diff --git a/.coveragerc b/.coveragerc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c70a1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.coveragerc
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[run]
+omit = meshtastic/*_pb2.py,meshtastic/test.py
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 0860cba..d363008 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Run Python Tests
+name: Linting and Tests
 on:
   push:
     branches:
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          pip install markdown pdoc3 webencodings pyparsing twine autopep8 pylint pytest
+          pip install -r requirements.txt
+          pip install .
       - name: Run pylint
         run: pylint --exit-zero meshtastic
       - name: Run tests with pytest
-        run: pytest
+        run: pytest --cov=meshtastic
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f414903..35fef00 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ log_*
 .eggs
 nanopb-0.4.4
 .*swp
+.coverage
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 17a2f3f..ccde356 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -158,9 +158,15 @@ If you need to build a new release you'll need:
 
 ```
 apt install pandoc
-sudo pip3 install markdown pdoc3 webencodings pyparsing twine autopep8 pylint pytest
+sudo pip3 install markdown pdoc3 webencodings pyparsing twine autopep8 pylint pytest pytest-cov
 ```
 
+For development, you will probably want to run:
+```
+pip3 install -r requirements.txt
+```
+
+
 To lint, run:
 ```
 pylint meshtastic
@@ -176,3 +182,4 @@ Possible options for testing:
 * to run just unit tests: pytest -munit
 * to run just integration tests: pytest -mint
 * if you want to add another classification of tests, then look in pytest.ini
+* if you want to see the unit test code coverage: pytest --cov=meshtastic
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e9e0f8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+astroid==2.9.0
+attrs==21.2.0
+autopep8==1.6.0
+bleach==4.1.0
+certifi==2021.10.8
+charset-normalizer==2.0.8
+colorama==0.4.4
+coverage==6.2
+docutils==0.18.1
+dotmap==1.3.25
+enum-compat==0.0.3
+idna==3.3
+importlib-metadata==4.8.2
+iniconfig==1.1.1
+isort==5.10.1
+keyring==23.4.0
+lazy-object-proxy==1.6.0
+Mako==1.1.6
+Markdown==3.3.6
+MarkupSafe==2.0.1
+mccabe==0.6.1
+packaging==21.3
+pdoc3==0.10.0
+pexpect==4.8.0
+pkginfo==1.8.1
+platformdirs==2.4.0
+pluggy==1.0.0
+protobuf==3.19.1
+ptyprocess==0.7.0
+py==1.11.0
+pycodestyle==2.8.0
+pygatt==4.0.5
+Pygments==2.10.0
+pylint==2.12.1
+pyparsing==3.0.6
+Pypubsub==4.0.3
+PyQRCode==1.2.1
+pyserial==3.5
+pytest==6.2.5
+pytest-cov==3.0.0
+readme-renderer==30.0
+requests==2.26.0
+requests-toolbelt==0.9.1
+rfc3986==1.5.0
+six==1.16.0
+tabulate==0.8.9
+timeago==1.0.15
+toml==0.10.2
+tomli==1.2.2
+tqdm==4.62.3
+twine==3.7.0
+typing_extensions==4.0.1
+urllib3==1.26.7
+webencodings==0.5.1
+wrapt==1.13.3
+zipp==3.6.0