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Blackout Comms off-grid secure texting and tracking firmware for T-Deck and Heltec v4 now supports English, Spanish, German, French, and Polish, with more coming soon.

Now available for download ! Heltec offers these new touchscreen devices, fully assembled. Simply install the Blackout Comms firmware , and you're ready to start your own private cluster or add this to your existing one ! Fully compatible with Lilygo T-Deck , Lilygo Pager , Altware Off-Grid Pager , and all our DIY Off-Grid Mesh Devices .

Blackout Comms off-grid mesh firmware will soon be available for download on Heltec v4 Expansion Kit with Touchscreen

A beta version of Blackout Comms for the new Lilygo T-Beam 1W has just been published. Distance testing will be happening soon, but in the meantime, you can download Blackout Comms for Lilygo T-Beam 1W firmware now!

Blackout Comms has added support for 433, in addition to 915 and 868 for most supported LoRa mesh devices.

Version 3.0 with improved UI is available now for T-Deck, T-Deck+, and Rokland T-Deck. Download it now to try it out. The update should...

Blackout Comms GO Kits now have an optional solar panel that can keep your mobile base (and other devices) charged anywhere with some sunlight.

Several options are available, and you can add as many devices as you want at checkout. We'll configure it all for you. It will arrive...

A new DIY design for LoRa amp, compatible with Altware Link and Altware Full Touchscreen is coming soon.

ChatterBox is now Blackout Comms

Blackout Comms delivered encrypted LoRa packets 32 miles during recent testing.