MarekZegare4/MeshCore-Solo v2.0-rc3

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MeshCore Solo Companion Firmware v2.0-rc3

The third release candidate for 2.0. Settings carry over from rc1 and rc2; coming from 1.x, read the v2.0-rc1 notes first.

What's new

• The settings the phone app had to itself are on the device, on every screen:
  • Privacy: whether your adverts carry your position, and how exactly (Exact, or rounded to about 100 m, 500 m or 1 km, on a fixed grid so many adverts can't be averaged back to the spot); a fixed position, typed in or taken from a waypoint; who may ask for your status, location and sensors; the Bluetooth PIN. Precision contributed by @pmow.
  • Adding contacts: all heard nodes or only some types, up to how many hops, and whether to replace the oldest when the list is full.
  • Advanced radio, at the end of Radio: path hash size, double ACK, listen before talk, interference threshold, RX boost, RX delay and airtime.
  • Per contact, in a node's options (the node card on the L2): who may ask for its telemetry, reset its path, share it with the nodes nearby.
  • Factory reset in Settings › System, asked twice.
• A console. The phone app's console and the site's USB tools take upstream MeshCore's companion commands (get radio, set tx, set name ...) plus a key for every setting: keys lists them, get and set read and change them as the Settings screen shows them.
• QR codes: of this manual, and of your contact for another phone to add. Status › System, Enter (Settings › About on the L2).
• A conversation opens on its first unread message, under a "New" line, and reads down to the newest. Messages that arrive while the screen is dark or locked stay unread until you see them.
• A fourth Wio Tracker L1 E-ink build, for a 4.26" 800 × 480 panel (WioTrackerL1Eink426, Good Display GDEQ0426T82), laid out like the 4.2", with Text size and Icon size in Settings › Display. Contributed by @pmow.
• OLED and E-ink:
  • Nearby › Map: the nodes with a position and you on one view; Left / Right picks a node, Up / Down zooms on it.
  • A calendar in Clock tools: the month, today and the alarm's days.
  • Cursor mode in the keyboard marks the place between letters instead of pushing the text apart, and keeps the keys in view; Up / Down move a word.
  • CardKB keys typed during an E-ink refresh aren't lost any more. Contributed by @pmow.
• Wio Tracker L2: a Message banner switch in Settings › Display.

Fixes

• Sending no longer stutters while the contact list is saved: contacts and paths are written a while after a change, never while you are typing.
• The clock survives a power loss: it is saved every 30 minutes and restored on the next start.
• A hashtag channel's favourite tile showed its name with two #.