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JakubandClaude Opus 5.5 2624ab0548 feat(ui-core,ui-lvgl): repeater control in the Core, L2 repeater mode
Min SNR now defaults to off on a fresh device (was 0 dB without a prefs file).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 23:33:11 +02:00

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Wio Tracker L2 (ui-lvgl) — hardware checklist

Things verified only in the browser simulator so far. Tick on the device; note anything odd next to the item. Branch wio-tracker-l2.

Feedback round 1 (2026-09-25) — fixed, check on the device

Confirmed on the device: live share sends and receives positions.

  • Map: ☰ tools moved to the left column (back, pin, ☰); nothing overlaps the crosshair
  • Target ring sits exactly on the marker (all markers were drawn ~3 px low)
  • A person sharing on a channel, picked as target, is followed as they move (was a fixed point where they were); bar shows the person icon
  • Settings: "Trail, live share, alerts" subtitle no longer covers the title (all list rows)
  • Map credit is a small "©" (tap: full line in a toast); full text also in Settings > About; long toasts wrap
  • Home: Messages, Nearby, Map, Settings — "Map" is the navigation map; the nodes map opens from Nearby's header (map icon), back returns to Nearby
  • Home tiles are wider; more apps will go on further swipeable pages (dots appear once there are two)
  • Overzoom limited to 2 levels (x4); past that "No map detail here at this zoom" — download more
  • Panning: no tile decoding while the finger moves (smooth drag, tiles fill in once you stop); tiles around the view are decoded ahead while idle; newly revealed area shows the coarser tile until the sharp one is ready
  • Note how panning feels now: ______ (next step if still slow: decode on the second core / JPEG tiles)

Feedback round 2 (2026-09-25) — fixed, check on the device

Confirmed: settings rows OK, map pans much faster, ring centred.

  • Target ring is wider (30 px) so the green / flag marker shows inside it; a target with no marker on it (map point, message position, stale live share) gets an orange centre dot
  • "↓ Resume?" pill sits top right beside +, clear of the zoom pill; tapping it opens the download popup
  • Pin button → Waypoints list (distance, tap → Go / Name / Share / Delete) with "Here (GPS)" and "Coordinates"
  • Coordinates: digits keyboard, "50.06142, 19.93721 Name" or with a space instead of the comma; bad input keeps the field with a hint; the map centres on the new waypoint
  • Holding the map no longer adds a waypoint straight away: "This spot" popup with Add waypoint / Go here

Feedback round 3 (2026-09-25) — fixed, check on the device

Confirmed: green dot inside the ring, waypoints much better, download works, settings OK.

  • Ring exactly on the marker at every zoom (it was computed in float: pixels off at z16+). The trail line had the same error and is fixed too
  • Home: swipe left / right anywhere (clock or tiles) turns the page; a swipe starting on a tile doesn't open it; tapping a dot also switches
  • Settings > Display & power: Brightness is a slider (5-100 %), changes live while dragging, kept after a reboot and after the screen sleeps / wakes
  • After the update: prefs load normally (new field, schema sentinel 0xC0DE002F) — brightness starts from the old level, nothing else reset

New: Clock, settings pages, radio (2026-09-25)

  • Home has two pages now: swipe left → Clock (dots under the tiles follow; Home remembers the page)
  • Clock > Alarm: hour / minute rollers (setting a time arms it), On switch, Repeat (Once / Daily / Weekdays / Weekends); rings at the local time
  • Clock > Timer: H / M / S rollers, Start → big countdown, Stop; when it ends a full-screen "Timer done" card with Dismiss appears on any screen (also wakes the display; the user button dismisses too). Silent: no speaker driver yet
  • Clock > Stopwatch: Start / Stop / Reset with tenths
  • Settings > Display & power: Screen off after; Wake on message
  • Settings > Display & power: Battery shutdown (not while on USB), GPS power saving, Time zone (clock + alarm follow)
  • Settings > Messages & contacts: Resend direct messages, Contact expiry + "Remove inactive contacts now" (first tap shows the count, second removes; favourites kept), Favourites first
  • Settings > Radio: Preset list (built-ins + your saved ones), Frequency (tap, type), SF, Bandwidth, Coding rate, TX power, Auto power; changes apply at once — check messages still flow after switching back to your usual preset
  • L1 (ui-new): Settings > Radio TX power / Auto power / presets still apply (now through the shared RadioControl)

New: Channels (2026-09-25)

  • Messages: favourite channels first with a star, muted ones with a speaker icon
  • Hold a channel row (or ⚙ in an open channel) → options: Alerts (Default / Muted / Always, one tap), Scope (only if regions exist), Fav, Read (only with unread), Edit, Delete (second tap confirms)
  • "+ Add channel" → Public (re-adds the open channel; "already exists" if it's there), Hashtag (topic → "#topic"), Private (name + passphrase, or Hex key switch → exactly 32 hex chars)
  • A hashtag / private channel made on L2 talks to the same channel made on L1 or in the phone app
  • Edit: rename keeps the key (shown at the top); typing a new passphrase changes it
  • Deleting a channel that was the live share / bot target turns those off; a channel re-added in that slot starts with default notifications / no favourite (also when deleted from the phone app)
  • L1 (ui-new): Messages > Channels add / edit / delete / mute / pin still work (now through the shared ChannelControl)
  • L1: deleting a contact from the app still unpins it from the dial and clears its mute / melody (cleanup moved into the Core)

New: Repeater admin (2026-09-25)

  • Nearby > a repeater or room server you have in contacts > "Admin" (the Fav button is just a star there)
  • First time: password field + keyboard; wrong password → "Login failed", back on the node; right one → tabs System / Radio / Routing / Actions
  • Next time: logs in by itself with the saved password (no keyboard); a node you just used opens straight away
  • Out of range: "No answer to the login" after a while, and the saved password is forgotten (asks again next time)
  • Name / Owner info: "Reading..." then a text field with the current value; ✓ sends it, reply popup "OK"
  • Admin password: set a new one → the saved password follows (next login works without typing)
  • Routing > Repeat switch; Advert interval / Flood advert / Max hops with − / +; Radio > SF / Bandwidth / Coding rate choices, Frequency typed, TX power − / +
  • Actions: Send advert / zero-hop / Sync clock give a reply; Reboot and Start OTA ask first (red button)
  • Custom command: e.g. ver, neighbors (long replies scroll)
  • "Reading... (tap to stop)" stops waiting when tapped
  • Room server login from the phone app / L1 still works while this exists (only admin logins go to the new session)
  • L1 (ui-new): Tools > Admin works as before (login, saved password, typed values, confirm reboot); it now also skips the login for the node you just used

New: Repeater mode (2026-09-25)

  • Settings > CONNECTIVITY > Repeater (row shows Off / On and what it relays on): switch on → "Repeater on", the loop icon appears in the status bar; off → it goes away
  • Relay on Custom: the radio moves to the profile's frequency while on and back to the chat frequency when off (Settings > Radio row / another node on each frequency); Current: stays on the chat frequency
  • Custom profile: Preset dropdown, Frequency (typed, out-of-range refused), SF / BW / CR apply at once; while relaying on it the change is live
  • While on: Settings > Radio > Auto power is greyed ("Off while repeating") and TX runs at the set power
  • Another node two hops away receives messages through this device; Skip adverts stops relaying adverts only; Max hops / Min SNR / Yield / Skip duplicates / Scope only take effect (compare with L1 Tools › Repeater showing the same values)
  • Extra scopes popup: a switch per scope, the row counts "N of M relayed"; with no scopes it points to Settings > Radio
  • Fresh device (erased flash): Min SNR starts at Off, not 0 dB (fixed default, also on L1)

New: My presets, scopes, battery display, clock seconds (2026-09-25)

  • Settings > Radio > MY PRESETS > Save current settings: name popup, Enter → "Preset saved", the row shows freq / SF / BW / CR with a tick while in use, and it is in the Preset dropdown
  • Tap a saved preset → Use (radio switches) / Delete (confirm, red) → "Preset deleted"; a 5th name replaces the oldest (hint says so when all 4 are used); presets survive a reboot
  • L1: Settings › Radio › Preset lists the presets saved on L2 and vice versa (same slots)
  • Settings > Radio > SCOPE > Scopes: "* (no scope)" is the default; + Add → name → listed; tap → Default / Rename / Delete; the Radio screen row shows the default
  • Deleting the default scope makes * the default; a channel set to the deleted scope goes back to none (channel options > Scope); the app shows the same default scope after a sync
  • Settings > Display & power > Battery display: Icon / Percent / Voltage change the status bar at once; percent follows the L1 curve (empties at the Battery shutdown voltage)
  • Settings > Display & power > TIME > Clock seconds off: Home and lock screen clocks show HH:MM; on: HH:MM:SS

New: Diagnostics, auto-advert, compass (2026-09-25)

  • Settings > SYSTEM > Diagnostics: tabs Live / System / Font; Live counters (uptime, rx/tx, heap, noise floor, RSSI/SNR, queue, errors) tick every second
  • Live > Reset → confirm popup → "Counters reset", rx/tx and forwarded go back to 0
  • System shows firmware, build date, board, node name, frequency / SF / BW / CR, TX power; Font shows Polish, Greek and Cyrillic samples without boxes
  • Settings > Trail, live share, alerts > LIVE SHARE > Auto-advert 30 s: another node sees your advert (with position) every ~30 s; Off stops it; survives a reboot
  • L1: Tools › Auto-Advert shows the value set on L2 (same pref), Tools › Diagnostics unchanged
  • Home page 2 > Compass: without a fix "Waiting for a GPS fix" (GPS off: hint to turn it on); standing still "Move to set the heading"; walking: dial turns so your course is under the amber pointer, degrees + cardinal on the right

New: Node name, reboot, lock screen, favourites dial (2026-09-25)

  • Settings > NODE > Name: popup with the current name, Enter saves; Home and Settings show the new name; another node sees it after your next advert
  • Settings > SYSTEM > Reboot / Power off: confirm popup (red button); reboot comes back normally, messages and settings kept
  • Settings > Display & power > Lock screen on; > TIME > 12-hour clock changes status bar ("2:05 PM"), Home and lock screen (AM/PM before the date)
  • With Lock screen on: screen off (timeout or the button on Home) → wake → clock card with "N new messages"; tapping anywhere does nothing; the knob follows the finger; sliding to the right end unlocks; letting go early springs it back
  • Locked: a new message still wakes the screen and shows the toast; the button turns the screen off again; alarm ring shows over the lock
  • In the pocket for a while with Lock screen on: nothing changed / sent
  • Home page 2 > Favourites: 6 slots; tap an empty one → pick a channel / contact / room; filled slot shows # / person / house icon and unread badge; tap opens it (a room logs in first); hold → Change / Remove
  • Channel options and conversation options: pin icon → "Pin to favourites" with six slots (current one highlighted, tap it again to unpin)
  • L1 (ui-new): favourites dial and Pin to dial work as before

New: Rooms, conversation options, message actions (2026-09-25)

  • Messages: sections CHANNELS / DIRECT / ROOMS; "All" / "★ Fav" pill on CHANNELS and ROOMS shows only favourites (and survives a reboot)
  • ROOMS lists room servers ("Tap to log in" / last post); "ROOMS - N new" when posts arrived
  • Tap a room never logged into: password popup (empty is fine for public rooms) → "Logging in..." → "Logged in" → thread opens
  • Wrong password: "Login failed - wrong password?" and the popup comes back; no answer: "No answer from the room"
  • Reboot, tap the same room: logs in with the saved password without asking, then opens
  • Room thread: other people's posts show their name above the text; your post gets "delivered"
  • Room ⚙ / hold the row: "Logged in" status, Fav, Login (new password), Logout (forgets the password; next tap asks again)
  • DIRECT: hold a conversation (or ⚙ in the thread): Alerts Default / Muted / Always, Fav (star in the list), Read; muted shows the mute icon
  • New message: CONTACTS "All" / "★ Fav" pill
  • Hold someone's message bubble: path ("Path (2 hops): A > B" or "Heard directly"), Reply puts "@[name] " in the field with the keyboard up, Set target (message with a position) sets the navigation target
  • Hold your own channel post: "Relayed by: ..." once a repeater echoed it
  • L1 (ui-new): Room Servers login / logout / saved password work as before (now in the shared RoomSessions)

New: Bot (2026-09-25)

  • Home page 2: Clock, Bot
  • Bot: tabs Channel / Room / Direct / Other; header shows "N sent" once it has replied
  • Switches (Enable, Commands, Actions) change and survive a reboot; Direct > DM allow All / Fav
  • Channel / Room: list popup (current one highlighted), picking closes it and shows the name
  • Trigger: text popup ("*" = any message, shown as "(any msg)"); Reply: {name} {hops} {loc} {time} buttons insert at the cursor
  • Other > Quiet from / to: − / + hour, Done; both the same = "Off"
  • With Channel enabled + trigger "!hi" + reply "Hi {name}, {hops}": another node writing "!hi" on that channel gets the reply; !ping answered when Commands is on
  • L1 (ui-new): Tools > Bot looks and works as before (now from the shared BotConfig table)

Basics after the_mesh moved to PSRAM (MESH_IN_PSRAM)

  • Boots normally, contacts and channels are all there
  • Messages arrive and send (channel + DM), delivery ticks work
  • Companion app over BLE connects and syncs
  • A few hours of uptime without a reboot

WiFi map download

  • Settings > WiFi: Scan lists networks, pick one, password, Save
  • Map > download button: popup shows tile count / size, Download starts
  • Pill on the map: "Connecting..." then "↓ n / total"
  • Popup while downloading: IP, dBm, heap (internal free / largest block) — note the numbers: ______
  • Mesh messages still arrive during a download; BLE stays connected
  • Stop → popup shows "Unfinished: z…-…, N tiles" with Resume / trash
  • Power off mid-download → power on → map shows "↓ Resume?" (top right; tap it) → Resume continues (count jumps past the tiles already on the card)
  • Trash discards the unfinished job
  • Download finishes: toast "Map: Done, N new tiles", new tiles appear on the map

Overzoom (map past the downloaded detail)

  • Zoom in beyond the highest downloaded level: map stays visible (magnified), zoom pill reads e.g. "z17 (map z15)"
  • Panning over magnified tiles is smooth enough (note if it stutters)
  • From a magnified view, download a higher zoom for that area — the sharp tiles replace the magnified ones

GPS

  • Settings > Navigation shows a "GPS" switch; toggling it turns the module on/off (and survives a reboot)
  • Status bar: GPS icon grey while searching, green with a fix, gone when off
  • Map crosshair with GPS off: turns GPS on ("GPS on, waiting for a fix"), centres once a fix arrives
  • Bot !gps on / !gps off works on L2

Two maps

  • Nodes map (Nearby > map icon): contacts with a position as markers, tap → node detail, back → map
  • Map: hold the map → "This spot" → Add waypoint → "WPn" at the finger
  • Map: pin button → Waypoints → Here (GPS) → waypoint at the GPS position
  • Bar (bottom) → "Navigate to" list: waypoints with distance, Trail start (if a trail exists), people sharing live
  • Tap a waypoint → target: ring, dashed line from you, bar with distance / bearing / your course / ETA; view frames you + target
  • ✕ on the bar clears the target
  • Waypoint menu (pencil): Go / Name (Polish letters, 11-byte limit) / Share / Delete (second tap confirms)
  • Share → Messages → pick a conversation → compose holds [WAY]lat,lon name → send; a Solo L1 receiving it can save it
  • Settings > Trail, live share, alerts > "Show others' positions" on → someone's [LOC] share appears on the Map and in the list; tap → navigate to them
  • Node detail (a node with a position) has the compass button → Map with that node as target
  • Settings > … > "Arrival alert" on + target set → toast "Arrived: …" when you get within the radius

Positions in messages

  • A received message with [WAY]lat,lon name, [LOC]lat,lon or plain "lat, lon" shows Go / Save under the bubble
  • Save → waypoint named from the [WAY] label (else the sender), Polish letters not cut in half
  • Go → Map with that spot as the target

Trail & live share (Map > ☰ tools button, left column)

  • Record → pill "REC 0 m" at the top; walk: blue trail line follows, distance grows
  • Auto-pause (Settings > Trail, live share, alerts): standing still → "PAUSED", walking resumes
  • Stop / Save / Load / Reset (second tap confirms) behave; a trail saved on L2 loads (same /trail file as L1)
  • Export GPX → toast "Saved trails/trail-YYYYMMDD-HHMM.gpx"; the file opens in a GPX viewer (track + waypoints)
  • Live share: pick "Send to" (channel or favourite), Share live → pill "LIVE 1h00"; another node sees the [LOC] updates while you move; stops by itself after the chosen time
  • Send once: with sharing on → "Position sent"; with it off → Messages with [LOC]lat,lon waiting in the compose field
  • Track back (with a recorded trail): bar "Back: n pt" with distance / bearing, ring on the breadcrumb; walking advances it; at the start toast "Back at the trail start"; ✕ stops it
  • ☰ > Download this area opens the download popup
  • Waypoint averaging 5 s/10 s/30 s: pin → "Averaging GPS… n s" pill (tap cancels) → waypoint saved at the mean

Settings > Trail, live share, alerts (schema-driven)

  • Every row changes and survives a reboot; "Imperial units" relabels point spacing and distances
  • Changing "Stop sharing after" during a session restarts its clock
  • Radius / Alert on (arrive, leave, both) change when the arrival toast fires

Same data on L1 (ui-new) after the Core changes

  • L1: waypoints saved before the update are still listed (Tools › Trail › Waypoints)
  • L1: add / rename / delete waypoint, navigate, ETA line still shows
  • L1: Home GPS toggle still works
  • L1: Tools › Trail Save / Load / Reset still work (now via TrailEngine)
  • L1: Mark with averaging (Trail › Settings › Mark avg) still counts down and marks
  • L1: Track back still advances along the trail and ends at the start