Rework the startup device picker into a self-contained splash flow:
- probe_meshcore (renamed from smoke_test_meshcore) now leaves the confirmed
connection open and returns it, so AppContext.adopt_device reuses that live
radio instead of reopening (many boards reset on each serial open). Restore
the library's normal per-command timeout once the handshake succeeds.
- Extract the Braille animation into a reusable tui.Spinner; BusyScreen now
delegates to it.
- Pin the wordmark to a fixed vertical anchor so it never shifts as the box
swaps between the device list, spinner, and messages.
- Esc or a trailing Quit row leaves the splash and exits the program.
- Show the copyright only on the opening splash; retire it once a device is
chosen, even across a failed smoke test and re-pick.
- Disable prompt_toolkit's loop exception handler and route asyncio (and the
awaited spinner ticker) errors to the file log, so a stray background-task
error can't dump a traceback over the full-screen UI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reserve the "MeshCore device" tag for hardware we have actually talked to,
rather than guessing from the USB vendor ID:
- DeviceStore now keeps a registry of every confirmed device (keyed by
stable serial id), remembered forever, migrating the old single-record
file transparently.
- Selecting a device on the splash runs an immediate smoke test
(smoke_test_meshcore): a genuine companion is remembered and confirmed;
anything else re-prompts with a message to choose another. The probe uses
a short handshake window so a non-MeshCore port is rejected cleanly in a
few seconds instead of blocking on meshcore's full default timeout.
- The probe renders in place on the chromeless splash via a new BusyScreen
(animated Braille spinner) driven by session.busy_startup, so the wordmark
and box stay put instead of a separate progress dialog.
- Silence the meshcore library's console logging (its import calls
logging.basicConfig, which printed "INFO:meshcore:..." over the TUI):
route it to the JSON-lines file log with a NullHandler guard on root.
- The devices tool now marks confirmed devices and stops asserting "LoRa"
before a device is proven.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 4.8