Hardware and setup

The radio is an ESP32 board on USB serial running firmware/esp32; LDN, Pia and the games run in Python on the host, which needs no root and no Wi-Fi driver. Every title trades through it. A Linux host can instead drive an AP-capable Wi-Fi card directly; that path is legacy.

Pages

• ESP32 radio: the board, its firmware, serial protocol and measurements.
• Switch keys: installing prod.keys safely.
• Adapters: the Linux Wi-Fi cards, their configuration and failure modes.
• Controller board: an ESP32-S3 the console takes as a wired controller, driven over Bluetooth LE, or a classic ESP32 it pairs as a Pro Controller, driven over USB serial.
• Raspberry Pi host: the Linux deployment and the supervised Mystery Gift runner.

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Table of contents

• ESP32 radio
• Switch keys on the Pi
• Adapters
• Raspberry Pi host
• Controller board