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)

  • andyburke@fedia.io
    7·
    2 天前

    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.