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The quick panel, as a phone's: pulled down from the status bar (or a tap on it). Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, sound, trail and live share switch at a tap; Advert opens the advert popup (moved here from the Nodes header); Lock locks the screen; a brightness slider. Holding a tile opens its settings. Lock and sun glyphs added to the fonts. Fixes from rc1 testing on the L2: - GPS status icon: none when GPS is off (the module kept its last fix valid, so it stayed green); grey on, green with a fix. ensureGps() turns GPS on before trusting that stale fix. - Screen wake: the panel wakes dark, a frame is drawn, then the backlight fades in -- no white flash. Off fades out first. - Power off / flat battery: the chip wakes every 30 s to look for USB power and starts when plugged in (it slept with no wake source before, until the reset button). Plugged in when switched off: stays off until re-plugged. - Message ages in a conversation refresh every 2 s, as on ui-new; the message popup keeps its age, repeaters heard and delivery up to date. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Getting started
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## Controls
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On joystick devices:
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| Input | Does |
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| ----- | ---- |
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| **Up / Down** | Move through a list |
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| **Left / Right** | Switch home pages; change the value of a setting |
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| **Enter** | Open, select, confirm |
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| **Hold Enter** | Options for the selected item (a message, contact, channel…) |
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| **Back** | One step back; from a screen, back to the home screen |
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Lists wrap around at both ends. Any key wakes a dark screen without acting on it.
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Keyboard devices use the same controls, from the arrow keys (or their Fn
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combinations), Enter and Esc. [Hardware](./hardware.md) has the key maps.
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> [!NOTE]
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> **Wio Tracker L2:** tap to open, hold for options, swipe sideways between
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> pages. The top button turns the screen off and on. The side button goes
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> back to the home screen; hold it and let go to mute or unmute the sound.
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> Holding the side button while pressing the top one takes a screenshot.
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## Home screen
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The home screen is a row of pages. On joystick devices, **Left / Right** steps
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through them (on Favourites it moves between the slots first). The default
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order:
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| Page | Shows |
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| ---- | ----- |
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| **Clock** | The time, the date and up to three fields of your choice; Enter opens the clock tools |
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| **Favourites** | Six slots for the conversations you open most ([Contacts](./contacts.md#favourites)) |
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| **Status** | Radio, GPS, battery and mesh at a glance; Enter opens the [Status screen](./tools.md#status) |
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| **Bluetooth** | Bluetooth on / off and the phone: connected, or the pairing PIN |
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| **Advert** | Send an advert now, and the auto-advert interval |
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| **Settings** | Brightness, GPS on / off, then all settings |
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| **Map** | Your position, the trail, people sharing theirs and the target ([Navigation](./navigation.md#map)) |
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| **Tools** | The two tools you used last with their state, then all tools |
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| **Messages** | The two latest conversations with their unread counts, then all messages |
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| **Shutdown** | Lock the screen, or hibernate (with the battery level) |
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Most pages are **quick panels**: a few rows and a last one that opens the
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full screen. **Up / Down** picks a row and **Enter** acts on it. A value row
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(brightness, auto-advert) goes into editing: **Left / Right** change it while
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you watch, **Enter** or **Back** keeps it.
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Settings › Home Pages sets their order and hides the ones you don't use;
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Settings and Messages are always shown.
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> [!NOTE]
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> **Wio Tracker L2:** pages you swipe between: favourite chats, the clock
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> (where it starts), a minimap, then the apps, six to a page. Hold an app to
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> arrange or hide them.
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>
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> Pull down from the status bar (or tap it) for the quick panel: Bluetooth,
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> WiFi, GPS, sound, trail and live share switch at a tap, Advert sends an
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> advert or sets the automatic one, Lock locks the screen, and the slider
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> sets the brightness. Hold a tile for its settings. Swipe it up, or tap
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> below it, to put it away.
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## Connecting the phone app
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Every build serves the MeshCore app over **Bluetooth and USB**, one at a time:
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while Bluetooth is connected, USB is ignored. To use USB, disconnect Bluetooth
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first or turn it off on the device.
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The Bluetooth pairing PIN is shown on the Bluetooth home page until the phone
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is paired.
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> [!NOTE]
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> **Wio Tracker L2:** the PIN is under Settings › Bluetooth.
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Everything you do on the device and in the app stays in sync: contacts,
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channels and messages are the same data.
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## Updating
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Download the new file from the [releases page](https://github.com/MarekZegare4/MeshCore-Solo/releases)
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and flash it the way you did the first time (see the [main README](../../README.md#flashing)).
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Settings, contacts and messages are kept.
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> [!NOTE]
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> **Wio Tracker L2:** Settings › Firmware update checks GitHub for a newer
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> release and installs it over WiFi. Set up a network under Settings › WiFi
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> first.
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