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Board variant for the CatWAN USB Stick, an RP2040-based USB dongle with an RFM95W (SX1276) LoRa radio. Tested and verified working with meshtastic --info over USB CDC and meshtastic webapp

Pin mapping: SPI0 (GPIO16-19), RST=GPIO21, DIO0-2=GPIO10-12, LED=GPIO25.

Summary

  • Adds board variant for the CatWAN USB Stick by Electronic Cats
  • RP2040 + RFM95W (SX1276) LoRa USB dongle — no screen, no GPS
  • Pin mapping: SPI0 (GPIO16-19), RST=GPIO21, DIO0-2=GPIO10-12, LED=GPIO25
  • board_level = extra

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  • I have tested that my proposed changes behave as described.
  • I have tested that my proposed changes do not cause any obvious regressions on the following devices:
    • Heltec (Lora32) V3
    • LilyGo T-Deck
    • Catsniffer

Board variant for the CatWAN USB Stick, an RP2040-based USB dongle
with an RFM95W (SX1276) LoRa radio. Tested and verified working
with meshtastic --info over USB CDC.

Pin mapping: SPI0 (GPIO16-19), RST=GPIO21, DIO0-2=GPIO10-12, LED=GPIO25.
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@github-actions github-actions bot added the hardware-support Hardware related: new devices or modules, problems specific to hardware label Apr 10, 2026
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Pull request overview

Note

Copilot was unable to run its full agentic suite in this review.

Adds a new Meshtastic board variant for the Electronic Cats CatWAN USB Stick (RP2040 + RFM95W/SX1276), including pin mappings and a PlatformIO environment.

Changes:

  • Added variant.h defining hardware capabilities (no screen/GPS), LED pin, and LoRa (RF95) pin mappings.
  • Added a PlatformIO environment (ec_catwan_usb_stick) extending the RP2040 base configuration.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

File Description
variants/rp2040/ec_catwan_usb_stick/variant.h Introduces board-specific feature flags and SX1276/SPI pin definitions for the CatWAN USB Stick.
variants/rp2040/ec_catwan_usb_stick/platformio.ini Adds a PlatformIO env to build/upload/debug this new RP2040 board variant.
Comments suppressed due to low confidence (1)

variants/rp2040/ec_catwan_usb_stick/variant.h:1

  • This header has no include guard (#pragma once or #ifndef/#define/#endif). If it’s included (directly or indirectly) from multiple translation units, duplicate macro definitions can produce warnings/errors or unexpected redefinition behavior. Add an include guard to make the header safe to include multiple times.
// CatWAN USB Stick - Electronic Cats

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wero1414 and others added 3 commits April 13, 2026 11:13
Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
@fifieldt fifieldt added the enhancement New feature or request label Apr 14, 2026
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