meshview/README.md

Meshview

Now running at https://meshview.bayme.sh

This project watches a MQTT topic for meshtastic messages, imports them to a database and has a web UI to view them. Requires Python 3.12

Running

Clone the repo from github with:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/pablorevilla-meshtastic/meshview.git

It is important to include the --recurse-submodules flag or the meshtastic protobufs wont be included

Create a python virtual environment:

cd meshview
python3 -m venv env

Install the environment requirements:

./env/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

You also need to install graphviz:

sudo apt-get install graphviz

To run Meshview:

./env/bin/python main.py

Now you can hit http://localhost/

Other Options:

• --port

  Web server port, default is 8081

• --mqtt-server

  MQTT Server, default is mqtt.bayme.sh

• --topic

  MQTT Topic, default is msh/US/bayarea/#