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Overview

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All settings are saved to flash and restored on next boot. Settings are organised into collapsible sections. Press Enter on a section header to expand or collapse it — all sections start collapsed for faster navigation. Press LEFT/RIGHT to change a value, or Enter for toggle items.

Press Cancel/Back to save and return to the home screen.


Display

Setting Options Notes
Brightness 1–5 LEFT/RIGHT; preview applies immediately
Auto-off 5 s / 15 s / 30 s / 60 s / never LEFT/RIGHT
Auto-lock on / off Locks device when display turns off
Battery icon / % / V Display mode for the top-bar battery indicator
Clock seconds show / hide Hiding reduces OLED refresh from 1 s to 60 s
Clock format 24 h / 12 h 12 h appends AM/PM
Display rotation (e-ink only) 0° / 90° / 180° / 270° Applied immediately
Joystick rotation (e-ink only) 0° / 90° / 180° / 270° Rotates input mapping independently of display rotation; useful for custom enclosures
Full refresh interval (e-ink only) off / 5 / 10 / 20 / 30 Partial refreshes between full clears; reduces ghosting on long sessions

Sound

Setting Options Notes
Buzzer On / Off / Auto Auto: silences while BLE connected, re-enables on disconnect
Volume 1–5 LEFT/RIGHT; preview tone plays on each change
DM Melody built-in / Melody 1 / Melody 2 / None Notification sound for incoming private messages. None disables the sound for this event.
Channel Melody built-in / Melody 1 / Melody 2 / None Notification sound for incoming channel messages. None disables the sound for this event.
AD sound built-in / Melody 1 / Melody 2 / None Sound played whenever an advert is received from any node — pairs with Auto-Advert as an audible "in range" heartbeat (see Tools › Auto-Advert). None disables the sound for this event.
AD scope All / Zero-hop Filters the AD sound so it plays for every advert or only for local zero-hop adverts.

Melody 1 and Melody 2 are custom sequences editable in Tools › Ringtone Editor.


Home Pages

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Lists all available home screen pages. For each entry:

  • LEFT / RIGHT — move the page earlier or later in the navigation sequence
  • Enter — toggle the page ON / OFF

Settings and Messages are always visible and cannot be disabled.


Radio

Setting Options Notes
TX Pwr 2–22 dBm LEFT/RIGHT. With Auto pwr on this is the ceiling — the radio may transmit lower.
Preset named presets LEFT/RIGHT cycles community RF presets (region frequency + bandwidth/SF/CR). Enter opens a popup to pick one, save the current settings as a named preset, or delete a saved one. Applies frequency, bandwidth, SF and CR together.
Freq chip range Enter opens a digit-by-digit editor: LEFT/RIGHT moves between decimal places, UP/DOWN steps that digit. Bounds come from the radio chip's own validated range, so a value the radio would reject can't be entered.
SF 5–12 LEFT/RIGHT. Spreading factor.
BW 7.8–500 kHz LEFT/RIGHT cycles the standard LoRa bandwidths.
CR 5–8 LEFT/RIGHT. Coding rate (4/5–4/8).
Pwr save ON / OFF Battery saver. Hardware duty-cycle receive: the SX126x cycles RX↔sleep on its own and wakes on a preamble, cutting average RX current. Trades a little receive latency; leave OFF for lowest-latency reception. Requires an SX126x radio (otherwise stays on continuous RX). Forced off (shown as --) while the repeater is on — a repeater must listen continuously; your setting is restored when the repeater is switched off.
Auto pwr ON / OFF Adaptive Power Control. Lowers actual TX power on strong links to save energy, ramping back up — to the TX Pwr ceiling — on weak or lost links. Link quality comes from direct-message ACK SNR and, for channel messages (no ACK), from hearing a repeater rebroadcast your packet. The radio page / name bar shows the live power. Default OFF (fixed TX power). Suppressed (shown as --) while the repeater is on — a repeater holds full TX power for consistent relay reach; your setting is restored when the repeater is switched off.
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The repeater mode and its flood filters live on their own screen — see Tools › Repeater.


System

Setting Options Notes
Name keyboard entry (up to 31 chars) This device's node name, shown to others and in every advert. Enter opens the keyboard pre-filled with the current name; applied and saved on submit
Timezone −12 h … +14 h UTC offset in whole hours
Low battery off / 3.0 V / 3.1 V / 3.2 V / 3.3 V / 3.4 V / 3.5 V Auto-shutdown threshold; also sets the 0 % anchor for the battery percentage indicator
Units Metric / Imperial Global unit system for every distance/speed shown in Tools (Nearby Nodes, Trail, navigate-to-point). Metric: m / km, km/h, min/km. Imperial: ft / mi, mph, min/mi
Reboot action (Enter) Restarts this device. Pending setting changes are saved first. Last row, so it isn't the default-selected one

Keyboard

Setting Options Notes
Layout ABC / T9 On-screen keyboard style. ABC: an a-b-c…z grid, one key per letter (the original layout). T9: phone-keypad multi-tap — each key is labelled with its digit and a letter group (e.g. 2abc); repeated Enter presses cycle through the letters and then the digit itself. Applies to whichever script page is active (see Main/Additional below), not just Latin.
Main Latin / Cyrillic / Greek Which script the keyboard opens on by default. Latin (default) matches earlier releases; pick Cyrillic or Greek here instead to make that script the one you land on every time, with Latin becoming the one reached via cycling (see Additional below) instead of the other way round.
Additional Latin / Cyrillic / Greek The second script added to the same #@/abc key's cycle (Main → Additional → Symbols → Main) — no separate key to switch scripts. Setting Additional to the same script as Main drops the cycle back to just that script plus Symbols (no second script page at all). Greek covers the 24-letter alphabet plus final sigma (ς) but not the tonos stress accents used in proper Modern Greek spelling. Every script's letters render natively — the display font (a single unified Unicode font used everywhere on-screen) covers all of them, no separate toggle needed.

Applies to every on-screen text field (messages, waypoint labels, room passwords, preset names). Earlier releases labelled the grid QWERTY; the layout has always been alphabetical, so it is now named ABC.

European Latin-diacritic letters (Polish, Czech, Slovak, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Nordic, etc.) aren't separate alphabet pages — instead, Hold Enter on a plain Latin letter that has accented variants (a c d e i l n o r s t u y z) opens a one-row popup of its accents (e.g. holding a offers á à â ã ä å ą); LEFT/RIGHT picks, Enter inserts it, Cancel dismisses with no change. Holding a letter with no accented variants (e.g. b) does nothing. Works on whichever page is currently showing Latin, whether that's Main or Additional.


Contacts

Setting Options Notes
DMs all / favourites Show all chat contacts or only upstream-starred ones
Channels all / favourites Show all channels or only favourited ones
Rooms all / favourites Show all room servers or only favourited ones

Messages

Setting Options Notes
Resend off / 1×–5× Auto-resend an on-device direct message this many times when no delivery ACK is received (default 2×)

Up to 10 quick reply templates (Q1–Q10). Press Enter on a slot to open the keyboard editor. Supports the same placeholders as the main keyboard ({time}, {loc}, and sensor placeholders when connected).