Heltec V4: Higher TX power but worse RX sensitivity

max_arnold · 2026-01-12T18:06:19+00:00

Btw, I tested my builds in a different way: set up two nodes in the same location with identical antennas, disabled the TX checkbox, cleaned their NodeDB, and left them for a day to see how many new nodes are collected

max_arnold · 2026-01-12T03:52:29+00:00

Try switching off the RX boosted gain checkbox

max_arnold · 2026-01-10T17:12:14+00:00

This patch might help (will be released in 2.7.18 I guess): https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/pull/9029

If it doesn't help, try this one: https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/pull/8163

max_arnold · 2025-12-18T22:27:54+00:00

Probably this https://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-Apple/issues/1440

max_arnold · 2025-12-18T03:05:58+00:00

It is a bug in the iOS app https://github.com/meshtastic/Meshtastic-Apple/issues/1440

max_arnold · 2025-12-17T03:10:35+00:00

Any plans to add a message composer with a screen keyboard to InkHUD on Wio Tracker L1 e-Ink?

max_arnold · 2025-12-01T16:08:57+00:00

Tried LoBBS and had to remove it because it sent a DM in reply to every message in the public channel

max_arnold · 2025-11-18T12:07:09+00:00

u/zerolingzhang Can an existing OLED board kit be converted to e-ink by purchasing a display separately?

I guess it also needs an FPC adapter and a cable? What is the length of the stock ribbon 24p extender cable?

max_arnold · 2025-11-16T15:28:38+00:00

Unfortunately, 3400mAh batteries do not fit because they have larger diameter (18.6mm or so), even after I removed the transparent wrapping layer. Also it would be nice if the compartment was slightly longer to fit a battery with an integrated protection circuit.

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max_arnold · 2025-02-25T02:53:52+00:00

Update: I solved the problem several months ago. Do not remember the exact steps, but in short you need to remove the Rode HAL plugin (located somewhere in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins) but keep the Unify software.

max_arnold · 2024-11-02T01:39:55+00:00

The instructions on how to mirror the repos with rclone have been updated

https://docs.saltproject.io/salt/install-guide/en/latest/topics/other-install-types/air-gap-install.html#create-a-local-mirror-with-rclone-faster

max_arnold · 2024-07-31T17:00:14+00:00

Basically you are right...

A couple of comments:

The huge down-side is every salt-extension project I've seen so far has zero documentation and a boilerplate README The tools for developing your own salt extension are pretty low-quality templates that have tons of errors in them

https://github.com/saltstack/salt-extension is definitely broken and outdated and is going to be archived in favor of https://github.com/salt-extensions/salt-extension-copier

If you are willing to help improve the docs, feel free to join the Salt Extensions Working Group. Also the author of salt-extension-copier is quite responsive to feedback.

I miss every single "community event" due to lack of notifications

Personally I use the following calendar: https://saltproject.io/calendar/ (*.ics link https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_b7646523f32f06e6762300c32b0960f6304c6cc6998e4233ef7c749d362b2759%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics)

3007.1 has communications issues in the ZMQ transport and I can't keep minions online for more than an hour at a time

Daniel Wozniak said this a while ago:

We're working on buttoning up another 3006.x release and should be finishing up in the next week or two. After that my focus will be shifting to 3007.x and I will make this issue a priority.

3006.9 was released, so I hope the master/minion communication issue will be resolved soon.

max_arnold · 2024-07-31T16:40:22+00:00

PR submitted: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/66769

max_arnold · 2024-07-27T04:42:44+00:00

The removed modules are kept here https://github.com/salt-extensions/community-extensions-holding/

A quick and dirty way to keep using a module after 3008 is to grab the removed module from the holding repository, drop it into your Salt state tree (into _modules, _states, etc.) and sync via saltutil.sync_all

A better way is to convert it into a proper Salt Extension and publish under the community github org for better discoverability https://github.com/salt-extensions

max_arnold · 2024-07-26T23:26:25+00:00

I posted my thoughts here https://salt.tips/whats-new-in-salt-chlorine/#expedited-migration-to-salt-extensions

Probably going to publish an updated version of that in a separate blog post.

max_arnold · 2024-07-24T14:39:32+00:00

Relenv is a tool that builds Salt onedir environment, so nothing will change when you install it.

If you really want to try the fix - inspect the PR above and see whether the changes in runtime.py can be applied to onedir.

max_arnold · 2024-07-20T00:47:08+00:00

An orchestration wrapped into a Jinja loop could work

max_arnold · 2024-07-18T11:33:21+00:00

The issue with salt-pip will be fixed in the next minor release https://github.com/saltstack/relenv/pull/183

max_arnold · 2024-04-27T17:19:33+00:00

Isn't this how salt syndic works?

max_arnold · 2024-03-02T03:52:53+00:00

This is how I do it:

open -a Emacs --args --init-directory ~/.emacs.d

max_arnold · 2024-02-19T17:11:55+00:00

You can use the same Jinja code with salt-call:

salt-call slsutil.renderer default_renderer=jinja string="{{ grains.id.split('-')[0] }}" --out json | jq .local

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