diff --git a/variants/trackerd/platformio-custom.py b/variants/trackerd/platformio-custom.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 972b5a3967..0000000000
--- a/variants/trackerd/platformio-custom.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-# trunk-ignore-all(ruff/F821)
-# trunk-ignore-all(flake8/F821): For SConstruct imports
-import sys
-from os.path import join
-
-Import("env")
-Import("projenv")
-
-sys.path.append(projenv["PROJECT_DIR"] + "/bin")
-
-from readprops import readProps
-
-platform = env.PioPlatform()
-
-
-def esp32_create_combined_bin(source, target, env):
-    # this sub is borrowed from ESPEasy build toolchain. It's licensed under GPL V3
-    # https://github.com/letscontrolit/ESPEasy/blob/mega/tools/pio/post_esp32.py
-    print("Generating combined binary for serial flashing")
-
-    app_offset = 0x10000
-
-    new_file_name = env.subst("$BUILD_DIR/${PROGNAME}.factory.bin")
-    sections = env.subst(env.get("FLASH_EXTRA_IMAGES"))
-    firmware_name = env.subst("$BUILD_DIR/${PROGNAME}.bin")
-    chip = env.get("BOARD_MCU")
-    flash_size = env.BoardConfig().get("upload.flash_size", "4MB")
-    flash_mode = env["__get_board_flash_mode"](env)
-    flash_freq = env["__get_board_f_flash"](env)
-
-    cmd = [
-        "--chip",
-        chip,
-        "merge_bin",
-        "-o",
-        new_file_name,
-        "--flash_mode",
-        flash_mode,
-        "--flash_freq",
-        flash_freq,
-        "--flash_size",
-        flash_size,
-    ]
-
-    print("    Offset | File")
-    for section in sections:
-        sect_adr, sect_file = section.split(" ", 1)
-        print(f" -  {sect_adr} | {sect_file}")
-        cmd += [sect_adr, sect_file]
-
-    print(f" - {hex(app_offset)} | {firmware_name}")
-    cmd += [hex(app_offset), firmware_name]
-
-    print("Using esptool.py arguments: %s" % " ".join(cmd))
-
-    esptool.main(cmd)
-
-
-prefsLoc = projenv["PROJECT_DIR"] + "/version.properties"
-verObj = readProps(prefsLoc)
-print("Using meshtastic platformio-custom.py, firmware version " + verObj["long"])
-
-
-if platform.name == "espressif32":
-    sys.path.append(join(platform.get_package_dir("tool-esptoolpy")))
-    import esptool
-
-    env.AddPostAction("$BUILD_DIR/${PROGNAME}.bin", esp32_create_combined_bin)
-
-
-# General options that are passed to the C and C++ compilers
-projenv.Append(
-    CCFLAGS=[
-        "-DAPP_VERSION=" + verObj["long"],
-        "-DAPP_VERSION_SHORT=" + verObj["short"],
-    ]
-)
diff --git a/variants/trackerd/platformio.ini b/variants/trackerd/platformio.ini
index 9963b4efa8..23868ffb41 100644
--- a/variants/trackerd/platformio.ini
+++ b/variants/trackerd/platformio.ini
@@ -10,7 +10,4 @@ build_flags =
 ;board_build.partitions = no_ota.csv
 ;platform_packages =
 ;   platformio/framework-arduinoespressif32@3
-;platformio/framework-arduinoespressif32 @ https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32.git#2.0.1-RC1
-
-[env]
-extra_scripts = variants/trackerd/platformio-custom.py
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+;platformio/framework-arduinoespressif32 @ https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32.git#2.0.1-RC1
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