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🚀 Offband MeshCore 1.8.0 is out. A channels release: your message history now belongs to the channel, not to whichever slot it sits in on your radio.
📱 And it's on iPhone. Offband MeshCore is now on the App Store (iOS 16.4 or newer): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/offband-meshcore/id6829124741. The App Store has 1.7.0 right now; 1.8.0 goes up once Apple has reviewed it.
⚠️ Heads up before updating. Older versions could keep a channel's messages hidden after the channel left your radio, and bring them back later. 1.8.0 doesn't. On its first full sync, it deletes stored history for any channel your radio no longer holds. Channels still on your radio are untouched. If a reflash wiped the radio's channel storage, the app spots it, keeps the history, and offers Restore to radio instead.
📡 Channels you can trust. History and unread counts follow the channel's key, so a channel that moves slots keeps them. Changing a channel's key asks whether to keep or delete its history. Adds can't overwrite another channel. Public always lives in slot 0, can't be deleted, and typing "public" as a hashtag gets you the real Public. An incomplete sync keeps your list and offers Retry sync.
🔔 Your radio's own settings (needs Offband firmware 1.7.0): choose per channel whether the radio itself beeps for everything, mentions only, or nothing, separately from your phone. Display and LED settings, including rotation for an upside-down screen. (On a T1000-E, QCC badge or Heltec T096, the Status LED switch still shows on firmware 1.7.0 but the radio won't take it; a later firmware release lets the app hide it.) Settings from 1.7.0 like GPS power save and custom tunes show up now too.
🔐 Also: set your radio's BLE pairing PIN, and Factory Reset from Settings (with a box to also clear that radio's data from the app).
🍎 macOS build now on every release, signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens like any other app. It lands on the release page once Apple's check finishes, which can trail the other downloads.
🔧 Fixes and polish. Radio-side blocks, Serial capture's radio log, CoreScope observer counts and observer settings no longer get hidden by a firmware version check. Share logs and About work without a radio, Bluetooth scan errors stay on screen, the OpenStreetMap credit is on every map, long menus scroll, and links next to @mentions are tappable. New text is English-only for now in other languages.
🐛 Known issues (full list in the release notes): a channel's phone notifications set to Off can still notify, a factory reset only clears the app data on the phone that sent it, and on a T1000-E the Position Reporting Interval says it saved when the radio refused it.
📥 Get it on Google Play: search Offband MeshCore, or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.offband.meshcore (rolling out in stages, so it may take a few days to reach you) 📱 iPhone, on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/offband-meshcore/id6829124741 (1.8.0 follows Apple's review) 💻 Desktop (Windows / macOS / Linux) and Android APK: https://github.com/OffbandMesh/meshcore-client/releases/tag/v1.8.0 🌐 Or run it in your browser: https://offband.app 📻 Offband firmware 1.7.0: https://github.com/OffbandMesh/meshcore-firmware/releases/tag/offband-v1.7.0
💚 Thanks as always to the OKIMesh community (https://okimesh.org/). Offband is open source and always will be; if you'd like to help keep it going: https://offband.org/donate