Repeated preamble/header activity can keep a requested primary or TempRadio
change busy indefinitely. Bound unfinished-RX admission for accepted LR2021
changes while preserving completed packets, TX, BUSY and exclusive owners.
Ordinary scans and CAD keep their existing admission rules. Expose the failing
stage and native status through get radio.apply.
Add saved radio.xtrim capacitor calibration and measured radio.freqerror in
signed Hz from the last valid LoRa packet. Preserve native trim by default,
restore explicit calibration after resets/Morse, verify saves before applying,
wait two seconds for the acknowledgement, and roll back failed changes.
Calibration motivation and prior upstream work:
https://github.com/meshcore-dev/MeshCore/issues/3365https://github.com/recrof/MeshCore/tree/lr2021-trim
Packet-status format follows Semtech's LR20xx driver and RadioLib staging.
Tests execute production activity/admission and transaction paths with noisy
RX, completion races, protected owners, failed setters, RX restart and save
rollback. Physical W12 retuning and RF calibration still require confirmation.
Detect OLED or the original stock TFT touch assembly in ordinary V4.2/V4.3
images. Add saved live display.type auto/oled/tft/off selection and report
the active selection in board output. Keep sensors on primary I2C, preserve
shared power, and isolate TFT FSPI from radio HSPI through sleep and changes.
Consolidate future picker/build choices only with application capability
proof. Retain exact legacy OTA identities and separate R8 hardware images.
Document controls and physical qualification limits.
Validation: five serialized Full builds with capability/size/RAM checks;
focused host tests, existing R8/T-Deck/OLED regressions, build-profile suite,
and picker/provider tests. V4.3 OLED live changes and off/auto reboot
persistence passed on Mercerwood. Physical TFT qualification remains pending.
Allow Auto, SSD1306 or SH1106 through display.controller on display-enabled RAK4631 and RAK3401 roles. Persist the choice before restart without changing the active screen policy, and let saved Auto override legacy build defaults.
Share checked settings I/O and the existing atomic writer to keep Full Companion within its flash boundary while retaining features and existing record formats. Cover save failures, backup recovery, startup selection and ambiguous OLED replies.
Validation: 35 targeted host tests passed. RAK4631 Full Companion and RAK3401 unified LoRa OTA repeater build and package checks passed with release-length version strings.
Add get leds and set leds on|off for Companion, repeater, room server and
sensor builds. Preserve the setting across reboots and cover GPIO, RGB,
Bluetooth, notification and expander indicators without changing radio
amplifier controls or screen backlights.
RAK Companions blink while advertising and keep the Bluetooth LED off once
connected, including late timer callbacks.
Adapted from meshcore-dev/MeshCore#3605 and #2694.
Validated with host regressions and firmware builds for SenseCAP Solar,
RAK4631, T096, Heltec V4, T-Beam, Xiao S3, Pico W and Wio E5 Mini.
Co-authored-by: R0ck <develop@hectospark.co.uk>
Co-authored-by: Nick Dunklee <nick@dunklee.org>
Specialize repeater ACL session state, compact recent and flood records, stream Merkle proofs, and release cold OTA buffers safely. Preserve saved formats, stack sizes, table capacities, and OTA source limits. Account for lazy buffers when active and add compatibility, ARM alignment, allocation failure, and queued-response tests.
Validated six representative board/role builds, 1736 native test cases, sanitizer fixtures, and strict documentation. Document the preexisting Wio-E5 Mini flash overflow separately.
Keep Full sensors, UART2, adaptive OTA storage and the 8 KiB loop stack. Arbitrate shared SPI and OTA workspace ownership, move network waits into a worker, and use bounded queued TCP operations. Add reproducible test configs, RAM checks and regression coverage. Validated the Full build, UF2 layout and 29 sanitizer runtime scenarios.
Read identities up to three times before allowing replacement, publish only complete reads, and require new startup keys to be saved with bounded retries.
Use authoritative replay-file metadata throughout persistence and clock recovery. Validate setperm input before narrowing or mutating roles, and add production-path regression coverage.
Skip redundant modulation writes during owned fast RX retunes when the last
acknowledged SF/BW/CR/LDRO tuple matches. Invalidate that cache after ordinary
setters, failed writes, and lifecycle changes.
Include the remaining scan, preamble, settling, and memory-soak experiments,
their collectors, validation notes, and original capture records. Preserve
capture bytes across checkouts and keep private soak credentials local.
Run lab collector and compiled contract tests in CI. Update the expectation,
profile mapping, and result-buffer tests for the extended lab tools, and make
the private WiFi override header optional for ordinary soak diagnostics.
Validation: 145 host tests passed from the staged source snapshot. Clean
heltec_v4_repeater and Xiao_S3_WIO_companion_radio_usb builds passed their
RAM/flash gates. All 229 staged capture files retain their original bytes;
all 75 local documentation links resolve in the clean snapshot.
Integrate ExpressLRS TX module support and its stacked ESP32 heap changes.
Use the approved Linkflow calibration (17-30 dBm), preserve the PA drive
and output path after radio recovery, and keep LoRa OTA enabled.
Preserve stored ACLs and filters on allocation failure, release owned
client/filter buffers, service heap OTA contexts on Companions, release
self-serving workspaces after TempRadio, and reset staged-resume state
when a context is released. Keep manual staging and active operations
alive. Account for all moved allocations in the runtime RAM gate.
Validation: 1,393 native cases; radio-power, heap-context, ACL persistence,
shared-queue transfer, display/inbox, radio receive, and memory regressions.
Firmware builds passed for Linkflow, Heltec V2 Companion, T-Beam MQTT
repeater, Heltec V4 R8 MQTT repeater, RAK4631 repeater, and Indicator Full.
Physical verification awaits access to the currently offline lab Pi.
Persist separate display modes and timeouts in seconds for battery and USB power, expose four controls in WebConfig and CLI, and apply one shared policy across display-equipped roles.
Detect R8 external power from a USB host or calibrated battery voltage above 4.21 V, with cached sampling and hysteresis. Add policy, persistence, browser, and R8 power-detection regression coverage.
Classic ESP32 links into a dram0_0_seg of only 124,580 bytes: memory.ld
carves the BT controller's 0xdb5c (56,156) reservation off the 0x2c200
window before the application gets any. Three large objects dominated what
was left, and Tbeam_SX1262_repeater_observer_mqtt overran the build's 8 KiB
static reserve by 4,744 bytes.
Heap-allocate them instead, each with a defined behaviour when the
allocation fails:
- OtaContext: generalize the Companion's borrowed-storage path behind
OTA_DYNAMIC_CONTEXT and add OTA_HEAP_CONTEXT, which allocates the context
on first use and frees it once no transfer, apply or folder link needs it.
A repeater is idle nearly all the time, so the workspace is usually absent.
Exhaustion is reported to the caller and the operation declines.
- ClientACL: the client table becomes a pointer with a live capacity;
capacity 0 refuses new clients rather than writing through a null table.
- MyMesh flood packet filters: likewise, with flood_packet_filter_slots as
the live bound for every rule loop. At capacity 0 the node forwards
unfiltered, and both save paths refuse to write so a stored ruleset is
never replaced by an empty file.
Also override the Arduino SDK's weak btInUse() in simple_repeater so
initArduino() releases the BT controller memory to the heap. That grows the
runtime heap these tables now come from; it cannot recover the same
reservation from the linker's static window.
Static DRAM, classic ESP32:
Heltec_v2_repeater 108,332 -> 70,732
Tbeam_SX1262_repeater_observer_mqtt 121,132 -> 83,532 (was failing)
The serial command buffers must stay NUL-terminated within their
bounds: if they ever aren't, strlen() can return >= sizeof(command)
and the read loop would index past the buffer. Additionally, a full
buffer now becomes a completed line (end-of-line marker placed
inside the buffer, NUL terminator kept) instead of overwriting the
terminator and silently corrupting the buffer for the next pass.
Applies to the serial CLI readers of the repeater, room server,
sensor and secure chat examples, and to the CLI rescue reader of
the companion example.
Bind Companion replies to request transports, make dual-CDC USB sessions nonblocking and reconnect-safe, and harden nRF52 watchdog/OTA storage paths. Fix T096 button debounce, display wake, sleep races, and the compact message layout; add exact WisBlock OTA profiles plus expanded native/static/HIL documentation.
mikecarper
Kevin Le
Wolfram Keil
MUSTARDTIGERFPV
João Brázio