Crow Wiki

This repository is a documentation landing area for the Crow mesh messaging project.

Crow is the upgraded Raven mesh messaging platform for AREDN, APRS, Meshtastic, MeshCore, Winlink-style forms, and related mesh messages workflows.

Start here

• Home — main wiki landing page and full page index
• Change Log — Raven-to-Crow feature and documentation tracking
• Configuration — operator configuration overview
• Backend Configuration — backend selector and transport setup
• Configuring Channels — channel setup workflow
• Command Reference — user-facing slash commands

Bridges and backends

• APRS Bridge — APRS-IS, KISS TCP, APRS passcode, groups, and Part 97-safe behavior
• Backend Configuration — Meshtastic UDP/API, MeshCore UDP/API, APRS backend setup, mode examples, and backend validation
• Backend Selection and Test Deployment — backend selector and deployment validation
• LoRa Gateway Tags — outbound LoRa gateway tag format
• Meshtastic API Backend — experimental Meshtastic TCP Port-API backend notes
• MeshCore Backends — original MeshCore UDP backend, experimental TCP Companion API backend, selector behavior, and discovery limitations
• MeshCore TCP API Protocol Notes — protocol correction notes for stock MeshCore framing, message waiting sync, and discovery send TODOs
• Winlink — Winlink-style form UI, form storage, and current implementation notes

Storage and operations

• Memory Use — internal flash, RAM mode, USB persistent storage, degraded mode, and message-store storage behavior
• USB Storage — AREDN USB setup, /storage commands, image quota, and degraded-mode behavior
• Text Stores — Raven-style text stores / Crow node message stores
• Supernodes — AREDN supernode relay behavior and storage/bridge restrictions
• Strict Gatekeeper — fail-closed bridge filtering and Part 97 auto-forwarding guidance

Markdown file inventory

APRS.md
Backend-Configuration.md
Backend-Selection-and-Deployment.md
Change-Log.md
Command-Reference.md
Configuration.md
Configuring-Channels.md
Home.md
LoRa-Gateway-Tags.md
Meshtastic-API.md
MeshCore-Backends.md
MeshCore-TCP-API-Protocol-Notes.md
Memory-Use.md
Strict-Gatekeeper.md
Supernodes.md
Text-Stores.md
USB-Storage.md
Winlink.md
_Sidebar.md

Relationship to GitHub's built-in wiki

This repo, mathisono/Crow.wik, is a normal GitHub repository used as the writable documentation source.

GitHub's built-in wiki for the main Crow repo is a separate hidden wiki repository. Content here does not automatically appear at mathisono/Crow/wiki unless a sync job or manual push copies these Markdown files into the built-in wiki repo.

Maintenance

Keep these files in sync when adding or removing pages:

1. README.md — repo landing page
2. Home.md — wiki landing page
3. _Sidebar.md — GitHub wiki sidebar/navigation
4. Change-Log.md — documentation and behavior changes