meshtastic/docs/software/settings/canned-message-plugin.md

id	title	sidebar_label
canned-message-plugin-settings	Canned Message Plugin Settings	Canned Message Plugin Settings

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Overview

The CannedMessage Plugin will allow you to send messages to the mesh network from the device without using the phone app. You can predefine text messages to choose from.

Please also follow settings of Rotary Encoder to configure input source!

:::note Once plugin settings are changed, a reset is required for them to take effect. :::

Settings

Setting	Acceptable Values	Default
canned_message_plugin_enabled	true, false	false
canned_message_plugin_allow_input_source	rotEnc1, _any	_any
canned_message_plugin_messages	string	(not defined)
canned_message_plugin_send_bell	true, false	false

canned_message_plugin_enabled

Enables the plugin.

canned_message_plugin_allow_input_source

Input event origin accepted by the canned message plugin. Can be e.g. rotEnc1 or keyword _any

canned_message_plugin_messages

Predefined messages for CannedMessagePlugin separated by | characters.

You can define up to 50 messages with a total length 1024 bytes.

canned_message_plugin_send_bell

CannedMessagePlugin also sends a bell character with the messages. ExternalNotificationPlugin can benefit from this feature.

Details

See "Software / Plugins / Canned messages" for details!

Examples

See "Software / Plugins / Canned messages" for examples!