Meshtastic with Pico w CLI & Web client issues

[JoseyEire]

Dear all,
I've built a meshtastic client node using the raspberry pi PICO W and a waveshare LORA hat.

I got it working eventually but recently I've noticed that configuration changes done via the web client and via the meshtastic CLI pythoin programme do not hold on the device.

On the CLI it can read info from the device i.e. "meshtastic --info" etc. but when it comes to pushing a change it looks like it has worked until I do a "meshtastic --info" again and see the parameter has not changed.

Note: I am using a ubuntu machine to interface with the PICO via USB.

Here's an example:

Josey@Ubuntu:~$ meshtastic --get neighbor_info
Connected to radio
neighbor_info.enabled: True
neighbor_info.update_interval: 14400
Completed getting preferences

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Josey@Ubuntu:~$ sudo meshtastic --set neighbor_info.enabled false
Connected to radio
Set neighbor_info.enabled to false
Writing modified preferences to device

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Josey@Ubuntu:~$ meshtastic --get neighbor_info
Connected to radio
neighbor_info.enabled: True
neighbor_info.update_interval: 14400
Completed getting preferences

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I thought the issue might have been a permissions/ group one but as you can see below:

Josey@Ubuntu:~$ ls -al /dev/ttyACM0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 166, 0 Jan 3 12:44 /dev/ttyACM0

Josey@Ubuntu:~$ getent group dialout
dialout:x:20:Josey,root

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Josey@ubuntu:~$ ls -hal /home/Josey/.local/bin/
total 24K

-rwxrwxr-x 1 Josey Josey 227 Jan 2 23:54 mesh-analysis
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Josey Josey 218 Jan 2 23:54 meshtastic
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Josey Josey 230 Jan 2 23:54 mesh-tunnel
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Josey Josey 209 Jan 2 23:54 tabulate

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Many thanks,

Josey

[JoseyEire]

Well I figured it out myself, eventually.

So I "nuked" the memory on the PICO by copying "firmware-picow-2.4.2.5b45303.uf2" onto it.

Reinstalled the meshtastic firmware file.

A few reboots of Ubuntu & PICO later the CLI and the web client are working again :)

Hope this helps,

Josey