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Add support for sevice start wrapper
tedwardd Nov 18, 2025
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Merge branch 'develop' into multi-instance_units
thebentern Nov 19, 2025
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32 changes: 32 additions & 0 deletions bin/meshtasticd-start.sh
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#!/usr/bin/env sh

INSTANCE=$1
CONF_DIR="/etc/meshtasticd/config.d"
VFS_DIR="/var/lib"

# If no instance ID provided, start bare daemon and exit
echo "no instance ID provided, starting bare meshtasticd service"
if [ -z "${INSTANCE}" ]; then
/usr/bin/meshtasticd
exit 0
fi

# Make VFS dir if it does not exist
if [ ! -d "${VFS_DIR}/meshtasticd-${INSTANCE}" ]; then
echo "vfs for ${INSTANCE} does not exist, creating it."
mkdir "${VFS_DIR}/meshtasticd-${INSTANCE}"
fi

# Abort if config for $INSTANCE does not exist
if [ ! -f "${CONF_DIR}/config-${INSTANCE}.yaml" ]; then
echo "no config for ${INSTANCE} found in ${CONF_DIR}. refusing to start" >&2
exit 1
fi

# Start meshtasticd with instance parameters
printf "starting meshtasticd-%s..., ${INSTANCE}"
if /usr/bin/meshtasticd --config="${CONF_DIR}/config-${INSTANCE}.yaml" --fsdir="${VFS_DIR}/meshtasticd-${INSTANCE}"; then
echo "ok"
else
echo "failed"
fi
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions bin/meshtasticd.service
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[Unit]
Description=Meshtastic Native Daemon
Description=Meshtastic %i Daemon
After=network-online.target
StartLimitInterval=200
StartLimitBurst=5
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User=meshtasticd
Group=meshtasticd
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/meshtasticd
ExecStart=/usr/bin/meshtasticd-start.sh %i
Restart=always
RestartSec=3

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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions bin/native-install.sh
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#!/usr/bin/env bash

cp "release/meshtasticd_linux_$(uname -m)" /usr/bin/meshtasticd
cp "bin/meshtasticd-start.sh" /usr/bin/meshtasticd-start.sh
mkdir -p /etc/meshtasticd
if [[ -f "/etc/meshtasticd/config.yaml" ]]; then
cp bin/config-dist.yaml /etc/meshtasticd/config-upgrade.yaml
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions debian/meshtasticd.install
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Expand Up @@ -4,5 +4,6 @@ bin/config.yaml etc/meshtasticd
bin/config.d/* etc/meshtasticd/available.d

bin/meshtasticd.service lib/systemd/system
bin/meshtasticd-start.sh usr/bin

web/* usr/share/meshtasticd/web
3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions meshtasticd.spec.rpkg
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Expand Up @@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ cp -r bin/config.d/* %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/meshtasticd/available.d
# Install systemd service
install -D -m 0644 bin/meshtasticd.service %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/meshtasticd.service

# Install meshtasticd start wrapper
install -D -m 0755 bin/meshtasticd-start.sh %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/meshtasticd-start.sh

# Install the web files under /usr/share/meshtasticd/web
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/meshtasticd/web
cp -r web/* %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/meshtasticd/web
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