GPS support was implemented incorrectly for the ThinkNode M3. The reset
pin was being driven when it should be left floating for this unit. The
enable pin also wasn't being picked up by `MicroNMEALocationProvider`
because of a mismatch in constant naming conventions. I did a general
cleanup of the GPS and ThinkNode M3 bring-up code so that constant names
line up and "*_ACTIVE" constants are used consistently vs hardcoding
`HIGH`/`LOW`. After making these changes, serial data immediately starts
streaming in from the NMEA on boot and GPS detection just works.
LED handling was also not quite right for the ThinkNode M3. The LoRa TX
LED was being driven high to turn it on when it should actually be
driven low. I changed the code to use the `LED_STATE_ON` constant and
also added a little code to the shutdown path to properly make sure that
all LEDs are turned off.
Tested and confirmed working on real hardware.
Resolves both #1864 and #2879.
The per-read VBAT_ENABLE gating from 4d46abb2 (energy optimizations)
powered the battery voltage divider HIGH for only 10ms before each ADC
read, then LOW. 10ms is too short for the high-impedance divider node
to settle before the nRF52 SAADC samples it, so readings came out high
and inconsistent (e.g. 4.6-5.0V on a LiPo that maxes ~4.2V).
Hold VBAT_ENABLE HIGH continuously again (as before 4d46abb2) so the
node is always settled at sample time, and drop the toggle + delay(10)
from getBattMilliVolts(). Standby cost is ~2uA on the 2x1M divider,
negligible next to the device's mA-level draw.
The CPU-sleep and LED-off energy optimizations from 4d46abb2 are left
untouched — those are the real savings; only the VBAT gating is reverted.
The M6's L76K GPS streams NMEA at 9600 baud on its own, but the firmware
reported no GPS. Root cause: pin 29 (PIN_GPS_RESET / the module's REINIT
line) was driven HIGH, which holds the L76K silent so it never emits any
sentences and detection fails.
variant.cpp drove pin 29 HIGH at boot, and because PIN_GPS_RESET was
defined, MicroNMEALocationProvider also drove it HIGH in begin(). Bench
testing on a sealed M6 (passive NMEA capture, no logic analyzer) confirmed:
pin 29 driven HIGH = 0 bytes; pin 29 floating = full NMEA stream.
Define GPS_RESET (-1) so the location provider never touches pin 29, and
stop driving it in initVariant. This matches the Meshtastic M6 variant,
which leaves the same pin as a floating input.
E-ink panel refreshes block the main loop for 500ms-3.6s (GxEPD2's
display.display() waits on the BUSY pin), and MomentaryButton::check()
only ever samples the live pin level once per loop iteration. A full
press+release that lands entirely inside a refresh is never sampled,
not just delayed - users on WioTracker L1 Eink were losing taps.
Add an opt-in ISR path (BUTTON_USE_INTERRUPTS) that latches each edge
with its own timestamp into a small ring buffer from attachInterrupt(),
independent of what the main loop is doing. check() replays buffered
edges through the existing transition/multi-click logic afterwards, so
click-duration and multi-click-window math still uses the edge's actual
capture time rather than "now".
Scoped to wio-tracker-l1-eink only for now: it's the one board this was
reported against and the only GxEPDDisplay-class variant that currently
builds clean on main. OLED boards refresh in ~20-30ms so polling already
catches every press; analog-button boards (rak4631/rak3401) can't use
attachInterrupt(CHANGE) at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add build-solo-firmwares.yml: auto-detects all _solo_dual envs from platformio.ini, builds in parallel, publishes uf2 files to draft release
- Remove build-wio-tracker-l1-firmwares.yml (replaced by solo workflow)
- Add WioTrackerL1_companion_solo_dual and WioTrackerL1Eink_companion_solo_dual envs
- Wire build-solo-firmwares command in build.sh using _solo_dual suffix
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Restore commented-out EXTERNAL_FLASH_DEVICES/USE_QSPI for reference;
board has no QSPI flash chip — defines were RAK4631 leftovers causing
framework to lock P0.28/P0.30 (joystick UP/LEFT) as QSPI outputs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Board has no QSPI flash chip — EXTERNAL_FLASH_DEVICES/USE_QSPI were
copied from RAK4631. The framework was initialising the QSPI peripheral
on startup, locking P0.28/P0.30 (joystick UP/LEFT) as outputs. Removing
these defines prevents QSPI init entirely.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
QSPI IO0=P0.30 and IO2=P0.28 are wired to joystick LEFT and UP on this
board. QSPI init configures those pins as OUTPUT, blocking button reads.
Disable QSPIFLASH so the joystick works; firmware falls back to internal
flash storage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The splash shows the upstream base version from the hardcoded MESHCORE_VERSION
build flag (distinct from FIRMWARE_VERSION, which is our solo version). The
upstream merge bumped FIRMWARE_VERSION to v1.16-solo.0 but left this flag at
1.15. Update all three occurrences (wio + eink) to 1.16.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add lib/GxEPD2-patch/src/GxEPD2_BW.h: local patched copy of GxEPD2_BW.h
that exposes getBuffer()/getBufferSize() under ENABLE_SCREENSHOT guard.
Include guard (_GxEPD2_BW_H_) prevents double-inclusion of the installed
library version.
- GxEPDDisplay.h: use patched header via relative include when
ENABLE_SCREENSHOT so the patch takes precedence over the installed lib
(PlatformIO adds library paths before -I build_flags).
- DisplayDriver.h: add virtual getBuffer()/getBufferSize()/getDisplayType()
defaults (nullptr/0/0) under ENABLE_SCREENSHOT.
- SH1106Display.h / SSD1306Display.h / GxEPDDisplay.h: add concrete overrides;
getDisplayType() returns 0 (OLED) or 1 (e-ink).
- MyMesh.cpp/h: replace fragile C-cast with virtual dispatch in
handleScreenshotRequest(); extend 5-byte header to 6 bytes by appending
display_type so the host tool can decode the correct pixel layout.
- tools/screenshot.py: parse 6-byte header; add eink_buffer_to_image()
that decodes the row-major MSB-first GxEPD2 buffer with DISPLAY_ROTATION=1
(phys_x = 127-ly, phys_y = lx); dispatch on display_type.
- variants/wio-tracker-l1-eink/platformio.ini: add
[env:WioTrackerL1Eink_companion_dual_dev] with ENABLE_SCREENSHOT.
- variants/wio-tracker-l1/platformio.ini: unchanged (OLED env already exists).
Builds verified: WioTrackerL1Eink_companion_dual_dev SUCCESS,
WioTrackerL1Eink_companion_radio_ble SUCCESS (unaffected).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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