## Contact - A Console UI for Meshtastic
### (Formerly Curses Client for Meshtastic)

#### Powered by Meshtastic.org

This Python curses client for Meshtastic is a terminal-based client designed to manage device settings, enable mesh chat communication, and handle configuration backups and restores.

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Settings can be accessed within the client or can be run standalone

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## Arguments

You can pass the following arguments to the client:

### Connection Arguments

Optional arguments to specify a device to connect to and how.

- `--port`, `--serial`, `-s`: The port to connect to via serial, e.g. `/dev/ttyUSB0`.
- `--host`, `--tcp`, `-t`: The hostname or IP address to connect to using TCP.
- `--ble`, `-b`: The BLE device MAC address or name to connect to.

If no connection arguments are specified, the client will attempt a serial connection and then a TCP connection to localhost.

### Example Usage

```sh
python main.py --port /dev/ttyUSB0
python main.py --host 192.168.1.1
python main.py --ble BlAddressOfDevice