fix(mesh): report real RSSI/SNR for Reticulum peers instead of a fake 0

Every Reticulum-heard peer surfaced as rssi=0 — indistinguishable from a
real 0 dBm reading and, worse, from "heard over the TCP bridge with no
radio involved at all", which made a TCP-fed mesh look like working RF
during the 2026-08-16 radio diagnosis.

- Sidecar: announce handler now uses the 4-arg RNS dispatch to get the
  announce packet hash and reports per-announce rssi/snr from Reticulum's
  packet-stat cache; LXMF deliveries report message.rssi/snr/q (LXMF
  already populates them on direct RNode hops). All None over TCP or
  multi-hop — the honest RF-vs-internet discriminator.
- Rust: ReticulumPeer caches last_rssi/last_snr from announce and recv
  events (a TCP-relayed announce never blanks a real RF reading), and
  get_contacts surfaces them so refresh_contacts propagates real values.
- Identity discovery no longer hardcodes rssi 0: unknown is now None
  end-to-end and logged as such.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
archipelago
2026-08-16 04:52:04 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent 519fa68c72
commit 458444d700
4 changed files with 90 additions and 12 deletions
+9 -3
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@@ -507,7 +507,13 @@ pub(super) fn strip_ai_trigger(text: &str) -> Option<&str> {
#[allow(dead_code)]
pub(super) async fn handle_identity_received(
contact_id: u32,
rssi: i16,
// None = signal strength unknown at this layer (identity adverts arrive
// through the transport-agnostic channel path, which carries no phy
// stats). The periodic refresh_contacts pass fills in the real value for
// transports that report one; hardcoding 0 here made every discovery
// read as "0 dBm" — indistinguishable from a real (if implausible)
// reading and from "no radio at all" (2026-08-16).
rssi: Option<i16>,
did: &str,
ed_pubkey_hex: &str,
x25519_pubkey_hex: &str,
@@ -517,7 +523,7 @@ pub(super) async fn handle_identity_received(
info!(
contact_id,
did = %did,
rssi,
rssi = ?rssi,
"Archipelago peer discovered over mesh"
);
@@ -592,7 +598,7 @@ pub(super) async fn handle_identity_received(
// (which rewrites pubkey_hex to the firmware routing key) can't drop it.
arch_pubkey_hex: Some(ed_pubkey_hex.to_string()),
x25519_pubkey: Some(x25519_bytes),
rssi: Some(rssi),
rssi,
snr: None,
last_heard: chrono::Utc::now().to_rfc3339(),
hops: 0,
+1 -1
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@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ async fn handle_channel_payload(
let contact_id = super::super::federation_peer_contact_id(&ed_hex);
handle_identity_received(
contact_id,
0,
None,
&did,
&ed_hex,
&x_hex,
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@@ -294,6 +294,13 @@ struct ReticulumPeer {
/// In-memory only (a persisted value would be stale by definition) —
/// `0` after a restart until the peer re-announces.
last_advert_at: u64,
/// Signal stats of the last announce/message heard from this peer.
/// `Some` only for direct RNode (RF) receptions — the sidecar reports
/// `null` for TCP interfaces and multi-hop relays, which is exactly the
/// RF-vs-internet discriminator the UI needs (a TCP-fed mesh used to
/// surface every peer as rssi=0 and look like working RF, 2026-08-16).
last_rssi: Option<i16>,
last_snr: Option<f32>,
}
/// On-disk shape of `ReticulumPeer` — `[u8; 16]` can't be a JSON object key,
@@ -619,6 +626,8 @@ impl ReticulumLink {
// start conservative and let the first real event refresh it.
reachable: false,
last_advert_at: 0,
last_rssi: None,
last_snr: None,
},
);
}
@@ -854,12 +863,13 @@ impl ReticulumLink {
// which has no Reticulum analogue (always true, tracked
// elsewhere via `take_rx_encrypted`), so leave it false here.
pkc_capable: false,
// RSSI/SNR/position are Meshtastic-only for now (see the
// Meshtastic 1.8.0 backlog plan) — RNS doesn't expose
// per-packet signal quality through LXMF, and there's no
// Reticulum position-sharing convention wired up.
rssi: None,
snr: None,
// Signal stats from the last direct RNode reception (the
// sidecar reports them per announce/message; None over TCP
// or multi-hop, which is the honest answer there). Position
// stays Meshtastic-only — no Reticulum position-sharing
// convention is wired up.
rssi: p.last_rssi,
snr: p.last_snr,
lat: None,
lon: None,
arch_pubkey_hex: p.arch_pubkey_hex.clone(),
@@ -1057,6 +1067,16 @@ impl ReticulumLink {
let announced_name =
pick_announced_name(explicit_name, app_data_text, is_legacy_blob);
// Per-announce signal stats from the sidecar: real numbers on
// a direct RNode reception, null over TCP or multi-hop. Only
// overwrite the cached value when the sidecar reports one —
// an announce relayed over TCP must not blank out the last
// real RF reading.
let rssi = ev
.get("rssi")
.and_then(Value::as_i64)
.and_then(|v| i16::try_from(v).ok());
let snr = ev.get("snr").and_then(Value::as_f64).map(|v| v as f32);
let now = std::time::SystemTime::now()
.duration_since(std::time::UNIX_EPOCH)
.unwrap_or_default()
@@ -1072,6 +1092,12 @@ impl ReticulumLink {
if arch_pubkey_hex.is_some() {
p.arch_pubkey_hex = arch_pubkey_hex.clone();
}
if rssi.is_some() {
p.last_rssi = rssi;
}
if snr.is_some() {
p.last_snr = snr;
}
})
.or_insert_with(|| ReticulumPeer {
dest_hash: hash,
@@ -1080,6 +1106,8 @@ impl ReticulumLink {
arch_pubkey_hex,
reachable: true,
last_advert_at: now,
last_rssi: rssi,
last_snr: snr,
});
self.persist_peers();
}
@@ -1099,6 +1127,11 @@ impl ReticulumLink {
// existing entry is proof of life too: mark it reachable so a
// restart-restored (reachable=false) peer that DMs us doesn't
// stay red-dotted until its next announce.
let rssi = ev
.get("rssi")
.and_then(Value::as_i64)
.and_then(|v| i16::try_from(v).ok());
let snr = ev.get("snr").and_then(Value::as_f64).map(|v| v as f32);
match self.peers.entry(source_hash) {
std::collections::hash_map::Entry::Vacant(e) => {
e.insert(ReticulumPeer {
@@ -1107,11 +1140,20 @@ impl ReticulumLink {
arch_pubkey_hex: None,
reachable: true,
last_advert_at: 0,
last_rssi: rssi,
last_snr: snr,
});
self.persist_peers();
}
std::collections::hash_map::Entry::Occupied(mut e) => {
e.get_mut().reachable = true;
let p = e.get_mut();
p.reachable = true;
if rssi.is_some() {
p.last_rssi = rssi;
}
if snr.is_some() {
p.last_snr = snr;
}
}
}
@@ -1208,6 +1250,10 @@ impl ReticulumLink {
arch_pubkey_hex: None,
reachable: true,
last_advert_at: 0,
// Resource transfers ride an established Link —
// the sidecar reports no per-packet phy stats here.
last_rssi: None,
last_snr: None,
});
self.persist_peers();
}
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@@ -295,6 +295,14 @@ class ReticulumDaemon:
"title": message.title_as_string() if hasattr(message, "title_as_string") else "",
"app_data": app_data.hex(),
"stamp": getattr(message, "timestamp", None),
# LXMF populates these from the delivery packet's phy stats on
# direct RNode hops; they are None over TCP or multi-hop relay.
# That None-vs-number difference is the RF/TCP discriminator
# the UI needs (a TCP-fed mesh used to show rssi=0 and look
# like working RF, 2026-08-16).
"rssi": getattr(message, "rssi", None),
"snr": getattr(message, "snr", None),
"q": getattr(message, "q", None),
}
# Native LXMF attachment fields (Sideband/NomadNet/stock clients use
# these, NOT our own typed-envelope wire format) — a stock client's
@@ -631,7 +639,12 @@ class _AnnounceHandler:
self.daemon = daemon
self.receive_path_responses = True
def received_announce(self, destination_hash, announced_identity, app_data):
def received_announce(self, destination_hash, announced_identity, app_data,
announce_packet_hash=None):
# The 4-arg signature makes RNS.Transport hand us the announce packet
# hash (it dispatches by arity), which unlocks per-announce RSSI/SNR
# via Reticulum's local packet-stat cache. The default keeps a
# hypothetical 3-arg dispatch working.
# Decode what we can here (both the LXMF-standard display name and our
# appended ARCHY identity blob — see _announce_app_data) so the Rust
# side gets clean typed fields instead of re-implementing msgpack.
@@ -661,12 +674,25 @@ class _AnnounceHandler:
archy_blob = raw.decode("ascii", "ignore")
except Exception:
archy_blob = None
rssi = None
snr = None
try:
if announce_packet_hash is not None and self.daemon.reticulum is not None:
rssi = self.daemon.reticulum.get_packet_rssi(announce_packet_hash)
snr = self.daemon.reticulum.get_packet_snr(announce_packet_hash)
except Exception:
rssi = None
snr = None
self.daemon._emit_threadsafe({
"event": "announce",
"dest_hash": destination_hash.hex(),
"app_data": raw.hex(),
"display_name": display_name,
"archy_blob": archy_blob,
# None over TCP interfaces / multi-hop; real numbers only on a
# direct RNode reception — see the recv-event comment.
"rssi": rssi,
"snr": snr,
})