Remotely Enable / Disable Mesh and More Firmware Updates

Remote mesh-enabled command/control features of the firmware have been significantly updated over the past couple of weeks. A new dedicated “command” screen has been designed for helping you issue encrypted/signed/frequency hopping commands to your nodes and devices. The command screen can be accessed by touching the game controller button on the home screen.

Additionally, several new commands have been added over the weekend.

Remotely enable/disable display (applies to nodes only): Disabling the display can add some security, as it can only be re-enabled via another encrypted/signed command. Once disable, the node remains fully functional, but the screen remains powered off until the device receives a signed “enable display” command.

Remotely enable/disable mesh: Turns mesh (and pings) on or off for any remote-controllable device. When mesh is turned off, a device only listens and does not send pings or actively participate in meshing (or re-broadcasting). This essentially makes the node go radio-silent, unless it receives a direct message. It will still acknowledge and respond to properly encrypted/signed direct messages from trusted devices. Once meshing is disabled on a node, it remains radio silent until receiving a direct, encrypted/signed command from a trusted device, to re-enable meshing. At that point, meshing will be instantly re-enabled.

See the current complete list of ChatterBox secure mesh commands.