# Solved: Meshtastic connection failed?

**URL:** <https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/solved-meshtastic-connection-failed/22978>\
**Category:** uConsole\
**Created:** [July 19, 2026, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/solved-meshtastic-connection-failed/22978 "2026-07-19T20:05:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![OneAlpha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a5b964/32.png) [@OneAlpha](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/OneAlpha)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/solved-meshtastic-connection-failed/22978/21 "2026-07-30T17:37:00Z")

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I forgot to mention that even after installing a fresh install of Meshtastic it still wasn’t opening. I found the issue. On the pi 5, the GPIO header isn’t assigned to gpiochip0 like Meshtastic expects by default—it’s assigned to gpiochip15. Because of that, Meshtastic was trying to access the wrong GPIO controller and crashed during startup. After I changed the Lora configuration text file to use gpiochip: 15, Meshtastic started working.

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**Author:** ![M3l0nh3ad](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/m3l0nh3ad/32/9785_2.png) [@M3l0nh3ad](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/M3l0nh3ad)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/solved-meshtastic-connection-failed/22978/22 "2026-08-06T19:14:56Z")

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Thank you so very much!

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**Author:** ![M3l0nh3ad](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/m3l0nh3ad/32/9785_2.png) [@M3l0nh3ad](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/M3l0nh3ad)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/solved-meshtastic-connection-failed/22978/23 "2026-08-06T19:16:25Z")

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meshtasticd quits crashing after you the gpiochip: 15 line

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