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Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5.5 58909d1373 meshterm emulate shows either handheld's display in a window
`meshterm emulate cardputer-zero --mock` and `meshterm emulate picocalc-lyra --mock`
open a desktop window drawing MeshTerm as that device's own screen draws it. An
EmulatedDevice (emulator/devices.py) holds what differs per handheld: the panel, a
Linux console's top-left grid and bold-as-bright 4-bit palette for the PicoCalc, the
lane keys drawn under the Cardputer's panel, and how each keyboard spells Shift with
an F-key (the PicoCalc's F6-F10, the Cardputer's xterm-shifted F4-F8).

It is not a strict emulator, and the docs say so wherever they offer it: MeshTerm runs
on the desktop as itself, and the window mimics the display's and keyboard's
constraints, never the CPU or the OS. Inside it the platform resolves with own_display
(platforms.drawn_by_meshterm), so nothing offers to move to another terminal.

Global options typed anywhere (--mock, --port, --db...) reach the emulated MeshTerm.
The command refuses --json like specimen. The Terminus fetch moved into the package as
`meshterm emulate --fetch-fonts` (with --archive for a copy fetched another way),
replacing scripts/cardputer-zero/fetch-terminus.py. A build without Tk says to install
with pip or pipx instead of failing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-04 14:19:22 -04:00

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