diff --git a/meta-digi-dey/recipes-connectivity/batctl/batctl_2019.0.bb b/meta-digi-dey/recipes-connectivity/batctl/batctl_2019.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3fb036a05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-digi-dey/recipes-connectivity/batctl/batctl_2019.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2019 Digi International.
+DESCRIPTION = "Control application for B.A.T.M.A.N. routing protocol kernel module for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.open-mesh.net/"
+SECTION = "console/network"
+PRIORITY = "optional"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/GPL-2.0;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://downloads.open-mesh.net/batman/stable/sources/batctl/batctl-${PV}.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "3eb6c6e11d293f48d4ecab6d182805c2"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "997721096ff396644e8d697ea7651e9d38243faf317bcea2661d4139ff58b531"
+
+DEPENDS = "libnl"
+
+inherit pkgconfig
+
+do_install() {
+  install -d ${D}${bindir}
+  install -m 0755 batctl ${D}${bindir}
+}
diff --git a/meta-digi-dey/recipes-connectivity/packagegroups/packagegroup-dey-network.bb b/meta-digi-dey/recipes-connectivity/packagegroups/packagegroup-dey-network.bb
index 8805a8140..4b91b837d 100644
--- a/meta-digi-dey/recipes-connectivity/packagegroups/packagegroup-dey-network.bb
+++ b/meta-digi-dey/recipes-connectivity/packagegroups/packagegroup-dey-network.bb
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ CELLULAR_PKGS = "\
 
 RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
 	iproute2 \
+	batctl \
 	${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'cellular', '${CELLULAR_PKGS}', '', d)} \
 	${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_ftp-server} \
 	${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_http-server} \