wadamesh beta_9

wadamesh beta_9

A reliability-focused drop — Wi-Fi recovery, a self-healing chat-history fix, crash-report export, plus room-server, map, contacts and app-drawer improvements.

Install / update: flash from flasher.wadamesh.com, grab it in LauncherHub, or use the on-device update check (Settings → About).

Stability

• Wi-Fi now reconnects on its own after the link drops — no more rebooting to get back online.
• Fixed reboot-on-every-received-message: a corrupted chat-history file could make the device reboot whenever a message arrived (and hide your messages). The bad file is now detected and reset automatically, so it recovers on its own.
• Boot hardening: NULL-guards on the display draw buffer so a unit with quirky/limited memory degrades gracefully instead of getting stuck on the boot logo.

Crash reports

• After a crash, Settings → About shows an "Export crash report" button that saves the crash dump to the microSD card — so you can send it to the devs and get the bug fixed.

Chat & room servers

• Room-server messages now show the time each message was actually sent, not when it arrived.
• Room-server messages now show who sent them.
• Sharing your contact QR now produces a valid meshcore://contact/add?… code that the MeshCore phone app can scan and import.
• Unread counts show "99+" instead of an alarming raw number on busy channels.

Map

• The reload button for corrupt tiles now actually clears the cached tiles — including when you're offline — and the missing/blank "twilight zone" tiles re-download on their own.
• Fixed tiles not re-fetching at zoom levels 13–15.

Contacts

• Favourited contacts always appear in the contact list now, even with hundreds of similarly-named contacts (they used to stay hidden until you searched).

App drawer

• New icon-size setting — tap the cog at the top-right of the app drawer to switch between Compact and Large (bigger icons + labels, easier to read).
• Smoother scrolling through the app list and the other scrollable lists.

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Assets: *-merged.bin = full image (flash at 0x0 / erase). Plain *.bin = app-only (OTA / Launcher side-load). T-Deck = wadamesh-tdeck*, Heltec V4 TFT = wadamesh-heltec-v4-tft*.

wadamesh beta_8

wadamesh beta_8

Polish + fixes for the touch UI — a faster chat acknowledgement, map readout controls, and an internal-memory trim.

Install / update: flash from flasher.wadamesh.com, grab it in LauncherHub, or use the on-device update check (Settings → About).

Chat

• Quick replies insert at the cursor instead of replacing whatever you'd already typed.
• New one-tap "Ack" — long-press any message and tap Ack. It drops a ready-to-send reply into the composer with that message's signal strength (SNR/RSSI) and the route it took (hop codes), so you can instantly confirm someone's test came through. On a channel it @-mentions the sender. You review and send — it's never auto-sent.
• Fixed the message action menu (Ack / Copy / Info / Mention / Block) running off the bottom of the screen — it now fits, and scrolls if it ever needs to.

Map

• The zoom button now shows a clear "+/-" icon.
• Show or hide each on-map readout independently in Map settings — the coordinates line, the tile x/y/z line, and the contact markers.
• Map settings reorganised: the microSD-tiles switch sits at the top under its own heading, separated from the new visibility toggles.
• New auto-refresh button — turn it on and the map re-centres on you automatically whenever your position changes, with an on-screen Auto-refresh on/off confirmation.
• Fixed the close (X) in Map settings overlapping the switches when the panel was scrolled.

Performance

• Reclaimed ~19 KB of internal RAM (scratch buffers moved to PSRAM), leaving more headroom for Wi-Fi and trimming the idle-memory growth seen in recent betas.

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Assets: *-merged.bin = full image (flash at 0x0 / erase). Plain *.bin = app-only (OTA / Launcher side-load). T-Deck = wadamesh-tdeck*, Heltec V4 TFT = wadamesh-heltec-v4-tft*.

wadamesh beta_7

wadamesh beta_7 for the LilyGo T-Deck and Heltec V4 TFT.

🔧 Flash in your browser: https://flasher.wadamesh.com — or update on-device (Settings → check for update), or side-load wadamesh-tdeck.bin through Launcher.

🙌 Most of this release was built by the community. @Vybo (Dan Vybiral) contributed the lion's share in #12 — the Snake game, battery & telemetry history, map night mode, the PNG/BMP image viewer, and the entire status-bar toolkit. @tun0 (Ruben Laban) fixed unread badges and chat-history persistence in #15. Thank you both. 🎉

🐍 Snake game — by @Vybo (#12)

A Snake game in the app drawer — steer by swiping the screen or with the T-Deck trackball, with pause/resume and restart after a game over. (Touch now stays inside the game and doesn't leak to the screen behind it.)

🔋 Battery & telemetry — by @Vybo (#12)

• Tap the battery in the status bar for a 24-hour history chart with an estimated time-left readout (logged every 5 minutes).
• Per-node telemetry window — poll a node's battery, temperature and humidity, watch them on a live chart, and keep a per-node log.

🗺️ Map — by @Vybo (#12)

• Night mode — the status bar and tab bar invert to match the dark map.
• Live zoom-level readout above the zoom slider, and a proper magnifier icon on the zoom button.
• New "Show on map" contact action that centres the map on that node.

📊 Status bar & tools — by @Vybo (#12)

• A microSD activity LED that lights on card access (including file-manager reads/copies).
• An activity spinner while a telemetry / admin / ping / trace / range / sightline request is in flight.
• Option to hide the device name and move the clock left.
• Hold the status bar to save a full-screen screenshot to SD.

🖼️ Files & images — by @Vybo (#12)

The file browser now previews PNG and BMP images (not just JPEG), with no stale image when opening several in a row.

💬 Chat reliability

• Fixed garbled / duplicated messages — chat text is no longer corrupted in transit, so messages arrive intact and duplicates are filtered out correctly. Thanks to @marcelverdult for the precise report (#13).
• Accurate unread badges and more chat history kept across reboots — by @tun0 (#15).

✨ Also in this release

• Lock-screen wallpaper from Files — view any JPEG on your SD card and tap "Set as wallpaper".
• Set your own Bluetooth pairing code in Settings.
• The app drawer fits all the apps again (no clipped bottom row) and shows a scrollbar when there's more to scroll.
• Fixed map-tile caching (false "storage full"); black/missing tiles re-download. @-reply no longer overwrites text you were typing. Fixed an out-of-memory crash and made notification audio more reliable.

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Contributors: @Vybo (Dan Vybiral) · @tun0 (Ruben Laban) · @marcelverdult (reported #13).

Boards: T-Deck → wadamesh-tdeck*.bin · Heltec V4 TFT → wadamesh-heltec-v4-tft*.bin. Use -merged.bin for a full flash at 0x0 (web flasher / esptool), or the plain .bin for on-device update / Launcher.

wadamesh beta_6

Touch firmware beta_6 for the LilyGo T-Deck and Heltec V4 + TFT.

Install or update via the web flasher → https://flasher.wadamesh.com (or flash the *-merged.bin at 0x0 with esptool). Devices on beta_5 will see beta_6 on their next update check.

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New: RF Monitor app

• A new Monitor app on the app drawer — a live RF sniffer that shows exactly what your node is pulling out of the air in real time.
• A "Recently heard" feed lists recent received frames by type (text, advert, ack, route-trace…) with RSSI, SNR and hop count, colour-coded by type.
• A link-margin readout grades how much headroom your last packet had (green / amber / red), alongside a live packet rate and a noise-floor + peak-hold RSSI scope with an on-screen dBm scale.
• Lays out cleanly in both portrait and landscape, so it's readable on the Heltec V4 and the T-Deck.

Chat & contacts

• Direct-message chats now show a person icon and channels a group icon (instead of the old loop / envelope).
• Block a non-contact sender by name — handy for silencing an automated room or repeater bot you couldn't block before.
• Opening a chat or channel no longer jumps to the newest message — it keeps your scroll position.
• The contacts Sort & Filter popup now closes after you pick a sort option.
• Fixed the chat/channel long-press popup: the close ✕ no longer overlaps the buttons while you scroll it.

Time & timezone

• New time-zone picker with named zones (no longer CET-only) — set yours in Settings → System.
• Fixed the clock getting stuck at 1902 and channels showing 1969–1970 dates: GPS no longer clobbers the clock with an invalid date, and the time now survives a reboot.

Launcher & Wi-Fi

• Map tiles now download under Launcher (the tile cache was wrongly reported as full).
• GPS now gets a fix under Launcher.
• The setup-wizard Wi-Fi scan no longer comes up empty — modem sleep is deferred until after you're connected.

Bluetooth

• Bluetooth now advertises under your node / profile name instead of "NimBLE".
• The Bluetooth PIN no longer resets on its own — it's saved and reused across reboots.

Power & performance

• Turning the screen off now downclocks the CPU and enables Wi-Fi modem sleep to save power.
• On the map, your position dot is drawn before the tiles so it no longer lags behind when panning.

Community

• Merged map-server and SD-tile rendering fixes contributed by Vybo (#11). Thanks!

wadamesh beta_5

Touch firmware beta_5 for the LilyGo T-Deck and Heltec V4 + TFT.

Install or update via the web flasher → https://flasher.wadamesh.com (or flash the *-merged.bin at 0x0 with esptool). Devices on beta_4 will see beta_5 on their next update check.

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Contacts

• Person icon for people and an antenna for repeaters, instead of a generic envelope / lightning bolt.
• Block / unblock anyone straight from their popup — blocked contacts get a red person icon and their messages are hidden.
• The list is now a proper table: dedicated last-heard and distance columns, a Sort & Filter button, and multi-select delete with an are-you-sure prompt and a progress bar (favourites are protected — unfavourite them first).
• Time and distance are smaller and pushed right so names get more room; a name too long for two lines scrolls instead of spilling onto a third.
• Un-favouriting a contact removes its star right away.

Discovered nodes

• The Discovered list now survives reboots (it used to empty every boot) and holds up to 48 nodes.
• New Discovered settings (cogwheel): auto-delete the oldest node when full, and auto-delete anything heard via more than N hops — keeps the list fresh and nearby.
• The count badge shows "48!" when the list is full.
• Adding a node from Discovered appears in Contacts immediately; a purge-all button sits next to Close.

Region & radio

• Setting the region / default scope from the official MeshCore app now works — it used to time out (no_event_received); public-channel floods are now region-tagged. (companion-v1.16.0.3, issue #31)
• US/Canada radio preset corrected to the proper 910.525 MHz · 62.5 kHz · SF7 (was 915 MHz / 250 kHz / SF11).
• T-Deck transmit power restored to the full +22 dBm — the SX1262 antenna switch was mis-driven, leaking most of the power (~4 mW). (issue #6)
• Auto-add settings moved to their own dedicated page (out of Radio), reachable from the Contacts menu too.

Chats & sound

• Each chat / channel row now shows the time of its most recent message on the right.
• Mute messages and/or @-mentions per channel, from that channel's settings.
• The @-mentions screen has taller rows (fits two lines); tapping a mention jumps to that exact message.
• Volume is now +/- buttons instead of a hard-to-drag slider; a master Sound switch silences everything, with independent Messages and @-mention switches (the @-mention chime is distinct, with its own on/off + volume).

Map

• The map remembers your zoom and pan when you leave and come back, instead of snapping back to your location every time.
• Tapping a contact on the map opens a compact popup (no Block button there).

Keyboard & input

• T-Deck keyboard: backspace deletes at the cursor instead of always chopping the last character, and editing respects where you place the caret.
• The Quick replies page now scrolls so you can reach and edit every slot.

UI polish

• Refined bottom tab bar — flat icons that take your theme colour with a soft glow under the active tab — plus an unread-count badge on the Chats icon.
• App drawer: colourful app icons, the command tile relabelled "Cmdr", the Apps button in a contrasting accent, and three-per-row on the Heltec V4.
• Full-screen settings pages with a clear X to close, a subtle new-message chip, and a full-page Signal view with a live readout and manual refresh.

wadamesh beta_4

Touch firmware beta_4 for the LilyGo T-Deck and Heltec V4 + TFT. Built by CI from 7b7ea17031e0d24f2045158bf3744fd9bac1f2b2.

wadamesh beta_3

Touch firmware beta_3 for the LilyGo T-Deck and Heltec V4 + TFT. Built by CI from 058721fdbc572b4332ad55df12c750331d38aa9a.

wadamesh beta_2

Touch firmware for the LilyGo T-Deck / T-Deck Plus and Heltec V4 + TFT.

What's new since beta_1

• WADAMESH boot logo — the old MESHCOMOD wordmark is replaced by the brand logo: an anti-aliased mesh mark with the teal dots, on screen from power-on and carried seamlessly into the colour LVGL splash. Brand teal (#15B6A6) is now the default UI accent and is in the Theme-colour picker.
• Wi-Fi scan no longer crashes — "Wi-Fi on but no network connected" could trip the 5 s task watchdog and reboot. The scan is now a single bounded, yielding async pass.
• Wi-Fi settings apply live — saving credentials or scanning no longer prompts for / forces a reboot (Wi-Fi and BLE coexist via NimBLE).
• Factory reset actually wipes — on SD-card storage it crashed mid-erase and left everything intact; it now wipes SD + NVS cleanly and reboots into a fresh device. (Also fixes the file-manager recursive folder delete.)

Install

Flash the *-merged.bin for your board at 0x0 with erase (or use the web flasher at flasher.wadamesh.com). The *.bin (no -merged) is the app-only image for OTA / Launcher.