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MeshTerm/scripts
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5.5 7209d89911 The store job brings JP's fork of the store up to date before it publishes
czdev starts its branch from the fork's default branch, and the store's
check compares the PR branch with the store's main directly. After
M5Stack removed every app on 2026-10-12, the fork was 10 commits behind,
so the 0.11.0 PR (#176) carried all 40 removed apps as new files, and
the check failed on the first of them. store-publish.py now calls
GitHub's merge-upstream for the fork first, and publishes nothing if
that fails. PR #176 was repaired by hand with "Update branch".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-12 10:57:20 -04:00
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scripts/

These are tools for the repository. None of them is in the wheel.

Script What it is for
basemap-doctor.py Finds why a user's map has no basemap: certificates, DNS, proxy, or colour depth
cardputer-zero/ build-deb.sh builds the Debian package for M5Stack's app store. Run it on the Cardputer Zero or on another arm64 Debian 13 system. store/ holds the listing for the store (app-builder.json, which czdev publish reads), its icon, and its screenshots. screenshot.py saves the display of a Cardputer as a 320×170 PNG over SSH, as the store wants a screenshot. store-publish.py sends a package to the store with M5Stack's czdev, with two corrections. The release workflow runs it after each release. launcher-entry.sh puts a source checkout in the Cardputer Zero's app launcher. remove takes it out. meshterm.png is the package's icon: the website's logo, at the launcher's 100×100 size. meshterm-dev.png is its negative, for the checkout's entry, so that the two entries look different. type-text.py types a pasted string (an API key, a Wi-Fi password) on the Cardputer's keyboard from another computer, over SSH
picocalc-lyra/ Setup of the Calculinux device: console font, palette, Wi-Fi. xiao-radio/ is the kit for the XIAO radio (firmware build, flashing, UART setup)
uconsole/ The uConsole's always-on SPI bridge service. MeshTerm can also control that radio directly, with no script (refer to docs/devices/uconsole.md)

basemap-doctor.py

The map is the only part of MeshTerm that uses the network. MeshTerm logs each fetch failure on this path at DEBUG, and log_level is WARNING by default. Thus a user whose tiles do not arrive sees a blank ground and no explanation. This script prints the explanation and the correction.

To use it, tell the user to run this on the machine that has the problem:

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 is correct. If that python3 does not have MeshTerm, the script reads the interpreter from the installed meshterm command's shebang, and it runs again with that interpreter. Thus the answer always comes from the app's own Python. A Mac often has three Pythons, and only one of them has the trust store that is important. Save the script to a file, as in the example. Do not pipe it into python3 -. When there is no file on the disk, the script cannot run again with the other interpreter.

Ask the user to paste all the output back to you. The output names the interpreter, the certificate store, the tile source, the number of cached tiles, and COLORTERM. Then it gives one verdict:

  • curl reached it, Python did not. The Python's certificate store is empty. A python.org install on macOS has an empty store until the user runs Install Certificates.command.
  • neither reached it. The problem is in the network path: a firewall, a proxy, a DNS filter, or an outage. There is nothing to correct in MeshTerm.
  • both reached it. The tiles are correct. The problem is colour. When COLORTERM is not set, the terminal uses 256 colours, and the greens and blues of the basemap are too similar. Terminal.app cannot do 24-bit colour.

The exit status is 0 when the tiles arrive and 1 when they do not. Thus a script can use it.