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fretwire 0.6.0

Favorites, a backup that holds everything, and a pedal that follows the editor both ways.
Favorites now show up in the block picker and as a star on the chain, and they go into a device
backup along with user defaults. The backup itself got a round of fixes from an HX Stomp XL
owner's testing: it no longer drops records, walks empty slots, or flashes the pedal's
"Transferring data…" screen. Selecting a block in the GUI now moves the pedal's cursor, and
turning the pedal's encoder moves the GUI's selection.

32 commits since v0.5.1.

Favorites

The pedal's favorites are read at connect. They appear as their own category in the block
picker, adding one places the block and cab with the favorite's values, and a block that matches
a favorite is drawn with a star. User defaults need nothing from fretwire, since the pedal
applies them itself when a block is added. On the CLI: fretwire favorites and
fretwire add-favorite.

show-backup lists the favorites in an HX Edit .hxb. With --sections it prints the file's
section table, and it now always names any tag it doesn't recognise instead of silently skipping
it.

Device backup, format v4

  • Favorites and user defaults are backed up. Both have checkboxes in the GUI and flags on
    the CLI. A restore reports them as held in the file but doesn't write them back yet.
  • HX Edit's order, presets last. Settings, IRs, favorites and user defaults run first, so a
    backup you cancel partway through the preset sweep already has the rest (#18).
  • Unpopulated slots are left out, as HX Edit leaves them out. The sweep used to load each
    empty slot to read it, which read back a document the firmware generates on the fly. On one
    tester's pedal that meant 81 identical copies and 22 s of a 25 s backup, and a restore then
    wrote all 81 into flash (#5).
  • Replies that span frames are reassembled. Favorite listings, favorite records and the IR
    directory used to be read from their first frame only. That made a tester's 21 favorites back
    up as an empty list. A separate decoding bug skipped four records of exactly 138 bytes. Both
    are fixed, and a record that still can't be read is retried and then counted in the summary,
    so a gap is never silent (#5).
  • No more "Transferring data…" flash. Reading favorite records inside a transfer session
    put up the pedal's banner. They are now read outside it, as HX Edit reads them (#22).
  • A preset that reassembles but fails to parse is retried instead of aborting the backup.
  • The GUI's backup dialog now sends the user-defaults flag under the name Tauri expects. A new
    check compares every frontend call against the Rust signatures.
  • HX Stomp XL backups are recognised: its .hxb device ID came from an owner's file, so
    show-backup and hxb-convert accept it.

Selection follows both ways

Clicking a block in the GUI now moves the pedal's cursor, so the pedal's panel shows the same
block (#21). Turning the encoder on the pedal moves the GUI's selection in turn. The pedal's
parameter page can't be followed: the device neither reports it nor lets it be set.

Also

  • Tempo-synced blocks open again. A block with a tempo-sync group would highlight when
    clicked but never open its parameter panel, because of a script error introduced in 0.5.1.
  • The preset panel fills the window instead of stopping at 70% of its height (#20).
  • The routing grid always shows every column, so a new preset has room to place blocks.
  • Toasts and uncaught GUI errors go to the backend log, so a bug report doesn't have to be a
    screenshot.
  • Log colours only on a terminal. NO_COLOR is honoured, and the CLI has
    --color auto|always|never (#19).
  • The README is accurate about the reference data. Every live command needs it; only
    detect, tree, decode-edit, show-backup and backup-show run without it.

POD Go: in progress

Work on issue #15 continues at the tester's pace. So far this release has:

  • Load pricing for the models keyed by device suffix (this also prices the HX DL4 delays).
  • No synthetic Amp+Cab category, which the POD Go doesn't have and refuses to swap into.
  • Controller assignment sends POD Go Edit's own message body, which the pedal accepts where it
    refused the HX one. The source list now matches POD Go Edit's: None, FS1–FS8, EXP1/2 and
    Snapshots.

Controller assignment on a POD Go has not yet been confirmed on hardware.

Known limits

  • Serve mode has no TLS of its own; put it behind a tunnel or a proxy beyond a trusted LAN.
  • Favorites and user defaults are backed up but not restored.
  • POD Go: the IR directory is scanned rather than decoded.
  • Grid and routing planning is still DSP-0 only; the settings namespace is mapped in part;
    IR reorder is delete-and-re-upload.
  • No firmware, flash or DFU traffic, by design and permanently. See
    docs/safety.md.

Installing

Grab the .deb, .rpm, .AppImage or the Arch .pkg.tar.zst for the GUI, or the static
tarballs that run on any distro, x86-64 or arm64: fretwire-cli-* (the CLI),
fretwire-serve-* (the daemon, one file with the editor inside) and fretwire-mcp-*
(the MCP server). The deb, rpm and Arch package install the udev rule and the CLI alongside the
app; for the AppImage or the tarballs, install packaging/70-hxstomp.rules yourself and replug
the pedal.

On first run the app imports the model and preset reference data from your own HX Edit
installation (POD Go owners: from POD Go Edit). Nothing proprietary is shipped in these
packages, and nothing is sent anywhere unless you say yes to the update check.

Thanks

@rtsai, whose HX Stomp XL backups and six issues (#5, #18–#22) drove most of this release,
with a bug report for each problem found. @jamesremuscat, who keeps testing the POD Go on
#15.

Contributors

rtsai and jamesremuscat
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