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JakubandClaude Opus 5.5
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- CMD_GET_SCREENSHOT on colour screens: display type 2 (RGB565 LE), 32-bit payload size; ui-lvgl captureFrame() shared with the SD BMP - ENABLE_SCREENSHOT in the L2 build; tools/screenshot.py decodes type 2 - docs and READMEs point to solo.marekzegarek.com/#pc-tools - USB popup: "Keep card" instead of "Charge only" (only the card is lent; charging and USB serial work either way) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Host-side tools
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Helper scripts that run on your computer, not on the device.
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| Tool | Purpose |
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| ---- | ------- |
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| `screenshot.py` | capture the device display over USB serial and save it as a PNG |
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| `trail_export.py` | capture a GPX track from the device over USB serial |
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| `gpx-downloader/index.html` | the same GPX capture in a browser, via Web Serial |
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| `bdf2gfx.py` | convert a BDF bitmap font to an Adafruit-GFX header |
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Python dependencies are managed with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) — run the
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scripts with `uv run tools/<script>.py` from the repository root.
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> [!TIP]
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> The [USB tools on the Solo site](https://solo.marekzegarek.com/#pc-tools) do both screenshots and GPX
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> export with nothing to install (Chrome or Edge), and are the easiest option
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> for most people. The scripts here are the offline equivalents.
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> [!IMPORTANT]
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> USB serial is suspended while a BLE connection is active, so disconnect the
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> companion app from BLE before using any of these. If the app is connected over
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> USB, disconnect it too — the raw stream would otherwise disrupt its frame
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> protocol.
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---
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## Display screenshot
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All solo firmware environments are built with `-D ENABLE_SCREENSHOT`, so no
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special build is needed. On other environments (repeater, room server, the
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non-solo companion builds) add the flag yourself:
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```sh
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PLATFORMIO_BUILD_FLAGS="-D ENABLE_SCREENSHOT" pio run -e <env> -t upload
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```
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**Usage:**
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1. Connect the device over USB, with no companion app attached
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2. Run the tool:
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```sh
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uv run tools/screenshot.py
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```
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Options:
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- `--port PORT` — serial port to use (default: auto-detect)
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- `--scale SCALE` — upscale factor for the output image (1 = none; default: 1)
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3. Press **S** in the tool's interactive menu to capture
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4. The PNG lands in `tools/pngs/` with a timestamped filename
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**How it works:**
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- The tool sends `CMD_GET_SCREENSHOT` (66) to the device
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- The device replies with `RESP_CODE_SCREENSHOT` (29) carrying the framebuffer
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- The framebuffer arrives in chunks (a 128 × 64 display is 1024 bytes, split
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across several frames), which the tool reassembles into a PNG
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- A colour screen (Wio Tracker L2) sends a freshly rendered frame as RGB565
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(display type 2): 320 × 240 is 150 KB, about a second over USB
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---
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## GPX trail export
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1. Connect the device over USB, with no companion app attached
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2. Start the listener:
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```sh
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uv run tools/trail_export.py
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```
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Options:
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- `--port PORT` — serial port to use (default: auto-detect)
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- `--out OUT` — output file (default: a timestamped file in `tools/gpx/`)
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3. On the device: **Tools › Trail › Hold Enter › Export (live)** or
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**Export (saved)**
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4. The script captures the GPX 1.1 XML stream and writes it to disk
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---
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## Font conversion
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```sh
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uv run tools/bdf2gfx.py <font.bdf> <first_hex> <last_hex> <VarPrefix> > out.h
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```
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Emits a contiguous glyph table over the given codepoint range, with empty
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placeholders for codepoints the BDF does not define, so the renderer can index
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by `cp - first`. This is how [`src/helpers/ui/MiscFixedFont.h`](../src/helpers/ui/MiscFixedFont.h)
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— the unified 6×9 Latin/Greek/Cyrillic display font — was generated from
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`6x9.bdf`.
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