meshcore-solo-site's new cross-visitor relay bridge (Phase 3) needs a way
to read a sim instance's live freq/bw/sf/cr so a WebSocket relay server
can fan traffic out only to other visitors tuned to the same params,
mirroring real LoRa channel isolation. Added sim_radio_get_params()
(examples/companion_radio/main.cpp), reading NodePrefs directly -- the
real live source of truth, since SimRadio::setParams() has always been a
complete no-op (accepts and discards its arguments). Out-params via
pointer, same buffer-pointer idiom sim_radio_poll_tx() already uses;
build_wasm.sh needed HEAPF32/HEAP32 added to EXPORTED_RUNTIME_METHODS so
JS can read them back.
While testing the relay bridge with two independent browser contexts, hit
a real bug: sim_instance_salt() (SimInstance.h) is a pure function of the
simInstanceTag STRING ('hero'/'B'/'R'), so it's only useful for telling
apart same-tab instances -- it's identical for two genuinely different
visitors who both boot a 'hero' instance. Combined with SimRNG::begin()'s
other seed ingredients -- time(NULL) (1-second resolution) and a WASM
heap pointer (no ASLR inside the sandbox, so it's fully deterministic
across independent boots of the same binary) -- two different visitors
landing on the same wall-clock second reliably generated byte-identical
Ed25519 identities (confirmed: two fresh browser contexts launched
together produced provably identical advert packets end to end).
Fixed by mixing in real crypto.getRandomValues()-sourced entropy from the
host page (new sim_instance_entropy(), read the same way simInstanceTag
already is) into both SimRNG::begin() and the twin seeding pattern in
SimRadio::getRngSeed(). Applies to every sim instance uniformly (hero/B/R
all get proper per-session entropy now), not just the new relay path --
strictly an improvement with no compatibility concern, since identity
generation only ever runs once per fresh/empty IDBFS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018iubftDmKNWmkNnhJRz8UH
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.
JakubandClaude Sonnet 5