Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5.5
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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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# scripts/
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Repo-side tools. None of these ship in the wheel.
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| `basemap-doctor.py` | Why a user's map has no basemap — certificates, DNS, proxy, or colour depth |
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| `picocalc/` | Calculinux device setup: console font, palette, Wi-Fi; `xiao-radio/` is the XIAO radio kit (firmware build, flashing, UART setup) |
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| `uconsole/` | The uConsole's always-on SPI bridge service (MeshTerm can also drive that radio directly, with no script at all — see `docs/uconsole.md`) |
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| `cardputer/` | The Cardputer Zero's console host: `fetch-terminus.py` installs the 12-pixel Terminus fonts it draws in (OFL, so never shipped with MeshTerm) |
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## basemap-doctor.py
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The map is the only networked part of MeshTerm, and every fetch failure on that path is
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logged at DEBUG while `log_level` defaults to WARNING — so a reader whose tiles never
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arrive sees a blank ground and no explanation. This prints the explanation and the fix.
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Send a user this, to run **on the machine with the problem**:
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```bash
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curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jpmartineau/MeshTerm/main/scripts/basemap-doctor.py -o /tmp/basemap-doctor.py
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python3 /tmp/basemap-doctor.py
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```
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Any `python3` will do: if that one has no MeshTerm, the script reads the interpreter out
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of the installed `meshterm` command's shebang and hands itself over, so the answer always
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comes from **the app's own Python** — a Mac routinely has three and only that one has the
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trust store that matters. Save it to a file as above rather than piping into `python3 -`:
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with no file on disk there is nothing to hand over.
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Have them paste the whole output back. It names the interpreter, the certificate store,
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the tile source, the cached-tile count, `COLORTERM`, and then one verdict:
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- **curl reached it, Python did not** — the Python's certificate store is empty. A
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python.org install on macOS ships that way until `Install Certificates.command` is run.
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- **neither reached it** — the network path: a firewall, a proxy, a DNS filter, or an
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outage. Nothing to fix in MeshTerm.
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- **both reached it** — tiles are fine and the complaint is colour: an unset `COLORTERM`
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means 256 colours, where the basemap's greens and blues collide. Terminal.app cannot do
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24-bit colour at all.
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Exit status is 0 when tiles arrive and 1 when they do not, so it can be scripted.
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