Mesh Detect Flasher

About

Easily flash different firmware onto the Colonel Panic Mesh Detect. An automatic esptool.py flasher, no Arduino IDE required.

Validation: shasum meshFlasher.sh d8d9686e430d3c4f3e0e2a94363194933d72e3b1

Resources

Hackster.io writeup/instructions Mesh-Detect

Mesh Detect board can be found on my Tindie Store: mesh-detect board

Firmware Options

🎥 1. OUI Sniffer

• Official FW

• Detects specific OUI(s) via Bluetooth scanning.

• Alerts when targeted OUIs are detected.

• Flash via Arduino IDE.

  🔒 1a. Privacy Version

  • Preset OUIs for Floc cameras, known snoops and other privacy invaders.
  • Flash via meshFlasher.sh

2. 🌲 Deepwoods Device Detection

• Deepwoods Device Detection
• Scan WiFi and BT to form a baseline and alert to new devices.
• Detects and alerts on new devices.
• Flash via meshFlasher.sh

3. 🛸 Drone Remote ID to Meshtastic

With Mesh-Mapper API 📡

• Drone Remote id to Meshtastic
• Detects WiFi RID drone signals.
• Sends drone detection messages with ID, RSSI, MAC, Operator ID, Location, and more.
• Flash via meshFlasher.sh

Flashing Firmware

Dependencies & Setup

Note: Latest Esptool is automatically downloaded to script directory, and firmware binaries are replaced to ensure they're up-to-date.

# Install required packages
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git python3 python3-pip wget

# Install Python dependencies
pip3 install esptool pyserial

Flashing

1. Download the script

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lukeswitz/mesh-detect/refs/heads/main/meshFlasher.sh

2. Make executable

chmod +x meshFlasher.sh

3. Plug in your esp32 & run the script

./meshFlasher.sh

4. Follow the on-screen prompts. That’s it! The script will get your board flashed and running.

Important

Power cycle the board after flashing to ensure no issues with the Heltec.

Configure Mesh Node

• Official Docs https://meshtastic.org/docs/configuration/module/serial/

Set the pcb mesh device to use serial mode, and configure the pins:

Ensure both the heltec and your receiver node are on the same channel. Set the pcb mesh settings to:

• Serial enabled
• 115200 baud rate
• Text message mode
• Pins defined RX/TX 19/20

Troubleshooting

• If your esp32 is not being detected or giving any errors, hold the boot button and plug in the device.
• Make sure you are using a c3 esp32 module.

Credit: Firmware for RID and flasher based on work by cemaxecuter aka alphafox02. Modded with help of Colonel Panic.

• Original alphafox RID T-halow: https://github.com/alphafox02/T-Halow
• Thank you to Luke Switzer for the work on this project: https://github.com/lukeswitz/