Adapt the validated fan thermostat, battery ADC calibration, GPS baud, SX1262 register patch, and 1700us PA ramp behavior from mintylinux/Meshcore-T-beam-1W-Firmware to the current board architecture. Also make Arduino 3 full-build dependency switching reliable after standard ESP32 builds and guard the release hardware contract with regression coverage.
Add the framed BLE mOTA transport and companion control path, complete the full-profile build and runtime fixes, and document and test the OTA workflow.
Expose the Full Companion terminal over TCP and add an authenticated, replay-resistant host command service with documented CPU temperature, reboot, and allowlisted program examples.\n\nImprove LoRa OTA diagnostics and persistent CLI handling, reduce clock correction drift to ten minutes, and make mOTA stream flush behavior an explicit transport policy with regression coverage.
The host-side build/verify/inspect/serve CLI now lives as a standalone Rust
project at https://github.com/vk496/motatool. Remove the in-tree C++ copy
(tools/motatool/) and repoint the docs (ota_protocol.md, ota_user_guide.md,
tools/mota/README.md) at the standalone repo.
No cross-dependency either direction: MeshCore's firmware build never invoked
motatool (only tools/mota/ Python glue runs in the build), and motatool depends
only on the shared .mota wire spec in docs/ota_protocol.md. tools/mota/
(pio_endf.py EndF hook, motalib.py reference lib, gen_targets.py) is unchanged.
The EndF post-build stamper read the version via _cppdef('FIRMWARE_VERSION'), which only sees -D build flags — but MeshCore authors FIRMWARE_VERSION as a header #define in each example, so the stamper found nothing and defaulted fw_version to 0. Every .mota / OTA advert then reported v0.0.0 while `ver` (which reads the header at runtime) showed the real version.
Read the header value as a fallback WITHOUT moving where MeshCore authors it: honor a -D override first (the header's #ifndef guard invites it, for release builds), else read the #define from the example this env builds (via build_src_filter), falling back to the repo-wide value when unambiguous. Purely additive to our own EndF tooling — no MeshCore source changed.
HW-verified: RAK4631 now reports `fw v1.17.0` in ota stats/ls (was v0.0.0), matching `ver`.
mikecarper
Valentin Kivachuk Burda