Three names had grown around one idea. "Favourite" was a filter in
Settings, an invisible app-only flag on a contact, a device-settable bit on
a channel, and — on the Nodes screen — a menu row that actually pinned to
the Favourites dial. Nothing marked a favourite on screen, and the dial
only took chat contacts.
A favourite is now the starred flag (ContactInfo::flags bit 0 for contacts
and rooms, ch_fav_bitmask for channels), settable on the device everywhere
via a Fav: ON/OFF row, marked with a star on its row, and sorted to the top
of the list — in Messages, Tools > Nodes and the Locator target picker.
Settings > Contacts > "Favs top" turns the sorting off; it defaults on, and
is stored inverted so an upgraded prefs file reads back as on rather than
off.
MyMesh::setContactFavourite() writes the same bit the app sets and bumps
lastmod, so the two stay in sync. The DMs/Rooms = Fav list filters no
longer depend on having starred someone in the app first.
Pinning is now separate and explicit, and the dial takes contacts, room
servers and channels. Slots carry a kind (NodePrefs::favourite_kinds,
schema 0xC0DE0029) — a channel slot holds an index, so emptiness is decided
by the kind first, since channel 0's payload is all zeroes. Choosing what
to pin reuses the Messages screen's own Direct/Channels/Rooms browse
instead of a second picker built on the dial, which drops that picker, its
key/label tables and the now-unused getRecentDMContacts(). A filled tile
gained Unpin/Replace under Hold Enter.
Fixes a room server being pinnable and then unremovable: the picker's
recent-conversations tier didn't filter by contact type and room posts
share the DM history, opening one from the dial skipped the login
handshake, and Unpin only existed in the chat contact list that rooms never
appear in.
Also: PopupMenu::_visible was written and never read (render recomputes the
cap from display height), which is why menus with more items than the
"visible" argument always worked; Settings' all/fav values and the
dm_show_all comment said things that were not true.
Built for Heltec V3, Wio Tracker L1, Wio Tracker L1 e-ink and T-Echo Card.
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onContactOverwrite() (the contact-table-full LRU eviction path) deleted the
contact's blob and notified the companion app, but never called the new
onContactRemoved() cleanup -- so a Favourites Dial slot, Locator target, or
Live Share target could still go stale, just via the silent auto-evict path
instead of an explicit removal. This is likely the main real-world cause of
the "(gone)" tile the docs described, since auto-eviction happens far more
often than an explicit CMD_REMOVE_CONTACT.
Also sync the two docs that described the old (now wrong) behaviour:
Locator's "survives delete" claim, and Favourites Dial's "(gone) until
reassigned" claim.
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Squash merge of feat/location-beacon-alerts-autopause (v1.21).
Features:
- Live Location Sharing — broadcast position as movement-gated [LOC]
messages to a channel or contact; live shares show as map pins with
distance/bearing in Nearby Nodes and a status-bar indicator. [LOC] is
parsed in DMs, channel messages and room messages; DM shares name the
sender.
- Locator (geofence) — arm a geofence around a saved waypoint or a person
(live [LOC] or last-known position), alert on arrive/leave or near/far,
with an optional homing beeper (gated to arrive/both modes). Arm from
Tools > Locator, Nearby Nodes, or Waypoints; target picker lists
favourites first, clearable via a "None" entry. Active target is drawn
as a flag on the map.
- One active target shared across Locator / Navigate / Map via a single
resolver (resolvePersonPos / activeTargetPos) that prefers a live
[LOC] share over the last-advertised GPS fix.
- Follow live contacts — Navigate to a live-sharing contact follows them
as they move and adds an ETA line; quick-share your own position from
the Map.
- Map & status-bar upgrades — home mini-map gets a north marker, scale
tick, and a connected trail line (was disconnected dots); status line
shows tracked-node count, an arrow + distance to the active Locator/Nav
target (falling back to the nearest live-tracked contact); GPS fix icon
in the top status bar, shown only on GPS boards with GPS enabled.
- Trail auto-pause — recording freezes on stops (banking elapsed time,
breaking the map line across the idle gap) and resumes on movement
without ending the session.
- Streaming trail simplification — GPS points are simplified in-stream
via a fixed-corridor (Reumann-Witkam) pass tuned for fidelity: straight
runs collapse to their endpoints, curves stay bounded to the Min-dist
tolerance, so the 512-point buffer covers a far longer route than a
flat point budget would suggest.
- Collapsible Tools (Location / Comms / System sections, fold-in-place
like Settings) and page-indicator icons on the home carousel.
- Waypoint coordinate editor — add a waypoint by scroll-editing lat/lon
digit by digit.
Fixes:
- Critical: low-heap hang and contact loss on RAM-tight builds. Halved
message-history scrollback rings (recovering ~14 KB free heap) and
made contacts/channels/prefs persistence atomic (temp file + rename),
so an interrupted save can no longer corrupt or wipe the store.
- Serial.write() bounded so a stalled USB host can't hang the device.
- Nearby Nodes: live [LOC] senders respect the type filter, sort by
shared position, and the list refreshes so live shares bubble up.
- Map: live contacts are labelled before waypoints.
- GPS status icon hidden when GPS is off in Settings.
- Splash screen no longer truncates a pre-release tag's own dash (e.g.
v1.21-rc1) when stripping the build's commit-hash suffix.
- Null-guarded the Locator target picker; clamped loc-share channel
index on load.
Under the hood:
- -Os size optimisation on the e-ink and GAT562 30S solo envs.
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README:
- Fix typo "offical" → "official"
- File names in Firmware Variants table now match workflow output
(solo-<version>-oled.uf2 / solo-<version>-eink.uf2)
- Un-comment the E-ink Display section (now fully supported)
- Clock Screen: "sensor values" → "data fields" (covers Batt%, Nodes, Msgs)
- Tools Screen: mention nearby nodes and auto-advert in the highlight
- Promote Screenshot Tool to its own top-level section (was buried under
Contributing); fix `uv run tools/screenshot.py` invocation path
Docs:
- favourites_dial: document the 3rd pin-picker tier (all chat contacts
fallback) added in 0e0e5b93
- clock_screen: Altitude source clarified — onboard sensor (GPS or
barometric), not always GPS
- message_screen: blank lines around image tables that were inlined
Code:
- UITask.cpp: rename leftover plus_y/plus_label locals to solo_y/solo_label
in the splash-screen Solo banner
Workflow:
- workflow_dispatch builds previously labelled firmware with the branch
name (GITHUB_REF_NAME). Resolve BUILD_VERSION to the tag when run on a
tag push, else dev-<short-sha> so manual runs produce
solo-dev-abc1234-oled.uf2 etc.
Cleanup:
- remove stray docs/solo_features/settings_screen/set_scr_1_eink copy.png
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JakubandClaude Opus 5
MarekZegare4andClaude Sonnet 4.6