Thanks for the tips. Mine is on the way. Interested to see if anyone else nearby has one.

Aha! I will give it a try before soiling my radio with an Apple product. 

siggy47

The issue is with the permissions on the serial device. One command in the terminal resolved it for me though I have to run it each time I plug the device in.

tech

Getting Started with Meshtastic - The Comms Channel

kepford

[This fixed it for me on Linux](https://blog.x-way.org/Radio/2024/10/05/Meshtastic-Web-Serial-in-Linux-as-non-root-user.html)

The issue is with the permissions on the serial device. One command in the terminal resolved it for me though I have to run it each time I plug the device in. 