The companion protocol reports only a battery voltage, so charging is a
voltage-trend inference. Some devices could instead expose the standard
GATT Battery Service (0x180F) whose Battery Level Status characteristic
(0x2BED, Battery Service 1.1) carries a real, firmware-reported charging
flag. Dumping the GATT table shows no current MeshCore build implements
it — the BLE profile is just the Nordic UART pipe plus DFU — but wire it
up now so it lights up automatically the day one does.
get_hw_charging() reads 0x2BED best-effort over BLE (reaching the bleak
client the forced-teardown path already uses) and prefers its flag; any
failure — service absent, read refused, short value, non-BLE transport —
is a quiet None, so the poller falls back to the inference and every
current device behaves exactly as before. Verified against a live device:
the read resolves and returns a clean, steady None. The 0x2BED bitfield
decode is a pure function unit-tested against the spec's Charge State enum
so the parse is correct ahead of any hardware that populates it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The firmware exposes no charging flag, so charging is inferred from the
terminal-voltage trend. The old test compared the first and last samples
in the window against a 15 mV threshold — but a single-cell LiPo sags
tens of millivolts under each LoRa transmission and springs back when the
radio idles, so a lone sagged sample at either endpoint read as a
+tens-of-mV "rise" and the gauge falsely showed charging on a discharging
or resting pack.
Read the trend from the median of the window's older half against the
median of its newer half (discarding the transient sag/recovery spikes)
and require a large, sustained rise, with hysteresis: hard to start
(25 mV), held while still clearly climbing (8 mV), and dropped the moment
the pack goes flat — topped off or unplugged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A trace is one packet that must travel the whole path out and back before
its reply reaches us, so a flat 10s wait cut long walks off mid-flight —
the packet completed the circuit on the mesh, but our wait had already
expired, so we logged a phantom "no reply" for a route that worked.
run_trace now sizes the wait to the hop count (base + per-hop, capped)
when the caller doesn't pin a timeout, counting the transmitted path
(return leg included). An unknown path-less flood falls back to the old
flat budget. run_traces and the mock thread the optional timeout through,
so every trace surface — live screen, CLI, probe, TX optimizer — inherits
the scaling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The channel manager still felt uncached: its capacity read walked all 64
slots one-by-one on firmware that never rejects an out-of-range index
(the Waymarker), on every open, outside the session cache.
Two fixes for the two slot probes:
- read_channel_slots now stops after a run of MAX_CHANNELS consecutive
empty slots. The manager packs channels from slot 0 up, so an unbroken
empty run that long means every configured channel has been seen — safe
against within-capacity gaps, which can't reach that length. This cuts
every (re)probe on never-rejecting firmware from 64 reads to ~11, felt
after each channel edit (a mutation invalidates + reprobes).
- channel_capacity deliberately keeps walking to the firmware's rejection
(it must discover a larger rejecting firmware's real ceiling — the
empty-run guess would truncate an empty 12-slot device to 8). Its only
slow case is never-rejecting firmware, bounded instead by caching: a new
DeviceState.channel_capacity() holds it for the session (a hardware
constant, dropped only on reconnect) and prewarm warms it after login,
so the manager opens from cache like every other screen.
706 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Warm opens are instant, but the first open in a session still paid the
one-time reads (contacts, the channel-slot probe) in the navigation path —
so opening the menu after login, then the first Chat, read as two separate
stalls. Fold them into one quiet wait behind the menu instead.
DeviceState.prewarm() spawns a tracked background task that fetches contacts
then the channel slots (sequential — concurrent reads collide on the BLE
UART), best-effort and cancelled on reset/close. _resume_monitor kicks it off
once the link is up (only when connected — a deferred connect warms lazily on
first use). A getter reached before the warm finishes awaits the same
in-flight fetch, so it never doubles a read.
The channel probe itself still walks every slot on firmware that doesn't
reject out-of-range indices; bounding that is a separate change, deferred on
purpose — a long one-time poll behind the menu is fine for now.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The session cache fixed the reads screens make on open, but opening the
heaviest screens still stalled for seconds — because the pickers and
screen-openers that run *in front of* those screens were still reading the
radio directly. The menu wraps prompt-gathering and execution in one busy
overlay, so a Trace or Chat open pays its picker's slow round-trips before
the (already-cached) screen behind it ever builds, which is why caching the
screens alone showed no improvement.
Route the interactive-open reads through ctx.devstate too:
- Chat's conversation picker read the channel-slot probe *and* the contacts
table on every open (~5s) — both now come from the cache (channels mapped
from the cached slots via the new _channels_from_slots, contacts served
cached). The CLI list/send path keeps reading fresh.
- Trace and TX-optimize target pickers now read contacts from the cache.
- The repeater-admin screen and the channels manager (its slot probe, on a
local copy so mutations still re-probe the fresh layout after invalidation)
read through the cache.
Small, session-stable reads (self-info, build_snapshot's tuning/path-hash)
are left as direct reads — they were never the seconds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Opening a screen re-read the same stable facts from the companion every time — the contacts table, self-info, the path-hash mode, the channel-slot probe. Over Bluetooth each is a round-trip, and on a busy node two dominate: get_contacts (~2.4 s with hundreds of contacts) and the channel probe (~2.6 s, it walks every slot index), so navigation stalled for seconds on each screen. Measured on hardware; and asyncio.gather makes it worse, not better — the meshcore BLE UART serializes commands, so concurrent reads collide.
DeviceState (ctx.devstate) reads each fact once and serves it from cache. Contacts use stale-while-revalidate on a 90 s TTL — a read past it returns the cached list instantly and refreshes behind it, never blocking navigation on the slow call. Self-info, path-hash mode, and channel slots are held until an in-app write invalidates them: config apply drops self-info + mode, the channel editor drops channels, a reconnect resets everything. The hot screen openers (nodes, dashboard, chat, trace, TX, map, atlas, time machine, courier, watchtower) now read through the cache. The first screen opened in a session still pays the one read — shared across every screen — and every open after is instant. Transport-agnostic, so serial benefits too; harmless on --mock.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a handful of read-only test-run invocations (targeted pytest selections, a UTF-8 full-suite run) and the done-beep to the permission allowlist, so routine iteration doesn't stop to prompt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Time Machine's day / hour / quarter-hour activity feeds now group on datetime(observed_at, 'localtime') in SQLite — rotating each stored-UTC timestamp into the machine's zone per-instant (DST-correct) before the key is sliced — so bars break on local midnight and local hour boundaries in any zone, half-hour offsets included, not on UTC edges. The window 'since' filter stays on the raw UTC column: the window is an absolute span, only the labelling is local. The old caller-side current-offset histogram rotation is gone, and _fill_days / _fill_hours and the axis tick labels now walk local wall-clock keys to match. Tests derive their expected local buckets through the same rotation so they hold in any runner zone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each relay's hash byte now sits straight above or below its marker, fanning outward from the centre line, instead of beside it — drawn in the node's own name-palette hue so it reads as that mesh name and never crowds the line running through the marker. Endpoints keep a beside-the-marker label since they ride the canvas edges. The graph box is sized and centred on the fan's real up/down reach (rarely symmetric) rather than a mirrored block, so it spends rows on the paths. MapCanvas gains an avoid_dots placement and a labels-only vertical anti-stacking margin, so a label may sit immediately above/below a single-glyph marker while dense text still can't silt into a block.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On some terminals prompt_toolkit's size probe reports the window one column
narrower than it really is, so the frame draws to columns-1 and the true
last column sits unused (selectable to the right of the border). Wrap the
real terminal output in _WidthExtendedOutput, which reports columns+1 from
get_size(); since the renderer and the frame compositor both key off that,
the final column now gets drawn.
Gated behind _RECLAIM_LAST_COLUMN (env MESHTERM_FULL_WIDTH=0 to disable) so
it can be turned off on a terminal whose probe is already correct — there
the extra column would fall off-screen and wrap — and eventually promoted
to a user setting. Test-supplied outputs are never wrapped, so headless
rendering keeps its exact size.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a one-cell braille battery indicator to the status bar, shown only when
the companion reports a pack. The cell fills bottom-to-top in four tiers —
green healthy, orange at a quarter, red near empty — with the true percent
beside it; it blinks red↔dim when critically low and sweeps a filling
animation while charging. A session-long BatteryService polls the pack,
maps millivolts to a state-of-charge estimate off a single-cell LiPo curve,
and infers charging from a rising terminal voltage (firmware exposes no
charging flag). The header pins the gauge flush right and the activity
pulse cedes exactly the cells it needs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Halve the neighbours the canvas fans out (a wider _FAN_SLOT_DOTS) so the
shape reads instead of crowding, and name each non-selected node just to
the right of its marker via a new _label_right — the walk's reading way.
The selected node keeps its smart two-sided placement. Widen the east
gutter (_PAD_X_DOTS) and cap fan labels (_FAN_LABEL_W) so even the fan's
outermost name lands without running off the edge.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the between-screens ring spinner with a titled skeleton card: a
heading, the one-cell working chip beside a "reading from <device>…"
caption, and a two-row braille LED bar in place of the old ring.
The bar is a Knight-Rider scanner — a red head sweeps left↔right and
bounces off both ends over a dark-gray track, dragging a persistence-of-
vision comet trail (per-tick decay) with a white-hot core. It rides the
same tick that spins the chip and fades in from black with the card, so
the wait reads as work rather than a frozen bar.
Thread an optional title/caption through busy_overlay so each gap names
the screen being fetched and the companion it's reading from. Give the
CLI progress dialog the same liveness: a spinning chip on every row and a
slim braille meter, with no dead track on indeterminate tasks. Drop the
now-unused RingSpinner.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The axis reserved a fixed worst-case budget per tick (chars // 8, sized
for "Jul 12"), so short labels like bare day numbers were dropped even
where they had ample room — the 7 d window lost a day it could plainly
fit. Replace the estimate with _fit_ticks: step the tick count down from
every bar until an even subset actually clears the collision rule for the
labels it would draw, rebuilding the labels each try so bare "7" is
measured as one cell, not six. Both ends stay annotated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Revert the axis ticks to the evenly-thinned dated labels — one per day
where they fit, else a subset keeping both ends, the month printed on the
first tick and each rollover. The packed right-first scheme read worse; the
even-split bars and the honest y-marks stay. _thinned_picks now holds the
shared fit-or-subset choice.
The 24 h window charts an hour per column instead of a day (its name is
"24 h", not "1 day"): a new Repository.hourly_series buckets by UTC clock
hour like daily_activity does by day, _fill_hours fills the quiet hours,
and _hour_ticks labels the axis with local HH:00 times closing on "now".
Both feed the same bar machinery — only the resolution and labels differ.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The braille glyphs already carry an intra-cell left margin, so the old
leading GAP on the oldest day read as double padding against the axis
border while the right edge showed single. Boundaries now pay the n-1
notch dots and the bars split the rest evenly, flush at both borders.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Day bars now share the chart's dot columns via one floor-edge split
(_day_spans), so widths never differ by more than one dot and the wider
days interleave with the narrower ones instead of pooling on the left.
Every day at least three dots wide opens with its notch — the oldest
day's doubling as its clearance off the axis border.
Axis ticks pack as dense as two blank cells between labels allow,
claimed newest day first, oldest second, then right to left, so a
crowded axis thins from the middle-left instead of down to an evenly
spaced handful. Months are written on the calendar anchors (the oldest
day and the first of a month) rather than tracked across placed ticks.
The y-gutter's ┤ tick crosses a braille row at its third dot, so each
mark now quotes the value of a bar peaking at that dot — computed with
timeline_rows' own baseline math — instead of the row's top edge, which
sat a dot above where the glyph points.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Generalizes the one-off pytest entries to prefix rules across the
python spellings actually used (python, venv exe, Bash and PowerShell)
and covers the commit workflow CLAUDE.md already sanctions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The graph now speaks in path-hash bytes: every relay gets its marker
plus the first byte of its hash in the marker's colour, while the rows
beneath carry the names annotated trace-style (YUL-Poly (3d)), so the
two halves cross-reference. Edges drop the SNR gradient — the selected
path draws white over the unused paths' gray, which is the one question
the graph is asked. Columns are the distinct depths spread evenly across
the width, height follows the fan's real reach (lanes are no longer
burned on relay-less direct paths), and labels sweep for a spot clear of
the drawn lines (MapCanvas grows avoid_dots) before overprinting one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Unread is tracked in-memory in ChatService, keyed by conversation. A
cleared channel's key stayed in that map with its count intact, so the
header badge kept counting messages nobody could read anymore. Route
the clear through set_active so the key's unread is popped before the
slot is wiped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The feed used to open with nothing selected, a holdover from before the
list scrolled in place. That meant a single Esc after highlighting a
packet only peeled the highlight, leaving a second Esc to actually
leave the screen. Default the highlight to the newest packet and let
Esc back out directly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
meshterm --mock writes to the real ~/.meshterm database, so simulator
sessions leave fake nodes (Alice, hub-1, hopN hashes, a1b2c3d4… keys)
in the history behind the atlas, dashboard, and trace suggestions. The
new skill (runs on the cheap model, like commit/verify) backs the DB
up, deletes exactly the MockDevice-fingerprinted rows — deliberately
conservative: no short-hash matching, background run rows untouched —
and verifies a clean second pass. The verify skill now names it as the
mandatory last step after any mock run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The atlas's list-in-a-fixed-screen pattern graduates to a shared
ListWindow (tui.screen): fit() settles the window, the marker rows, and
the highlight clamp together, and remembers the PgUp/PgDn stride; the
frame now records the viewport (or a dialog's budget) before render_body
runs so screens can size their chrome to it. Adopters: the dashboard
pins its charts and windows the feed; the trace screen pins route,
aggregates, and actions over a windowed results block; the path
composer pins the route preview over windowed suggestions (and gains
PgUp/PgDn); the nodes table pins its title, column header, and legend
around windowed rows. The composer's route preview and node rows also
join THE path widget, dropping its hand-rolled Name (hash) renderer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ^P view grows from a static scroll window into its own dialog. Up
top, every distinct path the message took drawn in the atlas's edge
style — origin left, us right, the final relay → us link coloured by
that path's reception SNR, earlier links slate — with markers for every
node but labels only along the currently selected path, so a many-path
graph stays readable; the selected path draws bright, the rest dim.
Beneath, one row per arrival with a selection cursor: ↑↓ move it (the
graph follows), and a row longer than the dialog scrolls horizontally
with ←→ — the whole line shifts under an edge …, and snaps back the
moment the selection moves on. crop_cells in tui.render is the new
cell-exact window primitive behind that.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The graph now takes the majority of the screen (tapering a little on
tall terminals), draws only as many neighbours as its area can carry —
strongest links first, the weaker rest collapsed into one … marker that
lights up as whichever hidden row the list highlights — and lays the
walk out left-to-right: focus toward the left with its label west of
the marker, trail-back ducked under it at the far edge, the fan and its
labels east. The link list beneath scrolls inside the fixed screen:
canvas, legend, and heading hold still, faint ↑/↓ n more markers
bracket the window, and PgUp/PgDn stride by a windowful.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hash annotations (Alice (3d63)), None hops for our own device at a
route's endpoints, and dim_from to fade a boomerang's mirrored return
leg — so the trace screens' walked/planned routes, the per-hop link
tables, and the CLI trace output all render through THE path widget.
Trace routes thereby join the app-wide colour rules (per-name hues,
pure-white you) instead of their old flat brand/accent, and the live
route line wraps under a hanging indent instead of folding to column 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The commit and verify skills were burning the full parent-conversation
context on every routine invocation. Both now set model: haiku in
frontmatter so that context is billed at the cheap rate instead of
whatever model the main session is running.
context: fork was tried on both skills to avoid shipping the parent
context at all, but reverted: a bare "/commit" or "commit this" with no
explicit argument caused the forked subagent to skip the skill's steps
and return a generic greeting instead of committing. Fork only works
reliably when the caller always supplies a rich task description as the
argument, which isn't true for these skills' common invocation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The radio's RX log has recorded every frame's relay path all along;
now a chat message can be asked how it got here. ^P floats a paths
window for the picked (or latest) message: one row per logged arrival
— time, reception SNR, and the relay chain through the shared compact
path widget — so a channel broadcast that reached us three ways reads
as three rows over two distinct paths, resends labelled.
Channel messages are matched by evidence, not guesswork: overheard
GRP_TXT frames decrypt under the channel's own key (fetched from the
device when the conversation didn't carry it) and match the message by
content, tolerating the "Name: " sender-prefix convention on the wire
— our own broadcasts included, since repeaters' rebroadcasts of us are
overheard like anything else. Direct frames are ECDH-encrypted, so the
view offers the window's TXT_MSG frames matched by time alone and says
so plainly. The sender-prefix parser moves to core.channels where the
matcher, the transcript, and the dashboard feed now all share it, and
the repository gains the windowed packet_frames_between query.
Both chat kinds now share one message-pick model: ↑ picks, the pick
walks with ↑↓/PgUp/PgDn/^Home and day-jumps with ^PgUp/^PgDn, ^End
returns to compose. Enter on a pick replies in a channel (unchanged)
and opens the paths in a direct chat, each with its banner cue.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
widgets.path_text is now THE way a relay path renders on one line:
each hop as its resolved name in the app-wide per-name hue (our own
node pure white) or, unnamed, as its bare hash through the shared hash
widget with the routing prefix lit — names carry no parenthesized hash
repeat, hops join on muted arrows, and an empty path reads as the
caller's word for it ("direct"). The packet viewer's via row and the
dashboard feed's trailing note both draw through it, so a relayed
frame's path reads identically (and in the same colours) in the feed,
the packet detail dialog, and the message-path views to come.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The whole-graph radar view drew every node on concentric hop rings at
once — a hairball past a dozen nodes, its pan/zoom camera unable to fix
what was fundamentally overplotted. The atlas is now a graph walker:
* One node holds the focus (you, to open). The canvas draws only that
neighbourhood — focus centred, direct neighbours fanned around it,
braille edges coloured by SNR and faded by evidence age — and sizes
itself to the crowd, so a two-node link is a tight six rows while a
hub earns the full fan. The node the trail came from anchors due
west: walking reads as moving right, backing up as moving left.
* Beneath it the links list the same neighbours as selectable rows,
strongest first: glyph, name (palette hue, you in white), hash in the
shared hash widget, SNR with a quality bar, samples, source tags,
age, and how many links continue onward. The highlighted row's marker
lights white on the canvas.
* Enter walks (the breadcrumb trail grows across the top), ⌫ steps
back, walking into the trail-back row retraces instead of ping-pong
growing, Home refocuses you. Typing finds any node in the graph —
nearest first, islands flagged — and Enter teleports there, the
trail restarting since the walk never crossed the gap. ^R rebuilds
from storage and keeps whatever of the trail survives.
The per-node details dialog is gone (focusing a node is its details),
and the ring-relaxation layout service with it — the fan needs no
global relaxation. PgUp/PgDn page the highlight, dashboard-style.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The consistency pass's decisions, recorded where every future session
reads them: the lexicon (node/contact/heard/key/hash/path/route/via,
Back vs Quit), the list furniture rules and their enforcement points in
ui/menus.py, title casing and dash semantics, the footer-hint grammar
and Esc verbs, the dialog conventions, the one-glyph-per-concept icon
table, and the colour rules the screens already share.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three button/status stragglers join the house style. The tracing
dialog's "❯ [ Abort ]" — the one control drawn with a pointer and
brackets — becomes the centered reverse-video chip every other popup
button already is (ButtonDialog, the reconnect dialog's Abort). Chat's
✅/❌ delivery emoji become the app-wide ✓/✗ status marks in their
ok/err styles: the emoji belong to the packet-class icon lane, and the
single-width marks keep transcript rows evenly spaced. And the channel
manager's Clear — the last bare Yes/No confirm in the app — becomes a
standard destructive dialog (Cancel left, Clear right and default,
danger theming) like every other consequence gate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The key hints now follow one sentence shape across every screen:
navigation keys first, action keys next, Esc last — the quit dialog and
TX apply dialog had Esc leading. The Esc verb is now systematic: "Esc
back" leaves a screen, "Esc close" dismisses a read-only floating view
(result windows and the share/key popups switch over), "Esc cancel"
abandons a prompt, "Esc keep" leaves a value picker unchanged. Bare
hints fill in their missing verbs ("↑↓ move", the map's and composer's
naked "Esc"), the confirm prompt says "Enter select" like its button
siblings, and key notation unifies on the compact forms the app already
half-used: ^R/^End for Ctrl chords (chat's "Ctrl-R" included) and ⌫ for
backspace (the map/atlas "Bksp").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every screen and dialog title now follows the same three rules. Titles
are sentence-cased ("Trace — YUL-Poly", "Dashboard — mesh overview",
"Nodes"), never bare lowercase ("trace · x", "nodes", "command line ·
x", "path width", "admin login" and a dozen siblings). An em dash
introduces a title's subject or qualifier while middle dots stay for
chained status atoms ("Map · z12 · 34 nodes · 2 km across"), so the two
separators mean different things instead of being used at random. And
no title carries an emoji — the icon belongs to the menu row; a
content-sized floating dialog whose title emoji the terminal draws a
cell narrower than Rich measures leaves the border short (the bug the
Send advert popup already documented), so the Watchtower, Courier,
Time machine, identity-key, reboot, sync, restore, location, factory
reset, and advert dialogs all drop theirs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every select list now builds its closing furniture through one module,
so the conventions hold by construction instead of by copy-paste:
* Back is THE exit word — bare, no arrow, no icon — with exactly one
blank separator above it (back_rows). Courier and Watchtower lose
their "← Back"; the rules popover's "← Close" becomes Back too.
* The staged-changes exit pair (✓ Apply … / ✗ Back — discard) moves to
exit_rows, shared by the config editor and repeater admin, along with
changes_phrase and one confirm_discard dialog (apply/send verb
parametrised).
* Label + description rows share menu_rows (cell-padded lanes): Device
actions, channel detail, repeater actions, and — converted from the
inline "label — description" style — Send advert, Identity key, and
the channel manager's Add-a-channel section, whose rows now read as
two aligned lanes with the trailing … that marks "opens a prompt".
* Grouped-list headings share section_heading (── Label ── in accent):
Watchtower, Courier, the Time Machine picker, and the admin picker
(which also drops the stray 🔑 inside its heading).
* Status marks normalize to ✓/✗ (U+2713/17): Watchtower's ✔ and the
✖ on Cancel-this-message / Stop-watching become err-tinted ✗ rows.
* fit_cells replaces the four private _fit copies (channels, dashboard,
time machine, chat picker) and measures display cells, so a wide
glyph in a name can't skew a lane; empty-state notes drop their
parentheses ("no channels configured yet", "no matches").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
format_ago in widgets.py is now the one prose form for relative ages —
bare "now"/"never", "5m ago" otherwise — and every row that stitched
_format_age plus a hard-coded " ago" suffix (packet viewer heard row,
Time Machine record/first-heard lines, Courier finished rows, channel
detail summary) goes through it, killing "now ago" everywhere at once.
The channel summary drops its one-off "just now" special case for the
same app-wide wording. Also: the Device actions description no longer
claims an advert action — that lives in its own main-menu entry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Carried over from the last punch-list pass: the packet viewer opts into
a grow-only floating dialog (the box ratchets to its tallest body and
blank-pads shorter ones, so paging never re-centres it); raw payload
field names are shown whole by widening the label lane instead of
clipping at eight chars; the Time Machine node rhythm matches the mesh
page — 96 fifteen-minute slices sharing the Volume gutter — and its
time axis shortens marks to bare dates on multi-day windows; Courier
and Watchtower gain a visible Back exit beside Esc.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A follow-up interactive-polish pass over the charts, the menu popups, and the
Time Machine.
Charts (braillechart)
- axis_chart now notches ┬ x-axis ticks under a continuous chart's labels too, the
same grammar the columnar day charts use — one axis grammar everywhere. The
dashboard activity chart and the node-history Volume/SNR/Rhythm charts pick this
up through the shared widget; single-line sparklines are untouched.
Time Machine (mesh page)
- Empty days show as zero bars instead of being skipped, so the day charts read as
real calendar time (a fortnight with two dead days no longer fuses to twelve
adjacent bars). Never invents days from before recording began.
- The rhythm chart shares the day charts' y-axis gutter, so its left edge lines up
with them; its own narrower width is unchanged. Its whole-window peak is folded
into the shared gutter sizing (a slice can top a single day's total).
Packet viewer
- Holds a minimum body height so paging between a short packet and a tall one no
longer resizes the dialog out from under the reader.
Menu popups
- Floating dialogs force a full frame rewrite as they're torn down, scrubbing any
double-width glyph a terminal painted a cell past where the differential renderer
tracks it — the "stray characters in a dialog's wake".
- Send advert: reworded a choice, and the fixed list is non-filterable (a stray key
can't narrow/resize it); a select's default footer now only mentions type-to-filter
when it actually filters.
- Watchtower Rules: a blank separator sits above the Close item.
Menu
- The Mesh atlas tool icon is a single-codepoint 🌐 instead of a VS16 🕸️: the
emoji-width calibration strips VS16 on terminals that render it narrow, which
measured the old icon a cell short and drifted that row's help text right.
630 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two rounds of interactive-polish fixes across the dashboard, Time Machine,
chat, and the menu popups.
Dashboard
- Feed name lane names what a row actually is: a channel message's parsed
sender, or a relayed packet's payload class (channel text / trace / …),
instead of a bare "?" or a redundant "ch N". The class is persisted so
history-seeded rows carry it too (observations.payload_typename, schema v10).
- PgUp/PgDn walk the feed selection so the highlight travels with the view.
Packet viewer
- Takes a live source and re-locates the viewed packet by identity, so packets
arriving after it opens become reachable; the n/total title stays current.
- Decrypts overheard channel text straight from stored history (crypto fields
persisted: chan_hash/cipher_mac/crypted, schema v9).
Time Machine
- Day charts label their bars with column ticks: each date sits under its own
bar with a ┬ notch, shortens (month only on the first tick and on rollover),
and thins to fit. axis_chart grows an optional ticks path for columnar charts.
- Node history charts render through the shared axis_chart widget; the mesh
Rhythm is 96 fifteen-minute slices at 4x width, "now/newest" hints dropped.
Chat
- The byte counter pins to the right edge of the input's last line, so it stays
bottom-right when the compose wraps instead of trailing the cursor.
Menu popups
- The per-node Rules popover gets an explicit Close row.
- The Send advert popup drops the emoji from its floating title (a terminal that
paints it narrow left the content-sized dialog's border short, bleeding the
backdrop through); the menu row keeps its icon.
625 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The day-boundary notch left its bottom dot lit: the zero baseline is
drawn per braille cell (both dot columns), so it filled in under the
notch's blank column, and the notch connected to the axis instead of
extending down to it. Worse, when the neighbouring bar was tall the
notch's bottom dot took the bar's colour, not even the faint grey.
Introduce a GAP sentinel in braillechart: a timeline column that
renders fully blank — no bar and no baseline — the one deliberate
break in the "grey is zero" flatline. _assemble now decides the
baseline per dot column rather than per cell, so a GAP column goes
blank clean to the axis while its cell-mate keeps its own zero line.
The Time Machine's day charts mark their notches with GAP instead of
None.
A genuine zero-value day still draws its faint grey baseline as
before — only the notch column breaks it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
_day_columns floor-divided chars*2 by the day count and dropped the
remainder, so the stretched bars often fell short of the width the
axis border and caption assumed — the chart reading as shifted left
of its own axis. Now splits in character units (falling back to plain
dot columns when there are more days than characters) and spreads the
remainder across the oldest days, so the total always lands exactly on
2 x chars.
A day spanning more than one character also opens with a blank dot
column now — the left half of its leading braille cell — so
same-height neighbouring days still read as separate bars instead of
fusing into one solid block.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
The per-day charts drew one dot column per day, leaving a short
history as a sliver in a wide terminal, and captioned themselves with
raw ISO dates. Days now stretch into day-wide bars that fill the
chart's width (falling back to per-day density once history is deep),
and the captions speak the house style - "Jul 05" marks with "today"
closing the right edge, like the node page's "now".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
The contact rows join the picker convention the Nodes list and Time
Machine already speak: per-type glyph in the app's marker palette and
the name coloured by recency heat instead of flat brand-on-everything.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The viewer reports each navigation through on_navigate and the
dashboard follows by re-highlighting that packet in the feed, so
closing the viewer lands where the reading left off. Home/End move
the highlight to the newest/oldest packet while it is active (plain
scroll-to-edge otherwise).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The counter was its own last body line, and the pinned day-divider
header reserves the top viewport row without relaxing the bottom scroll
clamp - so exactly when the transcript filled the screen, the counter
fell off the bottom. The budget now trails the compose text inline
(wrapping along with it, costing no row), and the frame slides the
window down a row when a sticky header is pinned at the very bottom,
so the last body line always wins over the duplicate heading.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New packet_viewer module: per-kind icons and colours shared by every
packet list, and a floating viewer that lays any packet out in full -
advert identity/location, telemetry payload, a packet's relay path,
a message's text - pageable over its list with PgUp/PgDn/Home/End.
The feed stores packets as data and renders per paint: up/down walk
the rows, Enter opens the viewer, Esc peels the highlight; the class
lane drops to icon-only on narrow terminals. Node names take the
app-wide palette (ours white), RF health and pulse render as labelled
grids so wrapped items align with their block, traffic lanes ride the
shared braille meter, the chart caption gains intermediate time marks,
and history buckets draw grey like the header.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
