Test build, on top of beta_93. Stable stays beta_85.
Flash it at flasher.wadamesh.com (switch the toggle to Beta), or update on the device if you have "Get test builds (beta)" turned on.
ThinkNode M9
- Newer M9s work (#662 by @Bfindlay, reported in #644 by @thejiraguy and on Discord). On the Meshtastic edition the keyboard controller answers at a different address, so on beta_93 and earlier no key did anything and the first setup screen could not be passed. Both addresses are found now.
- Their GPS gets a fix (#661 and #663 by @Thatindianbruh, measured on two units): the GPS on those units is switched on the other way round, and the firmware now picks it from the keyboard's address.
- Keys no longer type twice (#625) and the chat header fits its text (#627), both in @oumike's #628.
New
- Record your route. Map options > Record track saves where you go as a GPX file on the SD card (/meshcomod/tracks), the standard format other mapping software opens, with elevation and time. It keeps recording with the screen off, the map shows the route as a red line, and the corner shows the distance and climb while it records.
- The Reader is a library. Big text and markdown files on the SD card page through, 16 KB at a time, and Files opens web pages and long texts on the card in the Reader. A new desktop tool,
scripts/sdpack.py, turns EPUB books and text files into pages on the card with a library home page. - A failed SD card no longer costs your node its key. The device keeps a copy of the key in its own memory. A device that keeps its data on the card and starts without it says so and offers to try the card again, instead of opening first-time setup.
- Hashtags are links (#580 by @TerryTel93): tap #mesh, or select the message with keys, to open that channel or join it. The message menu gains Map, Web and Channel entries for the coordinates, web addresses and hashtags in a message.
- New board: Elecrow CrowPanel Advance 5.0 (#655 by @oumike, #651).
- Map options > Favorites only shows just your favourite contacts on the map, link lines included.
- Temperature in Fahrenheit (Settings > Display). What is stored and sent stays in °C.
- Contacts show their chat icon, the one you picked or the first emoji in the name (#649 by @oumike, asked for in #646 by @Jess-39).
- T-Deck Pro and Max text sizes: Normal, Large and Huge, as on the T-Deck (#645 by @oumike, asked for in #639 by @Jess-39).
- Pick your advert position on the map (#635 by @Confituurke).
- T-LoRa Pager: hold Fn and press Enter to paste the clipboard (#624 by @jcyrio).
- Web app: Reply on a channel message (#650 by @oumike, asked for in #642 by @Danie10).
- New in the Store: MECP, for emergency messages in the Mesh Emergency Communication Protocol. Pick a severity and the codes, add the number of people and your position, and post it to a channel; MECP messages you receive are shown in plain words. MECP and its code table are by xiang-dev-1.
- For app makers: a Store app can ship its own files, such as sounds, by listing them in its manifest (SDK guide). That is also the way to play sounds on the T-Display P4.
Fixes
- Radar widget: a tap opens the radar screensaver until you touch the screen, instead of flickering it. It also fits a two-cell space, and a full Home tells you how to make room.
- Advert widget readable again, laid out like the app tiles (#637, reported by @Flyflinger).
- Radio widget: no more line through its text.
- Chat icons: a text symbol (a star, a heart) shows as the icon (#647, reported by @Jess-39).
- Day mode: unread badge numbers are readable (#658 by @oumike). Keyboard: control keys have readable labels (#656 by @oumike).
- T-Display P4 Bluetooth can be switched on again when it was off at start-up (#612). Since beta_88 that failed every time, with a "not enough memory" message that was wrong; the message now says what really went wrong.
- T-Deck Pro and Max: control panel tiles stay visible when their service is off; the e-paper turned them white on white (#659, reported by @oumike).
- More from #628 by @oumike: A-Z sorts contacts by name and Select all takes every match (#605), channel region scope applies to every way of sending, phone app included (#614), compact chats fit emoji (#617), the cold-boot time sync over saved Wi-Fi is more reliable (#620), the Pager's backup Import dialog focuses Import (#603), the background shade stays put in a tall status bar, and the Wio Tracker L2 gets the clock settings and boot time sync.
- Login password field says it takes up to 15 characters: MeshCore logins carry no more than that, on the phone app too.
- Translations: wording fixes in Dutch, German and Hungarian (by @jcyrio), and this build's new texts in all 14 languages.
Heltec V4
- All translations are back, beta_93's and this build's included: the built-in table now keeps only the texts the firmware can actually show, which makes it 15 KB smaller than the table beta_93 carried.
Checked on a LilyGo T-Deck. Every other board builds. Please report what you find with "Send a test report" in Settings > About, or an issue here.