The BLE/USB self-info retry was an unbounded 3.5s hammer -- the Web path caps at
3 and skips while syncing; BLE had neither. On a slow device handshake it churned
the connect and starved the contact sync, hanging the contact-load bar. Inherited
from upstream zjs81/meshcore-open (git blame; zero Offband commits).
- Replace the unbounded 3.5s Timer.periodic with a self-rescheduling backoff:
3.5s -> 7 -> 14 -> 28 -> 56s, then a steady ~60s keep-alive. Never hard-stops --
a slow/recovering device still gets prompted.
- Add the Web path's skip-while-syncing guard on BLE (per-tick skip, never
permanent: the timer keeps rescheduling, so a settled sync lets the next tick
send).
- Decisions extracted as pure, tested helpers: nextAppStartRetryDelay(attempt)
and shouldSendAppStartRetry({connected, awaitingSelfInfo, syncing}).
- Disconnect teardown (Gemini's amendment) was already present (:2501 / :2374).
Gemini plan-review: Proceed, no blockers. 6 new helper tests; full suite 299 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The firmware answers RESP_CODE_ERR for an empty/invalid channel index, but
_handleErrorFrame never advanced the in-flight channel sync. So every empty slot
waited out the 2s timeout + 3 retries (~8s each): a device with a few populated
channels out of a large capacity took minutes to sync (~40 slots requested, ~29
empty -> ~4 min) before the real channels (which answer CHANNEL_INFO) finally
synced in the last couple seconds.
Now an ERR that lands while a channel GET is in flight (and no generic-ack
command is waiting -- that one is order-correlated to the ERR first) advances to
the next slot immediately, mirroring the CHANNEL_INFO success path minus adding
a channel. The decision is pinned as a pure static predicate and tested,
matching the connector's existing decision-helper test convention.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Gemini MAJOR #4 (offset unverified / short-frame robustness):
- Offset VERIFIED against firmware MyMesh.cpp: the device-info tail is three
consecutive out_frame[i++] writes -- client_repeat@80, path_hash_mode@81,
offband_caps@82. Bytes 80/81 are shipping (path-hash), so caps@82 is correct
by adjacency, not a guess.
- Extracted MeshCoreConnector.parseOffbandCaps (pure, bounds-checked) so the
guard + offset are unit-testable; _handleDeviceInfo delegates to it.
- 4 tests pin: pre-v14 short frame -> null, len-83 reads byte 82 verbatim,
observer bit round-trips supportsConfig, hostile truncated frames never OOB.
Live observer node confirms end-to-end at G2.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
11 tests for ObserverConfigClient / BrokerListDecoder. 9 green (builders,
response parsing, happy-path decode, malformed-NUL, garbage-numeric, stray-KV).
2 RED BY DESIGN, documenting the Gemini findings to be fixed by C1 (#72):
- DoS: BrokerListDecoder retains 256 slots from a hostile BROKER_KV flood
(must bound to brokerSlotCount=10).
- out-of-range slot 200 is stored (must be dropped).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DirectRepeater.ranking added recencyScore (0..1.8M) to the SNR term (1000/dB), so recency dominated (~1 dB == 1 second), contradicting the comment that recency only breaks ties. Scale recency to a 0-999 bonus so SNR (1000/dB) is primary and recency only decides sub-dB ties.
Offset SNR by its floor (+32; SX126x SNR spans -32..+31.75 dB) so every live ranking stays >= 0, above the -1 stale sentinel; otherwise the scaled-down recency leaves live rankings negative and a stale repeater would outrank a live one.
Adds DirectRepeater.ranking tests: SNR-first, recency tie-break, stale=-1, live-always-outranks-stale.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The function emitted two consecutive 8-byte position blocks instead of
one, producing a frame 8 bytes longer than the documented layout. When
a caller passed lastModified, the firmware parsed the duplicated second
lat as the timestamp, giving wildly wrong "last seen" values on
imported contacts.
Delete the unconditional first block; keep the conditional block that
correctly skips the optional tail when neither location nor
lastModified is set, zero-fills position slots when only lastModified
is present, and appends the optional timestamp.
Adds test/connector/build_update_contact_path_frame_test.dart with
five cases covering all four optional-tail combinations plus the
fixed-point lat/lon encoding.
Fixes#427
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