meshtastic/docs/software/settings/router.md

id	title	sidebar_label
router	Router Settings	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)

Details

Toggling is_router changes your device settings in the following ways.

Setting	is_router Default	Normal Default
send_owner_interval	2	4
position_broadcast_secs	12 hours	15 minutes
wait_bluetooth_secs	1	60
mesh_sds_timeout_secs	NODE_DELAY_FOREVER	2 hours
phone_sds_timeout_sec	NODE_DELAY_FOREVER	2 hours
ls_secs	1 day	5 minutes

Altered Behaviors

Screen Wake

Bluetooth

Examples

Set Router

<Tabs groupId="settings" defaultValue="cli" values={[ {label: 'CLI', value: 'cli'}, {label: 'Android', value: 'android'}, ]}>

meshtastic --set is_router true

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