Pager Converted to Meshtastic Node

Text messaging has been around on cellular networks en masse for around three decades now. It’s so common that it’s difficult to remember a time without it. Its two-way quick ….

Pager Converted to Meshtastic Node. Its two-way quick messaging is incredibly useful, but for even simpler communications there’s a one-way system that predates it. Pagers are able to receive simple messages, but outside of hospitals are rarely used nowadays.

Eventually some added in two-way communications like this Motorola T900, but they’re still mostly obsolete. That’s why [zindustries87] converted it to operate on the Meshtastic network instead. To get this pager working, a lot of reverse engineering was needed.

There is essentially no documentation on the chips in these devices, so the screen and keyboard both were reverse-engineered to work with other hardware.