diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 0b5335f0c..1b0f7dd8c 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "meshtestic"]
 	path = meshtestic
 	url = https://github.com/meshtastic/meshTestic
+[submodule "protobufs"]
+	path = protobufs
+	url = https://github.com/medentem/protobufs.git
diff --git a/protobufs b/protobufs
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..a68f5e645
--- /dev/null
+++ b/protobufs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit a68f5e6455195dad13af9ff09b7474537abd9f5e