| Hardware | Confirmed working | Expected to work | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| LoRa radios (working with Meshtasticd) | *Waveshare RPi hat is not recommended as it has issues with sending longer messages. | ||
| MicroSD cards | Any reasonably fast (UHS-I or better) card with 8gb or more | Stick with reputable manufacturers (Kingston, PNY Samsung, Sandisk, Transcend...) The faster the better! Consider sticking with "endurance" cards, especially for remotely deployed nodes. |
|
| RTC (real time clock) | DS1337, DS1338, DS1340, other DS3231 variants | Some DS3231 modules are listed as having a supercapacitor - these are usually actually lithium coin cells. | |
| Meshtastic nodes | USB+UART: RAK4631 with RAK19007 or RAK19003 base board | RAK4630 and 4631 are the same. | |
| USB wifi adapter chipsets | See below | ||
| Misc. hardware | If power draw exceeds supply, the device will reboot, bootloop or hard crash. Unpowered USB hubs seem to be notorious for causing reboots. |
The following wifi chipsets/devices have their drivers included in the OS images. Most of these have not been tested. Note that power consumption metrics are for a specific version of a chipset and may not apply to all implementations.
| Chipset: | Tested? | Recommended? | Power usage | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Realtek: | ||||
| rtl8187 | ||||
| rtl8187b | ||||
| rtl8188[cr]u | ||||
| rtl8188cu | ||||
| rtl8188ee | ||||
| rtl8188eu rtl8188eus rtl8188cus |
✔️ | ✔️ | Idle: 0.25w TXing: 0.4w Off: 0.026w |
Model tested: TP-LINK TL-WN725N V2: working TP-Link TL-WR722N V4: working (v2, v3 should be identical) |
| rtl8188ru | ||||
| rtl819[12]cu | ||||
| rtl8191cu | ||||
| rtl8192ce | ||||
| rtl8192cu | ✔️ | ❔ | Tested: Edimax EW-7811Un: working |
|
| rtl8192de | ||||
| rtl8192e | ||||
| rtl8192ee | ||||
| rtl8192eu | ✔️ | ❌ | Buggy | |
| rtl8192se | ||||
| rtl8273,8188,8191,8192 | ||||
| rtl8712u | ||||
| rtl8723ae | ||||
| rtl8723au | ||||
| rtl8723be | ||||
| rtl8821ae | ||||
| rtl8821au | ✔️ | ❌ | Tested: TP-Link Archer T2U Plus: NOT working |
|
| rtl8xxx other | ||||
| Mediatek: | ||||
| mt7601u | ✔️ | ✔️ | Idle: 0.739w | Tested: Genbasic RF 2A4M1: working |
| mt76x0u | ||||
| mt76x2u | ||||
| mt7663s | ||||
| mt7663u | ||||
| Atheros: | ||||
| ar5008 | ||||
| ar5523 | ||||
| ar6003 | ||||
| ar6004 | ||||
| ar9001 | ||||
| ar9002 | ||||
| ar9170 | ||||
| ar9271 | ✔️ | ❔ | Tested: TP-Link TL-WR722N V1: working Penguin Wireless TPE-N150USB: buggy Generic AR9271 w/SMA antenna: buggy Work in progress |
|
| ar9k | ||||
| ath11k | ||||
| ar10k | ||||
| wcn3660 | ||||
| wcn3680 | ||||
| Ralink: | ||||
| rt2501/rt73 | ||||
| rt2571 | ||||
| rt2571w | ||||
| rt2572 | ||||
| rt2573 | ||||
| rt25xx | ||||
| rt2671 | ||||
| rt27xx | ||||
| rt28xx | ||||
| rt28xx unknown | ||||
| rt30xx | ||||
| rt3070 | ✔️ | ❔ | Tested: Alfa AWUS036NEH: buggy |
|
| rt33xx | ||||
| rt3573 | ||||
| rt35xx | ||||
| rt53xx | ||||
| rt55xx | ||||
| Atmel: | ||||
| at76c503 | ||||
| at76c505 | ||||
| at76c505a | ||||
| Microchip Atmel: | ||||
| wilc1000 | ||||
| Zydas: | ||||
| zd1201 | ||||
| zd1211 | ||||
| zd1211b | ||||
| RNDIS USB: | ||||
| Asus WL169gE | ||||
| Belkin F5D7051 | ||||
| BT Voyager 1055 | ||||
| Buffalo WLI-U2-KG125S | ||||
| BUFFALO WLI-USB-G54 | ||||
| Eminent EM4045 | ||||
| Linksys WUSB54GSC | ||||
| Linksys WUSB54GSv1 | ||||
| Linksys WUSB54GSv2 | ||||
| U.S. Robotics USR5420 | ||||
| U.S. Robotics USR5421 |