View and send messages using the on-screen keyboard or predefined quick replies. The keyboard supports placeholders that insert live sensor data — `{time}` and `{loc}` are always available; additional placeholders (`{temp}`, `{hum}`, `{pres}`, `{batt}`, `{alt}`, `{lux}`, `{co2}`) appear automatically for sensors that are connected and returning data.
Press Enter on a message to open it in fullscreen. Navigate between messages with left (newer) and right (older). 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.
Hold Enter on a message to open a context menu. From the list or fullscreen view, select **Reply** to pre-fill the keyboard or a quick message with `@[nick]` so the recipient is clearly addressed. On channel or contact list entries, the context menu also lets you change per-channel notification settings (mute, follow global, or force-on), per-channel melody override (follow global, Melody 1, or Melody 2), or mark messages as read.
A dedicated clock page on the home screen shows the current time and date, synchronized from GPS or via Bluetooth. Timezone offset is applied from Settings.
Up to three configurable data fields are displayed below the clock. Available fields: battery voltage, temperature, humidity, pressure, GPS coordinates, altitude, luminosity, CO₂, contact count, and total unread message count.
Browse nodes that have recently advertised on the mesh. Filter by category (Favourites, All, Companion, Repeater, Room, Sensor). Select a node to see its coordinates, distance, bearing with cardinal direction, type, and last-heard time.
Use **Send my advert** (hold Enter → context menu) to broadcast your position and prompt nearby nodes to respond with theirs.
Periodically broadcasts a 0-hop advert with your GPS position so nearby nodes can track your location automatically. Configurable interval: off / 1 min / 2 min / 5 min / 10 min / 30 min / 1 h.
A blinking **A** indicator appears in the status bar while Auto-Advert is active.
A step sequencer for composing custom notification melodies stored on the device. Two independent melody slots are available — **Melody 1** and **Melody 2** — switchable from within the editor. Each melody supports up to 32 notes with adjustable pitch (C–B + pause), octave (4–7), duration (whole / half / quarter / eighth), and BPM (60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180). Playback preview is available directly from the editor.
Melodies can be assigned as notification sounds per message type (DM / channel) in Settings, and individually overridden per channel or per contact from the message screen context menu.
An alternative firmware build is available on the `font-lemon` branch. It replaces the default 5×7 Adafruit font with the [Lemon bitmap font](https://github.com/cmvnd/fonts), which offers:
- **Native Unicode rendering** — Latin Extended, Greek, and Cyrillic characters (U+0020–U+04FF) are displayed directly without transliteration, covering Polish, Czech, Slovak, German, French, Scandinavian, Hungarian, Romanian, Croatian, Turkish, Baltic, Russian, and Greek scripts.
- **Pixel-accurate word wrap** — text wraps based on actual glyph widths rather than a fixed character count.
- **Slightly taller glyphs** — the font uses a 10 px line height compared to 8 px for the default font.
Prebuilt `.uf2` files for the Lemon font variant are included in each release alongside the standard builds and are identified by `lemon-font` in the filename.
This fork tracks the upstream [MeshCore](https://github.com/ripplebiz/MeshCore) repository. To prevent upstream changes from overwriting this README during merges, `README.md` is protected via `.gitattributes`. After cloning, run once:
