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# Tools
On joystick devices, the tools are in **Tools** , grouped into Location, Comms
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and System; the Tools home page keeps the two you used last. The navigation
tools are on the [Navigation ](./navigation.md ) page, Nodes and Admin on
[Contacts ](./contacts.md ); the [Status ](#status ) screen opens from its own
home page.
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> [!NOTE]
> **Wio Tracker L2:** the tools are apps on the home screen: Messages, Nodes,
> Settings, Compass, Clock, GPS, Bot, Repeater, Admin, Diagnostics. The trail,
> live sharing and the locator are on the map (its tools button) and in
> Settings › Map.
## Clock
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The **Clock** home page shows the time with a bar under it that fills with
the seconds (Settings › Display › Clock seconds), the date, and up to three
fields you choose (hold Enter): battery, temperature, humidity, pressure, altitude
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(barometric or GPS), light, CO₂, GPS position, satellites, contacts, unread
messages. The time comes from GPS or the phone app; the time zone is in
Settings.
**Enter** on the clock opens the clock tools:
- **Alarm**: a time, repeating daily, on weekdays, at weekends or once. It
rings with the screen off or locked, but not after a shutdown.
- **Timer**: a countdown that rings when it reaches zero, whatever screen
you're on.
- **Stopwatch**.
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- **Calendar**: the month with today marked and the alarm's days
underlined; **Left / Right** pages through the months, **Enter** comes
back to this one.
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Any key silences the ringing; it stops by itself after a minute.
## Remote bot
**Tools › Bot** answers messages for you. It watches your direct messages, one
channel and one room, each switched on separately:
- **Trigger and reply**: when a message contains the trigger (several can be
separated by commas, `*` matches any message), the bot sends the reply. The
reply can use placeholders, plus `{name}` (the sender) and `{hops}` .
- **Commands**: messages starting with `!` get live data back:
| Command | Reply |
| ------- | ----- |
| `!ping` | `pong` |
| `!batt` , `!temp` , `!time` , `!loc` | battery, temperature, time, position |
| `!hops` | how many hops the command took |
| `!status` | battery, position and time |
| `!help` | the list of commands |
Several in one message get one reply: `!batt !time` → `4.10V | 14:30` .
- **Actions** (off by default) let the command change the device: `!buzz`
(sounds the buzzer to find it), `!gps on` / `!gps off` , `!gps fix` (turns
the GPS on, waits for a good fix and sends it), `!advert` .
**DM allow = Fav** limits the DM bot to your favourites, and **quiet hours**
stop trigger replies at night (commands still answer). Replies are rate
limited so two bots can't answer each other forever. The room bot uses the
room's saved login.
## Auto-advert
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**Tools › Auto-advert** sends your advert every 30 seconds to 1 hour (with
your position if Settings › Privacy › **Advert pos** is on), so others see you in their Nearby list. With it on at both ends
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and Settings › Sound › **AD sound** set, each device beeps when it hears the
other: a hands-free "still in range".
## Repeater
**Tools › Repeater** makes the device relay other people's packets while it
keeps working as a companion. By default it relays on a separate repeater
profile (the community's repeater frequency) and switches back when you turn
it off; **Network = Current** relays on your own frequency instead.
Optional filters keep a mobile repeater from adding noise: skip adverts, a
maximum hop count, **Yield** (let fixed repeaters go first), a minimum SNR,
drop duplicates already relayed by someone else, and relay only your
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**scopes** . The Status screen's **Mesh** tab shows how much it forwards.
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## Ringtones
**Tools › Ringtone** composes two melodies of up to 32 notes (pitch, octave,
length, tempo). Use them for notifications in Settings › Sound, or for a
single contact or channel from its options.
> [!NOTE]
> **Wio Tracker L2:** the melody editor is under Settings › Sound.
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## Status
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The **Status** home page sums up the radio, GPS, battery and mesh in four
tiles; **Enter** opens the Status screen, one tab per subject (**Left /
Right** between them, **Up / Down** scrolls):
| Tab | Shows |
| --- | ----- |
| **Radio** | Frequency, SF / BW / CR, TX power, the noise floor over the last half hour, the last packet's signal |
| **GPS** | On / off (**Enter** switches it), fix, satellites, position, altitude, speed, precision, time to first fix |
| **Sky** | The satellites on a sky plot, or each one's signal as bars (**Enter** swaps them); Wio Tracker L1 |
| **Power** | Battery level, voltage, source and trend, then the readings of any sensors |
| **Mesh** | Packets received and sent with a traffic line, forwarded, nodes heard, contacts; **hold Enter** resets the counters |
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| **System** | Uptime, firmware, device, memory, the send queue, errors, and a sample of every script the font covers; **Enter** shows your contact as a QR code, which the phone app scans to add you, and **Enter** again a QR code that opens this manual; any other key closes it |
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**GPS pwr** in Settings › System turns the GPS off between fixes to save
battery; anything that needs your position (the trail, live share, the
locator) keeps it on.
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> [!NOTE]
> **Wio Tracker L2:** the Diagnostics app, with a **Noise** tab that
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> measures the noise floor over time and history charts you can touch for the
> value at that moment, and the **GPS** app, on three tabs: **Sky** (a plot
> of the satellites and the fix), **Signal** (a bar per satellite with its
> strength, and the constellations) and **Details** (position, precision,
> time to first fix and what the receiver reports).
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> Your contact's QR code and the manual's are in Settings › About.
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## GPIO
*Wio Tracker L1 only.* **Tools › GPIO** sets four spare pins as input,
output or (GPIO1– 2) analog input, shows their level and switches outputs. The
bot's `!gpio1` …`!gpio4` commands read and set the same pins.