Adversarial review raised three findings. Two survived verification.
Rejected: a claimed RangeError when abbreviating a short public key. The
code already guards with a length check before either substring, so the
crash it describes cannot occur.
Rejected as described, fixed as found: contact position (0, 0) was said to
be dropped on import. It is not. The frame builder writes the position block
whenever lastModified is present, which it always is here, so a suppressed
position still writes 0/0 and the bytes are identical either way. The
hasPosition conditional was therefore doing nothing except misleading a
reader, which is exactly what happened. Removed, and the behavior is pinned
with a test.
Accepted: the service added sections to 'applied' after sendFrame returned,
which only means the frame left our side. A lost or refused frame was
indistinguishable from success, so the user could be told an import worked
when nothing changed on the device.
A correct fix needs an awaited per-command acknowledgement in the connector,
keyed on command code so concurrent commands cannot steal each other's OK.
That is real connector work and is filed as #584. What is fixed here is the
overclaim: 'applied' and the two counts are documented as sent rather than
confirmed, and the result string now reads 'Sent N contacts and M channels
to the device'. The code no longer states something it cannot know.
Mirrors stock's Export Config screen: section list, Select All and Deselect
All, everything checked by default. The asymmetry with import, which will
start with nothing checked, is stock's own and is deliberate: opt out on the
way out, opt in on the way in.
A section the user ticked that could not be gathered is shown before the file
is written, with its specific reason, and the user chooses whether to export
anyway. Firmware-built-without-it reads differently from device-did-not-answer
because only one of them is worth retrying.
The screen also states plainly that this is the stock format and cannot carry
Offband-only data, so importing the file back will not restore it.
File naming follows stock, <name>_meshcore_config_<stamp>.json, and is
sanitized for the filesystem without touching the name written inside the
file, which has to round-trip exactly. Real device names in the reference
corpus contain emoji and a trailing space, both covered by tests.
Writing reuses LogExport for the per-platform mechanism (share sheet on
mobile, Save As on desktop, download on web) rather than adding a second
export path that could drift. The temp file can contain the node private key,
so it is written under the app's own temp directory.
The public key is abbreviated on screen; the private key is never rendered.
6 tests on the file name.
Applies a stock config file to the device with stock's own merge semantics,
quoted from its Import Config screen:
- contacts are upserted on public key, and nothing is ever deleted
- channels are additive only, so a rotated PSK for a channel the user
already has does not apply
- importing an identity overwrites the node outright
We match that behavior but not its silence. Every skipped channel comes back
named, with a reason, so the UI can show it; a channel that quietly did not
import is the silent no-op SAFELANE section 6 forbids.
The channel merge rule is extracted as planChannelImport, a pure function, so
the surprising part is testable without a radio. It treats a channel as
already present when either its PSK or its name matches, which is the
non-destructive reading of a rule stock states without defining. Pinning down
what stock actually does is a T1 question, recorded in the doc comment.
New channels take the lowest free slot, since the file carries no index.
other_settings is reported as not fully writable rather than claimed as
applied: buildSetOtherParamsFrame deliberately pins the auto-add-contacts
byte, so manual_add_contacts cannot be written without changing app-wide
behavior. Advert location policy is applied.
10 tests over the planner and the result type.
Gathers live device state into a StockConfig, section by section, matching
stock's Export Config screen where each section is independently selectable
and the file simply omits what was not ticked.
A requested section that cannot be gathered is reported in the result rather
than dropped, with the reason kept specific: unsupported (firmware built
without identity export) is distinct from noReply and rejected, so the
export screen can say the radio cannot do it instead of offering a pointless
retry.
Two unit traps handled explicitly:
- currentFreqHz is misnamed; the value is kHz, which is also what stock's
frequency field carries, so it passes through unconverted. currentBwHz
really is Hz. The mismatch exists in both our state and the file.
- other_settings.manual_add_contacts must be the raw device byte. The
connector's _manualAddContacts is an inverted derived view of bit 0
(firmware treats a clear bit as auto-add enabled), so exporting it would
have written the wrong value. The raw byte is now retained and exposed,
with the inversion documented at the parse site. No behavior change.
Path mapping keeps our hash count and per-hop width (#309) intact: stock
encodes one hash per comma-separated element, so the width survives as
element length. A flood route, an over-long declared hop count, or a width
stock cannot express all yield no path rather than a guessed one.
13 tests over the pure mapping functions.
Prerequisite for the export/import epic (#568): two device values the
connector could not read or write, both already exposed by firmware.
Identity (CMD_EXPORT_PRIVATE_KEY 23 / CMD_IMPORT_PRIVATE_KEY 24):
- adds the commands, RESP_CODE_PRIVATE_KEY 14 and the previously unhandled
RESP_CODE_DISABLED 15
- both firmware commands sit behind build flags, so a radio can legitimately
answer DISABLED. IdentityTransfer keeps unsupported distinct from rejected
so the UI can say the radio cannot do it rather than offering a retry that
can never succeed
- a short PRIVATE_KEY frame reports rejected instead of handing back a
truncated key that could be written to an export file
- import is destructive and documented as such; the key is never logged
Auto-add hop limit:
- GET already returned max_hops as a third byte and we discarded it; it is
now parsed and exposed
- SET learns an optional maxHops. Omitting it keeps the frame two bytes, so
firmware leaves the device value alone and existing callers are unchanged
- clamped to 64 on our side to match the firmware clamp
Adds handleFrameForTest so parse paths can be exercised without a radio,
following the file's existing visibleForTesting convention. 12 new tests.
Models the MeshCore stock companion config export JSON so files interchange
in both directions (epic #568). Shape reverse-engineered from ten real
exports across five radios; evidence recorded on #569.
Format rules the parser enforces, none of them obvious:
- no version field exists, so validation is by shape and every top-level
section is independently optional
- public_key and private_key travel as one unit
- radio_settings mixes units: frequency kHz, bandwidth Hz, coding_rate a
bare denominator
- coordinates are JSON strings, never numbers
- channels carry no index; array position is the index
- out_path_list is one comma-separated hop hash per element, so hop count
and hash width are both recovered rather than inferred (#309)
- contact timestamps are untrusted and never sanitized
- null and empty-string out_path_list stay distinct on re-encode; both mean
no route, but real exports contain both and the difference is unexplained
Unknown top-level keys are ignored so a future stock release cannot break
the reader. Errors carry the offending JSON path for the import UI.
Test fixtures are synthetic with obviously fake keys. Validated separately
against the owner's ten real exports, which round-trip key-for-key; that
harness reads a path outside the repo and was deliberately not committed.
The radio is authoritative for the expected-ACK hash it reports, but the
client looked that hash up in a map keyed by a hash it recomputed locally.
When the two disagreed the lookup missed silently (debugPrint only), the
8000ms watchdog from #395 marked the message failed, and the genuine ACK
later matched nothing because every downstream map is populated only on the
match path. Delivery worked the whole time.
Captured on a Wadamesh HV4 TFT in #449: five DMs, all shown as errors, two
with a confirmed ACK whose hash equalled the radio's RESP_CODE_SENT value
exactly. Wadamesh builds the payload differently, so the client cannot
predict its digest, and Offband is expected to work against stock MeshCore,
Wadamesh and other forks.
RESP_CODE_SENT is the reply to our own CMD_SEND_TXT_MSG, so adopt the radio's
value when exactly one send awaits confirmation. Zero or several candidates
keep the previous behaviour rather than guessing. Channel sends draw the same
frame, so adoption is refused while one is outstanding.
The lookup miss is now a warn on debugLogService instead of a bare
debugPrint (SAFELANE section 6).
A send-order correlation queue was developed alongside this and has been
split out: its ordering premise needs a transport send mutex that does not
exist yet, and three review rounds each found a fresh defect in it. This
commit deliberately carries only the adoption fallback, which is what the
owner's hardware test validated.
Refs #449
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A truncated caplog download used to completeError and discard every received
byte, so the user got nothing from a buffer still intact on the device (a tester
lost 8461/8608 bytes, 98.3%, deterministically per firmware#711 so retry can't
help). Now truncation is a soft outcome:
- downloadCaplog() returns a CaplogDownload (bytes + received/expected/chunks +
truncated) instead of throwing; busy/timeout still throw.
- serial_capture_screen still writes + LogExport.shareFile the partial bytes,
marks the file "# PARTIAL ..." with the counts, and shows a non-fatal warning
instead of a red error.
- Button label is now platform-aware (Download & save on desktop, & share on
mobile) via LogExport.actionVerb, matching the App/BLE log screens.
Replaces CaplogTruncatedException with CaplogDownload. Reassembler unchanged
(already keeps the bytes). Adds CaplogDownload contract tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two accepted findings from the standards#145 adversarial review.
Finding 4, the sharp one: the app emitted the compact <key:type:name>
card but could not parse it. A user copying a card out of a channel and
pasting it into Add by public key would have been rejected by the app
that produced it. Adds Contact.fromChannelShare and tries it after
fromShareUri in the dialog, so both real formats are accepted.
The parser splits on the FIRST TWO colons and takes the remainder as the
name, because names carry colons, spaces, emoji and CJK. It also finds a
card embedded in a longer message, which is how one actually arrives,
since people caption them.
Rendering a received card as a tappable affordance remains #610; this
only covers text pasted or scanned into the add flow. #610 is
correspondingly smaller now.
Finding 2, performance: resolveContactVerification ran an O(N) message
scan from a widget build inside a ListView. Now scans newest-first,
since a delivered message is overwhelmingly likely to be recent, and
advert-verified contacts still return on a single comparison without
touching the message list.
A lastMessageAt == epoch shortcut was written, then removed after
checking _setContactLastMessageAt: it maintains that field only for
advTypeChat, so a key-added repeater that had been messaged would have
shown the wrong badge. A cheap wrong answer is worse than a slightly
slower right one, and the rejected approach is documented in place.
Epic #619.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Owner feedback from testing: a scan button living only inside the public
key field is awkward placement, because scanning is how most people will
actually add someone and it should not be reachable only from inside a
field they have to open first.
Now in both places, routed to the right thing:
- Contacts overflow menu, Scan contact QR, opens the scanner and hands
the result to the add dialog already populated. Nothing to paste.
- The key field keeps its scan button, which fills in place, for when
the dialog is already open.
Same scanner and same parser either way; only the entry point differs.
The dialog gains an optional initialKeyText, and seeds it through the
same handler as a paste, so a scanned link populates name and type
rather than sitting there as raw text.
Platform availability moves to a shared contactQrScanAvailable getter on
the scanner screen, since it now has two consumers. Both the menu entry
and the field button hide on Windows and Linux, where mobile_scanner has
no support and the render half is the desktop path.
Epic #619.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The composer GIF button becomes a +, opening a short picker with GIF and
My contact card. Owner decision after seeing the build: one affordance
beside the text entry rather than a button per attachable thing, because
the sendable set stays small when a channel message shares a 160-byte
payload with the Sender: prefix.
Sends the COMPACT format, not the meshcore:// URI:
<{64-hex key}:{type}:{name}>
That shape was observed on the live mesh, twice, from different senders
in #test and #hamradio four weeks apart. It costs about 75 bytes against
117 for the equivalent URI, so on a 160-byte budget the difference is
airtime rather than tidiness. The URI form stays correct for a QR, a DM,
or an out-of-band paste; this is the channel idiom.
Angle brackets are stripped from an emitted name because they are the
delimiters, and a name carrying one would truncate the payload for every
parser reading it. A colon is left alone: the name is the final field,
so a correct parser splits on the first two colons and takes the rest.
Inserts into the composer rather than sending, matching the GIF picker,
so the card can be captioned and reviewed first. It appends, so a
caption already typed is not destroyed.
Parsing a received share is #610 and is not in this change, so an
inbound card still renders as raw text for now.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a calm three-state indicator beside each contact name, per the
owner steer: a green check for advert-verified, a neutral outline check
for key-confirmed, a muted key for key-only. No amber and no hazard
glyph, because nothing is wrong with a key-added contact. The scale
reads as how much we know, never as how risky.
The states are not cosmetic:
- advertVerified: a signed advert arrived, so the node itself asserted
its name, type and position, and the raw packet is stored, which is
also what makes the contact re-shareable.
- keyConfirmed: a message with this contact went through. Direct
messages are encrypted with an ECDH secret derived from the contact
key, and the ACK is computed over the decrypted plaintext
(BaseChatMesh.cpp:442,451), so this is proof the holder of the
matching private key is live. It does NOT prove the person is who the
name claims.
- keyOnly: someone supplied a key and nothing has confirmed it on air.
Costs almost nothing to compute. Contact.isAdvertVerified falls out of
the epoch last_advert_timestamp that #627 already writes, and it clears
itself when a real advert rewrites the field. The advert check runs
first so only an unconfirmed contact pays for a message scan, which
keeps a long contact list cheap.
Also fixes a defect the epoch sentinel introduced: _formatLastSeen ran
the epoch through the relative formatter and claimed a key-added contact
was last seen tens of thousands of days ago. It now reads Not heard yet.
Epic #619.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both halves of the visual exchange, sharing one format and one parser.
Render: showMyContactQrDialog puts this device's own identity on screen
as a QR plus the same link as selectable, copyable text. It refuses to
render when not connected, since an empty key would encode a QR nobody
can add.
Scan: ContactQrScannerScreen validates with Contact.isValidShareUri, the
same check the paste path uses, and pops the raw string. The add dialog
routes a scan through the same handler as a paste, so a QR gets no
separate code path.
The scan affordance is gated to platforms mobile_scanner supports
(Android, iOS, macOS, web). On Windows and Linux the QR half is the
render side, which is the better desktop flow anyway: put your code on
the big screen and let the other person scan it with a phone.
Fixes a real defect found by the new test, not a test artifact:
QrCodeDisplay built its QrImageView through a LayoutBuilder, which
cannot answer intrinsic dimension queries, so any intrinsic-measuring
parent threw. AlertDialog measures its content's max intrinsic height,
so the dialog crashed on open. The QR is now bounded by a tight
SizedBox, which answers the intrinsic itself. This was the widget's
first real call site, so the bug had never been exercised.
Entry point is provisional alongside Add by key; #632 reorganises.
Epic #619.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
First user-reachable piece of the identity exchange. A dialog takes a
public key, a name and a contact type, and hands the stub to
addContactByKey.
The key field also accepts a whole meshcore://contact/add link and
absorbs every field from it, because that is what someone actually
pastes, and a QR is only that link rendered visually. Whitespace is
stripped so a key copied across a line break still works.
The stub is built by round-tripping through buildShareUri and
fromShareUri rather than constructing a Contact directly, so manual
entry and a scanned QR cannot drift apart. One code path, one set of
invariants.
An informational note states plainly that the contact is not confirmed
on air and that the name is whatever the user typed until the node
adverts. Deliberately informational rather than a warning: nothing is
wrong with a key-added contact (#630).
Entry point is provisional, sitting in the contacts overflow menu so the
feature is reachable. The proper add-contact surface, split away from the
advert affordance, is #632 under epic #623.
Five widget tests pin what reaches the connector: key, typed name,
chosen type, the flood sentinel, and the epoch lastSeen that keeps the
firmware replay guard from muting the contact. Also covered: pasted-link
prefill, wrapped-key whitespace, an invalid key sending nothing, and the
missing-name fallback.
Epic #619.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds MeshCoreConnector.addContactByKey, the device-side half of the
identity exchange. It uses the stock CMD_ADD_UPDATE_CONTACT (command 9),
whose handler creates the contact outright when the public key is
unknown. Verified byte-identical to upstream meshcore-dev/MeshCore at
0679dbef, so this needs no capability gate and works on stock firmware,
not only Offband builds.
buildUpdateContactPathFrame gains an optional lastAdvert. It defaults to
now, leaving all three existing path-update callers byte-identical, and
addContactByKey passes the epoch.
That epoch is the whole point. The firmware compares this field against
every incoming advert with 'timestamp <= last_advert_timestamp' and
silently discards the non-greater ones as replay attacks
(BaseChatMesh.cpp:142-145). Advert timestamps come from the sender's
clock, and two nodes on this mesh currently advertise with 2024 clocks,
so stamping now would leave a key-added contact permanently deaf to its
own adverts. A negative input clamps to zero rather than wrapping to a
huge value, which would be the worst case for that guard.
The frame is sent at full length with the 0xFF flood sentinel. The
firmware length guard is only 'len >= 36' but updateContactFromFrame
reads through offset 136 regardless (MyMesh.cpp:295-318), so the frame
must never be trimmed. A test pins that too.
Local state keeps lastSeen at the epoch so the contact reads as
unverified until a real advert upgrades it (#630).
Epic #619.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds Contact.toShareUri and the static Contact.buildShareUri, the inverse
of #625's parser. Emitting the reference-app format is what makes an
Offband card or QR importable by a stock, non-Offband user.
buildShareUri takes raw parts rather than a Contact so the local device
can share its OWN identity, which is a public key plus a node name and
never a Contact instance.
Spaces are percent-encoded rather than emitted as '+'. Both decode to a
space, and this matches Channel.toShareUri, which the codebase already
documents as round-tripping with the reference app's QR (#161).
Tests cover the emitted parameter shape, the companion default, and
round-tripping through fromShareUri for names with spaces, emoji and
reserved characters. A raw & or = in a name would otherwise truncate or
forge query parameters, so that case is pinned explicitly.
Epic #619.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds Contact.fromShareUri / isValidShareUri for the reference-app format
documented in firmware docs/qr_codes.md:
meshcore://contact/add?name=<url-encoded>&public_key=<64 hex>&type=<1-4>
The payload is a bare public key, not a signed advert, so the parsed
Contact is an identity stub: no path, no position, no rawPacket. A QR is
this same URI rendered visually, so scanning will share this parser.
lastSeen is deliberately the epoch rather than DateTime.now(). It maps to
the firmware's last_advert_timestamp, which the advert handler compares
with 'timestamp <= last_advert_timestamp' and treats as a replay attack
(BaseChatMesh.cpp:142-145). Stamping now would leave the contact
permanently deaf to its own adverts, since advert timestamps come from
the sender's clock and two nodes on this mesh currently advertise with
2024 clocks. A regression test pins this.
The fork's older meshcore://<raw advert hex> form returns null here, so
callers keep routing it to the existing advert import path.
Epic #619. Not yet wired to the UI: the import path needs the send half
(#627) before there is anything to add.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Channel frames carry no key, so the sender name is resolved against known
and discovered contacts. Adds resolveContactsByName (returning Contacts,
which importDiscoveredContact needs) and rebuilds resolveContactKeysByName
on top of it so one matching rule serves both.
The avatar is the shortcut; the sender name stays inert because it sits too
close to the message body to hit reliably on a phone. Long-press keeps every
action it had and gains the same contact rows. A name several nodes claim
lists all of them, and an unheard name says so instead of failing silently.
1. An unprefixed reply no longer resolves an arbitrary pending command.
#532 constrained prefixed replies only; the unprefixed fallback still
used firstWhere, which with two or more in flight is map-iteration
order, so a caller could receive another command's output. The
fallback cannot just be deleted: firmware only echoes the prefix when
the command exceeds four characters including it
(simple_repeater/MyMesh.cpp, strlen(command) > 4 && command[2] == '|'),
so a very short command legitimately answers without one. It now
resolves only when exactly one command is pending, and surfaces the
ambiguity otherwise.
2. A late reply no longer overwrites unsaved edits. The settings screen
applied a late `get` payload unconditionally, so a reply arriving after
its timeout could revert a field the user had typed into while waiting.
It now applies only when nothing is dirty, and says which happened.
3. _expiredCommands is pruned on timeout as well as on receive. It was
pruned only in handleResponse, so a run of commands that all time out
with no traffic coming back accumulated records until disposal.
The reviewer described 3 as unbounded growth. It is bounded at 256 by the
prefix token space, and stale records could never be mis-attributed
because handleResponse prunes before matching, so the severity was
overstated. Fixed anyway; it is nearly free.
A fourth finding, that the new l10n strings are untranslated in the other
17 locales, is rejected. That is this project's established pipeline:
strings are authored in app_en.arb, gen-l10n emits English fallbacks, and
untranslated.json tracks the gap, which it now does for these keys. Every
string in the app arrived this way, so it is not a defect this branch
introduces.
The ambiguity test was verified to fail against the pre-fix code.
The flood arm read as though the model were consulted:
if (pathLength < 0) {
// Flood: trust ML, only enforce firmware formula as floor
if (mlTimeout < physicsMin) return physicsMin;
}
return mlTimeout.clamp(physicsMin, physicsMax);
It never did that. _physicsMinTimeout and _physicsMaxTimeout return the
identical expression for pathLength < 0, mirroring the firmware's
calcFloodTimeoutMillisFor, so a clamp between them cannot preserve a
prediction. Whichever way control went, flood returned 500 + 16 * airtime.
The comment described behaviour the code did not have, which is exactly
the kind of load-bearing false comment that re-causes a bug later.
Replaced with an explicit early return and the constraint written down.
Behaviour is unchanged.
Equivalence is tested, not asserted. A new group attaches a real
TimeoutPredictionService, trains it on 40-56 s delivery times so any
prediction is far from 1300, and checks flood is unmoved while a direct
path is still clamped to its ceiling, which proves the clamp is live
rather than the predictor being absent. That group was run against the
pre-change branch and passes there too, so this is a simplification and
not a behaviour change.
Deliberately NOT decided here: whether flood should ever trust a
prediction. Every round trip measured to date was 0-hop direct, so there
is no flood data to decide it from. The verification needed to answer it
is written up on the issue.
Part of epic #473, stacked on #528, #529, #531 and #532.
handleResponse looked up the reply's prefix, and when that matched nothing
pending it fell through to "first pending command for this repeater". So a
straggler from an expired command could complete an unrelated in-flight
one, reporting one command's output as another command's result.
The service already carries a correlation token in every command and every
reply echoes it. The fallback discarded that. Now a reply that carries a
prefix is only ever matched to the prefix's owner; if there is no owner it
goes to the unmatched handling added in #528, where an expired command is
still named. Only a reply with no prefix at all, which has no correlation
token to honour, may fall back to matching by repeater.
Not reachable from today's callers: all four pass retries: 1 and the
settings refresh awaits each command, so two are never in flight to one
repeater. It becomes live the moment anything issues concurrent commands,
which any retry work would.
The two negative tests were verified to fail against the old logic and
pass against the new, so they are a real guard rather than a restatement.
The two preservation tests pass either way by design.
_registerPending is extracted so the test seam and the real send path
cannot drift apart.
Part of epic #473, stacked on #528, #529 and #531.
The timer ran timeoutMs while the message printed
(timeoutMs / 1000).ceil(), so every window in (4000, 5000] announced
"timeout after 5 seconds". The owner's 0-hop window was 4074 ms and fired
at 4.07 s while claiming 5, which is what made the behaviour look
arbitrary rather than deterministic: the number shown was never the
number used.
The service now throws a typed RepeaterCommandTimeout carrying the window
that was actually armed, formatted to one decimal. Every existing caller
already stringifies the error, so all of them inherit an honest figure
without being touched; the CLI screen additionally renders it through a
new localized string rather than the generic error wrapper.
Tests pin that 4074 reports 4.1 rather than 5, that the new 28748 ms
budget reports 28.7 rather than 29, and that two windows inside the same
second no longer collapse to the same text, which was the defect's
signature.
Part of epic #473, stacked on #528 and #529.
The comment justified not modelling command execution time by claiming
`wifi on 30` does real work bringing up an interface. It does not. The
firmware handler sets a persistence deadline and sprintf's its reply
immediately (CommonCLI.cpp, "wifi on"), so execution is near-instant.
The owner caught it: he recalled reissuing the command several times
against on-screen errors, not one command taking 20 seconds.
The measurement supports him. On the 20.33 s case the reply carried
claimed=01:56:32 against a command sent at 01:56:26.938, and the RF frame
did not reach our radio until 01:56:47.271979. So roughly 5 s to reach the
repeater and be answered, then roughly 15 s in its transmit queue. The
tail is scheduling on both radios.
No behaviour change. The budget is unchanged and still has to tolerate a
20.33 s round trip; only the stated reason was wrong, and a wrong reason
in a load-bearing comment re-causes the bug later.
The CLI timeout used calculateTimeout, which mirrors the firmware's
calcDirectTimeoutMillisFor and estimates ONE-WAY delivery. A CLI command
is a request, an execution and a reply, so the budget was structurally
short.
Measured against rpt-01 on 910.525 MHz / SF7 / BW 62.5k / CR 4:5, where
the old window was 4074 ms: 27 commands sent, 12 replies matched, and 4
of those 12 arrived after the client had already given up, at 6.17 s,
8.28 s, 15.52 s and 20.33 s against a median of 2.75 s.
calculateCliTimeout sums four terms, each with a source rather than a
chosen value:
outbound leg calculateTimeout, which is what it actually models
cliReplyDelayMs 600, firmware CLI_REPLY_DELAY_MILLIS, unconditional
reply leg the reply is a second packet the ACK formula omits
retrieval budget replies are pull-based; the radio raises MSG_WAITING
and the app must ask, granting itself 5000 ms per
attempt across 3 retries
The retrieval term is derived from the sync constants rather than
restated, so the command timeout cannot drift below the layer it depends
on. That is the #530 invariant holding by construction, not by two
numbers being maintained in agreement.
Execution time is deliberately not modelled. The same verb, wifi on 30,
returned in both 2.31 s and 20.33 s, so it is not a per-command constant
that could be tabulated. The retrieval term carries that tail.
The reply leg uses physics only. The predictor is trained on
direct-message ACK latency, so asking it about a CLI reply leg would be
extrapolation; that is #534 and #535, not this change.
Tests cover the construction, the never-below-retrieval invariant, growth
with path length, coverage of the 20.33 s worst case actually observed,
and negatively that the direct-message ACK path is untouched.
Part of epic #473. Does not change the reported duration string (#531)
or the stale-prefix fallback (#532), and does nothing for commands that
draw no reply at all (#541).
A repeater reply that arrived after its command's window closed hit
`if (commandId.isEmpty) return;` in RepeaterCommandService.handleResponse
and was dropped with no log and no UI. Since the command timeout can be
shorter than the app's own message-retrieval budget, that made "the
command ran but the response was never reported" the normal outcome
rather than an edge case, and it affected every repeater screen, not
just the CLI one.
RepeaterCommandService now remembers a timed-out command's prefix for two
minutes, so a reply arriving afterwards can be attributed to the request
it answers. Replies that reach no waiting command are handed to a new
onUnmatchedResponse sink and logged through appLogger. No path through
handleResponse returns without either completing a command, surfacing the
payload, or logging why it could not.
The CLI screen renders these as a distinct history entry naming the
original command and how late it was. The settings screen applies the
value if it is a `get` reply and tells the user it arrived late.
repeater_status_screen already parsed responses independently of the
service, so it had no silent-loss path to fix.
Part of epic #473. Does not change the timeout window itself (#529),
the reported duration (#531), or the stale-prefix fallback (#532).
extractScalarValue required ' = ' (space-equals-space) and trimRight()'d first,
so a blank field's reply 'key =' (no space after =) failed the match and the
whole 'mqtt.broker.N.field =' line leaked in as the value. Split on the first
'=' and trim instead: blank -> empty, values with '=' preserved. Regression
tests added.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Badge stays observers-primary; tooltip/long-press now read 'N observers . M
observations' so they reconcile with CoreScope's 'Observations (N)' feed (the
two are distinct metrics: 15 distinct observers vs 34 total sightings). Refresh
feedback moved from a bottom snackbar to an auto-dismissed top MaterialBanner,
out of the way of the composer. Part of #524.
Agent: QuietSnow (session 31eaba02)
Unifies the previously-duplicated send timestamps (frame builder vs outgoing
message each called now() separately) into one monotonic-per-channel value, so
every channel send has a unique (ts, channel_idx) key. That is the client-side
guarantee the 0xC6 correlation needs (VioletBarn caught that AES-128-ECB
determinism would otherwise make two same-second messages a wrong-hash query).
Adds transient onAirHash + coreScopeObserverCount to ChannelMessage. Part of #524.
Agent: QuietSnow (session 31eaba02)
Builder/parser for the client-issued 0xC6 CMD_OFFBAND_PKT_HASH query (per
firmware #611 contract) and firmwareSupportsPktHash (cap2 0x08 + ver >= 22).
Inert until firmware advertises the capability. Part of epic #524.
Agent: QuietSnow (session 31eaba02)
Best-effort GET /api/packets?hash=H&groupByHash=true against a CoreScope
instance (default map.okimesh.org); returns observer_count or null. Never
throws, so the chat UI degrades silently to radio-only when offline or the
hash is unknown. Part of epic #524.
Agent: QuietSnow (session 31eaba02)
7 taps on the About version row (rolling ~3s window) reveal a neutral
'Experimental' settings category; persisted on AppSettings, survives
restart, re-hidden from a switch inside the section. Empty of toggles
for now (Fast Sync #118, CoreScope #524 land into it later).
Countdown snackbars after tap 4; already-unlocked feedback. Version-text
tap is absorbed so it counts without opening the About dialog.
Agent: QuietSnow (session 31eaba02)
Children of #471 (parent stays open for AAB hardware validation, #507).
The block list was one global unscoped list on the phone, unioned onto
every radio on connect. A stale block for one of the owner's own radios
therefore rode onto every fresh/erased radio, and clearing a radio never
stuck: any other radio still holding it re-seeded the global list on
connect, which re-pushed it back.
- #505 block_store.dart: scope keys/names by connected device key (like
the app's other stores); dropLegacyGlobal() deletes the legacy
block_keys_v1/block_names_v1 (drop-and-start-fresh, owner-approved).
No global list.
- #505 block_service.dart: load() drops the legacy global and starts
empty; loadForDevice(deviceKey) swaps the in-memory set per radio and
runs the #250 self-heal. All mutating ops serialized through a Future
chain so loadForDevice and importKeys (different connector frame
handlers, both unawaited) cannot interleave and wipe each other.
- #506 meshcore_connector.dart: the device-key hook loads the connected
radio's list, so the offload union reconciles within that one radio.
Existing radio-side firmware blocks left untouched (no auto-CLEAR on
migration, owner-approved). Tests: per-radio isolation, clear-sticks
across reconnect, legacy-drop, disconnect-clears, load/import race.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A transient upstream 503 (e.g. Hugging Face) hard-failed the model download and
surfaced it as an error (#229). The download requests (HEAD, single GET, range
GET) now go through sendModelDownloadWithRetry: 5xx/429 responses and network
exceptions retry with bounded exponential backoff (1..30s, <=5 attempts, honors
Retry-After, cancellable); terminal 4xx (e.g. 404) fail immediately. The retry
logic is a pure injectable top-level function, unit-tested (503-then-200,
persistent-503, 404-no-retry, network-exception, cancel).
Manual retry after a sustained failure is the existing "Download model" button
(re-invokes the download); no new UI added. Build of epic #422.
Switching radios showed the previous radio's channel history (including
its outgoing messages) on the new radio. The in-memory caches
_channelMessages, _conversations, and _loadedConversationKeys are keyed
by channel index / contact key, not by radio, and were never cleared on
a switch; a new radio's empty store could not overwrite them
(_loadChannelMessages only writes on a non-empty read). On-disk stores
are already per-radio (device+PSK since #277), so no re-keying or
migration is needed.
Clear the three caches in _resetConnectionHandshakeState (runs at the
start of every connect). loadAllChannelMessages and _loadMessagesForContact
repopulate from the new radio's store. Adds a regression test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Client UI for the button-action matrix (#474) and the device notification
scope (#475), under Settings > Node Settings.
Speaks the canonical 0xC5 contract published by firmware in
OffbandConfigProtocol.h: one command byte, sub-code selects the surface
(0x01/0x02 scope get/set, 0x03/0x04 matrix get/set, 0x7F error). Not
folded into 0xC0, which is observer-only and would make the feature
unreachable on the headless trackers it exists for.
- Notification scope All/Self/None, labelled as this radio's buzzer and
kept distinct from the per-channel app notify mode. Re-read on open and
on every device-info refresh so a scope changed by triple-pressing the
device is never shown stale.
- Button actions per press sequence, assignable only from the action set
the DEVICE reports via its supported-actions mask, so a board with no
buzzer or no GPS never offers a choice it would refuse. Single press
defaults to unassigned.
- Long press is deliberately not assignable. Firmware owns it for CLI
rescue and power off, and remapping it could leave a screenless board
unrecoverable.
- Failures show the device's own reason via the firmware-owned reason
codes, not a generic error, and the banner persists until dismissed.
An unrecognised reason is surfaced with its raw code rather than
swallowed.
- State only ever follows the device's reply, never the request, so the
UI can never show an assignment the radio rejected and nothing is
faked or stored unacknowledged.
- A radio advertising neither capability bit gets a diagnosis, its raw
caps byte 2 and an explicit statement that no command will be sent,
rather than a blank screen that is indistinguishable from a bug.
caps2 bit assignment is firmware-confirmed: 0x01 notification scope, set
only where PIN_BUZZER is defined, 0x02 button matrix. That is the reverse
of the order the epics were filed in, so it cannot be inferred from issue
numbers.
21 protocol tests: gating, frame encoding, a lying count byte, unknown
sequence/action/scope codes, truncated and foreign frames, reason-code
mapping, and that no sequence models a long press.
NOT YET EXERCISED AGAINST A DEVICE. The firmware 0xC5 handler is written
but unmerged, so until it answers, a read shows its loading row and a
write is not confirmed. Hardware validation of the pair is the owner's
gate and has not happened.
Full suite 740 pass, analyze clean, format clean.
Epic: #474, #475
Agent: CalmBay (session d14220d9)
Two defects the adversarial review found, both verified before accepting.
1. `label` trimmed the name for display while the token stayed raw, so
two contacts differing only by surrounding whitespace rendered as
identical rows with no way to tell which one was about to be
addressed. That hides the exact identity #497 exists to preserve.
Display now defaults to the raw name.
2. Candidate deduplication used String.toLowerCase() while matching uses
the ASCII fold. Verified empirically: 'É' and 'é' compare equal under
toLowerCase and unequal under foldAscii, so of two real contacts one
silently vanished from the mention list while remaining matchable.
foldAscii is now public and is the single equivalence rule used for
both dedup and matching.
Regression tests added for both.
Full suite 719 pass, analyze clean, format clean.
Agent: CalmBay (session d14220d9)
Adds parseOffbandCaps2 alongside the existing tail-byte helpers, a
_offbandCaps2 field plus getter, and byte 2 in the device-info
capability log line.
Byte 2 sits at offset 84, deliberately NOT adjacent to byte 1 at 82:
offset 83 is already the FEM LNA state byte and every tail field is read
at a fixed absolute offset, so an adjacent insert would shift the FEM
state and make shipped clients misread a bitmask as the LNA toggle.
Firmware appends it at the end of the frame for that reason.
Absence is "no byte-2 capabilities", never an error, so any radio
predating the firmware change reads null and behaves unchanged.
No bit constants yet: byte-2 bits 0 and 1 are earmarked for firmware
epics but neither is claimed, so nothing gates on them here.
Wire contract from OffbandMesh/meshcore-firmware PR #515 (branch
feat/508-caps-byte2, commit 7664c29f). That PR is open pending this
client-side validation, tracked at #481.
Epic: #474
Agent: CalmBay (session d14220d9)
Owner ruling 2026-08-01. Mention autocomplete trimmed the contact name
when building the @[...] token while the device stores and matches it
byte-for-byte, so any name with leading or trailing whitespace was
unmentionable and never beeped. Confirmed on the wire: the contact
record keeps the 0x20, the outgoing mention drops it.
@[...] is a wire token, not display text. Entry, firmware memcpy,
advert encode, advert parse and the contact record are all verbatim by
design; this trim was the only transformation applied to a node name
anywhere, and it changed the identity of the addressee.
- MentionCandidate now separates the two concerns: `name` is raw and
goes on the wire, `label` is display-only and may be tidied. The
const constructor is preserved, so existing const call sites still
compile.
- The candidate builder keeps sender and contact names raw. Emptiness is
probed on a trimmed copy; the stored value is untouched.
- _mentionsSelf drops its own trim as a direct consequence: a raw token
requires a raw comparison, or this node stops recognising mentions of
its own name.
- Contract clause written at both the insertion site and _mentionsSelf,
stating the token is byte-for-byte and that a future .trim() tidy-up
is forbidden. The contract was silent on raw vs normalised, which is
why both sides were reasonable and incompatible.
Deliberately out of scope per the ruling: no entry-side trim in
settings_screen. It fixes no deployed name and would silently alter
deliberate spacing.
Test updated to assert the new truth: ' Ben ' does NOT match @[Ben],
and DOES match @[ Ben ]. Full suite 732 pass, analyze clean.
Agent: CalmBay (session d14220d9)
_mentionsSelf folded with String.toLowerCase(), which applies full
Unicode case mapping. Firmware adopts this same match rule with a
byte-wise fold that does not, so a node name carrying any non-ASCII
character could produce one self-mention verdict on the client and the
opposite on the device for the same message. A silent wrong answer, not
a visible failure.
Owner decision 2026-07-31: both sides fold ASCII A-Z only, so non-ASCII
names compare case-sensitively.
Extracts the rule into a testable static (mentionsName) and documents it
as a cross-repo contract: widening it, whether by accepting a bare
@name, restoring Unicode folding, or anchoring the match, is a breaking
change that ships only in an aligned client and firmware build pair.
Behaviour change: notifications for non-ASCII node names go from
case-insensitive to case-sensitive. Deliberate, per the decision above.
Epic: #475
Agent: CalmBay (session d14220d9)
resolvePathSelection returned no width and, on the override branch, a byte
count in place of a hop count. preparePathForContactSend then called
setContactPath without a width, so encodePathLen packed mode bits 00 and a
2-byte route went out as twice as many 1-byte hops (path_len 0x06 for a
6-hop 2-byte route instead of 0x46). The radio routed on wrong 1-byte
prefixes, confirmed on Bandit's 2026-08-01 log and via CoreScope. Direct
and flood were immune because neither uses the path bytes.
PathSelection now carries hashWidth and a true hop count on every branch,
using the contact's pathHashWidth as the single width authority. Both
setContactPath call sites thread it. Also addresses the override timeout
inflation half of #299 (hopCount was a byte count feeding calculateTimeout).
Gemini review found two override/history width edge cases -> split to #494.
Refs #299
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-up to #457. Swept the em-dash character (U+2014) out of the test
tree (test descriptions and comments) and cleaned 8 em-dashes that
landed in lib comments via the #456 refactor after #457 merged, so the
tree is back to zero. Same rules: replaced with commas/colons/periods,
preserved the lone "no data" glyph placeholders, left non-English ARB
untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Profile is now a container of capability-scoped sections (schema_version 2):
- wifi (WifiConfig) — any wifi device
- mqtt (MqttSection = region + status_interval + brokers) — observer capability
so MQTT is defined once and shared by observer / observer-repeater /
observer-companion, never redone per device. Future radio/repeater/companion/
display sections slot in alongside.
Parser reads the sectioned YAML and rejects the old flat v1 layout with a clear
message. Enumerator reads from sections but emits the SAME firmware keys, so
apply/diff/screens are unchanged. 45 config-profile tests updated + green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ben's style rule: no em-dash character in copy, docs, or code comments
(it reads as an AI tell), and the repo is going public. Replaced the
em-dashes in code comments and English UI strings with commas, colons,
or periods, whichever reads best. User-facing strings were hand-tuned
for natural punctuation rather than a blanket comma.
Preserved the lone "no data" glyph placeholders (a standalone dash used
as a not-available indicator in status displays); those are a design
element, not prose.
Regenerated app_localizations*.dart from app_en.arb (the English
fallback for untranslated keys propagates to every locale's generated
file). Non-English ARB translations left untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Firmware #465 now writes RX RSSI into reserved2 (byte[3]) of the v3
contact-msg-recv frame as a clamped int8 dBm, 0 when unset
(MyMesh.cpp:550-551). Read it in the parse instead of skipping: gate on
!= 0 (RSSI is always negative for a real RX, so 0 = no data), null for
device-composed outgoing messages.
reserved1 (byte[2]) is untouched — that's #429's outgoing flag; RSSI
lives in byte[3] after the res1/res2 collision fix (#464/#465).
The Message.rssi field, persistence, param-passing, and the (hidden-
while-null) RSSI row on the Packet Path screen were all staged in #438,
so this is just the wire read + 3 gate tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Smaz is a client-side text convention with no MeshCore protocol or firmware
support (findings: GH-315). When enabled it compressed ordinary prose into
`s:`+base64, which any non-lineage client renders as garbage — the same
cross-client interop failure as the old `g:<code>` GIF token.
Phase 1 of the Smaz-removal epic (GH-314): stop sending Smaz and remove the
user-facing surface, while KEEPING decode so messages from lineage peers still
on Smaz, and any legacy compressed rows, keep rendering. Decode removal is
deferred to Phase 2 (GH-421).
Removed: the Smaz branch in prepareContact/ChannelOutboundText (Cyr2Lat branch
and the structured-payload guard preserved); connector state/API (the enabled
maps, is*/set*SmazEnabled, ensureContactSmazSettingLoaded, the warm-up and
channel loaders); the per-channel and per-contact toggles plus their
mutual-exclusion; loadSmazEnabled/saveSmazEnabled and the `*_smaz_` key prefixes
(stores kept, they also hold Cyr2Lat); l10n `channels_smazCompression` and the
orphaned `chat_compressOutgoingMessages` across 18 locales (+ regenerated
app_localizations).
Retained for Phase 2: the 5 Smaz.tryDecodePrefixed decode sites and
helpers/smaz.dart.
Safety (verified): no storage migration, the app already persists plaintext
(receive decodes before store; send stores the pre-compression text), so the
`s:` form was wire-only. ACK matching is unaffected, the expected hash derives
from prepare*'s output, so dropping compression keeps both sides hashing
plaintext.
Behavior change: the composer byte-counter now reflects raw size, so anyone who
had Smaz on can type slightly fewer chars per message.
Tests: gif_url_outbound_guard_test rewritten to pin plaintext passthrough and
decode retention. Full suite green, analyze clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- config_profile_diff.dart: pure current->new diff builder (add/change,
drops no-ops, flags danger + secret rows). 4 tests.
- splitProfileWrites: partitions writes into safe vs credential/identity for
the two-tier apply; a mixed broker splits, enabled rides the safe half only.
- ConfigProfilePreviewScreen: full sub-screen — reads current state, renders
the diff (amber overwrites, red danger section), normal Apply for plain
config + a separate red gate (with confirm dialog listing exactly which
credential/identity values change) for the danger set. Secrets masked.
Re-diffs after apply for partial-save recovery.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Device-agnostic write enumerator (config_profile_writes.dart): a profile ->
ordered flat writes + per-broker field maps. Skips null/empty (never clobbers),
skips jwt_token (live-minted), holds enabled out for last-write, flags the
danger set (username/password/jwt_owner/jwt_email + wifi.pwd) for #406's gate.
Observer executor (observer_apply_service.dart): flats via setFlat, brokers via
the existing saveBroker (disable-first, fields, enabled LAST, stop-on-error
partial-safe #80); reads current enabled to preserve it when a profile omits it.
Result labels name keys/slots only, never values (no secret leak).
8 enumerator tests. Executor is thin orchestration over the tested service;
end-to-end covered by #408 hardware.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Strycher