: LR1121 and SX1262 — flashing the wrong one leaves you with no radio, so check the label on your unit. The onboard PCF85063A keeps time through a full power-off and is synchronized automatically whenever the firmware accepts time from NTP, GPS, a companion, CLI, or mesh bootstrap. A card the Pager detects but cannot read shows up in File Manager greyed, and tapping it retries the mount; formatting is deliberately left to a computer (FAT32) rather than done on-device.
  • ThinkNode M9: keyboard plus d-pad navigation (no touch), same feature set as the other boards where the hardware allows. Every key and mode is covered in the keyboard & d-pad guide. Its PCF8563 is validated at boot; if it reports lost integrity, the same optional saved-Wi-Fi cold-boot sync offered on T-Deck is available in Clock settings. New in beta_38; report anything that feels off.
  • RAK WisMesh Tap V2: newest port, touch-driven. The browser-flash path is fresh; if the flasher cannot open the serial port, put the board in download mode manually and retry, and please report it.
  • Seeed Wio Tracker L2: pre-release touch target under active bring-up. Builds are for development and hardware validation only; no public release artifact is promised until the port is verified.

Requested boards

Open hardware requests, roughly in demand order. Ports are welcome, see CONTRIBUTING.md; the M9 and Tap V2 both started as community PRs.

  • LilyGo T-Deck Pro hardware validation / T-Deck Max variants: #62
  • SenseCAP Indicator D1L: #14

Channels

  • Stable: the tested default. The flasher installs it unless you pick Beta.
  • Beta: new features and fixes earlier; on-device opt-in via Settings, About, "Get test builds (beta)". New boards debut here and move to Stable with the next promote.