Why apps feel instant over the mesh and data panels didn't: an app
launch is ONE streamed HTTP fetch on a warm session; the panels were
built from SERIALIZED RPC round-trips, each costing a full mesh RTT.
- Wallet card (Home): the 7 balance/history RPCs fired one-by-one
(seconds by construction) — now all 7 in parallel, and the card paints
a persisted last-known snapshot (balances + recent transactions)
BEFORE any network round-trip. Refresh replaces it silently.
- Web5 connected nodes: listPeers + federationListNodes fetched
together instead of stacked.
- Peer files: the cosmetic peer-name lookup no longer blocks the
catalog/owned fetches it never depended on.
Rules going forward: never serialize independent RPCs; never show a
spinner where last-known data exists.
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Apps-tab launches awaited package.credentials with a 5s timeout before
opening anything (home-card launches skip the gate — that's why they
always felt instant). The lookup now races a 1.2s budget: past it, the
app launches with the static fallback config while the RPC finishes
into a per-app memo, making every subsequent launch instant.
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- SendBitcoinModal crashed AT MOUNT on device ('Cannot access R before
initialization'): the invoice-first block's watch() evaluates its
computed source at setup, which read effectiveMethod while still in
its temporal dead zone (declared 20 lines later). Send button did
nothing and the failure poisoned sibling modal data. Block moved below
effectiveMethod, with a comment so it can't drift back.
- Cold start injected 0px safe-area vars (onPageFinished can beat window
attachment; rootWindowInsets null) — UI lost top/bottom margins and
the tab bar sat in the gesture zone eating taps. Injection extracted
to injectSafeAreaVars(), re-fired from an OnApplyWindowInsetsListener
when real insets arrive, on page finish, and on reattach.
- MeshLoadingScreen wears the proper brand: pixel 'a' in the black
circle-container + F*CK IPS MESH wordmark.
Served APK: 0.5.10 (vc30). Reproduced+diagnosed live on-device.
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Everything from tonight's remote field testing:
- Back-to-dashboard fixed: JS bridges on the retained WebView delegated
through live-composition callbacks (stale closures made apps refuse to
launch after remote ⇄ dashboard), and reattach forces a layout pass
(top/bottom UI was wrong until a tap).
- F*CK IPs MESH branded loader: full-screen on relaunch (startup race)
and during the first connect after scanning a node QR.
- Party 'Share this app' is now a QR of the public vps2 download link
(scan with any camera → install over any internet); direct APK
file-share kept as a secondary action.
- Mesh party pairing is MUTUAL: scanner announces itself to the scanned
phone's Flare /hello — both sides get the peer, a chat entry and a
'👋 joined the party' message; scanner auto-opens the chat.
- Party scanner asks for CAMERA permission (fresh installs/reinstalls
landed on a black preview).
- Node: device tokens mint unique companion-<id> names — pairing a
second phone no longer revokes the first phone's login (the source of
'reconnecting a lot' and the second phone's failure).
Served APK: 0.5.9 (vc29).
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The WEB_VIEW route recreated the WebView on every return from the
remote screen — full reload + re-login every time. The kiosk WebView is
now retained in a holder and reattached live (no race, no reload);
clients/bridges/listeners are re-bound to the new composition on
reattach, and the instance is dropped on retry, disconnect, or server
change so errored/stale sessions still reload for real.
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- Party screen 'Share this app': shares this install's own APK through
the system sheet (FileProvider over cache/share/), so a nearby friend
gets the companion via Quick Share/Bluetooth with zero internet — the
party-mode premise end to end.
- Intro screen: Mesh Party button under Get Started — party works with
no node at all, so it belongs on the first screen a fresh install
shows.
- Served APK: 0.5.8 (vc28), ready for the QR/OTA/ISO cut.
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Combined session state from both agents (shared checkout):
- Mesh Party / Flare (experimental): phone-to-phone FIPS via party QR,
Flare chat/beam on :5680, optional fixed UDP listen (2121); party-only
phones get the baked-in Archipelago anchor so two bare phones reach
each other across the internet, not just on a hotspot.
- Keep-warm mesh: a running healthy node survives app opens (restart
only when dead or peers changed — peersDirty); requestMeshRestart for
config changes. Cold start measured on-device: session in ~3.1s.
- Restored after regression: startup LAN-vs-mesh race (the party work
was based on a pre-#114 file copy) and same-node routing (BTCPay/
Pine/HA had returned to opening in the external browser).
- UI: top status-bar scrim removed (bottom-only bars); web app-session
mobile bar is solid black — app theme colour no longer bleeds through
the bar and its safe-area strip.
Served APK: 0.5.7 (vc27).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two field reports from tonight's 5G session:
- 'Stuck connecting': the kiosk WebView always loaded the LAN URL first,
and Chromium burns a minute+ of connect retries on a dead LAN IP before
the mesh fallback fires. WebViewScreen now races a raw TCP probe — LAN
gets 2.5s, else the mesh ULA (patient, 12s) — BEFORE creating the
WebView, so startup lands on the right origin in seconds either side.
Retry re-races instead of blindly reloading the LAN URL.
- Pine/Home Assistant/BTCPay opened in the external browser over the
mesh: same-node detection compared one host, but the node has two (LAN
origin + mesh ULA) — kiosk loaded via the ULA meant app links failed
isSameHost and routeOutbound bounced them to the browser. Same-node now
matches either address, in the kiosk router, SSL allowances and the
InAppBrowser.
Served APK: 0.5.6 (vc26). Note: the binary also carries the in-flight
listen_port groundwork from the dev-box session's archy-fips-core WIP
(compiles clean, default posture unchanged); its source lands separately.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The companion reaches the node at its fips0 ULA, and the web UI builds app
links as http://[<ULA>]:<direct port> — but rootless-podman published ports
bind 0.0.0.0 only, so every app URL was refused over the mesh (:8334 first).
A reconcile loop in the backend mirrors public IPv4 listeners: any port
>=1024 on 0.0.0.0 without an IPv6 any-listener gets a v6-ONLY [::] forwarder
to 127.0.0.1, following /proc/net/tcp* so install/remove and hardcoded
companion ports are covered without touching a single container. Purely
additive: IPv4/LAN/Tor access paths are untouched, v6only listeners cannot
collide with or intercept v4 traffic, and foreign IPv6 listeners win.
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Implements the app-side recommendations from the node diagnosis
(HANDOFF-2026-07-23): first session through the public tree takes 15s+
when it works at all, far beyond the old ~8s probe window.
- connect(): mesh ULA probed inside a 60s budget, 15s per-phase timeouts.
- ArchyVpnService: session warmer probes every saved node ULA as soon as
the tunnel is up (5s cadence first minute, then 60s keep-warm) so the
UI hits a warm session and it never idles out.
- Served APK: 0.5.5 (vc25); handoff updated with 25-ping evidence that
public-tree discovery currently fails outright (supports the
private-tree infra decision).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phones on the FIPS mesh reach the node at http://[<fips0 ULA>], but every
shipped nginx config listened on IPv4 only — nothing answered [::]:80/443,
so mesh HTTP failed with the tunnel fully healthy (found live on
framework-pt during the vc24 5G session, 2026-07-23). Canonical conf gains
listen [::] lines and patch_nginx_conf self-heals deployed nodes (covers
the sites-enabled -> archipelago-http dev variant via the existing
canonicalize pass); validated by the existing nginx -t + rollback flow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On-device diagnosis (phone on adb, 5G): mesh sessions established but no
packet ever entered the tunnel — Android hands the VpnService TUN fd over
non-blocking, and the fips fork's dedicated blocking-read thread treats
EAGAIN as fatal, dying at startup. archy-fips-core now forces the fd into
blocking mode before Node::start_with_tun_fd. Verified on-device: reader
survives, packets flow into the mesh, and the 30s anchor-link flap is
gone (stable 8+ min on 5G).
Also setMetered(false): Android 10+ defaults VPNs to metered, flipping
the phone into data-restricted behaviour whenever the mesh is up.
Served APK: 0.5.4 (vc24). Handoff updated with the remaining node-side
blocker: phone->anchor works, phone->node ULA gets no reply — needs
fipsctl introspection on Framework PT (suspect fork/daemon session or
routing mismatch).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The whole point of FIPS: the phone peers with the node's npub using the
LAN endpoint as a direct p2p dial hint AND rendezvouses via a public
anchor when away — neither LAN nor 5G location may matter. The anchor
half only existed when the scanned QR carried fanchors, so pairing
against an older node left the phone LAN-only and everything died on 5G.
The Archipelago vps2 anchor (npub + 146.59.87.168:8444/tcp, lockstep
with core fips/anchors.rs) is now baked into upsertNodePeer as a
guaranteed peer. Mesh connect retry window widened so a first-ever
pairing survives the VPN consent dialog. Served APK: 0.5.3 (vc23).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Field test on 5G (Framework PT): pairing scanned fine but connect
hard-failed on the scanned LAN IP, and enabling the mesh VPN killed the
phone's internet.
- ArchyVpnService: the TUN is IPv6-only, and Android blocks every
address family the VPN holds no address for — allowFamily(AF_INET)
(+ allowBypass) so normal traffic flows while only fd00::/8 is routed.
- ServerConnectScreen.connect(): when the LAN address doesn't answer and
the entry carries a mesh ULA, bring the tunnel up (autoStartIfReady)
and probe the ULA with retries before reporting failure — the scanned
IP is a dial hint, the npub/ULA is the identity (npub-first contract).
- Served companion APK refreshed as 0.5.2 (vc22); handoff doc updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The APK served from the pairing QR predated today's scanner fixes, so
the download-then-scan flow still hit the laggy scanner. Bumps the
version so phones update in place, refreshes the served artifact
(signed v1+v2+v3, verified), and adds the archi-dev-box deploy handoff.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Re-scanning a node after a LAN renumber updated the FIPS peer (npub-
matched) but duplicated the saved-server entry (address-matched).
ServerEntry now carries the node's fnpub as a trailing serialization
field (legacy entries still parse) and every saved/active-entry match
goes through sameNode: npub identity first, address/port/scheme only as
the LAN-only fallback. Edit forms that don't carry the npub keep the
stored one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three npub-bearing anchors pushed the pairing URI to ~600 chars (QR ~v23 at
EC-M) — phone cameras couldn't lock onto it off a screen. The phone only
needs the node itself (LAN p2p) plus one public rendezvous (vps2 preferred),
and screen scans don't need EC-M's damage tolerance — L drops a full
version tier.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- archipelago-gamepad-keys: evdev->uinput daemon (pure python3 stdlib) that
mirrors any attached controller as a virtual keyboard — D-pad/stick to
arrows, A/B to Enter/Escape, X/Y to Space/f, shoulders to Tab/Shift+Tab.
The browser sees real keys, so controllers work inside EVERY app iframe
(IndeeHub, Jellyfin…) with zero per-app code. Ships via the ISO splice and
bootstrap self-heal (kiosk nodes only), hotplug via 5s rescans.
Implements docs/tv-input-iframe-apps.md.
- useControllerNav: an open [role=dialog][aria-modal] owns navigation —
focus is pulled inside, arrows move spatially between its controls, Enter
activates, Escape stays with the modal's own close handling. One standard
mapping for every modal.
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