{
 "id": "the-first-payload-ceiling-you-find-over-usb",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "The first payload ceiling you find over USB serial is your own write size, not the protocol's \u2014 chunking the write moved it from 227 to 232 bytes",
 "symptom": "Growing the payload byte by byte produced a clean, repeatable ceiling: 226 bytes went out, 228 did not, and the failures logged 'Error: ignore malformed toradio' on the device. It looks exactly like a protocol limit \u2014 a hard edge, reproducible, reported by the firmware \u2014 and the obvious move is to write 226 down as the answer.",
 "hw": [
  "heltec-v4",
  "feather-rp2040",
  "sx1262",
  "sx1276"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "meshtastic-firmware",
  "meshtastic-python"
 ],
 "intent": "Find the largest application payload a Meshtastic broadcast will carry",
 "date": "2026-08-21",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}