---
id: router
title: 1.2 Router Settings
sidebar_label: 1.2 Router
---

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## Overview

## Settings

|  Setting  | Acceptable Values | Default |
| :-------: | :---------------: | :-----: |
| is_router |  `true`, `false`  | `false` |

### is_router

Are we operating as a router. Changes behavior in the following ways: The device will only sleep for critically low battery level (i.e. always tries to stay alive for the mesh) In the future routing decisions will preferentially route packets through nodes with this attribute (because assumed good line of sight)

#### Enable/Disable router mode

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```shell title="Enable router mode"
meshtastic --set is_router true
```

```shell title="Disable router mode"
meshtastic --set is_router false
```

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## Details

Toggling `is_router` changes your device settings in the following ways.

|          Setting          | `is_router` Default | Normal Default |
| :-----------------------: | :-----------------: | :------------: |
| `position_broadcast_secs` |      12 hours       |   15 minutes   |
|   `wait_bluetooth_secs`   |          1          |       60       |
|  `mesh_sds_timeout_secs`  | NODE_DELAY_FOREVER  |    2 hours     |
|         `ls_secs`         |        1 day        |     1 hour     |

### Altered Behaviors

#### Screen Wake

#### Bluetooth