The status bar drops the static "device:" prefix and the heard
counters. The device segment now leads with the node's own mesh name —
the remembered registry name, then the profile alias, then the
hardware name — with where it's reached in parentheses (the COM port,
or BLE), cached per connection so repaints never re-read the registry
file.
The heard numbers give way to an unread badge (channels and direct,
shown only when something waits) and a two-hour braille activity
indicator: every packet the hub hears — adverts, telemetry, messages,
acks — lands in a five-minute bucket, drawn twelve characters wide at
1/5/21/89 thresholds with the ●/○ live-light in front. The braille
sparkline renderer moves from the channel manager to widgets so both
draw with one brush.
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Everything we receive carries a fragment of the mesh's shape: successful
traces crossed every link in their path (out and back — the reply retraces
the reverse path, so links read both ways), each contact's out_path is a
route the firmware distilled from received floods, and RX-logged packets
report the relay chain they rode in on. A new topology service folds those
into one undirected evidence graph (schema v7 persists packet paths).
The trace screen stops auto-starting on target pick. Enter runs a burst
under a floating tracing dialog (spinner chip, live progress, Abort); "p"
opens a hop-by-hop path composer whose suggestions are the tail's observed
neighbours, strongest link first, with raw hex entry for unseen nodes; "x"
browses ranked path scenarios (device route, direct, best observed
alternatives) and can probe them all — a measured burst per candidate,
recorded as path_candidates rows, reliability-first ranking, winner offered
for adoption.
Composed specs are outbound-only, always ending at the target's hash: the
stored data shows the firmware auto-replies along the reversed path, and
user-composed "there and back" loops (3d,f2,3d) never succeeded. Specs
collapse to a uniform per-hop width the narrowest known hash can honour.
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The on/off switch never made sense for a pure listener: recording is
now unconditional, so the toggle submenu, the persisted preference
(MonitorStore/monitor.json), and the header's ON/OFF framing are gone.
The monitor registers its hub subscription at startup — a device-free
step that cannot fail — and its run row opens lazily on the first
observation, so recording follows the hub wherever it opens (eagerly,
or deferred by connect_on_start) and silent sessions leave no empty
runs. The menu entry is now just the read side, "Heard nodes", and the
header shows live heard counters instead of a switch state.
meshterm monitor on the CLI drops --on/--off for a bounded foreground
capture (--seconds N, 0 = until Ctrl-C, mirroring chat listen): it
tails each overheard packet live and summarizes the window's heard
nodes when it ends, while persisting history exactly like a session.
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Rename the package directory, imports, brand strings, env-var prefixes,
console-script entry point, and the config/data dir (~/.config/meshterm).
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Decouple listening from consuming as the first step toward a full MeshCore
client. A new always-on EventHub owns the single device subscription and fans
typed MeshEvents out to any number of subscribers; passive-monitor history
logging becomes just one subscriber, so listening is now unconditional while the
on/off toggle controls only persistence.
- core/events.py: MeshEvent envelope + EventKind (OBSERVATION/MESSAGE/ACK)
- services/event_hub.py: subscribe/stream/wait_for fan-out, always-on pump
- connection.py: Device.subscribe_observations -> unified subscribe_events
emitting observations, inbound messages, and acks; add message_from_event /
ack_from_event mappers and a simulated message stream on MockDevice
- core/models.py: Message and Ack domain models
- monitor_service.py: slim to a hub subscriber (recording, not listening)
- context.py/menu.py: wire ctx.events into the session lifecycle
- config.py: connect_on_start setting (default on) to allow lazy connect
- Remove monitor --seconds / foreground capture and Device.listen; monitoring
is passive/background only
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The monitor was a blocking listen window that monopolized the app. Convert
it to an always-on background subscription that logs overheard adverts/
telemetry while the user keeps using the menu.
- Device: add subscribe_observations() as the non-blocking capture primitive;
listen() is now a thin foreground wrapper over it. Mock streams a live
packet burst + cadence instead of a bounded synth loop.
- MonitorService (ctx.monitor): owns the subscription, session/total counters,
and the on/off preference; logs each packet as it arrives.
- MonitorStore: persist on/off in <config_dir>/monitor.json, default off,
remembered between sessions and auto-resumed at launch.
- Menu: the monitor entry is now a toggle/heard-nodes control panel; the
header shows live session/total counts and repaints ~1s via refresh_interval.
- CLI monitor gains --on/--off (preference) and keeps --seconds for a scripted
foreground capture.
- Add Repository.observation_count(); README + tests (129 pass).
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Adds a Device.listen capability (real + mock), an Observation/HeardNode
domain model, an observations table with Repository.record_observation /
heard_nodes aggregation, and a `monitor` tool that listens for a window and
logs every overheard advert/telemetry (SNR, RSSI, shared location) to the
database. This is the longitudinal substrate later features read back.
The real-hardware event-payload mapping is best-effort and, like the trace
mapping, flagged for validation against the firmware's event schema; the mock
device synthesizes plausible adverts so the tool and tests run without a radio.
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