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Eight how-to recipes and a FAQ page with a list of its questions, from the README, the milestone documents and the Apps' source. The guide templates become generic (the parent section gives the eyebrow, title and pager). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EhqxQ49eCju4CzKYNjZzwT
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+++ title = "Capture LoRa packets and open them in Wireshark" description = "Record what the radio hears into a pcap file, then read it on a computer." weight = 6 [extra] tag = "LoRa Scanner" +++
The radio only listens: nothing is transmitted. You need the Cap LoRa-1262 and an SD card.
- Open the LoRa Scanner. The Status Bar shows
Lwhile the radio listens. - Pick a preset with p. The Scanner offers the 7 Meshtastic presets allowed in EU868; LongFast is the default.
- Wait for packets. Each line is a packet: the time, RSSI and SNR, and for a Meshtastic packet the sender, the receiver and the hops. Enter shows a packet's header and its bytes.
- Press c to start a capture. The Status Bar shows
CAP. It keeps recording with the App closed. - Press c again to stop.
- Get the file. It is in
/captures/lora/, a.pcapwith LoRaTap headers. In the Storage App you can already look at its packets; on a computer, open it in Wireshark.
What you will and will not see. Meshtastic's header is never encrypted, so who sent a packet and how far it hopped is visible. The message itself is encrypted with the channel's key, and the Scanner does not decrypt it.
Hearing nothing is normal if no node is in range, or if the preset does not match what the nodes nearby use. The Sweep (Tab) shows whether anything is on the air at all across 863 to 870 MHz.