Message screen
Messages Screen
Overview
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The Messages screen is split into three modes — DMs, Channels, and Rooms — selectable with UP/DOWN on the mode-select screen. Each mode shows the corresponding list of conversations with unread counters.
Sending messages
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Press Enter on a contact or channel to open its history, then press Enter again (or select an empty send row) to compose a message. Choose between:
- Custom message — opens the on-screen keyboard
- Q1–Q10 — quick reply templates editable in Settings › Messages
The keyboard supports placeholders that insert live data at send time:
| Placeholder | Value | Availability |
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{time} |
current time (HH:MM) | always |
{loc} |
GPS coordinates | always ("no GPS" if no fix) |
{temp} |
temperature | sensor connected |
{hum} |
humidity | sensor connected |
{pres} |
barometric pressure | sensor connected |
{alt} |
altitude | sensor connected |
{lux} |
luminosity | sensor connected |
{co2} |
CO₂ concentration | sensor connected |
Sensor placeholders appear automatically in the placeholder picker when the corresponding sensor is active. {time} and {loc} are always shown.
Rooms — logging in
Posting to a room server requires a login handshake first, so the device can log in on its own — no phone app needed. The first time you press Enter on a room, a password prompt opens automatically; type the room's password and press the ✓ key (leave it empty and submit for open / no-password rooms). Once the login succeeds the room's chat opens automatically — no second Enter needed (as long as you're still on that room in the list).
- Passwords are remembered across reboots. After a successful login the password is saved on the device, so picking that room again — even after a power cycle — logs back in silently and drops you straight into the chat.
- A wrong or changed password self-heals. If a saved password stops working (e.g. the server's password was changed), the failed login forgets it, so the next Enter prompts you to type a new one.
- Re-login any time with Hold Enter on the room → Login… (see the room context menu below) — useful to switch to a new password without waiting for a failure.
- Passwords set from the phone app are saved on the device too, so it can post to that room standalone after a reboot.
The on-screen keyboard is limited to ASCII (letters, digits and common symbols); accented characters such as
ą/ęcan't be typed on the device. A password containing them can still be set from the phone app — the device stores and replays it byte-for-byte.
Message history
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Each entry in the history list shows the sender name and a compact age indicator (3m, 2h, >1d) in the top-right corner.
Short Enter on a message opens it in fullscreen. Hold Enter — on a history row or in fullscreen — opens the same options menu: Reply, plus Navigate / Save waypoint when the message contains a location (see Fullscreen message view). You don't need to open the message first.
Fullscreen message view
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Navigate between messages with LEFT (newer) and RIGHT (older). Long messages scroll with UP/DOWN.
If the message is a reply addressed to someone (@[nick]), a To: nick bar is shown below the sender name and the body is displayed without the address prefix.
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Hold Enter in fullscreen opens the options menu. It always offers Reply for an incoming message, and when the message contains a location it adds two more:
- Navigate — opens the bearing/distance view to those coordinates (the same two-bearing screen as Waypoints and Nearby; Back returns to the message).
- Save waypoint — stores the location as a waypoint (visible on the trail map and in the Waypoints list).
A location is any lat,lon pair in the text — exactly what the {loc} placeholder inserts — so you can navigate to anything a contact shares. A [WAY]lat,lon label share also carries a name, used as the waypoint label. This works on DMs and channel messages, incoming or outgoing.
Context menu — contact list
Hold Enter on a contact entry opens a context menu:
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| Item | Action |
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| Mark as read | Clears unread counter for this contact |
| Notif: default / OFF / ON | Per-contact notification override — LEFT/RIGHT to cycle |
| Melody: global / M1 / M2 | Per-contact melody override — LEFT/RIGHT to cycle |
| Pin to dial / Unpin (slot N) | Pin this contact to a Favourites Dial slot; if already pinned shows which slot |
When Pin to dial is selected, a slot picker opens (Slot 1–6 showing current occupant name or "empty"). Choosing a slot that already holds another contact moves the new contact there.
In the Rooms list the context menu instead offers a single item:
| Item | Action |
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| Login… | Opens the password prompt to (re-)log in to this room (see Rooms — logging in) |
Context menu — channel list
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Hold Enter on a channel entry opens a context menu:
| Item | Action |
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| Mark all read | Clears all unread for this channel |
| Notif: default / OFF / ON | Per-channel notification override — LEFT/RIGHT to cycle |
| Melody: global / M1 / M2 | Per-channel melody override — LEFT/RIGHT to cycle |
| Fav: yes / no | Add or remove this channel from favourites — LEFT/RIGHT to toggle |
Mark all read
Hold Enter on the DM / Channels / Rooms mode-select screen to clear all unread counters for the highlighted category at once.