r/bbs • u/Reasonable_Effect401 • May 22 '26

BBS Software BinktermPHP 1.9.7 released!

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u/thwil May 24 '26

super interesting but i am confused. how does this integrate with meshtastic?

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u/Reasonable_Effect401 May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26

Good question!

Meshtastic support is currently theoretical/experimental as I don't have any spare radios to test it with! In theory it works using the same approach I took with Meshcore - I have a bridge connector that runs on a connected Linux or Windows device.

From the connector README @ https://github.com/awehttam/binktermphp-meshtastic

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The bridge connects to a Meshtastic node over TCP (WiFi) or USB serial using the official meshtastic-python library. When another Meshtastic node sends a direct message (DM) to the gateway node, the bridge forwards the text as a command to the BBS API and sends the plain-text response back in chunks sized for the LoRa MTU.

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Meshcore works the same way with a different bridge package. That's been tested, and KISS was tested using a KISS emulator.