MeshCore-Solo/docs/solo/messages.md

Messages

Messages holds three lists: Channels, Direct messages and Rooms. Unread counts show on each conversation, on the list and on the home screen.

Note

Wio Tracker L2: one screen with all three as sections; tap a section title to fold it. New in the header starts a conversation with any contact.

Reading

Open a conversation to see its history as chat bubbles: yours on the right, received ones on the left, newest at the bottom. Each bubble shows its age and a small hop count: on a received message, how many repeaters it came through; on your own, how many repeaters were heard passing it on. In channels and rooms it also names the sender.

A conversation with unread messages opens on the first of them, under a New line, so you read down to the newest. With nothing unread it opens at the newest.

Enter on a message opens it full screen; Left / Right there pages to the older and newer one.

Hold Enter on a message for its options:

• Reply: starts a message addressed to the sender (@[name]).
• Navigate, Save waypoint, Set as target: when the message contains a location (see Navigation).
• Path on a received message: the repeaters it came through. Relayed by on your own channel post: the repeaters heard repeating it.

Note

Wio Tracker L2: hold a bubble. The card shows when it was sent, the hop count, the path as a diagram, and Reply / Set target.

How much is kept

The device keeps the newest 48 channel messages and 32 direct messages, all conversations together. When a busy conversation pushes out messages you haven't read, its unread count gets a + (for example 48+).

Note

Wio Tracker L2: 256 channel and 128 direct messages in memory, and with an SD card every conversation is also saved to the card (100 to 2000 messages each, Settings › Storage). The history survives a reboot and scrolls back through everything on the card.

Writing

Open a conversation and choose + Send (or Enter at the bottom of the history). Pick a quick message or Custom message for the keyboard.

• Quick messages: ten of your own, edited in Settings › Messages.
• If a message can't be sent, you stay where you were: the keyboard keeps the text (its label reads Not sent), so you can send it again.
• Placeholders fill in live data when the message is sent: {loc} (your GPS position), {time}, {batt}, and the readings of any sensor the device has: {temp}, {hum}, {pres}, {alt}, {lux}, {dist}, {co2}.
• How much is left: a message holds 160 bytes, less what the send adds (a channel post carries your name and ": "). Within the last 40 the keyboard shows the bytes left, counting placeholders as they will be filled in. An accented or Cyrillic letter takes two bytes. The keyboard stops taking letters at the limit.

Note

Wio Tracker L2: the compose bar sits under the conversation; its + opens quick messages and placeholders. Quick messages are edited in Settings › Messages & contacts.

The keyboard

The on-screen keyboard is a letter grid (or a phone-style T9 keypad, Settings › Keyboard › Layout).

Moving the cursor

While you type, a line under the text marks where the next letter goes. To fix something earlier in the message, press Up from the top row of keys. The cursor turns into a block on the letter it stands before, the keys stay on screen without a selection, and the bottom row shows what the arrows do now (<> char ^v word):

Key	Does
Left / Right	Moves one letter
Up	Back to the start of the word (the one before, if already there)
Down	On to the end of the word (the next one, if already there)
Hold Enter	Deletes the letter before the cursor
Enter, Back	Back to the keys; typing carries on at the cursor

Up at the very start of the text goes to the bottom row of keys, and Down at the very end goes back to the top row. So if you pressed Up by mistake, one Down returns you where you were. The text never shifts around the cursor: what you see is what will be sent.

Accented letters don't need a language setting: hold Enter on the base letter and pick from its variants, for example a → á à â ä å ą…, z → ź ż ž. This covers Polish, Czech, German, French, Spanish, Nordic and the other European languages written in Latin.

Settings › Keyboard picks two scripts, Main and Additional, from Latin, Cyrillic and Greek; the keyboard's #@/abc key cycles between them and symbols. Cyrillic includes the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Serbian letters (under the key they sit on). Received messages in any of these scripts display correctly whatever the keyboard is set to.

Note

Wio Tracker L2: a phone-style keyboard. Hold a key for its accents; the globe key switches between the two alphabets.

Channels

Hold Enter on a channel for its options:

Option	Does
Mark all read	Clears its unread count
Notif, Melody	Its own notification and sound, instead of the global ones
Fav	Marks it as a favourite (shared with the app)
Scope	The region its messages are tagged with: Default follows the list's default, * sends none; the list is in Settings › Radio › Scope
Pin to dial	Puts it on the Favourites page
Edit, Delete	Renames it or changes its secret; removes it

+ Add channel at the end of the list adds:

• Public: the default public channel, if you deleted it.
• Hashtag: a topic such as #hiking. Anyone who types the same topic joins the same channel.
• Private: a name and a secret, typed as a passphrase or as the 32-digit hex key (the format of channel QR codes).

Note

Wio Tracker L2: hold a channel, or tap ⚙ in an open channel, for its options.

Direct messages

Hold Enter on a contact: Mark as read, Notif, Melody, Fav, Pin to dial. Fav is the star shared with the app and sorts favourites to the top; Pin to dial only puts the contact on the Favourites page.

Rooms

Opening a room logs in first. You type the password once (empty if the room has none); it's saved on the device, including passwords set from the app, so the next time it logs in without asking. A wrong password is forgotten and you're asked again. Hold Enter on a room offers Login… and Logout.