Code-review pass over the buzzer/sim commits turned up several real bugs,
plus two issues found afterward from manual browser testing:
Rendering (SimDisplayDriverCanvas, variants/sim/SimDisplayDriver.h + target.cpp):
- getTextWidth() measured UTF-8 BYTES (strlen()*6), not codepoints. Since
b067e95b stopped stripping accents, any accented string now measures
double its real width -- mis-centred titles, premature ellipsis/marquee,
badges pushed off-screen. Now uses the real MiscFixedRenderer measurement
(miscFixedTextWidth()), same as SH1106Display/SSD1306Display.
- Added the matching getCodepointWidth() override (O(1) single-glyph
advance), same pattern as SSD1306Display.
- isSingleFont() was left at the base class's `false`, though this backend
only ever renders MiscFixed -- UITask.cpp's status-bar indicator height
keys off this (`lh-2` vs `lh`), so the sim drew it 2px taller than a real
board.
- print() blitted the full 128x64 canvas on every call (dozens per frame,
60fps) -- now tracks a dirty bounding box and only clears/blits the
region actually touched.
Web Audio (buzzer bridge, index.html + mesh.html):
- No AudioContext.resume() -- a context created (or later suspended) in the
'suspended' state (Safari/Firefox, or any browser backgrounding the tab)
stayed silent forever. Now resumed on every gesture.
- linearRampToValueAtTime with no anchoring setValueAtTime interpolates
from the LAST scheduled event, not "now" -- so the anti-click ramps could
effectively snap instead of fading. Fixed with cancelScheduledValues +
setValueAtTime(current) before each ramp.
- mesh.html: a gesture only armed the clicked instance's audio. Click A,
send A->B, and B (the one actually meant to beep on receipt) stayed
silent. Now any gesture arms both A and B.
- RTTTL rests (freq=0, still "playing") now explicitly hold pitch and drop
gain instead of it happening to work by coincidence.
Misc: sim_test_get_num_contacts() was missing the g_sim_ready gate every
other sim_test_* hook has, so it could return a bogus negative count before
setup() finishes seeding num_contacts.
Splash screen missing "Solo <version>" bar: variants/sim never defined
FIRMWARE_SOLO_BUILD (every real Solo board does), so SplashScreen silently
skipped that whole line -- the sim looked like a plain non-Solo companion
build. Added -D FIRMWARE_SOLO_BUILD=1 to platformio.ini and build_wasm.sh.
Verified on a real canvas screenshot: "MESHCORE 1.17.1 / 19 Aug 2026 /
Solo v1.27".
Wasm-fetch error message: "failed to start: RuntimeError: Aborted(both
async and sync fetching of the wasm failed)" is Emscripten's own opaque
message for the single most common real cause -- the page opened via
file://...index.html instead of served over http(s) (fetch() on a local
file is blocked by CORS in both Chrome and Safari, confirmed by reproducing
the exact same error/stack via file://). Both harnesses now detect
location.protocol === 'file:' and show an actionable message with the
one-line fix instead of the raw stack trace.
Battery-set latency: SimMainBoard's battery value is an exact, instantaneous
JS-set integer (see sim_battery_set_mv()), but UITask's battery-check code
polls it every 8s and runs it through an EMA (alpha=0.2) meant to smooth a
REAL board's noisy ADC -- so a value typed into the demo UI could take tens
of seconds to visibly settle. SIM_PLATFORM now checks every 250ms and skips
the EMA (nothing to smooth), since the reading is already clean. Measured
on real canvas pixels: indicator update now lands within one screen-refresh
cycle instead of up to 8s+.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rounds out the browser sim harness with the rest of the physical board's
interactions: a reset button (JS-driven, since board.reboot() is inert
under -sEXIT_RUNTIME=0), GPS input wired into a real LocationProvider via
new SimSensorManager, JS-settable battery/environment telemetry, an
admin/repeater-login test hook (sendRoomLogin against the default
"password"), and full physical-keyboard text entry (printable ASCII
passthrough into the existing KeyboardWidget, Tab->KEY_KB_ENTER submit).
Also fixes three real bugs found while exercising all of this in a real
browser:
- UITask.cpp's native-only stdin poll branch had no __EMSCRIPTEN__
exclusion, so it also compiled into the wasm build and called a real,
blocking window.prompt() on nearly every frame -- the actual cause of
the reported time/controls jumping. Now gated to native only.
- 'n'/'p' were mapped as Next/Prev keyboard shortcuts, colliding with
typing those literal letters. Removed the shortcuts; added explicit
Next/Prev buttons to mesh.html (previously relied solely on them).
- Buttons grabbed native browser keyboard focus on click, so a later
stray Enter/Space could silently re-trigger a previously-clicked button
(e.g. Reset). mousedown now calls preventDefault() on all buttons.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ports examples/simple_repeater to variants/sim/ (new sim_simple_repeater
native env + build_wasm_repeater.sh) and adds a JS "ether"
(variants/sim/web/mesh.html) that bridges two real companion_radio WASM
instances through a real simple_repeater instance in a strict A<->R<->B
topology (no direct A-B link), proving genuine relay routing rather than
a shortcut.
Also fixes multi-instance issues Phase 2's single-instance design never
surfaced: SimDisplayDriver's canvas context/id caching was keyed on a
single global instead of per-instance, and both wasm builds were missing
_malloc/_free/HEAPU8 runtime exports needed for the ether to poke bytes
into an instance's memory.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New board variant compiling the unmodified MyMesh/UITask/DataStore app
logic against real mesh::Radio/MainBoard/RTCClock/RNG interfaces, for
running the actual firmware outside embedded hardware:
- Native (plain g++, platform = native): ASCII-art display over stdout,
stdin-driven input, local-disk-backed DataStore/IdentityStore.
- Emscripten/WASM (variants/sim/build_wasm.sh, since PlatformIO's native
platform force-overrides any CC/CXX toolchain override back to system
clang++): canvas-backed display, IDBFS-backed persistence across page
reloads, JS-callable input via sim_enqueue_key(), emscripten_set_main_loop.
Real rweather/Crypto (AES128/SHA256/Ed25519) vendored unmodified and
proven working on both targets. variants/sim/web/index.html is a bare
verification harness, not the polished website embed.
Adopts hardware Channel Activity Detection (wired into
RadioLibWrapper::isChannelActive() alongside our RSSI-threshold check
and RX duty-cycle power-save), MCU temperature telemetry, LR2021
standby workaround, DISPLAY_SCALE/FLIP overrides, NRF52Board
shutdownPeripherals() refactor, and misc upstream fixes.
Declines upstream's ConfigSerializer-based NodePrefs rewrite,
MultiSerialInterface/interface_manager, and UIColor palette system —
each would have broken large parts of the Solo-specific feature set
(NodePrefs fields, per-variant single serial_interface, enum-based
DisplayDriver::Color). Flagged as candidate follow-up migrations, not
permanent no's.
Also fixes several pre-existing bugs surfaced while chasing silent
merge breaks (stale newMsg() override signature in ui-tiny/ui-orig,
dead UIEventType::newContactMessage case, missing ContactsIterator
init), bumps FIRMWARE_VERSION/MESHCORE_VERSION to 1.17, and fixes a
missing <cstdlib> include that broke the native ConfigSerializer unit
tests.
Verified via 13+ pio run builds across ESP32/nRF52, all 3 companion UI
variants, and 7 display drivers, plus the full native unit test suite
(33/33 passing).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Port the Wio Tracker L1 solo firmware (full on-device UI, dual BLE/USB
companion transport) to Heltec V3 and V4 OLED boards. Neither board has
a joystick or CardKB on-board, so each new env wires up both as optional
peripherals with default pins from what the board leaves free, gated
behind the existing UI_HAS_JOYSTICK/ENV_PIN_SDA+SCL flags.
DUAL_SERIAL was nRF52-only; added an ESP32 helpers/esp32/DualSerialInterface.h
counterpart so the flag isn't silently ignored on these boards. On V4's
native USB CDC, isClientConnected() also honours (bool)Serial (real DTR),
same as the nRF52 version; V3 has no native CDC so it stays BLE-only there.
Screen (SDA 17/SCL 18) and CardKB (SDA 3/SCL 4) confirmed working on real
V4 hardware.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Framework for upcoming variant-specific PRs that add LED feedback during boot. The hook gives users visual cues that the device is busy and
shouldn't be interacted with until startup completes.
BLE takes priority when connected; USB is always ready as fallback.
Both state machines run continuously — no BLE disconnect on USB connect.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Loading... screen was always shown at full brightness because prefs
are not yet loaded at that point. Apply setBrightness() in the first
common code path after the_mesh.begin() loads prefs, so at least the
tail of the loading screen and the entire splash screen respect the
saved brightness level.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Watchdog: nRF52840 hardware WDT with 30s timeout, runs during sleep.
Resets device if main loop stalls for >30s. Pets in every loop()
iteration so normal operation never triggers it.
QuickMsgScreen: new UI screen accessible from home screen pages.
Two-phase UI: contact picker (shows all contacts with hop count),
then predefined message picker (location, I'm OK, need help, on my
way, ETA 10min, ETA 30min). Location message uses live GPS fix if
available. Sends via the_mesh.sendMessage() and shows sent/error alert.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Save last known unix timestamp to /rtc_save on shutdown and restore it
on startup, so the clock shows correct time immediately after restart
without waiting for GPS fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- CPU sleep: board.sleep(0) in main loop puts NRF52 into WFE/sd_app_evt_wait
between iterations; wakes on any interrupt (radio, BLE, timer). Largest
power saving of the three changes.
- VBAT_ENABLE gating: voltage divider now powered only during ADC read
(HIGH for 10ms, then LOW). Previously stayed HIGH continuously.
Fixed in both variant.cpp (init) and WioTrackerL1Board::getBattMilliVolts().
- LED off with display: PIN_LED is cleared when auto-off triggers and
restored (handed back to userLedHandler) when display wakes. Avoids
idle LED current draw during screen-off periods.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Remove extra blank line in companion_radio main.cpp before NRF52/STM32 block
- Revert unintended STM32_PLATFORM ETHERNET_ENABLED branch (no STM32 ethernet target exists, and it incorrectly included nrf52 headers)
- Drop renovate annotations from rak4631 platformio.ini (no renovate config in this repo)
The companion_radio example was not restoring the GPS enabled/disabled
preference from flash after reboot. The preference was being saved
correctly when toggled via the mobile app, but on boot,
sensors.begin() -> initBasicGPS() unconditionally sets gps_active=false
and nothing subsequently restored the persisted state.
Added applyGpsPrefs() (matching the pattern in simple_repeater,
simple_sensor, and simple_room_server) and call it from main.cpp
after sensors.begin() to ensure the GPS hardware is initialized
before the saved preference is applied.
The Ethernet retry loop in repeater and room server checked
hardwareStatus() and linkStatus() before calling Ethernet.begin(),
which always returned EthernetNoHardware since hardware detection
only happens during begin(). Extract shared Ethernet CLI code into
EthernetCLI.h to prevent future divergence. Also fix time_t type
mismatch in companion radio Ethernet init.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Rename eth command to eth.status for consistency with other commands
- Rename generateDeviceMac to generateEthernetMac for clarity
- Refactor ethernet_handle_command to return false by default
- Allow new TCP clients to replace existing connections (repeater, room server, SerialEthernetInterface)
- Boot companion radio without Ethernet on init failure (LoRa-only recovery mode)
- Remove > prompt from ethernet CLI for consistency with serial interface
- Fix variable redeclaration compile error in SerialEthernetInterface when ETHERNET_STATIC_IP is defined
- Fix TCP socket leak when duplicate client detection fires
- Remove dead recv_queue and adv_restart_time members from SerialEthernetInterface
- Fix port numbers in docs (port 23 for repeater/room server CLI, port 5000 for companion radio)
- Clarify eth.status command is only available in repeater and room server firmware
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add #pragma once to SerialEthernetInterface.h
- Rename TCP_PORT to ETH_TCP_PORT with #ifndef guard
- Fix typos: "initalizing" → "initializing"
- Fix #elif without condition → #else for STM32 block
- Replace infinite loop on ETH init failure with halt()
- Remove heartbeat Serial.print(".") output
- Remove dead beginETH() call (ETH_ENABLED, not RAK_ETH_ENABLE)
- Comment out MESH_DEBUG and ETH_DEBUG_LOGGING build flags
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add W5100S Ethernet adapter support for RAK4631-based firmware, enabling
TCP CLI access on port 23 as an alternative to BLE/Serial connections.
- New SerialEthernetInterface for nRF52 with DHCP, reconnection handling,
and shared WB_IO2 power pin management with GPS module
- Ethernet build targets for repeater, room server, and companion firmware
- Prevent GPS from toggling WB_IO2 when Ethernet module is active
- CI build check for all three ETH firmware targets
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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