XPRS application

Android, Linux and Windows. Messages, files and positions over LoRa, Bluetooth, WiFi, Reticulum and the internet.

One codebase on all three platforms. Transports: BLE5 to nearby devices, LoRa through a station, Reticulum over WiFi or the internet. Messages that cannot be delivered now are stored and forwarded when a path appears. No account and no central server; the identity is a keypair generated on the device.

Download

Channel: reading the release feed…

No macOS or iOS build is published; both build from source. Earlier versions are on the releases page.

Every file in this release

Updates are fetched by content hash, from GitHub or from a station over the air, so the digest below identifies the file in either case.

filesizesha256
reading the release feed…

To check a download:

sha256sum xprs-*-linux-x64.tar.gz
certutil -hashfile xprs-*-setup.exe SHA256   # Windows

Installing

Android

Android 8 or newer. Sideloaded, so the browser needs the install-unknown-apps permission once. Pick the ABI of the device (arm64-v8a for most phones), or xprs-<version>.apk, which contains all three at about twice the size. Bluetooth scanning requires the location permission on Android; position is only transmitted when you send it.

Linux

x64. No installer; state is written to ~/.local/share/xprs.

tar xf xprs-*-linux-x64.tar.gz
./xprs/xprs

A serial or USB-attached station needs the user in the dialout group.

Windows

x64, Windows 10 or newer. The installer is unsigned: SmartScreen blocks it on first run, use "More info" then "Run anyway".

Updates

The application reads the same feed as this page and can install a new version in place: ☰ → Updates, which is also where the beta channel is enabled. F-Droid builds update through F-Droid; the in-app updater is compiled out of them.

Source