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The cursor marks the character it stands before instead of pushing the text apart: underlined while typing, an inverted block while moving it. The grid stays on screen with the special row turned into the key hints; Up/Down move a word, Hold-Enter deletes before the cursor. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Messages
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Messages holds three lists: **Channels**, **Direct** messages and **Rooms**.
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Unread counts show on each conversation, on the list and on the home screen.
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> [!NOTE]
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> **Wio Tracker L2:** one screen with all three as sections; tap a section
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> title to fold it. **New** in the header starts a conversation with any
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> contact.
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## Reading
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Open a conversation to see its history as chat bubbles: yours on the right,
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received ones on the left, newest at the bottom. Each bubble shows its age
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and a small hop count: on a received message, how many repeaters it came
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through; on your own, how many repeaters were heard passing it on. In
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channels and rooms it also names the sender.
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A conversation with unread messages opens on the first of them, under a
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**New** line, so you read down to the newest. With nothing unread it opens
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at the newest.
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**Enter** on a message opens it full screen; **Left / Right** there pages to the
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older and newer one.
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**Hold Enter** on a message for its options:
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- **Reply**: starts a message addressed to the sender (`@[name]`).
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- **Navigate**, **Save waypoint**, **Set as target**: when the message
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contains a location (see [Navigation](./navigation.md)).
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- **Path** on a received message: the repeaters it came through.
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**Relayed by** on your own channel post: the repeaters heard repeating it.
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> [!NOTE]
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> **Wio Tracker L2:** hold a bubble. The card shows when it was sent, the hop
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> count, the path as a diagram, and **Reply** / **Set target**.
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### How much is kept
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The device keeps the newest 48 channel messages and 32 direct messages, all
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conversations together. When a busy conversation pushes out messages you
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haven't read, its unread count gets a **+** (for example `48+`).
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> [!NOTE]
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> **Wio Tracker L2:** 256 channel and 128 direct messages in memory, and with
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> an SD card every conversation is also saved to the card (100 to 2000
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> messages each, Settings › Storage). The history survives a reboot and
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> scrolls back through everything on the card.
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## Writing
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Open a conversation and choose **+ Send** (or Enter at the bottom of the
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history). Pick a quick message or **Custom message** for the keyboard.
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- **Quick messages**: ten of your own, edited in Settings › Messages.
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- If a message can't be sent, you stay where you were: the keyboard keeps
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the text (its label reads **Not sent**), so you can send it again.
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- **Placeholders** fill in live data when the message is sent:
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`{loc}` (your GPS position), `{time}`, `{batt}`, and the readings of any
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sensor the device has: `{temp}`, `{hum}`, `{pres}`, `{alt}`, `{lux}`,
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`{dist}`, `{co2}`.
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- **How much is left:** a message holds 160 bytes, less what the send adds
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(a channel post carries your name and ": "). Within the last 40 the
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keyboard shows the bytes left, counting placeholders as they will be
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filled in. An accented or Cyrillic letter takes two bytes. The keyboard
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stops taking letters at the limit.
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> [!NOTE]
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> **Wio Tracker L2:** the compose bar sits under the conversation; its **+**
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> opens quick messages and placeholders. Quick messages are edited in
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> Settings › Messages & contacts.
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### The keyboard
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The on-screen keyboard is a letter grid (or a phone-style T9 keypad, Settings ›
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Keyboard › Layout).
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#### Moving the cursor
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While you type, a line under the text marks where the next letter goes. To
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fix something earlier in the message, press **Up** from the top row of keys.
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The cursor turns into a block on the letter it stands before, the keys stay
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on screen without a selection, and the bottom row shows what the arrows do
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now (`<> char ^v word`):
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| Key | Does |
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| --- | ---- |
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| **Left / Right** | Moves one letter |
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| **Up** | Back to the start of the word (the one before, if already there) |
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| **Down** | On to the end of the word (the next one, if already there) |
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| **Hold Enter** | Deletes the letter before the cursor |
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| **Enter**, **Back** | Back to the keys; typing carries on at the cursor |
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Up at the very start of the text goes to the bottom row of keys, and Down at
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the very end goes back to the top row. So if you pressed Up by mistake, one
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Down returns you where you were. The text never shifts around the cursor:
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what you see is what will be sent.
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Accented letters don't need a language setting: **hold Enter** on the base
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letter and pick from its variants, for example `a` → `á à â ä å ą…`, `z` →
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`ź ż ž`. This covers Polish, Czech, German, French, Spanish, Nordic and the
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other European languages written in Latin.
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Settings › Keyboard picks two scripts, **Main** and **Additional**, from Latin,
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Cyrillic and Greek; the keyboard's **#@/abc** key cycles between them and
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symbols. Cyrillic includes the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Serbian letters
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(under the key they sit on). Received messages in any of these scripts display
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correctly whatever the keyboard is set to.
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> [!NOTE]
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> **Wio Tracker L2:** a phone-style keyboard. Hold a key for its accents; the
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> globe key switches between the two alphabets.
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## Channels
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**Hold Enter** on a channel for its options:
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| Option | Does |
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| ------ | ---- |
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| Mark all read | Clears its unread count |
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| Notif, Melody | Its own notification and sound, instead of the global ones |
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| Fav | Marks it as a favourite (shared with the app) |
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| Scope | The region its messages are tagged with: **Default** follows the list's default, `*` sends none; the list is in Settings › Radio › Scope |
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| Pin to dial | Puts it on the Favourites page |
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| Edit, Delete | Renames it or changes its secret; removes it |
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**+ Add channel** at the end of the list adds:
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- **Public**: the default public channel, if you deleted it.
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- **Hashtag**: a topic such as `#hiking`. Anyone who types the same topic
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joins the same channel.
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- **Private**: a name and a secret, typed as a passphrase or as the 32-digit
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hex key (the format of channel QR codes).
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> [!NOTE]
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> **Wio Tracker L2:** hold a channel, or tap ⚙ in an open channel, for its
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> options.
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## Direct messages
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**Hold Enter** on a contact: Mark as read, Notif, Melody, Fav, Pin to dial.
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**Fav** is the star shared with the app and sorts favourites to the top;
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**Pin to dial** only puts the contact on the Favourites page.
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## Rooms
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Opening a room logs in first. You type the password once (empty if the room
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has none); it's saved on the device, including passwords set from the app,
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so the next time it logs in without asking. A wrong password is forgotten and
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you're asked again. **Hold Enter** on a room offers **Login…** and **Logout**.
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