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Hello World! my T-Deck just arrived (infosec.pub)

submitted 6 months ago by haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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I have just unpacked and flashed my new t-deck and I'm very excited! Sadly, i had to use some google drive provided old firmware (2.5) since I can not figure out how to find(, build) and upload the firmware.

Having worked with esp32s in the past, i know of the many different ways to flash them (platform.io, webflashers, esptool, etc) but I'm missing something.

Where is the "fancy ui" actually from and how do you build it? I was just told to clone, build and upload the latest from github. (https://meshtastic.org/docs/development/firmware/build/) but that just flashes the crappy ui which I have no idea how to use.

Very thankful for any help! Thanks!

(alt text: picture shows t-deck with "fancy ui" and a chat of two people sending test messages, indicating that it works)

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[–] andyburke@fedia.io 7 points 6 months ago

Grab the firmware from github.

Check out the tft branch.

pio run -e t-deck-tft run -t buildfs

There are other steps, but the -e t-deck-tft is the main thing to not miss if you want the fancy ui right now.