Meshtastic OpenWrt Repo

Home to our APK and OPKG repositories for easily installing Meshtastic on OpenWrt-supported routers.

If you’re looking for the package source code, check out meshtastic/openwrt.

Supported OpenWRT versions

How to use

This repository is hosted on Cloudflare R2. Repositories use HTTPS protocol and require one of the SSL support packages to be installed on your router.

APK

Used in the latest stable OpenWrt versions.

Supported versions: - 25.12

Add APK repository to your OpenWrt device
WRT_VER=$( . /etc/openwrt_release; echo "${DISTRIB_RELEASE%%-*}" | cut -d. -f1-2 )
echo "https://openwrt.meshtastic.org/openwrt-${WRT_VER}/$(cat /etc/apk/arch)/packages.adb" > /etc/apk/repositories.d/meshtastic.list
wget https://openwrt.meshtastic.org/meshtastic-apk.pem -O /etc/apk/keys/meshtastic-apk.pem
apk update

OPKG

Used in old-stable versions of OpenWrt.

Supported versions: - 24.10 - 23.05 - 22.03

Add OPKG repository to your OpenWrt device
opkg update
opkg install wget-ssl
wget -O /tmp/meshtastic-ipk.pub https://openwrt.meshtastic.org/meshtastic-ipk.pub
opkg-key add /tmp/meshtastic-ipk.pub && rm /tmp/meshtastic-ipk.pub
sed -i '/meshtastic/d' /etc/opkg/customfeeds.conf
ARCH=$( . /etc/openwrt_release; echo "$DISTRIB_ARCH" )
WRT_VER=$( . /etc/openwrt_release; echo "${DISTRIB_RELEASE%%-*}" | cut -d. -f1-2 )
echo "src/gz meshtastic https://openwrt.meshtastic.org/openwrt-${WRT_VER}/${ARCH}" >> /etc/opkg/customfeeds.conf
opkg update

Snapshot (master) builds

For testing only. Please do not file issues about SNAPSHOT builds.

Add APK repository to your OpenWrt device
echo "https://openwrt.meshtastic.org/main/$(cat /etc/apk/arch)/packages.adb" > /etc/apk/repositories.d/meshtastic.list
wget https://openwrt.meshtastic.org/meshtastic-apk.pem -O /etc/apk/keys/meshtastic-apk.pem
apk update

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