Measured against a real Montreal database: most messages arrive twice,
through the two repeaters a companion hears, on paths that share their
start and split near the end, with 3-byte hashes. The demo did five or
six short copies through five neighbours.
Our node now hears only two new rooftop repeaters, Villeray and
Rosemont (the terrain hides the big ones), companions lose 7 dB at street
level, and each sender has its own hash width (mostly 3 bytes). Now 91%
of messages arrive twice and 83% of paths use 3-byte hashes. Noor moves
to Côte-des-Neiges to stay in reach, and the traces leave through
Villeray or Rosemont.
The capture finds the Message paths message by its text (a key press
can be lost while the transcript draws) and selects the second path,
since the first is often a straight line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
scripts/screenshots.py draws logo.71.ans and logo.53.ans, through the
splash's own loader and the emulator's Terminus raster, in the Campbell
colours, into docs/screenshots/splash/logo.<width>.png at one image
pixel per font pixel. The website takes its splash from there, so it
always shows the art that the app shows.
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The four captures in the README are now the terminal set from the demo
mesh: the main menu, the chat, the paths of a message, and the map. The
old dashboard, map, trace, and path images, which showed real nodes,
are gone. docs/README.md says where the set folders come from.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
scripts/screenshots.py runs MeshTerm --demo in the emulator's session,
with no window, and types its way to the main menu, the chat on Public,
the paths of a message, and the map. It saves each screen for the
terminal (80x24, drawn in Cascadia Mono with its own box, braille, and
Powerline shapes), the Cardputer Zero, and the PicoCalc (the emulator's
own raster, at 3x), into docs/screenshots/<set>/.
Two runs give the same pixels: the clock is pinned to 11:42 on Thursday
15 October 2026 in Montréal (time-machine and TZ), and the demo device
plays no background traffic during a capture (PLAY_BACKGROUND). Gabriel
in Beloeil joins the demo, so the message shown in Message paths
arrives on five paths through Mont-St-Hilaire, and the map opens at z10.
Pillow, fontTools, and time-machine join the dev extras.
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MeshTerm runs the same on the Cardputer Zero (C154) and the Cardputer Zero
Lite (C155): the Lite only leaves out a camera, motion sensors, and the
microSD card, none of which MeshTerm uses. The device manual, the README,
the manuals index, and the About page now say that both models are supported,
and the manual says that the Lite needs a card with M5Stack's system first.
M5Stack does not support hot-swapping a Cap on the Cardputer Zero, the Cap
LoRa-1262 included, and says that it may cause the device to malfunction.
The manual now puts that caution before its steps for the Cap, with M5Stack's
other caution (the antenna goes on before the power), and the steps turn the
handheld off first. It also says that MeshTerm switching the header off when
it quits does not make a Cap safe to remove. The About page says the same in
its own voice, and gains a section on the Cardputer Zero next to the uConsole
and the PicoCalc.
The README shows the Cardputer Zero's start screen (the store's capture,
three times its size) under the PicoCalc photo, and its quick start shows the
emulator command. The pip commands with the spi extra install from GitHub,
because mesh-term is not on PyPI yet. The platform comment and CLAUDE.md no
longer say that the hardware is not in hand: only a flag selects the platform
because the device-tree model is the CM0's generic string.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dashboard, map, trace and the Message paths dialog two by two, each with an alt text that
says what it shows, and the PicoCalc photo alone beneath them, downscaled to 1200 px wide so
the README does not load a 7 MB camera frame. The placeholder comment is gone with its job.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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