Bring in the 65 upstream commits since 0.11.1, with ^K lock and the self chip.
Both sides kept their features. React gives way to Lock in two places. On the
PicoCalc lane, Lock keeps the Shift half of F2 and React is ^E only. In the
hint, ^E react is the first atom to go when ^K lock has no room.
The long-message code now refills the compose line with MentionEditor, which
replaced LineEditor upstream.
Typing narrows the outbox again, and its footer says so. With the scroll
atom, the footer of an entry row is wider than 72 cells, which JP
accepted. The footer line no longer cuts a hint that is too wide at the
edge, which took Esc with it: it drops atoms instead, as the splash
already did. The outbox drops "Del delete" first.
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In a channel, a DM, or a room, the chip of a sender that is a locked
contact reads 🔒 Name (⚿ on the PicoCalc), in the place of the ★ on our
own chip. The transcript cache now compares the locks, so a ^K or a lock
from the node page redraws the chips on the next paint.
The padlock is one constant, marks.LOCK_ICON, shared with the Contacts list.
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The same key as in a conversation. The row gains or loses its padlock in
place, with no confirm, and the next ^K reverses it. On the handhelds, Lock
(or Unlock) rides Shift+F2, as in a channel and a DM.
The hint names ^K only where it fits without dropping another atom. That
rule now lives in one helper, menus.splice_if_room, which the archive
preview uses too.
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Delete keeps a contact out of this sweep only. Shift+Delete removes the row
the same way and stages a lock, so no later sweep takes the contact. The
locks are written on Apply with the archive; Esc and Back ask before they
discard them. A preview left with only locks applies them without the amber
confirm.
The footer names ⇧Del lock only when the hint still fits 72 cells, and a
contact row now says Enter open, since Enter opens its node page. On the
handhelds, Lock rides Shift+F3 behind the Delete chip.
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Off by default. Each masked value keeps a tidbit (j*********u, DA:xx:xx:xx:7C:7C,
192.xxx.x.180, m******e.local), so two radios stay two radios. The log masks each
line as it is written; diagnostics take --anonymize/--no-anonymize, and the page
toggles with `a` (Shift+F3 on the PicoCalc). Refs #31.
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"Section spacing" (section_spacing_min_rows, in the Display group)
replaces "Author spacing" and "Spacing from". It is the smallest
terminal that gets the line: any height, 20, 24, 30, or 40 rows, or
never (default 24). Each section heading of a list gets the line, and
the chat keeps it between authors and before a new day.
The frame records the terminal rows on the screen before the body
renders (note_terminal_rows), and Screen.section_spacing is the one
test. section_heading marks its row as spaced, and the select list
adds the line, never at the top, after a blank line, or under a
heading. The hand spacers before headings are gone, except the seam
between the region table and its actions, which is two lists.
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Select a message in a channel or a DM and press ^E (Shift+F2 on the handhelds) to
react with an emoji. A reaction is a usual message on the wire: MeshTerm writes the
format of MeshCore One and reads it and the two formats of meshcore-open. The
transcript folds each reaction under the message that it names, with a count, or
the names of the nodes while that message is selected. A reaction does not raise
the unread badge, and the Messages list previews it as "reacted 👍".
A reaction names its target by the sender's timestamp. Thus MeshTerm now gives the
device the timestamp of each message it sends and stores exactly that second. A
retry of a DM keeps the timestamp and counts the try number, as the protocol
specifies. The emoji that ^E offers are the reaction_emoji preference. Rooms have
no reactions.
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Two preferences in the Display group: "Author spacing" (auto, on, off;
default auto) and "Spacing from" (the smallest terminal, in rows, that gets
the blank line with auto; default 24). The test reads the real rows of the
terminal before each paint, so a small desktop window drops the line as the
Cardputer Zero does, and a change applies at the next paint. The transcript
cache stores the spacing, so a change draws the lines again. The CLI
manual's sample of `preferences show` is the real output again.
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Greying every name that two keys ever used was too strict: a reflash with an
erase makes a new key, and 34 names on this mesh have one, JP's own among
them. Smog went grey this morning because of two keys silent since September.
The newest key now gets the name, and the name is grey only when another key
used it within name_overlap_days (a new Display preference, "Shared names",
default 7) of it: two live claimants. A contact that was never heard never
wins. On this machine's real data, LOG.IC 3R goes to its active key 47368a7c,
Smog to fa331c83, and 8 of 883 names stay grey.
The stored names come with their times from the one scan node_names() already
ran (node_names_with_times), so opening a chat costs no second scan.
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In a channel, a DM, or a room, ^O on a selected message opens the node page
of its author, the same page the Contacts list opens: our own for a message
of ours, the contact the author's key finds otherwise (ContactPages, the twin
of the map's Locator). It opens to look, without the management verbs, which
belong to the list a contact is in. The hint names ^O only where it acts; the
handheld chip is Author, on Shift+F3 behind Map, since F1-F3 are full.
The room's login moves from ^O to ^G.
The Unreleased changelog now also says where the Map chip went, and covers
the shared lane and the route-end chips.
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locate moves from ^Y to ^L, and the room's login from ^L to ^O, under the
chord rule of 3675226. On the map and in the mesh walk, ^L still goes to
our node. In a chat and on a room's board, ^L opens the map on the author
of the selected message (our own message: our node); on Contacts, on the
highlighted node. map_screen.Locator holds the markers that
gather_markers returns when the screen opens and answers find() at each
paint, so the "^L map" hint atom and the Shift+F1 Map chip show only
where the key acts. A room keeps Log in on Shift+F1, so ^L has no chip
on a room's board yet.
The chat's hints for a selected message go through _fit_hint, which
drops ↑↓ and then ^P only when the line passes 72 cells; the room now
reuses them. LaneDeck.action_for returns None for a slot that has only
a Shift companion.
Right Ctrl with a letter chord still does nothing on the Canadian
Multilingual layout: JP chose not to repair that.
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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
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A final pass over the docstrings and comments: "the own X of Y" is now
"Y's own X" (84 places), a navigation entry is a screen on the stack, our
node is our node, a paint is a paint, the quoted UX labels are in code
font, and a list of punctuation glyphs is in code font.
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Each test docstring states the behaviour that the test proves, in the
simple present. No assertion message, test id, or other string literal
changed. Four statements now agree with the code: the Trace highlight
stays on the last row, a menu count, and two others.
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The Cardputer Zero's launcher ends any app whose Esc is held: SIGTERM to
its process group at three seconds, SIGKILL three seconds after that
(cp0_esc_exit_policy.hpp in CardputerZero/launcher; M5's packaging guide
still describes an older Home-for-five-seconds rule). Its own hint never
reaches the panel while an app owns it, and MeshTerm took 3.4 s to exit,
so a held Esc ended in SIGKILL.
Now a tap of Esc is typed on its release, and a hold of one second
floats a "Hold Esc to quit" box whose bar fills over the two seconds
left. While it is up the app holds the device's transmit lock: nothing
new goes on the air, and a scoped channel send under way closes its
window first. Letting go gives the lock back and types nothing. Held to
the end, MeshTerm leaves the way Quit does, and the launcher's SIGTERM
joins that exit instead of interrupting it wherever the main thread
happened to be.
The exit itself fits: openhop-core's cleanup joined the radio's IRQ
thread, parked in an uninterruptible 30 s poll, for its full 2 s
timeout. The node drops that daemon thread from the books first. On the
device, under the real launcher, the process group now drains 1.3 s
after the SIGTERM, with no SIGKILL.
The emulator's window does the same on a held Esc, debounced for an X
server's release-press repeats.
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A long room name ran the join's caption ("logging in to YJN-ROOM-OBS
St-Jean along its 6-hop route… 37 s") one cell past its box, and the
count's last letter wrapped alone to column zero. A busy card's caption
may now carry line feeds, each later line hanging under the caption's
text rather than under the spinner. The card is as wide as its widest
line, and a line too long for the screen wraps under the text too. The
join puts the room on the first line, and how the login went out with
its running count on the second.
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Joining a room moves out of Chat into a Rooms page beside Channels. It
lists every room server the radio knows, joined ones first, with each
room's access, unread count, last post and last-heard time. Each room
has a page: join, log in again, change password, open the board, forget
it, or delete its stored posts. Chat now lists only joined rooms, the way
it lists only channels on a slot, and only a joined room raises the
unread badge. chat join becomes rooms join, alongside rooms list and
rooms forget.
"No reply" told the reader nothing, because a room is just as silent for
a wrong password as for a login that never reached it. Testing on
hardware showed the commonest cause is neither: a login sent along the
route the radio had learned met silence, and the same login by flood was
accepted in eleven seconds. A silent login is now explained from what is
known: how it went out, when the room was last heard, and whether this
password has worked before. It offers the one next step that evidence
points at:
- Try by flood, after a learned route met silence. The radio forgets
the route (local, nothing transmitted), then sends the login once.
- Try again…, after a flood met silence. The prompt reopens with the
password filled in, so Enter resends it and typing replaces it.
- Add it & try again, when the radio doesn't hold the room as a contact.
Every retry is a button press, and none is ever sent on its own. A
password over 15 bytes is refused at the prompt, since MeshCore sends
only the first 15.
On the board, a failed or unfinished login used to leave the compose
line taking posts the room would drop. It now opens only while we are in
and may post, and otherwise says why and what to press. Opening a joined
room that has gone quiet logs in in the background. ^L runs the
explained flow.
Underneath, the login exchange listens for the radio's own confirmation,
matched to the login by its expected ack. It records whether the login
went by flood or along a route, or the radio's reason for not sending it
at all. This also corrects the debug log: "send unacknowledged" read the
library's wait for the *answer* as the send. On hardware the radio
confirms in under 0.1 s. Device.reset_route is new. The simulator learns
routes, can be given a stale one, and refloods.
Refs: #24
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A room server is a message board on a radio: it keeps its members' last
posts and sends each member the ones they missed. MeshTerm could see rooms
and run your own, but not join one. Posts that reached the radio were filed
as direct messages from the room, with their authors thrown away.
Chat now has a Rooms section between Channels and Direct. Opening a room
shows its board at once, each post under the member who wrote it. A post
carries the first four bytes of its author's key, so it is named by any
contact or overheard advert with that key and coloured by the key itself.
An author nothing names stands as the hash, in the unknown-node grey. The
first visit asks for the room's password over the board. After that,
opening a room logs in again only once it has been quiet for
room_relogin_minutes (a new preference, 30 by default), and ^L (F6 on the
handhelds) logs in on demand. The title says what the room allowed:
member, admin or read-only. A read-only member gets a line saying the room
drops their posts, in place of a compose box. A post goes out once, never
soft-retried, since a duplicate would reach every member.
Underneath: messages carry an author (schema 18), a room's board leaves
out its command replies, and a re-sent post is recorded once. Room posts
raise the unread badge and a room's command replies don't. The device
gains room_login, sharing admin_login's exchange and reading the access
the room granted. Room passwords are remembered in rooms.json; an admin
login is kept in admin.json, shared with Repeater admin. The simulator
has a room, Lakeside BBS, to join with "hello".
Two fixes the research turned up. An admin command took the first direct
message from anyone as its reply, so a room post or a companion's message
landing mid-command was read as the node's answer. It now listens before
sending, and only for a reply from that node that is not a post. And
Repeater admin names a room server's guest password "Room password", the
password members join with.
Refs: #24
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Panning or zooming the map quickly on the PicoCalc could stop the whole app
for many seconds. A watchdog run on the device found two causes behind it,
plus the port walk fixed in the previous commit.
Memory. A decoded tile holds 1 to 4.6 MB of RAM on the device (65 bytes a
point), not the 0.9 MB the code assumed. The source kept up to 24 of them,
counted as tiles, and the map screen kept 8 or more of its own on top, so a
few pans and a zoom out filled a 104 MB device. Swap is on the SD card, so
the process then stopped while the kernel read its code back in: 16,000
major page faults and a 15 s freeze in one run. Now the source holds decoded
tiles to a byte budget, one eighth of the machine's RAM (12.8 MB on the
PicoCalc, at most 128 MB on a desktop), weighed by mvt.resident_bytes. That
estimate was fitted against tracemalloc on the device's 157 cached tiles: 1%
under to 9% over there, and 6% under to 21% over on a 64-bit desktop. The
screen keeps only the tiles in view, and takes any tile already in RAM
straight from the source on the paint (BasemapSource.resident), with no trip
through a thread. The prefetcher warms the disk cache (BasemapSource.warm)
instead of filling the RAM with guesses, and passes over any tile already
written down. Tile loads take turns, two at a time, and a tile the view has
left before its turn comes is dropped, not loaded.
CPU. fill_polygon asked every edge about every scanline, which at z7 means
coastlines with tens of thousands of edges: 6.8 s of a 7.6 s frame. Each
edge is now filed under only the rows it crosses, and draws the same dots
(checked against the old fill on 3,000 random polygons, and in a test).
_draw_tile also tests each ring's bounds before projecting it, and skips a
ring wholly outside the view. That changes no dot: 1,500 frames from the
device's tiles match rendering with no culling at all. The one frame that
differed from HEAD was HEAD's own building cull, which dropped a footprint
whose fill rounds onto the canvas edge.
Measured on the PicoCalc with the profile-picocalc map_burst tour (keys sent
at 10 a second, from a pinned z10 view, real radio and database). The new
code ran first, so the baseline had the warmer tile cache:
pans, catch-up after a burst HEAD 1.0-1.8 s now 0.4-0.6 s
longest silence, whole tour HEAD 11.6 s now 0.6 s
whole-process freezes HEAD 8.0, 3.1, 2.1, 11.6 s
now one, 1.6 s (idle pages swapped back in)
swap at its peak HEAD 25 MB now 7 MB
warm raster, z7 / z8 / z9 HEAD 7.6 / 1.9 / 1.8 s
now 0.57 / 0.29 / 0.81 s
warm raster, z10 / z13 HEAD 0.49 / 0.56 s now 0.26 / 0.26 s
Still open: z9 spends 0.23 s drawing lines; a prefetch decode of a heavy z7
tile is still 1.3 to 1.7 s on a worker thread; and pages swapped out while
the map sits idle can still cost a second or two to come back.
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The September messages reached the device picker and the command line, but
three other places still lost them. The reconnect dialog retried every
failure in silence, so a device that came back and refused (its port taken
by the MeshCore app, a stale pairing) kept the spinner up forever; from the
second failure in a row it now shows the reason under the spinner, and goes
back to waiting if the device is unplugged again. A device named on the
command line skipped the picker, and a failed start was dropped unlogged; it
is now shown before the menu opens. And a failed open left the dead device
behind, so is_connected said yes and every later tool failed with "not
connected": it is dropped, and the next tool tries again and says why.
TCP failures are named one by one (host not found, nothing on the port, no
route, no answer, hung up) instead of all reading "no response from a
MeshCore companion". A failure MeshTerm has no name for is no longer called
"not a MeshCore device": it is said in its own words, its traceback is
logged once, and the dialog says where the log file is. The tool-failure
dialog stops reading an error's brackets as markup, which had silently
deleted "[org.bluez.Error.Failed]" from Linux Bluetooth errors.
docs/guide/connecting.md lists the TCP messages and where each message
appears.
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"Host" already meant two things here: a TCP companion's network host,
and battery="host" for this machine itself. And with a PicoCalc preview
coming, the package is less a console host than an emulator of a
handheld's display: its panel, grid, font, colours and keys. So it is
meshterm.emulator, Platform.console_host is own_display, its desktop
window is window.py (EmulatorWindow) and its device front end
framebuffer.py, since "sim" and "device" now mean the radio simulator and
the device being emulated. MESHTERM_HOST_FONTS is MESHTERM_EMULATOR_FONTS.
The package's own description opens on what it is not: nothing runs the
handheld's processor or operating system; it mimics the display's
constraints so the window obeys the device's.
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M5Stack makes three Cardputers and only the Zero runs Linux; the PicoCalc
takes several cores and only the Luckfox Lyra runs MeshTerm. So the bare
names were ambiguous, and every reference to the two devices now carries
the variant: the --platform values and MESHTERM_PLATFORM, the Platform
constants (PICOCALC_LYRA, CARDPUTER_ZERO), their lane decks and every
screen's picocalc_lyra_lane / cardputer_zero_lane, the font inventories,
the lane chips' theme styles, the scripts/ folders, the two chrome test
files, and the docs and CLAUDE.md that name them.
There is no alias: --platform picocalc is refused with the three real
choices listed, rather than falling back to the desktop layout. The
PicoCalc is auto-detected from its device tree, so it needs nothing.
What names hardware or a user's data keeps its name: the PicoCalc
keyboard's input-device name, its battery's sysfs supply, and the serial
profile the Lyra setup script writes. .gitignore follows the firmware's
folder, and the changelog keeps the words each release used.
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On a short frame the bar reads the node's type glyph and its name in its
own colours, "▲ Hilltop-Repeater" where it said "Node — Hilltop-Repeater",
so the identity line under the bar said the same thing twice and is gone.
The Routes tab drops the rule under the graph there too, and both freed
rows go to the graph: its ceiling is what the chrome and the list's window
leave, so a busy fan spreads into them. A sparse fan keeps its compact
pitch, as the graph always does. Taller frames are unchanged.
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A URL too long for a message's hanging lane steps out to the timestamp's
column on a line of its own, whole, since a terminal opens a link, and a
reader copies one, only while it sits on one line. Only a URL wider than
the screen still folds. ^U on a picked message opens its links on the
share screen, one code at a time, and with several, the arrows step
through them, the URL line flanked by a lit or dim arrow each way. On the
PicoCalc the lane carries it as QR, behind Day down.
CLAUDE.md also states the shortcut rule: a bare letter only on a screen
that takes no typing, a Ctrl chord everywhere letters are text.
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Every URL in a channel or direct message, any scheme (a meshcore://
share as surely as a web link), now gets a braille code under the
message, hung at the body's indent. Several sit side by side and wrap
onto a new band when the line is full, so a link read on the handheld
opens on a phone instead of being typed out. Platform.url_codes keeps
it to the PicoCalc: half-block codes would swamp a desktop transcript,
and the Cardputer's 14 rows can't spare 9 under every link.
A picked message now keeps its whole block in view, codes included,
rather than only its first row, so walking the pick down onto a link
no longer leaves its code below the fold.
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Every URL in a channel or direct message, any scheme (a meshcore://
share as surely as a web link), now gets a braille code under the
message, hung at the body's indent. Several sit side by side and wrap
onto a new band when the line is full, so a link read on the handheld
opens on a phone instead of being typed out. Platform.url_codes keeps
it to the PicoCalc: half-block codes would swamp a desktop transcript,
and the Cardputer's 14 rows can't spare 9 under every link.
A picked message now keeps its whole block in view, codes included,
rather than only its first row, so walking the pick down onto a link
no longer leaves its code below the fold.
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The stock image gives an app no text console, so MeshTerm draws its own: the TUI
runs in-process with prompt_toolkit's output feeding a small VT parser, the cells
are drawn in Terminus 6x12 with MeshTerm's marks over it, and keys go in through a
pipe in xterm's spelling. The front end is the only part that differs: framebuffer
and evdev on the device (written ahead of the hardware), a Tk window on the desktop.
Each handheld's glyph inventory is now named by Platform.font, which replaces
ascii_fold; the render-boundary fold derives its accents, emoji, and fallback from
that inventory and quantizes colour only where truecolor is off.
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Same hard width gate as the PicoCalc, the lane checked through the platform's own
deck, and no emoji in a handheld's output. Rows stay ungated, since a body scrolls;
the screens that are cramped at 14 rows are a judged worklist instead.
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A lane's keyboard-bound half is now a LaneDeck named by Platform.lane_deck: which
keycodes drive the slots, where the chips sit, how they are drawn, and which of a
screen's lane definitions it reads. Screens define picocalc_lane; cardputer_lane
follows it until a screen overrides it, so the two can part ways one screen at a
time. The Cardputer deck is Fn+4..8, Shift with them as F16-F20, eight-cell chips
centred over their keys in the fn key's orange-red and the Shift blue.
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s (F2 on the PicoCalc) steps all → unscoped → each region heard in the window
A–Z → unknown scope, beside w's window cycle. A narrowed page charts that
scope's floods per day (per hour at 24 h), their time-of-day rhythm, and its
own ledger; nodes per day and arrivals leave, being read off adverts, which
carry no scope. A window's stored floods are read once (Repository.flood_frames)
and resolved against the known region names for the page's life.
The node and own-node pages offer no cycle: a node's page is its adverts and
telemetry, and what we send is traces, which go direct.
The ring's order, words and chip move to ui/scopering.py, shared with the
dashboard.
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s (F3 on the PicoCalc) steps all → unscoped → each region A–Z → unknown
scope → all, and the whole screen follows: the activity chart, the pulse
rate, the traffic tallies and the SNR/RSSI medians narrow to that scope's
floods, while the radio's own numbers stay whole. A narrowed view reads the
screen's 2-hour window, since naming a frame's region is a per-frame check
the database can't run; the headings say so, and a direct frame, which has
no scope, counts only under all. The title names the view, falling back to
"Dashboard · scope …" where a long region name won't fit.
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Traffic listed what the device reported (advert, telemetry, message, ack)
beside the frames those reports arrived in, so one advert was counted twice
and its frame row had to be renamed "raw advert" to tell the two apart. It
now counts frames heard on the air only, named by the same function as the
live feed's class lane (payload_marks), and every bar takes the colour the
feed draws a frame's class in.
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The region each channel's messages are flooded into, blank for one that
sends under the device default. The lane is only as wide as the longest
scope, and shares a budget with the name lane so that at 72 columns it
never cuts the activity sparkline: with a name at its ceiling it gets
eight cells, what the row had spare. On the PicoCalc the row was already
cut inside the activity lane, so there it costs the LAST ages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The node page of a repeater shows the regions it was last heard to relay
floods for, whether it relays unscoped floods too, and when it said so, and
asks it once on request. The region store keeps that unscoped flag and the
answer's time beside the regions.
Repeater admin gains a Regions page: the region tree read over the remote
CLI (core/region_admin.py parses the dump, drops a line the 160-byte reply
cut in half, and recovers the rest from the flat lists), flood allowed or
denied per region and for the wildcard, home, default scope, add, remove
and save. Each edit is one command applied at once; the title counts what
a reboot would undo. meshterm regions NODE asks from the command line.
The simulator transcribes the firmware's region CLI, reply cap included.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
The packet viewer's route row reads "flood · scope harbour" (or
"scoped · 3fa1" for a region nobody here has named, or "unscoped")
instead of the library's bare "tc flood"; a direct frame keeps its
route word and states no scope. The live feed gains a SCOPE lane where
the width holds it, 72 columns included (the subject lends it one
cell); the PicoCalc's row already scrolls at 53 and leaves the scope to
the viewer. The message paths dialog states a message's scope once, as
a title atom, read off its arrivals' frames. monitor streams a SCOPE
lane before NAME, and the scope object (or null) under --json.
The viewer and the feed take the region store's scope_of by injection,
falling back to reading the frame alone, and the viewer's card cache
keys on the scope so a region learned while it is open renames it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A muted line under the Weekly advert row on the Preferences page, set in
the value lane: "next advert in 4d" while the week runs, "due — waiting
for a packet" and then "due — after 30 s of quiet" once it is due, "no
device connected", and "the week starts on Apply" while it is only staged
on. The line is a width-aware separator that reads the scheduler's new
status() on every paint, from state the loop already keeps, so it follows
the wait live without touching the file. It is drawn, even blank, for as
long as the preference is on, so the rows below never shift; every message
fits the PicoCalc's 53 columns, and a gallery specimen holds it there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A MeshCore companion never advertises by itself, so the hourly zero-hop and
daily flood adverts MeshTerm sent by default were the only automatic adverts
on the air, and more than a companion needs. The Background adverts rows leave
Device config and `config advert-cadence` goes with them.
In their place, two preferences under Sending: weekly_flood_advert (off by
default) and advert_quiet_s (5/15/30/60 s, default 30). Each device keeps its
own real-time week, running from the latest of the switch-on, its last flood
advert (automatic or by hand), and its first connection; a due advert survives
a restart. Before sending, each connection must hear a packet, then the air
must stay quiet (nothing heard, nothing of ours sent) for the spell plus a
random 0-5 s, drawn afresh at every break so two waiting radios part.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The block is a title, a standfirst, sections and a list under each. That
is a page of writing, not a screenful of rows, and the app already knows
how to draw one: the About pages' markdown renderer. So the tool states
its report as before and a third projection turns it into markdown, which
is exactly what the report seam was built for -- no tool touched, no
report changed, one new function beside the other two faces.
Being a written page buys the two things a long block most needs and that
a hand-built screen had neither of. Its ## headings are landmarks, so each
pins to the top row while its own section scrolls under it and ^PgUp/^PgDn
step section by section; and the PicoCalc lane picks up Sect up / Sect
down for the same reason a grouped list does. AboutPage already does all
of it, so the page is that page with one verb added.
The frame comes back with it. The bare frame was there to keep a border
off every line a mouse would drag through, which mattered while copying
off the screen was the only way out; saving is the way out now, so the
page can be a normal screen and the save can be advertised where this app
advertises verbs -- the footer hint on a desktop, the lane's one free F3
slot on the console -- instead of in the page's own body, which belongs to
the report. The answer moves to a popup with it: a path is worth reading
carefully, a write can fail, and the page underneath is unchanged and
still there when the popup goes.
Saving markdown is the same decision as drawing it. One source is what the
page renders and what the file holds, and an issue tracker renders it as
written, with no fence and no apology. Every value is a code span, which
is correctness and not taste: a Windows path is full of backslashes that
markdown reads as escapes, and an error a stranger's firmware wrote can
hold an asterisk. A value already holding a backtick gets a longer fence.
Rows are a list and not a table, measured rather than assumed -- a
markdown table's cells are cropped with an ellipsis at 53 columns, and a
bug report whose one long value is cut is missing the half that mattered.
A list item wraps and hangs under its own text at any width.
Two smaller things fell out. A block may carry a caption, the heading a
format that has headings draws above it -- plain and JSON have no use for
one and ignore it. And the host block splits in two, because a "it looks
wrong" report is about the terminal and its reader should not have to pass
the processor architecture on the way to it.
The command line is untouched: aligned records, because that face is a
stream to grep and headings are furniture on it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Copying off a screen is the wrong shape for anything long: you select,
you scroll, you select again, and on the PicoCalc there is no clipboard
to select into at all. So the page saves. s writes
meshterm-diagnostics.txt into the config directory beside the log, which
is the folder "send me both" already names, and meshterm diagnostics
--out PATH does the same from a shell -- spelled the way config
export-key --out already spells it rather than inventing a second word
for writing an answer to a path.
The save key forced the one concession on the bare frame. A bare frame
has no footer and no F-key lane, so a page that could save and never said
so would be a key nobody could find, and on the PicoCalc the lane is
normally the only place an affordance is advertised at all. The page
carries its own last line instead. One trailing line after a blank row
costs a paste far less than a border costs it on every line, and a drag
that follows the block stops above it of its own accord.
Saving answers on that same line. A dialog would cover the block the
reader was about to copy, and the line has to be able to say a write
failed -- a read-only home, a full disk -- without inventing an error
screen for it. The block stays readable either way, which is the whole
reason both routes exist.
The file is always the plain block, even under --json: it is there to be
read by whoever opens the issue, and a document of the same facts helps
them less. It is rendered at a fixed wide width so no lane crops, and
with the trailing pad stripped, since Rich pads every cell to its column
and that is invisible on a terminal and noise on disk.
With --out the answer becomes the path, the trade config export-key
already makes: a caller who asked for a file wants to be told where it is,
not handed the contents they just redirected into it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A report that opens with "it crashed" costs three round trips before
anyone knows which MeshTerm, on which OS, in which terminal, talking to
which radio. The person who hit the bug is the one least able to answer:
half of it is resolved at boot and shown on no screen -- whether icons
draw, whether powerline separators do, which platform flavour resolved and
why. Diagnostics states all of it at once, as a page under This app and as
meshterm diagnostics.
The page is a bare frame, and that is mechanical rather than aesthetic.
The one thing it is for is getting its text out of the terminal and into
an issue, and a terminal is selected by dragging: a border is characters
on the same lines as the content, so every line of a line-wise selection
arrives with a box-drawing glyph welded to each end. A header and a footer
hint arrive as text that looks like part of the report to whoever reads
the paste. So the page draws its rows and nothing besides, the frame the
share screen already uses for the same kind of reason.
Nothing in the block is private, and that has to be a property rather than
a habit, because the whole premise is that it gets pasted in public by
somebody who did not read it. No pairing PIN, no admin password, no
channel secret, no private key, no position, no contact's name or key. The
mesh arrives as aggregate -- a row count per table and the span the
observations cover -- which is the half that explains a bug without naming
anyone the reporter talks to. Two tests hold the line from opposite sides:
one plants real secrets in the stores that hold them and asserts none came
out, and one refuses the key *names* such a field would take, so a value
the suite cannot plant is still caught by what it would arrive as.
The radio is asked and never required. A report about a companion that
will not connect is exactly the report most worth filing, so the failure
becomes connected=no with the radio's own words in error, and every other
fact still arrives.
Table counts come off sqlite_master rather than a list written down here,
so a table added later starts being reported the day it lands; the
interesting count is always the table nobody expected to be full. Only
overridden preferences are listed -- the defaults are in the source and
identical for everyone.
Both faces share one projection of a facts block, so the page cannot drift
from what the command prints: a field added to the report reaches both
without anyone remembering to. Only the layout differs, in one respect --
the scripted face crops a value too wide for its lane, which is right for
a record somebody will split on whitespace and wrong for a page whose
whole job is to be complete, so a long value hangs under its own block
instead. A path also gains the lane constructor it never had; the machine
face had always spelled one correctly and the plain face could not render
one at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rich draws a panel's corners rounded, and square only where it judges the console
legacy Windows, which a captured pytest run on Windows is. The credit tests looked for
the square corner, so they passed here and failed on every Linux and macOS runner.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
