Download

TrimUI Brick

The easy way is the NextUI Pak Store: on the Brick, open Tools → Pak Store, find MeshClient under Miscellaneous Tools, and install it.

To install by hand, download the pak and unzip it into a folder you make first:

MeshClient.pak.zip

mkdir -p /Volumes/SDCARD/Tools/tg5040/MeshClient.pak
unzip MeshClient.pak.zip -d /Volumes/SDCARD/Tools/tg5040/MeshClient.pak

The zip holds the pak's contents, not the pak folder. Unzipping it without making that folder first gives you MeshClient.pak/MeshClient.pak/launch.sh, which the launcher will not run.

macOS

Apple silicon and Intel, macOS 11 or later.

MeshClient-macos.dmg

Open it and drag MeshClient to Applications. The app asks for Bluetooth the first time it looks for a radio. It updates itself from Settings → About once it is in Applications.

Windows

x64, Windows 10 or later.

MeshClient-windows-x86_64-setup.exe

It installs for your user only and needs no administrator. The installer is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may say “Windows protected your PC”: choose More info → Run anyway.

Linux command line

One static x86-64 binary with nothing to install: Bluetooth, serial and TCP, all headless.

curl -LO https://github.com/mcereal/mesh-client/releases/latest/download/meshclient-linux-x86_64
curl -LO https://github.com/mcereal/mesh-client/releases/latest/download/meshclient-linux-x86_64.sha256
sha256sum -c meshclient-linux-x86_64.sha256
chmod +x meshclient-linux-x86_64 && ./meshclient-linux-x86_64 --status

On ARM (a Raspberry Pi, say), build it from source with make linux-cli. The meshclient-tg5040-aarch64 binary in a release is the handheld's and will not run there. See the command line in the guide for what it can do.