termtastic

termtastic is a feature-rich handmade Meshtastic® console client written in Rust.

⚠️ WARNING
Project is under active development, things could be changed completely without notice.

Features

Note

Unchecked items are not implemented yet.

Chat tab

Channels

• Scrollable channels list (Primary, Secondary)
• Direct conversations
• Display the last message for each channel

Messenger

• Scrollable chat screen
• Display the short and long names of node
• Display the SNR/RSSI for direct nodes
• Display the number of hops for retranslated messages
• Display the time of messages
• Display the reactions (emojis)
• Ability to see reactions details
• Ability to send broadcast messages to the channels
• Ability to send direct messages to the nodes
• Ability to reply to the messages
• Ability to send the reactions (emojis)
• Limiting the message length to 200 chars (with counter)
• Clickable links

Nodes tab

Nodes list

• Scrollable nodes list
• Ability to start direct conversation with selected node
• Display the short and long names of node
• Display the SNR/RSSI for direct nodes
• Display the number of hops for the routed nodes
• Display the ID of the nodes
• Display the humanized last heard time of the nodes
• Sort nodes by different fields: last heard, hops count, distance, etc
• Nodes fuzzy search

Single node expanded view

• Display node detailed info
• Traceroute feature
• Ignore feature
• TBD

Settings tab

General

• Loading device configuration (generic feature)s
• Saving device configuration (generic feature)

Radio

• LoRa
• Channels
• Security

Device

• User
• Device
• Position
• Power
• Display
• Bluetooth

Module

• MQTT
• Serial
• External Notification
• Store & Forward
• Range Test
• Telemetry
• Canned Message
• Neighbor Info

App

• UI

Connection tab

• Scrollable devices list (TCP, BLE, Serial)
• Connection via TCP
• Connection via BLE
• Connection via Serial
• Device configuration loading during connection process and storing it into state
• Storing TCP connections into config file
• Discovering of BLE and Serial devices feature
• Reconnection feature with exponential backoff timeouts

Logs tab

• Writing logs into files using daily rolling strategy
• Mirroring logs into log list with scroll
• Ability to expand the single log record (useful for long logs)
• Ability to copy log record into clipboard

General features

• RX indicator
• Online/Total nodes counter

Stack

Feature	Library
TUI: Framework	Ratatui
TUI: Backend	crossterm
TUI: Inputs	ratatui-textarea
TUI: Lists	tui-widget-list
Interaction with Meshtastic	meshtastic
Clipboard functionality	arboard
Bluetooth devices discovery	bluest
Logging	tracing
Async/Channels	tokio
Configuration	confy
Errors	anyhow
Datetime	chrono
Emoji selector	emoji

Compatibility

✅ - tested, 🔬 - untested, ❌ - not working

Feature	🐧 Linux	🍏 macOS	🪟 Windows
BLE devices discovery	✅	✅	🔬
Serial devices discovery	✅	✅	✅

Download

Source	Link
Manual download	Releases
Debian PPA	🏗️ TBA
Arch Linux AUR	🏗️ TBA
macOS Brew	🏗️ TBA
Windows Chocolatey	🏗️ TBA

FAQ

How to launch manually downloaded app on macOS?

In order to run unsigned application on macOS you need dequarantine it using the command below:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ./path/to/termtastic