“I'm an experienced software developer but I could not get this to work. This product should not be sold if the supporting libraries are not tested and up to date. Very disappionted.”
“I bought two of these to enable simple "pager" type communication between two Picos. As other reviewers have mentioned, the Waveshare documentation isn't that helpful (or at least it wasn't to me!) which as a complete novice is a bit of a barrier. However I found a GitHub repository that had drivers and example code (https://github.com/ehong-tl/micropySX126X) that worked, although I had to change the frequency. Once I found that, I was able to build on that working example code to do what I wanted to do, with help from AI at times.”
“Definitely works for meshtastic, and adds a node that others can speak to. I can't get the Meshtastic Client to connect to it over wifi though (and of course, it doesn't support bluetooth with the Pi yet). So, I could only use the UI over the serial port.
It does work well though!”
“Practically useless, the demo code provided by waveshare took multiple attempts to compile correctly due to newer SDKs since. And even once compiling was successful the demo code just entirely ignored any provided keys making it just not usable.
The documentation also mentions Micropython, but when you actually try that the linked code is just a generic Micropython Hello World and there's no actual Library for the SX1262 that supports LoRaWAN (TTN / Helium / Chirpstack)
I would have returned, but couldn't be bothered with the hassle.”
