The Lilygo T-Deck Plus is a hand-held meshtastic radio device which looks a little bit like a Blackberry. It comes pre-assembled with an on-board GPS module and a built in 3000 mAh battery.
GUI Firmware
9/11/24 at time of writing, there aren’t any stable GUI builds available for download from the official site. In Andy Kirby’s Discord in the channel #t-deck-meshtastic-gui a user named lambusser has been providing pre-built zip bundles of the firmware which can be flashed using the instructions from Jeff’s blog above. I have mirrored the latest lambusser firmware build here
Flashing GUI Firmware
Currently the meshtastic firmware for the T-Deck Plus is quite unstable. I initially followed Jeff Geerling’s blog post on the subject in order to get up and running.
However with more recent builds this no longer seems to work perfectly. A Discord User named Subnet Conflict in Andy Kirby’s discord uploaded a video walk through of the current process. I haven’t mirrored this but you can find the video on the discord channel.
The process is more or less:
- Download the firmware zip from here
- Extract the zip file to a local directory
- Use the meshtastic flasher to flash
firmware.factory.binto the device - Use the ESP web flasher to flash
firmware.binto address0x10000 - Reset the device