fix(mesh): radio-first transport policy + attachments to merged contacts route via the radio twin
Demo images / Build & push demo images (push) Failing after 3m50s

Two halves of the same twin-resolution gap, found live while testing
images between archi-dev-box and archy-x250-dev:

- peer_dest_prefix resolved the given contact row's own pubkey. For the
  UI's merged conversation (the federation-synthetic id) that's the
  Archipelago ed25519 identity key, NOT a radio routing key — so every
  Reticulum resource send (images/files over LoRa) failed with 'Unknown
  Reticulum prefix' while the UI showed the message as sent. It now
  resolves through the radio twin (same arch identity, radio-range id).
- send_typed_wire sent EVERY federation-synthetic contact over the
  federation path (FIPS→Tor), even with the same node one LoRa hop away.
  Policy per operator: LoRa first when the payload fits and the radio
  twin is reachable, then FIPS, then Tor. Verified live: text to the
  merged contact now logs 'Radio-first routing' and lands with
  transport=reticulum on the peer.

Also restyles the mesh-chat attachment download controls: the pre-fetch
button was a bare .btn that squished to text width in the narrow mobile
bubble; now a full-width glass pill with a download icon and fetch
spinner, and the on-image overlay swaps the emoji glyph for a crisp SVG
in a properly-sized glass circle.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
archipelago
2026-07-28 18:16:40 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent c4f24f3efa
commit 79c3cc5947
3 changed files with 102 additions and 8 deletions
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@@ -1153,7 +1153,32 @@ impl MeshService {
let peer = peers
.get(&contact_id)
.ok_or_else(|| anyhow::anyhow!("Peer not found"))?;
let pubkey_hex = peer
// Cross-transport twin resolution: callers frequently hold the
// FEDERATION twin's contact_id (the UI's merged conversation row),
// whose pubkey_hex is the Archipelago ed25519 key — NOT a radio
// routing key. Sending a Reticulum resource with that prefix fails
// with "Unknown Reticulum prefix" (observed live 2026-07-28,
// image-over-LoRa to a merged contact). Route via the radio twin —
// same arch identity, radio-range id — whose pubkey_hex is the
// actual over-the-air routing key (RNS dest hash / firmware key).
let radio_peer = if peer.contact_id >= FEDERATION_CONTACT_ID_BASE {
peer.arch_pubkey_hex
.as_deref()
.and_then(|arch| {
peers.values().find(|p| {
p.contact_id < FEDERATION_CONTACT_ID_BASE
&& p.arch_pubkey_hex.as_deref() == Some(arch)
})
})
.ok_or_else(|| {
anyhow::anyhow!(
"Peer is federation-only (no radio twin) — not reachable over the radio"
)
})?
} else {
peer
};
let pubkey_hex = radio_peer
.pubkey_hex
.as_ref()
.ok_or_else(|| anyhow::anyhow!("Peer has no public key"))?;
@@ -1291,12 +1316,44 @@ impl MeshService {
.map(|p| !p.reachable && p.arch_pubkey_hex.is_some())
.unwrap_or(false)
};
// Transport policy: LoRa first when it can actually carry the message,
// then FIPS, then Tor. A federation-synthetic id (what the UI's merged
// conversation holds) used to ALWAYS take the federation path, even
// when the very same node was sitting one LoRa hop away — so chats
// between two radio-equipped nodes silently rode FIPS/Tor. If the
// federation contact has a REACHABLE radio twin (same archipelago
// identity, radio-range id) and the payload fits the radio, skip the
// federation branch: the fall-through LoRa path twin-resolves the
// routing key via peer_dest_prefix.
let device_connected = self.state.status.read().await.device_connected;
let radio_twin_reachable = is_federation_synthetic && !exceeds_lora && device_connected && {
let peers = self.state.peers.read().await;
peers
.get(&contact_id)
.and_then(|p| p.arch_pubkey_hex.clone())
.map(|arch| {
peers.values().any(|p| {
p.contact_id < FEDERATION_CONTACT_ID_BASE
&& p.reachable
&& p.arch_pubkey_hex.as_deref() == Some(arch.as_str())
})
})
.unwrap_or(false)
};
let mesh_only_mode = load_config(&self.data_dir)
.await
.ok()
.and_then(|cfg| cfg.mesh_only_mode)
.unwrap_or(false);
if radio_twin_reachable && !mesh_only_mode {
tracing::info!(
contact_id,
bytes = wire.len(),
"Radio-first routing: federation contact has a reachable radio twin — sending over LoRa"
);
}
if !mesh_only_mode
&& !radio_twin_reachable
&& (is_federation_synthetic || exceeds_lora || radio_federated_unreachable)
{
// Resolve the peer's pubkey/did. Prefer the live mesh peer table,