diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 7e679cc..d363008 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ jobs:
       - 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 c62a582..ccde356 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ 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:
@@ -182,3 +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
index e13ac07..e9e0f8f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ 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
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ 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
@@ -44,6 +46,7 @@ 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