LusoFW
ForkA community MeshCore firmware distribution for the Portuguese community, with Portugal-oriented radio defaults, duty-cycle enforcement, network time synchronisation, flood-advert controls, and curated repeater and bridge builds.
Fork of MeshCore (Reference)
- Maintainer
- MeshCore Portugal ↗
- Status
- Active
- Maturity
- Stable
- Lifecycle
- Active
- Latest version
- 2026.5.2
- Released
- 2026-05-27
- Runtime
- Arduino · C++
- Distribution
- Community
- Licensing
- Open source
- License
- MIT
Capabilities
Transports
- ✓ USB serial
Operations
- ✓ Web flasher
- ✓ OTA updates
Networking
- ✓ Repeater
- ✕ Room server
- ✕ Observer
- ✕ MQTT
- ✕ KISS modem
Hardware
- ✓ GPS
- ✓ Display
- ✓ Sensors
- ✕ Low-power RX
Protocol
- ✓ MeshCore compatible
Node role
Repeater
Features
- Portugal-oriented radio and region defaults
- Duty-cycle enforcement
- Network time synchronisation
- Flood-advert scheduling and reduction
- ESP-NOW and RS-232 repeater bridge builds
- SX126x boosted receive gain controls
- Curated browser-flashable releases
Project signals
verification 2026-06-25
- Source available
- Yes
- Releases available
- Yes
- Signed releases
- No
- Reproducible builds
- No
- CI builds
- Yes
- Web flasher
- No
- Documentation
- Yes
- Release assets include SHA-1 checksum files.
- Published releases are curated repeater and repeater-bridge builds.
Releases
from GitHub · updated 2026-06-25v2026.5.2 # Latest 1 month ago · 2026-05-27 15:22 UTC
Based on MeshCore v1.15.0 main@ecd0cfc1c133aad93e65257f002151591f6bcfd9
Features
- Add support for the Seeed P1 Pro bridge type
- Restrict the “01” advert reduction to repeaters only
v2026.5.1 # 1 month ago · 2026-05-22 16:26 UTC
[v2026.5.1] - 22/05/2026
Based on MeshCore v1.15.0 main@ecd0cfc1c133aad93e65257f002151591f6bcfd9
Features
- Update versioning scheme to year.month.release format (e.g. 2026.5.1)
- Include Lora longer preamble #1954 to improve 868MHz performance in Portugal
- Reduce advert rate from 3 to 1 within the permitted broadcast window
- Prevent advert from mobile repeaters identified with (01)
Full Changelog: https://github.com/Meshcore-Portugal/lusofw/compare/v0.0.7...v2026.5.1
v0.0.7 # Pre-release 3 months ago · 2026-04-01 14:51 UTC
Changelog
[v0.0.7] - 01/04/2026
Based on MeshCore v1.14.1 main@467959cc3bfc884e5f3425caac89453a450151b6
Features
- Increase default airtime factor to 9.0 (targets ~10% duty cycle)
- Set default
flood_advert_intervalto 24 hours (instead of disabled) - Only schedule flood advert timers when
flood_advert_intervalis greater than 0 - Add version-aware defaults migration with persisted firmware version tracking
- Apply only defaults newer than the stored version during migration
radio.lnarenamed toradio.rxgain, use withgetandset- Add rs232 support for Xiao NRF52 (serial1, rx(7), tx(6))
Full Changelog: https://github.com/Meshcore-Portugal/lusofw/compare/v0.0.6...v0.0.7
Device compatibility (17)
✓ 17 Supported
| Device | MCU | Radio | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heltec T114 | nrf52840 | Semtech SX1262 | ✓ Supported | |
| Heltec V3 | esp32-s3 | Semtech SX1262 | ✓ Supported | |
| Heltec V4 | esp32-s3 | Semtech SX1262 | ✓ Supported | |
| Heltec V4 + Expansion Kit (Touch) | esp32-s3 | Semtech SX1262 | ✓ Supported | Uses the Heltec V4 TFT release target. |
| Heltec WSL3 | esp32-s3 | Semtech SX1262 | ✓ Supported | |
| LilyGo T3 S3 (SX126x) | esp32-s3 | Semtech SX1262 | ✓ Supported | |
| LilyGo T3 S3 (SX127x) | esp32-s3 | Semtech SX1276 | ✓ Supported | |
| LilyGo LoRa32 V2.1_1.6 | esp32 | Semtech SX1276 | ✓ Supported | |
| RAK WisBlock 3112 | esp32-s3 | Semtech SX1262 | ✓ Supported | |
| RAK WisBlock / WisMesh (RAK 4631) | nrf52840 | Semtech SX1262 | ✓ Supported | |
| Seeed Studio SenseCAP Solar Node P1 | nrf52840 | Semtech SX1262 | ✓ Supported | |
| Seeed Studio SenseCAP Solar Node P1-Pro | nrf52840 | Semtech SX1262 | ✓ Supported | |
| LilyGo T-Beam (SX1262) | esp32 | Semtech SX1262 | ✓ Supported | |
| LilyGo T-Beam 1.2 (SX1276) | esp32 | Semtech SX1276 | ✓ Supported | |
| LilyGo T-Beam Supreme (SX1262) | esp32-s3 | Semtech SX1262 | ✓ Supported | |
| Seeed Studio Xiao nRF52 WIO | nrf52840 | Semtech SX1262 | ✓ Supported | |
| Seeed Studio Xiao S3 WIO | esp32-s3 | Semtech SX1262 | ✓ Supported |