A settings save could reach the power setter while RX, TX, duty cycling or a
profile transition owned the radio, returning BAD_STATE after earlier settings
had already saved. Distinguish busy admission from a hardware rejection and
reuse the existing command route, storage and three-second deadline for power.
Acknowledge only after hardware acceptance and a successful preference save.
Skip hardware work for verified unchanged power. Invalidate that verification
after failed writes or radio initialization, retaining rollback and exclusive
beacon/Morse ownership. Keep the existing firmware memory limits and features.
Cover retries, captured routes, timeout/rollover, disconnect, partial writes,
failed saves and recovery. Keep ESP-NOW/simulation adapters compatible and add
ESP-NOW Companion compilation to the existing sequential smoke job.
mikecarper
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