PlatformIO support

#1

Hi. Are newer Heltec Lora boards likely to get better/ organic board support in PlatformIO? Specifically the T114. Or are we stuck with arduino using ArduinoIDE without spending a lot of time building out the board, variants and json/ini files required by platform IO?

Does anyone have any good examples for platformIO on github or similar - I looked into Meshtastic, but it is super complex (given its large code base and numerous supported boards, so it is hard to come up with a minimal example. Im looking for lorawan support as well, rather than raw lora/ meshtastic.

#2

I think the important detail here is that the T114 uses the nRF52 series, not an ESP32 - “newer boards” is too general of a statement in that regard. The ESP32 boards are all fully supported by the Arduino-ESP32 package.

Your best bet may be to use the arduino framework + nordicnrf package + add your own boards file for the T114. I haven’t tried it myself yet, I’m waiting for my Heltec nRF board to arrive. But as long as you use the arduino framework, you can also use RadioLib for LoRaWAN.

#3

Sorry to necromance this thread. This was the top google result when I was looking for instructions on how to work with the T114s in platformIO, and I was frustrated that there wasn’t a way out of the box, so I made a base repo which can be utilized to work with the T114 and platformIO seamlessly, thanks to the great work the meshtastic team did in figuring it out already.