SD Cards No Longer Required for T-Deck

This was quite an effort, but for the Mesh T-Deck Firmware (and T-Deck+), SD cards are finally optional!

There are certainly tradeoffs, but it’s what users have been wanting, so it’s now available.

If you are already up and running with an SD card and happy with the performance, it's recommended to keep using SD cards, for reasons below.

Advantages of running the T-Deck firmware WITH an SD card

• Tons of space. Wear-leveling should never be a concern, based on the characteristics of ChatterBox firmware.

• Easy backup. Take out the SD card, copy its contents to somewhere, and now you have a backup of your T-Deck (although its bound to that particular tdeck for security reasons)

• Easily swap different cluster/channel configurations, just by swapping SD cards

• Factory reset simply by inserting a blank SD card and restarting

Advantages of running the T-Deck firmware WITHOUT an SD card

• May use less power

• May be more stable

• One less part to acquire, T-Deck+ now works right out of the box

• All your data is on non-removable storage, which can be a plus or minus..depending on your situation

  You can actually use both. You can have one set of channels/configurations in your T-Decks flash memory, and other channels/configs on any number of SD cards. With this setup, just insert or remove your SD card, restart the device, and you're up and running with different configurations.