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How to Flash Meck Firmware Using Launcher over WiFi
How to Install Launcher on Your T-Deck Pro
First, ensure your SD card is inserted into your T-Deck Pro. Your SD card should already have been formatted as FAT32.
- Plug your T-Deck Pro into your computer via USB-C.
- Go to https://bmorcelli.github.io/Launcher/webflasher.html in Chrome browser.
- Click on LilyGo under Choose a Vendor.
- Click on T-Deck Pro.
- Click on Connect.
- In the serial connect popup, click on your device in the list (likely starts with "USB JTAG/serial debug unit"), and click Connect. Wait a few seconds for it to connect.
- Click the Install T-Deck Pro popup.
- Click Next. (Don't worry about ticking the Erase Device checkbox.)
- Click Install.
If You Don't Already Have a Meck Firmware File
Download one from https://github.com/pelgraine/Meck/releases.
How to Install a New Meck Firmware .bin File via Launcher
After flashing using https://bmorcelli.github.io/Launcher/webflasher.html, your Pro will reboot itself automatically and display the main Launcher home screen, with the SD card option highlighted.
Either tap NEXT on the device screen twice or tap on the WUI button, and tap SEL.
Tap on My Network on the pop-up menu. Press NEXT/SEL as needed to highlight and select your WiFi SSID.
Enter your WiFi SSID details.
Once connected, your device will display the WebUI connection screen with the T-Deck Pro IP address.
Open a browser on your computer — Chrome, Firefox, or Safari will do, but Firefox tends to be easiest — and type in the IP address displayed on your T-Deck Pro into your computer browser address bar, and press enter.
In this instance, for example, I would type 192.168.1.118, and once I've pressed enter, the address bar now displays http://192.168.1.118/ (as per the photo). If you're having trouble loading the IP address page, double check your browser hasn't automatically changed it to https. If it has, delete the s out of the URL and hit enter to load the page.
Login to the browser page with the username admin and password launcher, and click Login. The browser will refresh and display your SD card file list.
Scroll down to the bottom of the browser page, and click the Send Files button.
Your computer/device will load the file browser. Navigate to wherever you've previously saved your new Meck firmware .bin file, select the bin file, and click Open.
Wait for the blue loading bar on the bottom of the browser page to finish, and then check you can see the file name in the list in green. Also worth checking the file is at least 1.2MB — if it is under 1MB, the file hasn't uploaded properly and you will need to go through the Send Files button to try uploading it again.
You can then either close the browser window or just leave it. Go back to your T-Deck Pro and press SEL to disconnect the WUI mode.
Either press PREV twice to navigate to it and then press SEL again to open, or tap right on the SD button to open the SD card menu.
The Launcher SD file browser will open. You will most likely have to tap Page Down at least twice to scroll to where the name of your new file is.
Either press NEXT to navigate until the new file is highlighted with the >, or just tap right on the file name, and press SEL to bring up the file menu.
The first option on the file menu list will be >Install. You can either tap right on Install or tap SEL.
Wait for the firmware to finish installing. It will reboot itself automatically.
Note: On first flash of a new firmware version, the "Loading…" screen will most likely display for about 70 seconds. This is a known bug. Please be patient if this is the first time loading your new Meck firmware.
On every boot, the firmware will scan your SD card and /books folder for any new .txt or .epub files that haven't yet been cached. It's usually very quick even if you have a lot of ebook files, and even faster after the first boot.
You'll then see the firmware version splash screen for a split second.
Then the Meck home screen will display, and you're good to go. Here's an example of what the Meck 4G WiFi companion firmware home screen looks like:
Tip: Every time you reset the device, the Launcher splash screen will display. Wait about six seconds if you just want the Meck firmware to boot by default. Otherwise, tap the LAUNCHER text at the bottom to boot back into the Launcher home screen, to get access to the SD menu and WUI menu again.
