MeshMonitor v1.18.0 - Auto Announce Automation

🎉 Major Features

Auto Announce Automation

A comprehensive automation feature for broadcasting periodic announcements to your mesh network.

• Configurable Intervals: Set announcement frequency from 3-24 hours (default: 6 hours)
• Token Replacement System: Dynamic content with live data
  • {VERSION} - MeshMonitor version
  • {DURATION} - Uptime formatted nicely (e.g., "2d 5h", "3h 15m")
  • {FEATURES} - Enabled automation features as emojis (🗺️ 🤖 📢)
  • {NODECOUNT} - Number of active nodes
  • {DIRECTCOUNT} - Number of direct nodes at 0 hops
• Manual Controls:
  • "Send Now" button for immediate announcements
  • "Announce on Start" option with 1-hour spam protection
• Last Announcement Tracking: See when the last announcement was sent with auto-refresh
• Channel Selection: Choose which channel to broadcast on

Automation Tab Improvements

• Moved Auto Traceroute from Settings to dedicated Automation tab
• Consolidated all automation features in one place
• Consistent UI/UX across all automation sections

✨ Enhancements

• Context Refactoring: Extracted UI state to UIContext for better state management (#127)
• Display Preferences: Added customizable display options (#128)
• Toast Notifications: Replaced alerts with toast notifications for better UX

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Active Nodes Query: Corrected timestamp comparison in getActiveNodes() - was comparing seconds to milliseconds causing 0 nodes to be returned
• Chart Flickering: Resolved chart re-rendering issues in map route popups (#132)
• Foreign Key Constraints: Fixed NodeInfo processing errors (#131)
• Package.json Import: Fixed Node.js compatibility using createRequire

🧪 Testing

• Added comprehensive test suite for token replacement (18 tests)
• All automation features thoroughly tested
• Improved test coverage across the codebase

📚 Full Changelog

Features

• feat: add auto-announce automation (#135)
• refactor: move auto-traceroute from Settings to Automation tab (#134)
• feat: add auto-acknowledge automation with timezone support (#133)
• feat: Add display preferences for v1.17.1 (#128)
• refactor: extract UI state to UIContext (Phase 5) (#127)

Bug Fixes

• fix: resolve chart flickering in map route popups (#132)
• fix: resolve foreign key constraint error in NodeInfo processing (#131)

Documentation

• Comprehensive PR reviews and documentation updates
• Added inline documentation for token replacement system

🚀 Deployment Notes

• Container Restart Required: Changes to auto-announce settings require a container restart to take effect
• Backward Compatible: All new features are disabled by default
• Database Migration: Automatic migration handles new settings

📦 Docker Images

Available on GitHub Container Registry:

docker pull ghcr.io/yeraze/meshmonitor:v1.18.0
docker pull ghcr.io/yeraze/meshmonitor:latest

🙏 Contributors

Special thanks to Claude Code for assistance with implementation, testing, and code reviews!

Full Diff: v1.9.3...v1.18.0

🚀 MeshMonitor v1.18.0

📦 Installation

Docker (recommended):

docker run -d \
  --name meshmonitor \
  -p 8080:3001 \
  -v meshmonitor-data:/data \
  ghcr.io/Yeraze/meshmonitor:v1.18.0

🧪 Testing

✅ All tests passed
✅ TypeScript checks passed
✅ Docker images built for linux/amd64, linux/arm64, linux/arm/v7

📋 Changes

See commit history for detailed changes.