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Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5.5 73be9692b4 A channel guide lists the public channels heard on the mesh
MeshTerm already stores every channel packet it hears, including those
on channels the device doesn't have. A packet names its channel only by
a one-byte hash, but a public channel's key is derived from its name, so
a candidate name can be tested: derive the key and check the packet's
MAC with it, exactly as the firmware does before decoding. The guide
tries the device's channels, Public, every #name mentioned in a stored
message, and every known region. On one desktop history that names 25
public channels.

A guessed name has to match at least two messages before the guide
shows it. The check compares three bytes, and with thousands of names
against thousands of packets roughly one false match is expected. The
candidates are grouped by their hash byte, so each packet only checks
the ~1/256 that could match; the naive loop took 40 s, this takes 1 s
on 31,000 messages, in a worker thread under a busy card, and the result
is kept for the session while its inputs are unchanged.

"Channel guide…" is the first row of "Add a channel" on the Channels
page, and it stays there when every slot is full. Channels not on the
device come first, and Enter adds one to the next free slot. Channels
the device already has follow with a ✓ the highlight doesn't walk, and a
closing line counts the messages no name matched. Each row shows the
message count, the age of the last message and seven days of activity.
`channels guide` lists the same channels on the command line.

Refs: #25
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 01:27:11 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5.5 2d30e8e392 Channels export to a file, and import onto another device
A new device ships with Public and nothing else, so changing devices
meant adding every channel again by hand: each private key pasted, each
# name typed, each send scope and mute set again. The Channels page now
has an "Export and import" section. Export writes every channel to one
TOML file, in slot order, with its key, its send scope and its mute.
Import reads such a file and adds its channels to the device.

Import never removes a channel. The channels of the file go first, in
the file's order, and whatever else the device holds follows them. A
channel with no free slot is reported, not forced in. Before anything is
written, a dialog shows the plan (what is added into which slot, what
moves) and ends on "Nothing is removed from the device." The slots are
read again in full before the plan is made, because a probe cut short
makes an occupied slot look free.

The file uses the same [[channels]] table as config backup, so a config
backup imports too. A # channel carries no secret, since the device
derives its key from the name. A private channel carries its key, so the
file is written readable by its owner only, and the export says how many
private keys it holds.

On the command line, `channels export FILE` writes the file and prints
its path, and `channels import --file FILE [--dry-run]` prints the
device's layout after the import, one row per channel with add, move,
keep or skip. `channels import INDEX URL` still imports a single link.

Refs: #25
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-07 01:15:58 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5.5 6b90e0505b Docstrings and comments of meshterm/tools are in ASD-STE100
The same rewrite as for the core package. No help= string, epilog, or
other UX text changed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 03:48:44 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5.5 7f59bfa5a0 A channel's region is a bare title atom, and a channel with no scope answers -
The chat title reads "#devtest · onqc" rather than "#devtest · scope onqc". `channels scope N` on a channel with no scope prints - (null in --json) and exits 0: sending under the device default is an answer. Only an empty slot still exits 5.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 23:40:47 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5.5 169c3272c7 The wildcard scope reaches the command, and an empty slot can't be scoped
On Windows, Click expands any argument holding `*` into the files it
matches, quoted or not, so `chat send --scope '*'` arrived as the working
directory's file names. The entry point turns the expansion off; nothing
MeshTerm takes is a glob.

`channels scope N REGION` on an empty slot did nothing and exited 5, which
tells a script the scope was set and read back empty. A write there is
now a usage error; a read still exits 5, as `share` does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 21:37:38 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5.5 7cdc6d9ba3 A channel can be given a region its messages are flooded into
The firmware has no per-channel scope, so a channel send is now a window
on the companion's session scope: set it, send, restore it, under a
transmit lock every flood-capable send also takes (DMs, adverts, admin
commands, logins, regions/neighbour requests), so nothing interleaves.
Ack waits stay outside the lock. A scope the radio can't take stops the
message (FloodScopeError naming the firmware it needs) rather than sending
it unscoped or under the default; * checks the firmware version, since
before 1.16 the override would quietly fall back to the default scope.
A failed restore is repaired by the next transmission.

Channel scopes are set from the channel page's Send scope picker (known
regions with their carriers, or a typed name) and from the CLI (channels
scope, chat send --scope). The chat's title carries the scope as a status
atom, ^R/Resend sends the newest scoped message again unscoped after an
amber confirm, and the scope each sent message went under is recorded
(messages.scope, schema v17) so the paths dialog can say what it went
under and when no known repeater carries that region. Device config now
teaches the region store the default scope it reads or sets.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 21:02:34 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Fable 5.1 c9f5a71ce7 Every Python file names its licence with an SPDX identifier
Apache-2.0 does not require per-file headers, but a file lifted out of the tree carried no marking at all. One comment line, first (or right after a shebang), on every .py under meshterm/, tests/, packaging/ and scripts/, plus the extensionless SPI bridge; tests/test_spdx.py keeps a new file from landing without one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-13 13:09:18 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Fable 5.1 ffd2649a35 Shared logic sits in the layer that reads it, and the CLI answers --version
A pre-release architecture and QA pass, applied as one change because the moves
share files and only the whole set was gate-tested (2480 passed, ruff clean).

Three new modules pull logic down out of layers that should not own it:
core/channel_probe.py (ChannelSlot, read_channel_slots, probe_channel_slots)
so services/device_state.py no longer imports a screen; services/markers.py
(gather_markers, with MapMarker a core/models dataclass) so two screens stop
importing a tool; core/tracing.py (trace_timeout, path_hash_flags) so
core/connection.py no longer imports services. The routing-prefix width is
DeviceState.routing_prefix_bytes(), replacing five private cross-module imports.

One definition per thing: is_path_hash, the NodeResolver/NameKeyResolver
aliases, TILE_RETRY_SECONDS, haversine_km, marks.SELF_MARK, MENTION; nine
private names that crossed module boundaries got public ones and menus.__all__
lists what other modules import. A preference's default is written once
(ALERT_CAP, DONE_CAP, DEFAULT_VIEW_FRACTION read the registry), the stranded
PREFERENCES doc comment sits on its subject, and three docstrings stop naming
questionary, a library dropped long ago.

The command line gains --version (eager, exit 0, documented, tested) and drops
the -p short form on trace, trace-path and tx-optimize: the root lifts -p as
--profile before a leaf ever sees it, so the leaf's could never work, and a
derived test now checks every leaf against every root short option.
tx-optimize with a one-hop --path is a usage error, exit 2, because nothing
transmitted is not a device failure. Log handlers are closed before they are
cleared (197 unclosed-file warnings gone), chat's fire-and-forget tasks keep a
reference, coroutines use get_running_loop(), the never-awaited MapScreen._load
in a test is awaited, and the CLI sweep passes --no-ble to devices so a test
run stops turning on the Bluetooth radio three times (the suite is 40 % faster).
The about page lists every dependency, and the release skill bumps the README's
download names, which still said 0.2.8.

apply_ops stays in tools/: it and its helpers build report blocks and open two
screens, so moving it to core/ would invert core over ui. The widgets CLAUDE.md
names by their private spellings (_format_age, _NODE_GLYPHS) keep them until
CLAUDE.md is edited alongside.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-12 19:19:45 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Fable 5.1 b56987b24b A QR code is white on black, and the whole screen when it is the answer
A camera reads contrast, and a light-on-dark code is what a scanner expects
of a screen, so every code MeshTerm draws is now pure white ink on a pure
black field (the theme's `qr` style, both ends named on both themes), never
black on white.

The share views — a channel's share link, a contact card, the CLI's share
commands run in the menu — are no longer a titled popup with an instruction
over the code. They are `QrScreen`, a **bare frame**: `Screen.bare` and
`frame.compose_bare` draw the body alone on blank rows, with no header, no
footer, no title bar, no box, no hint and no F-key lane, and nothing on it
but the code and the URL it encodes, sat a little above centre. Esc leaves.

The code fits itself to the frame every paint, width and rows both: the
standard fit first, then a lighter error level, then a narrower quiet zone,
before it would ever be cut — a contact card is 57 cells and 29 rows at the
standard fit, the PicoCalc is 53 across and a regular terminal 24 tall. When
code and URL can't share the frame the code is whole at the top and the URL
a page down. The frame states its height before it asks for the body, which
is what lets the screen size to it.

A `qr` fence in a written page is the one exception and keeps its place in
the prose — the About pages' codes flip to white on black like the rest.

Found on the way: the PicoCalc's SGR quantizer matched a colour only when it
was a whole sequence, and Rich writes a style's foreground and background as
one sequence (`ESC[38;2;…;48;2;…m`), so a white-on-black module reached the
console in truecolor. It now walks every sequence's parameter list.

The standard is written into CLAUDE.md under Screens and lists; the gallery
carries the share screen as a specimen on both platforms.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-12 03:05:34 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5 4ba8da7f03 Channels shows the wait instead of announcing the result
Three things, all the same story - the manager was silent while it
worked and talkative once the work was already visible.

The acknowledgement goes. It reported changes the reader had just
watched land in the list in front of them, after the screen showing
them had closed. The count stays in summary, for the run log.

Every device action now reports while it runs, under the modal busy
card: write_channel draws its own (it is the one boundary every
mutation crosses), a reorder draws one card for the batch and retitles
it per move, and the re-read that follows a change draws one rather
than three. Modal is the point - the list underneath stays armed the
whole time it waits, so keys tapped during a slow write were landing
in its filter and coming back as a list showing nothing.

And "a write happened" moves off the change count onto the cache the
write drops. A write that landed and then raised - a QR view unwound
with ^W, a link lost mid-reorder - never reached changes += 1, so the
stale slot list and the chat service's slot map outlived a layout that
had already moved. write_channel now invalidates as it writes, which
the four CLI subcommands were never doing at all, and the manager
compares the epoch across a round.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-09 00:32:19 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5 109fe7645d Move every command onto the seam, and give the plain face its own premise
Forty-nine leaf commands now state a Report instead of printing one, so --json
works on all of them at once rather than on the two that grew a branch for it.
The two hand-rolled JSON paths are gone: devices no longer builds a payload dict
of its own, and its empty scan exits 5 like the plain path always did rather than
0 — a rendering flag has no business moving the report.

The plain face changes premise along with it. It used to be a serialisation
format a person could squint at, and several of its rules existed only to make
splitting safe. Splitting is the machine face's job now, so:

- Names are bare. Alignment is the delimiter; the escaping under the quoting
  stays, because nothing else stops a name a node broadcast from ending its own
  record.
- Times are ages. "Heard recently?" is the question a contacts listing is opened
  to ask, and an ISO instant makes the reader do arithmetic to answer it.
  --absolute puts the instants back; an appointment, the device clock and a live
  capture's own column were never ages and still aren't.
- A route takes arrows and a path keeps its commas. The lexicon has always split
  these and the output never did, so a route line looked pasteable into --path,
  which it is not.
- The listings gain what was cut for parser hygiene: contacts gets the HASH
  --path takes and a LOCATION the model has always carried, preferences gets the
  DESCRIPTION already written in its registry, and the two live streams get
  pinned lanes — which is what let them have columns at all, and with them the
  last call site for the quoting.
- The four written pages wrap at 72 instead of printing 600-cell paragraphs. It
  is the one exception to "no wrapping", and the rule's own reason says why: a
  paragraph has no fields to land under the wrong headings.

info keeps its keys and gains a gloss on the four readings nobody can hold in
their head (93784 (1d 2h)); it is the one key/value block with no set behind it,
so there is no round trip to protect. config show is untouched, deliberately.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-08 03:43:00 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5 98c635a62e Refuse the wrong answer instead of quietly giving it
Four places where the CLI answered a question the caller had not asked.

`--profile yagi` naming no profile fell through to ordinary discovery, so
a typo in a scheduled advert transmitted from whichever radio happened to
be attached. Naming a profile is a claim about which device; an
unkeepable claim is a bad argument, not a default.

`--sort bogus` sorted by the default and `--category long_hual` selected
every discipline — which then came back as exit 5, the code that means a
real empty result. A caller branching on 5 could not tell "no records"
from "you misspelled the discipline". `ContactsSort.from_name` still
forgives an unknown name, because a saved preference from an older build
must not wedge the menu's list; the command line refuses instead.

A `--port` that would not open reported exit 4 and "the connection to the
device was lost", describing a connection there had never been. Every
failure while acquiring the device is the other status: nothing was
transmitted. It now says which port, and why.

A message body could hold a newline, which ended its record early and
left the remainder indented under the other columns as a second record
with an empty TIME — the one field a stranger fills in, breaking the one
rule the format has. script.oneline folds it flat.

And an unnamed node read as `""` in one listing and `-` in the next:
seven of the ten places that print a name were claiming "called nothing"
where they meant "never said". script.name draws the distinction once,
which is also the one the JSON rendering will need.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-08 02:31:22 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5 4a91845651 A manual for the command line, and two rules it caught us breaking
docs/cli.md documents every command and option, what each one prints, and
what it returns -- with the output conventions and the exit-status table
up front, since those are the two things a script is written against.
Every command, option and flag in it was checked against the running app;
the sample output is captured from the simulator rather than typed out.

Writing it turned up two places the CLI still did the thing the last
commit was about. A destructive command refused for want of --yes printed
its refusal in red on *stdout* and exited 1: a colour and a sentence that
is not the command's answer, in whatever was reading the command's answer.
A missing confirmation is a bad invocation, so it now goes through the
parser like any other -- nothing on stdout, the reason on stderr, exit 2.

The README keeps its cookbook and its summary of the conventions, and
points at the manual for the rest.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-08 01:17:26 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5 da05dd402f Give the CLI its own voice, meant for a pipe rather than an eye
The CLI had grown the menu's manners -- colour, boxes, section headings,
glyph columns, a closing check mark -- and every one of them is in the way
of the thing it is actually for. It now prints like a standard Unix
utility: plain text, no escape sequences at all, no frames, one record per
line, and nothing wrapped, so a long line runs off the right instead of
folding its fields onto a second one.

meshterm/ui/script.py is the whole vocabulary. Listings are an uppercase
header and space-aligned records; key/value blocks are sysctl's shape, and
a `get` prints the bare value alone. Names are quoted wherever they share a
line, because a name can hold a space or a comma and a bare one is not a
field. A route reads "Origin" (3d),"Relay" (f2),"Us" (a1) -- the hash
outside the quotes, our own node a hop like any other rather than a star,
since the hash is what carries the identity that colour carries on screen.
Times are absolute local ISO-8601 and "-" is the one token for absent.

The return value is now half the report: 0 ok, 1 failure, 2 usage, 3 no
device, 4 the device was reached and the operation failed, 5 nothing to
report. That last one is the point -- a command that ran fine and found
nothing prints nothing and says so in $?, so a script never has to count
output lines to tell an empty mesh from a full one. Errors and progress
moved to stderr, and an expected failure no longer arrives as a traceback.

Two things lose their scripted face rather than get a degraded one. The map
is a picture whose nodes are told apart by colour: monochrome it would be
unreadable, coloured it could not be piped anywhere useful, and the nodes
themselves are still in `contacts`. The QR codes are a second rendering of
a link the output already prints.

ui.ack joins ui.note to draw the line the change needed: a note is output,
an acknowledgement is reassurance a person wants and a script must filter
out, so the menu prints it and the CLI drops it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-08 00:52:48 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5 92d31a3191 Every file is spelled the way the formatter spells it
`ruff format .` across the repo: 153 files, no behaviour change. This is the
second gate CONTRIBUTING.md promises, and until now it reported 154 files needing
reformat — so a first contributor ran the command the guide told them to run and
could not tell their own diff from the background.

Landed on its own, with nothing else in it, because a whole-repo reformat is only
safe to skip past in blame if it is provably nothing but layout. It was checked
that way rather than assumed: every changed file was formatted in memory and
compared by full `ast.dump()`, and 152 of 153 come out structurally identical
(the one exception was a docstring opening on a quote character, fixed in the
commit before this one). The string and comment token streams were diffed
separately, so a quote flip or an edited comment could not hide inside a
re-layout — five quote-style normalisations and sixteen implicit-concatenation
joins, all value-identical, and one commented-out line gaining the space after
its `#`. `meshterm specimen` is byte-identical on both platforms, and the suite
is 1888 green, gallery gate and `test_theme16` included.

What actually changed, in order of how much of the diff it is: wrapped calls and
signatures rejoin onto one line where they fit inside the hundred columns; the
magic trailing comma expands what it is there to expand; complex slices gain
their spaces (`[len(noise) :]`); a few redundant parens go. The tables that are
laid out to be read were fenced in the previous commit and are untouched here.

The aligned trailing-comment column is gone from about ninety lanes that were not
fenced — including the `heat.*` ladder in `MESH_THEME`, which cannot be fenced
where it sits. Every comment stays on the entry it describes, so nothing there
reads wrong; it just no longer lines up.

Add this commit to `.git-blame-ignore-revs`, which follows immediately.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-07 01:07:19 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5 b5006cc415 Every line fits the hundred columns it was configured for
`E501` across 69 lines, wrapped rather than exempted.

The prose ones — module docstrings in `menu`, `node_detail_screen`,
`pathline`, `pathgraph`, `walk_screen`, `trace_runner` and `test_about` — are
reflowed as paragraphs, so the block keeps its shape instead of gaining one
short orphan line. Nothing they say changed.

The code ones mostly gained a line break inside a call. Where a break would
have read worse than a name, the sub-expression got one instead: `reach` in
`topology`'s quality clamp, `plain_cells` in `pathline`, `numbering` in the
trace list, `listed` in `flash.py`'s refusal, and a small `shape`/`is_strip`
helper in two tests that were comparing or matching the same shape twice on one
line. Four docstring summaries lost a word they were not using.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 20:22:52 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5 71b16ec7b7 The annotations, imports, and dead locals answer to ruff
`ruff check --fix` over the whole tree, ahead of putting the linter in CI:
1977 mechanical fixes, overwhelmingly `Optional[X]` → `X | None` (1186 in the
package alone) and the quoted annotations that `from __future__ import
annotations` already made unnecessary, plus import sorting and unused imports.
Nothing here changes behaviour — the suite is 1885 green before and after.

Four findings were real rather than stylistic and are fixed by hand: a dead
`cells` range in `MapCanvas`, a dead slot dict in the heat-ladder test, a
`ProgressScreen` task handle nobody read, and a tab loop binding a `label` it
never used. The two `F821`s were quoted forward references to names imported
inside their function bodies — now declared under `TYPE_CHECKING`, which keeps
`test_performance`'s local import (it guards the startup import graph) while
letting the linter resolve the name.

412 findings remain and are deliberately untouched: they need a decision about
the rule, not an edit to the code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 17:26:12 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5 1693367f41 Main menu: every description inside the 72-column line
The label column is the widest tool title plus two cells of gap, which
leaves the muted description 47 to work in. All 22 of them ran past it —
"Act on the device itself — clock, backup, identity key, reboot, reset"
needed 94 columns of terminal to say what 67 could. The row scrolled
under ←→ rather than lying, but a description you have to scroll is a
description nobody reads.

Rewritten to fit: the subject moves into the title's shadow (the row
already says Device actions, so the description just lists them), the
parenthetical asides go, and the trailing clause that repeated the
obvious goes with them. Widest row is now exactly 72.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 16:40:27 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5 284e35edb4 Main menu: five sections, each one an answer to the question
The menu asks "What would you like to do?" and then grouped its rows by
subject, which is not an answer to that. Mesh had grown to seven of the
nineteen rows — live watching, passive browsing, and one transmit action
in the same bucket — and Tools said nothing at all, since everything in
the menu is a tool.

So each section now names a doing, and holds what shares it:

  Message      Chat · Channels · Courier · Contacts
  Watch        Dashboard · Live feed · Watchtower · Time machine
  Explore      Map · Mesh walk · Trace target · Trace path · Trophy case
  This node    Device info · Device configuration · Device actions · Send advert
  Other nodes  Repeater admin · TX optimize

Four rows moved for a reason. Contacts is the address book the three
features above it pick a recipient from, not a mesh view. Time machine is
the past tense of the Dashboard, and was stranded in the grab-bag. Send
advert is your own node announcing itself — a device action, filed with
the mesh views only because it was about the mesh. And Repeater admin and
TX optimize are the same job — someone else's radio, over the mesh, with
credentials — which the old Device-management/Tools split hid.

The two walks join the topology views they walk over, with the boards
that score them underneath: see a node, walk to it, get scored. Nothing
is renamed (a menu row still names the screen it opens) and no section is
now larger than five rows or smaller than two.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 02:22:07 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 4.8 711621d69e Channels: remember MeshTerm-created channels across sessions
A firmware-less radio bridge holds its channels only in RAM, so every one is
lost when the bridge restarts — the Channels page came up empty each session
even after you added channels. MeshTerm read channels live from the device and
never remembered them.

Add a durable, per-device channel store (<config_dir>/channels.json, keyed by
the device's public key) that records every channel written through MeshTerm.
On connect, reconcile() replays any remembered channel the device isn't
reporting into a free slot — filling gaps, never overwriting an occupied slot.

The gate is provenance, not device type: only channels you wrote through
MeshTerm are recorded, so a firmware radio you never edit through MeshTerm keeps
an empty record and does a single identity probe on connect (untouched). A
bridge, where every channel is necessarily created through MeshTerm, gets its
whole set back. Every mutation (create/join/import/edit/reorder/clear) now flows
through a single write_channel() boundary that keeps the store faithful.

Verified end to end against the live SPI bridge: write a channel, clear it off
the device to mimic a restart, reconnect in a fresh session, and reconcile
restores it with the right key.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-24 18:20:49 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 4.8 965783d276 Network (TCP) companions: connect, remember, and manage from the picker
Add TCP alongside serial and BLE as a first-class companion transport, end to
end: discovery/connection/selection learn a tcp: stable_id and host:port target,
--tcp and TCP config profiles reach a WiFi board or network proxy, and a network
companion -- which isn't discoverable -- is rebuilt into the picker from its
remembered endpoint.

Device picker gains the network-device affordances:
- "Add a network device" prompts for host:port, smoke-tests it, and remembers it.
  The row is marked "- experimental" in the cautionary hue.
- Delete on a network row opens a chromeless Cancel/Remove confirm (Cancel left,
  Remove right and default: Enter removes, Esc cancels), then DeviceStore.forget
  prunes it and re-draws the list. Serial/BLE rows stay inert.
- The "Del remove" footer atom now follows the highlight, surfacing on the box's
  bottom border only while the cursor sits on a deletable row; the box is sized
  to the fullest footer so it never widens mid-navigation.

Folds in the accompanying courier, channels, and config refinements built along
the way. Screens stay readable at 72 cols; full suite green (745 tests).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 02:38:11 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 4.8 d19266bd5c Punch-list pass: dashboard hints, packet paging, decrypt, Time Machine axes
Four small UX gaps closed together:

- Dashboard's footer hint was missing Home/End even though the screen
  already handled them.
- The packet viewer's paging keys were reversed relative to the list
  that opens it: PgUp/PgDn walked packets while the dashboard feed
  walks with up/down. Swapped so up/down page through packets (matching
  the feed) and PgUp/PgDn scroll a tall body (matching every other
  screen's scroll keys).
- A raw "packet" entry (an overheard RX_LOG_DATA frame) now shows its
  parsed payload class and route, and — for a channel-text frame naming
  a channel we hold the key for — its decrypted text. The AES/HMAC
  logic lives in core/channels.py as pure, unit-tested crypto
  (decrypt_channel_text), independent of the vendored meshcore
  library's own reader internals; the dashboard fetches the device's
  channel secrets once at open time and hands them down to each
  PacketViewer it opens. Raw-field dumps now skip fields already folded
  into a flavoured row instead of repeating them.
- The Time Machine's whole-mesh charts (packets/day, nodes/day, rhythm)
  gained the same mirrored numeric y-axis the dashboard's activity
  chart already had. That gutter-drawing logic moved into
  braillechart.axis_chart, a shared widget, and the dashboard's own
  activity chart was refactored to use it too instead of hand-rolling
  its own copy.

meshterm/ui/channels.py's _read_slots is now public (read_channel_slots)
since the dashboard opener needs it too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 19:29:45 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Fable 5 d61d4fbbed Menu: split the crowded Mesh section, Messaging now leads
Chat, Channels, and Courier move into their own Messaging section at
the top; Mesh keeps the views over the mesh itself - Dashboard, Nodes,
Map, Atlas, Watchtower, Send advert - dropping from nine rows to six.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 18:49:02 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Fable 5 85fc82a606 Regroup the menu: Mesh, Device management, Tools
Messaging becomes Mesh and takes in Nodes (between Channels and Map —
the "who's out there" view) and Send advert (last in section: its one
action, after its views), so everything mesh-wide lives under one
heading. Device becomes Device management and keeps the box-level
tools; Diagnostics becomes Tools.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 03:35:00 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Fable 5 87d2d10dff Every main-menu item leads with its own emoji
Tools gain an icon attribute — menu-only, so result windows and the
CLI keep the plain title — and the menu loop composes it into the
aligned name lane. Single-codepoint, emoji-presentation glyphs only,
so the two-cell width holds across terminals: 💬 Chat, 📻 Channels,
🌍 Map, 👥 Nodes, 📡 Send advert, 🔧 configuration, 🔨 actions,
📋 info, 🎯/👣 the traces, 🎧 Monitor, 📶 TX optimize, 🚪 Quit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-11 03:27:35 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Fable 5 a23b12f6a4 Normalize UI copy: casing, headers, descriptions, backtracking
Enforce one voice across every screen: column and section headers are
UPPERCASE, menu items are Capitalized buttons, and short descriptions
drop their trailing period (with real ellipses instead of "...").

Tools gain a display `title` separate from their kebab-case CLI name,
so a menu item now reads exactly like the screen it opens ("Device
configuration" opens Device configuration) and result windows inherit
the same name. Every sub-screen backs out via a "Back" row below a
blank separator (the config editor was missing both; its Close is now
Back, spelling out the discard when changes are staged), while the main
menu and device picker keep "Quit". Panel and dialog titles now wear a
brighter tint of their border colour via new title.* theme styles.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-09 22:51:42 -04:00
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 4.8 2ec18138a7 Rename project from MeshTools to MeshTerm
Rename the package directory, imports, brand strings, env-var prefixes,
console-script entry point, and the config/data dir (~/.config/meshterm).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 19:40:49 -04:00