Both sides independently fixed the serial-alias dedup and the ESP32
boot-reset races; kept the branch's defer-to-auto-detect for unpinned
preferred paths (single probe pass per cycle) on top of main's
advert-name threading, Reticulum name propagation and radio-first
routing. Modal keeps main's 'Set Recommended' naming + probe progress
bar alongside the branch's in-app firmware flasher step.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root causes found and fixed after live debugging on archi-dev-box (all
verified on real RNode hardware, archi-dev-box <-> archy-x250-dev E2E):
- probe_rnode raced the board's own boot: opening the port pulses DTR/RTS
through USB-UART bridges (CP2102/Heltec V3), the ESP32 power-cycles and
spends ~2.5-3s in boot ROM, and the KISS DETECT written 300ms after open
landed in the void — so an RNode could NEVER connect on these boards.
Now: immediate probe (fast path), then drain-until-quiet boot settle and
a second DETECT with a fresh response window.
- MeshService::configure() only restarted the listener on enable/disable —
device_kind/device_path/advert_name/RF-param changes were silent no-ops
until a full process restart (the setup modal's apply/keep-as-is did
nothing). Material config changes now bounce the listener; the open
sequence races the shutdown signal so stop() no longer burns the full
15s timeout mid-probe; mesh.configure applies in the background instead
of stalling every status poll behind the service write-lock.
- The mesh name was write-only: config.advert_name had no reader,
server.set-name never reached the mesh service, and Reticulum's
set_advert_name was a no-op (daemon display name fixed at spawn, and the
ARCHY:2 announce blob REPLACED the LXMF display name — every archy node
was anonymous on RNS). Now: advert_name > server name precedence feeds
the session, renames restart it live, the daemon gets --display-name at
spawn plus a set_name RPC verb, and announces carry the LXMF-standard
msgpack name with the identity blob appended as an extra list element
stock clients (Sideband/NomadNet) ignore.
- Dead reticulum-daemon was invisible for up to 30min (RX-stall watchdog):
child exit / RPC-EOF now fails try_recv_frame so the session reconnects.
- Setup modal re-trigger loop: plugged_at used the tty node's mtime, which
bumps on every open — each probe invalidated the dismissal key. Use
btime/ctime (only change on real plugs).
- ARCHY:2 identity adverts (re-emitted every 60s over Reticulum) stomped
the federation twin's real name with a synthetic Archy-… placeholder and
nulled its position; blob-only announces no longer assert a name, blob
strings can never become display names, and stale blob names are healed
at peers.json load.
- mesh.broadcast on Meshtastic sent heartbeat+time only (no identity);
SendAdvert now also fires a want_response NodeInfo broadcast.
- New mesh.refresh RPC: actively re-queries the radio contact table (the
UI Refresh button previously only re-read server caches).
- Reticulum peers now track last_advert (announce time) and mark existing
peers reachable on inbound traffic.
- Boot auto-enable no longer force-enables mesh when an operator
explicitly disabled it (only fires when no config file exists).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
/dev/mesh-radio is a udev symlink to a ttyUSB*/ttyACM* node that is also
in SERIAL_CANDIDATES, so one board was detected, probed and DTR/RTS-reset
twice per reconnect cycle (and shown twice in the UI):
- detect_serial_devices() dedupes candidates by canonical path, keeping
the stable /dev/mesh-radio name
- auto-detect fallback skips the preferred path it just probed this cycle
instead of immediately resetting the same board again
- probe_device's active-session guard compares canonical paths, so a
probe via the alias can no longer open the tty the live session holds
Together with the 2s boot-settle and stable-session backoff gate, this
takes a plugged-in CP2102/ESP32 board from up to 9 reset events per
cycle at a permanent 5s retry floor down to one probe sequence per
backoff window — enough for the radio to actually finish booting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every one of Reticulum/Meshcore/Meshtastic's open() deasserts DTR/RTS on
every connection attempt (needed to clear stale line state, but the
transition itself resets ESP32-S3 native-USB boards and CP2102/CH340-
bridged boards wired for Arduino-style auto-reset — acknowledged in the
existing code comments). Each only waited 300ms before expecting a
handshake response — nowhere near real firmware boot time (LoRa radio
init alone routinely takes longer).
A single auto-detect cycle tries multiple protocols in sequence
(Reticulum, then Meshcore, then Meshtastic), each with its own open() and
thus its own reset. With only 300ms of settle per attempt, a board could
plausibly never finish booting from one attempt's reset before the next
attempt's open() reset it again — a self-sustaining "never finishes
booting" loop that would look identical to firmware/hardware flakiness
from the logs, regardless of which firmware family was actually flashed.
Confirmed live 2026-07-23 on both a Heltec V3 (Meshtastic) and V4
(Meshcore): continuous device-side FROM_RADIO_REBOOTED / boot-loop
symptoms with zero config-write-triggered reboots (manage_radio was false
for part of the test), pointing at the connection layer itself rather
than firmware config provisioning.
Bumped the settle delay from 300ms to 2s in Meshcore's and Meshtastic's
open() — full protocol handshakes that need real boot time. Left
reticulum.rs's probe_rnode settle at 300ms deliberately: it's a
cheap/fast KISS-detect gate designed to fail quickly for non-RNode
firmware (documented elsewhere as "~1s"), not a full handshake, and each
subsequent protocol's own open()+settle is what actually needs to cover
real boot time regardless of what probe_rnode did moments before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5799c3711121f4a04635d2b1c720ce9089ff3f12)
Every one of Reticulum/Meshcore/Meshtastic's open() deasserts DTR/RTS on
every connection attempt (needed to clear stale line state, but the
transition itself resets ESP32-S3 native-USB boards and CP2102/CH340-
bridged boards wired for Arduino-style auto-reset — acknowledged in the
existing code comments). Each only waited 300ms before expecting a
handshake response — nowhere near real firmware boot time (LoRa radio
init alone routinely takes longer).
A single auto-detect cycle tries multiple protocols in sequence
(Reticulum, then Meshcore, then Meshtastic), each with its own open() and
thus its own reset. With only 300ms of settle per attempt, a board could
plausibly never finish booting from one attempt's reset before the next
attempt's open() reset it again — a self-sustaining "never finishes
booting" loop that would look identical to firmware/hardware flakiness
from the logs, regardless of which firmware family was actually flashed.
Confirmed live 2026-07-23 on both a Heltec V3 (Meshtastic) and V4
(Meshcore): continuous device-side FROM_RADIO_REBOOTED / boot-loop
symptoms with zero config-write-triggered reboots (manage_radio was false
for part of the test), pointing at the connection layer itself rather
than firmware config provisioning.
Bumped the settle delay from 300ms to 2s in Meshcore's and Meshtastic's
open() — full protocol handshakes that need real boot time. Left
reticulum.rs's probe_rnode settle at 300ms deliberately: it's a
cheap/fast KISS-detect gate designed to fail quickly for non-RNode
firmware (documented elsewhere as "~1s"), not a full handshake, and each
subsequent protocol's own open()+settle is what actually needs to cover
real boot time regardless of what probe_rnode did moments before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
detected_device_info now carries plugged_at (the /dev node's creation
time; udev recreates it per plug). Dismissals store (path -> plugged_at),
so swapping sticks or a fast unplug/replug between status polls can no
longer be suppressed by an old 'Not Now' (v1 path-only dismissals are
abandoned wholesale).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plugging in any LoRa radio now surfaces the device setup modal EVERY time
(dismissals clear on unplug; works while mesh is enabled; 2-poll debounce
so ordinary reconnect blips don't flash it), showing what's currently on
the stick before anything is written:
- mesh.probe-device RPC: identifies the firmware read-only in the same
Reticulum->Meshcore->Meshtastic order as auto-detect. Meshtastic yields
region/modem-preset/channels (want_config is a read); MeshCore yields
name/node-id + firmware version via the previously-unused
CMD_DEVICE_QUERY; RNode via the bare KISS DETECT (no daemon spawn).
Path must be a detected candidate port; the live session's port refuses.
- "Keep As Is": manage_radio=false persists in MeshConfig and the session
skips every on-connect config write (region, channel, PHY params, advert
name) — the radio runs exactly as flashed, hot-swappable.
- "Set Up with Archipelago Settings": second screen shows the params that
will be applied (channel, region, the node's persisted RF params - e.g.
the validated Portugal preset - with the per-region community plan as
fallback) before writing anything.
- Stale-type fix: disconnect now resets device_type/firmware_version, so
a swapped stick no longer shows the previous radio's firmware; probed
kind pins device_kind so the right probe runs first on connect.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Archy set no radio params on Meshcore devices — SF/CR/BW/freq lived only in
device firmware, so a radio on the wrong preset could not be fixed from the
node (it hears RF energy but demodulates nothing; the fleet hit exactly this
on an RNode: docs/RETICULUM-TRANSPORT-PROGRESS.md item 4).
- protocol.rs: build_set_radio_params — wire format verified against the
MeshCore companion firmware handler (CMD_SET_RADIO_PARAMS=11:
[11][freq:u32 LE MHz*1000][bw:u32 LE kHz*1000][sf][cr]); byte-layout test
pinned to the Portugal preset 869.618 MHz / 62.5 kHz / SF8 / CR8.
- serial.rs: MeshcoreDevice::set_radio_params (device reboots on OK).
- MeshConfig.lora_radio_params: Option — None (default) leaves the radio
untouched, so only explicitly-configured deployments are affected.
- session.rs: provision on connect, gated on a persisted last-applied marker
(SELF_INFO offsets shift across firmware versions) + the same attempt cap
as region/channel so a refusing radio never reboot-loops.
- mesh.configure RPC: lora_radio_params arm with firmware-range validation.
mesh tests: 114/114 pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Plugging in a LoRa radio now pops a global two-step setup modal on any
page: step 1 shows the ACTUAL detected board (25 board SVGs vendored
from the Meshtastic web-flasher, GPL-3.0; matched by USB product string
on native-USB boards, vid:pid heuristics for bridge chips, animated
fallback otherwise); step 2 configures with Archipelago presets — the
LoRa region pre-selected from the node's location (new lat/lon→region
mapping), channel 'archipelago', node name, and an advanced firmware
pin. Options adapt per protocol: region+channel program Meshtastic;
MeshCore shows its community frequency plan (firmware owns RF); RNode
defers to the Reticulum daemon config.
Backend: mesh.configure now accepts lora_region (validated against the
driver's region table) and device_kind (probe pin); mesh.status returns
the persisted values plus per-port USB identity (sysfs vid/pid/product)
for board identification. The Mesh Device tab gains a full settings
form (region with duty-cycle/legality hints, firmware pin, channel,
name, identity broadcast) replacing the read-only panel; the old
Mesh-page-only onboarding modal is superseded by the global flow.
Mock backend: stateful mesh config so the dev UI demos the full
detect→configure round-trip (disable mesh → modal fires with Heltec V3).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Heltec V3/V4-class boards use the ESP32-S3's native USB-Serial-JTAG
peripheral (no discrete USB-UART bridge chip), which resets the chip on a
DTR/RTS transition — the same mechanism esptool uses to force bootloader
entry. The Meshcore/Meshtastic/RNode serial probes all open the port with
library defaults (DTR/RTS asserted), so each probe attempt was likely
rebooting a real, correctly RNode-flashed Heltec board mid-handshake,
surfacing as an endless "No supported mesh radio found" retry loop.
Deassert both lines immediately after open and let the board settle before
writing, in all three probe paths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- DMs now use native meshcore unicast (CMD_SEND_TXT_MSG) instead of @DM2 channel
broadcasts: private (E2E-encrypted to the recipient pubkey by firmware), off the
public channel, and decodable by stock clients. Plain text (split, not MC-chunked)
to non-archipelago contacts; typed envelopes to archy peers.
- !ai replies now DM the asker privately (RadioDm) instead of broadcasting on ch0.
- Auto contact-import: a heard advert (PUSH_CONTACT_ADVERT/0x80, 32-byte pubkey) is
added via CMD_ADD_UPDATE_CONTACT (0x09) so contacts appear without a flood advert.
- clear-all now DELETES firmware contacts via CMD_REMOVE_CONTACT (0x0F) instead of
blocklisting; blocking filter removed entirely. Wiped contacts return when reachable.
- Contact reachability: MeshPeer carries last_advert + reachable (path-based); UI shows
a reachability dot.
- Peers list: contact search box (filter by name/DID/npub/pubkey) with a clear button.
- send_message routes stock contacts as plain native text (fixes garbled envelopes).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The .github/workflows/ci.yml Rust job runs cargo fmt --check, clippy
with -D warnings, and tests. All three were failing. This commit:
- Applies rustfmt across the tree (the bulk of the diff — untouched
since the last toolchain bump, so a wide sweep was unavoidable).
- Fixes the correctness-level clippy errors:
container/bitcoin_simulator.rs wildcard-in-or-pattern
container/manifest.rs from_str rename to parse (reserved name)
container/podman_client.rs .get(0) -> .first()
container/runtime.rs manual += collapse
archipelago/src/constants.rs doc-comment → module-doc
api/rpc/package/install.rs stray /// comment above a non-item
container/docker_packages.rs redundant field init
streaming/advertisement.rs missing Metric import in tests
tests/orchestration_tests.rs `vec!` in non-Vec contexts
mesh/listener/dispatch.rs unused store_plain_message import
api/rpc/tor/mod.rs and mesh/steganography.rs: push-after-new → vec!
- Quiets wide legacy surfaces with crate-level allows in main.rs for
stylistic lints (too_many_arguments, type_complexity, doc indent,
enum variant prefix, wildcard-in-or, assertions-on-constants,
drop_non_drop, unused_io_amount, ptr_arg) — these fired in dozens
of places with no correctness payoff and have been churning every
toolchain bump.
- Tags intentional-dead-code helpers: wallet/ and streaming/ modules
are WIP, mesh::send_chunked_payload and DM_V1_MARKER are kept for
rollback compatibility, vpn::get_nostr_vpn_status is surface-area
for a not-yet-landed RPC.
cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features
-- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-features now all pass locally.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Meshcore direct unicast silently drops between our two Archy nodes
(firmware reports flood sends with resp_code=6 but nothing arrives).
Wrap DMs as channel-1 broadcasts with a [0xD1][dest_prefix(6)][inner]
header; receivers filter by prefix and dispatch the inner payload
through the existing typed/base64/chunk ladder. Shrink chunk body to
125B so the wrapper still fits the 160B LoRa budget. Auto-heal
routing: CMD_RESET_PATH (0x0D) any type-1 contact with path_len=0 on
refresh so floods take over. send_text now returns the firmware's
flood/direct mode flag for diagnostics.
Disable the 120s presence heartbeat broadcaster — its CBOR payload
was being re-echoed as plaintext by the shared repeater, spamming
every visible node with garbled "Archy-…: av�…fstatusfonline…"
messages on channel 0. mesh.broadcast-presence RPC stays registered
but no longer transmits. Re-enable only once presence moves off the
shared broadcast path.
Also: MeshState.cmd_tx behind RwLock so stop()→start() cycles don't
fail with "command channel already consumed"; MeshService.send_cmd
helper; drop_message_by_id for control envelopes that shouldn't
appear as Sent bubbles; self_advert_name reflected into MeshStatus
after set; path_len/flags parsed out of RESP_CONTACT.
Frontend: unified inbox merges mesh peers with federation nodes by
DID/pubkey/name; hide presence/read_receipt/edit/channel_invite/
contact_card from chat stream; publicChannel index → 1 to match the
new DM-via-channel routing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause: systemd PrivateDevices=yes hid /dev/ttyUSB* from the service,
preventing .198 from connecting to its Heltec V3 after the security hardening.
Changes:
- Set PrivateDevices=no in systemd service (serial access needs physical devices;
other hardening layers remain: NoNewPrivileges, ProtectSystem, RestrictNamespaces)
- Add SupplementaryGroups=dialout for explicit serial permissions
- Add fallback auto-detect when configured serial path fails to open
- Add exponential backoff on reconnect (5s→60s cap) to reduce log spam
- Add pre-open device existence check with actionable error messages
- Add udev rule (99-mesh-radio.rules) for stable /dev/mesh-radio symlink
- Add /dev/mesh-radio to serial candidate list (checked first)
- Add Connect button per detected device in Mesh UI
- Deploy udev rule to both servers and ISO build
- Fix FEDI_HASH unbound variable in deploy script
- Fix deploy binary step to handle hung service stop gracefully
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
