Author: winchester
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Mesh-Plug 1.3.2: Current Meshtastic MQTT Support, Protobuf Decoding, and Better Coarse Location Handling
Mesh-Plug 1.3.2 is now live on WordPress.org This update is mostly about keeping Mesh-Plug aligned with current Meshtastic MQTT behavior. Recent Meshtastic firmware and app documentation have moved the practical center of MQTT traffic away from legacy JSON topics and toward protobuf packets. Mesh-Plug now understands that modern traffic path directly in the browser, while…
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Automating Your Mesh-Plug Network
Webhooks, Notifications, and Integrations Updated: January 2026 Once your Mesh-Plug installation is ingesting Meshtastic data and rendering it inside WordPress, you’ve done more than build a dashboard. You’ve established a server-side data pipeline capable of automation, alerting, and system-to-system integration. Mesh-Plug is designed to act as a control and distribution layer between off-grid mesh networks…
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Next Steps: Dashboards
Building Dashboards, Charts, and Interactive Mesh Interfaces Updated: January 2026 Once your Meshtastic nodes are publishing via MQTT and Mesh-Plug is connected to your WordPress site, the foundation is complete. The next step is turning that live stream into useful interfaces; dashboards, charts, alerts, and interactive views that surface insight instead of raw packets. This…
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Getting Connected to Mesh-Plug!
Mesh-Plug connects your Meshtastic network to WordPress using MQTT. Once connected, your site can receive and display mesh traffic such as node information, chat messages, telemetry, and location data. You do not need to be an IoT engineer to use Mesh-Plug, but setup is smoother if you are comfortable with basic WordPress administration, MQTT broker…