K7BAT uConsole Status App (Trixie, GTK3)
bryank7bat's GTK3 dashboard for Trixie: battery, temperature, storage, gpsd fix, Wi-Fi state, AIO v2 GPS/SDR/LoRa toggles and service restarts in one window.
What it takes
- Software only
Difficulty 1 of 3 — easy.
Details
A native GTK3 app for Debian 13 Trixie under labwc/Wayland (X11 desktops work too), installed from the release zip with chmod +x install.sh and sudo ./install.sh; the installer detects the desktop user, pulls dependencies and configures GPS if needed. It shows CPU temperature, RAM, storage and battery, gpsd fix, satellites, position, speed and heading, the Wi-Fi interface's mode, SSID, channel and signal, and — when an AIO v2 is fitted — on/off toggles with status for GPS, SDR and LoRa, service health with restart buttons and launcher buttons for navigation and SDR apps. The AIO v2 and AC1200 card are optional; the app runs without them.
v1.1.4 dates from 21 August 2026, and the thread tracks additions such as GPS app detection, SDR/GPS/Bluetooth hardware profiles and an ESP32 'sidekick' display driven over its API. WhyDev reports the GUI does not launch on Bookworm; the author was looking into it.
Links
Open at Forum thread- GitHubRepository
Related mods
HackerGadgets' MIT-licensed CLI and tray tool toggles the AIO v2's GPIO-controlled power rails (GPS, LoRa, SDR, USB) so idle radios stop draining the battery.
Run a Meshtastic node on the console itself: meshtasticd drives the AIO's SX1262 over SPI, with the graphical MUI, the web UI or the Contact TUI client on top.
On Rex's images a single apt install gives you SDR++ for the AIO's RTL-SDR or a USB dongle; his AIO package adds the sdrpp-brown fork.
Two receivers, two recipes: the 4G card's GNSS via AT+CGPS on /dev/ttyUSB3, or the AIO's GPS on the serial port (/dev/ttyS0 CM4, /dev/ttyAMA0 CM5) at 9600 baud.
The AIO's PCF85063A keeps time off-grid once the right overlay is in config.txt — and on a CM5 the built-in fake RTC has to be switched off first.
Rex's AIO package ships readsb and the tar1090 map as a disabled service with a menu launcher; Intercept or a hand-built dump1090 are the alternatives.