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<pre class="markdown-content"># Home Screen Widget
On Android, Meshtastic provides a home screen **widget** that shows live local statistics from your connected radio at a glance — no need to open the app.
## What It Shows
The widget displays the **connected radio's** current local stats:
- **Battery** — the radio's battery level, or *Powered* when running on external power
- **ChUtil** — channel utilization (how busy the LoRa channel is, as a percentage)
- **AirUtil** — airtime utilization (how much of the duty cycle your radio is transmitting)
- **Traffic** — packets transmitted / received, and duplicates seen
- **Relays** — packets relayed and relay cancellations (shown when the radio is relaying)
- **Noise floor** — the measured background noise level
- **Dropped** — packets the radio discarded
- **Heap** — free versus total memory on the radio, drawn as a bar
- **Nodes** — how many nodes are online, out of the total known
Tap the widget to open the app, or use its refresh control to request fresh stats.
&gt; ️ **Note:** The values reflect the connected radio. If the radio disconnects, the widget replaces the stats with a status line — **Disconnected**, **Connecting**, or **Device sleeping**. It does not keep the last-known numbers on screen.
## Adding the Widget
1. Touch &amp; hold an empty area of your Android home screen.
2. Tap **Widgets**.
3. Drag the **Meshtastic** widget to your home screen. The app ships one widget, so the picker entry is just the app name.
4. Resize it as needed — the layout adapts to the available space.
&gt; ️ **Note:** The widget is Android-only. It is not available on the Desktop or iOS builds.
## Related Topics
- [Node Metrics](node-metrics) — the full Signal Quality and Local Stats history inside the app
- [Connections](connections) — connect to a radio so the widget has stats to show
- [Local Mesh Discovery](discovery) — channel and airtime utilization across the mesh
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