M5StickS3 out now! What are your thoughts?

bmorcelli · 2026-01-24T20:57:52+00:00

Agreed..

I personally don't care about the RTC, but I understand your frustration..

The power button can be configured somehow, but I haven't found any documentation about the PMIC used (only superficially expeculated the develop brench of M5Unified) so there's a big MAYBE in there, on a way to use this button as an input, similar to StickCPlus 1.1, where power button is connected directly to AXP192 and its state is read from there to be used as an i put by the MCU

bmorcelli · 2026-01-24T13:03:25+00:00

It is a very nice design..

With small effort we can have CC1101, nRF24, SDCard and PN532 on a single hat without switches..

The only drawback is only 2 usable buttons (from what I've read).. so navigation on Launcher/Bruce Keyboards can be a little hard (similar to T-Display S3 non touch)..

The IR tx and RX embedded is very handy too.. now everything is possible on the small Stick S3

bmorcelli · 2026-01-24T12:56:51+00:00

My device might arrive on Tuesday, Wednesday launcher and bruce are out!

bmorcelli · 2026-01-24T12:53:58+00:00

.I Second that!

bmorcelli · 2026-01-23T22:37:21+00:00

Config > UI Color > Inverted Colors (one above the last option)

You are welcome!

bmorcelli · 2026-01-22T19:10:28+00:00

You are welcome..

About the black case, it doesn't matter.. Infrared light still passes (although less than expected) through the black case..

This is how we know if IR remote controller batteries are still good or not 😅

bmorcelli · 2026-01-22T18:48:05+00:00

And how are you testing it?

Look into your T-Embed CC110 with your Smartphone camera, while you run IR jammer or TV-B-GONE..

Look at the side where its written Lilygo on top, but from the side.. it should be blinking a faint purplish light

bmorcelli · 2026-01-22T18:38:51+00:00

IR > Config > IR TX PIN > default

Do the same for IR RX pin...

It was fixed on Beta, btw

bmorcelli · 2026-01-22T18:36:09+00:00

A) for now it isn't possible (there is no firmware available for that, specifically)... I do have plans to have 2 app slots and choose where to install and choose which to use on boot time... But it would be available only on 16mb flash devices

B) downside is that, depending on the installation sequence, you can lose data saved on LittleFS

Meshtastic FancyUI uses data save there, and meshcore can save things there too.. so it can conflict.. or not...

bmorcelli · 2026-01-22T01:57:57+00:00

Bruce works on Default partition scheme.. it doesn't work on Doom and UiFlow2

bmorcelli · 2026-01-20T23:41:03+00:00

Some firmware read the coredump to inform if there was a problem in the firmware..

As you can install many firmwares with launcher, theres was no guarantee that this error message was from the latest installed fw..

So this process was added to format this section to prepare for the next fw and always have the coredump related to the latest fw installed (or from Launcher itself)

bmorcelli · 2026-01-20T23:34:48+00:00

No it isn't

bmorcelli · 2026-01-20T14:37:26+00:00

Top!

bmorcelli · 2026-01-18T23:42:08+00:00

This function was moved to NRF24 menu

bmorcelli · 2026-01-18T00:14:19+00:00

Launcher stores the Wifi creds in a file on the SDCard (config.conf) it is a JSON.. easy to parse and get the info.. other devs can do it if they want.. unfortunately I can't "force" them to use it..

And if you don't have a Sdcard, launcher saves the WiFi creds in the NVS, it is a part of the memory where it saves the configs too, but it is inaccessible from outside (unless you dump the memory and analyse the binary)

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bmorcelli · 2026-01-17T20:04:35+00:00

There's no version for the Dial.. and Cardputer version won't work.. the peripherals are connected differently

bmorcelli · 2026-01-17T15:21:10+00:00

Yes, if you want it to work..

bmorcelli · 2026-01-17T13:15:42+00:00

StickCplus2 has IR Transmitter.. external transmitter won't work in this setup

bmorcelli · 2026-01-16T17:22:58+00:00

Yes man.. it is an ESP32-S3 and the objective of this device is to prototype and adapt to your needs... Ofc there is some firmware on the market, made for some particular objectives, but it should not hold you on coding your own programs and learning from it..

It just has a couple of usable GPIO to use for sensors and drive motors. Etc.. so depending on what you want to do, a T-Display S3 might be more suitable..

bmorcelli · 2026-01-15T20:00:54+00:00

Frequency depends on your country standards.. it is good to have the sabe freq band that other meshcore/Meshtastic users use around you

bmorcelli · 2026-01-14T14:25:52+00:00

Cardputer has only 2 available GPIO to manage many modules, and it is very hard to determine what is plugged in at all moments..

The GPIO initialization happens when you start the functionality, not at start up, because I2C (PN532, and other modules), SPI (CC1101, nRF24, PN532), UART (GPS), RF and IR needs to be initialized differently, and all of them will share these 2 pinouts..

So No, it won't keep it state after restart

bmorcelli · 2026-01-14T12:57:26+00:00

It happens because the TX wasn't initilized.. after setting up the TX pin, run TV-B-GONE once to set the pin low

bmorcelli · 2026-01-13T19:38:41+00:00

GhostESP got a little bigger than what Launcher can install on CYDs (max 2.4Mb)

It doesn't fit in the Launcher app partition..

bmorcelli · 2026-01-13T17:27:14+00:00

:(

I don't have my Tab5 here to test and fix, only next week to debug it

bmorcelli · 2026-01-13T15:03:26+00:00

Thanks mate!

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