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Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5.5 61d7463ddf A connection that won't open says why, wherever it fails

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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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cli

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development

The docs are in folders, and the Cardputer Zero has a page

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devices

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guide

A connection that won't open says why, wherever it fails

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screenshots

The README shows the five screenshots, the PicoCalc on its own under the four captures

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README.md

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README.md

MeshTerm documentation

Everything that didn't belong on the front page. The README is the front door — what MeshTerm is, how to install it, and enough to get a first session running. This folder is the rest, in four parts:

Folder	What's in it
`guide/`	Using MeshTerm: what each screen does, configuring it, connecting a companion, terminals.
`cli/`	The command line manual, and a cookbook of one-liners.
`devices/`	Running MeshTerm on a handheld's own screen, one manual per device.
`development/`	How the code is laid out, and a historical survey.

Using MeshTerm

Read	For
What MeshTerm does	Every screen the menu offers, grouped the way the menu groups them, with the command that does the same job without it.
Configuring MeshTerm	Preferences versus config, device profiles, and everything kept under `~/.meshterm`.
When a companion won't connect	Bluetooth pairing on each system, finding the PIN, and every connection error MeshTerm reports, with what to do about it.
Terminals, icons, and the Windows console	Why the icons and charts draw on some terminals and not others, and what MeshTerm does about it on Windows.

The command line

Read	For
The command line	The manual. Every subcommand and option, what each prints on the plain and JSON faces, the exit statuses, and recipes built on `jq`.
The CLI cookbook	Common one-liners by task, for when you want the shape of a command rather than its specification.

Running it on a handheld

Only if you want MeshTerm running on a handheld's own screen. A MeshCore companion on USB, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi needs none of this.

Read	For
MeshTerm on hardware	Start here — which manual below is yours, and what the device-side scripts do.
MeshTerm on the PicoCalc	A stock ClockworkPi PicoCalc to a Linux handheld with a LoRa radio soldered inside: the shopping list, the swap to a Luckfox Lyra core, Calculinux, and the radio.
MeshTerm on the uConsole	A uConsole (CM4 or CM5) with the hackergadgets AIO LoRa board, whose SX1262 sits on the computer's own SPI bus — MeshTerm drives it directly with `--spi`, or a small bridge fronts it as a companion for an always-on node.
MeshTerm on the Cardputer Zero	⚠️ Not supported yet. What exists for M5Stack's Linux Cardputer, and how to try it in the desktop emulator.

Reading the code

Read	For
How the code is laid out	The layering, and where a new feature goes.
CLAUDE.md	The actual style guide — terminology, UX standards, and the reusable building blocks. Written for AI assistants, and the house rules for everyone.
CONTRIBUTING.md	How to propose a change, the rules on AI use, the dev install, the three checks a change must pass, and what happens to your contribution's licensing.

Historical record

A survey of the code, kept because a project that writes down its own problems is easier to trust than one that doesn't — but it is a snapshot of a date, not a to-do list. Some of what it describes has been fixed since, and it does not mark which.

Read	For
UI consistency survey	Everything else in the CLAUDE.md UX standard — six sweeps found nothing, which is the useful part.

Also here

screenshots/ holds the captures the README shows and the ones meshterm.net builds its landing page from, so a file in there is referenced from more than one place.