Meshtastic
Use LDPlayer to Play Meshtastic on PC
Meshtastic is a Communication application developed by Meshtastic, but with the best Android emulator-LDPlayer, you can download and play Meshtastic on your computer.
Running Meshtastic on your computer allows you to browse clearly on a large screen, and controlling the application with a mouse and keyboard is much faster than using touchscreen, all while never having to worry about device battery issues.
With multi-instance and synchronization features, you can even run multiple applications and accounts on your PC.
And file sharing makes sharing images, videos, and files incredibly easy.
Download Meshtastic and run it on your PC. Enjoy the large screen and high-definition quality on your PC!
This is a beta release of the meshtastic.org project. We'd love you to try it and tell us what you think. You'll need to buy an inexpensive ($30ish) radio from a variety of vendors to use this application, see our website for details. We don't make these devices.***Please*** if you have questions: post on our forum and we'll work together to fix them (we are volunteer hobbyists).
This post is a good place to get started.
We would really appreciate good Google reviews if you think this is a good project.
Screenshots and Videos of Meshtastic PC
Why Play Meshtastic on PC with LDPlayer?
How to Download&Play Meshtastic on PC?
Download and install LDPlayer on your computer
Locate the Play Store in LDPlayer's system apps, launch it, and sign in to your Google account
Enter "Meshtastic" into the search bar and search for it
Choose and install Meshtastic from the search results
Once the download and installation are complete, return to the LDPlayer home screen
Click on the game icon on the LDPlayer home screen to start enjoying the exciting game
If you've already downloaded the APK file from another source, simply open LDPlayer and drag the APK file directly into the emulator.
If you've downloaded an XAPK file from another source, please refer to the tutorial for installation instructions.
If you've obtained both an APK file and OBB data from another source, please refer to the tutorial for installation instructions.
Only real complaints are that there is no control/indication for how direct messages are encrypted and that trace route fail without any feedback at all. Otherwise it ticks most of the boxes for functionality. I guess the settings/config menus could be better, but that's a matter of preference. I think it might be better to hide a lot of the things no one should be using behind an "advanced" interface maybe. And hints/help about what some of these settings do would be useful too.
Meshtastic is an excellent project and this app is great, 4/5. The only improvement I'd like is perhaps an admin view and a simpler chat only view to be able to set up a network and hand it over to family and friends easier but still have an option to open a settings admin page. This might also help UI with stand alone devices like Tdeck. End users mostly need a chat window akin to a messaging app, but I love the project and will be looking to setup a backup comms network.
As an experimenter, I really like this app. There's certainly some room improvement like successful messages reporting back as failed and trace-route still hit and miss also it seems like location is only available when generally and universally enabled instead of "only while using app". Still all these are just improvements I would like but overall it is a very fun and useful app. Meshtastic LoRa continues to surprise me, I've made numerous contacts over 20 miles with the little 2" antenna!