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The 1.0 Python mux, mirroring the Rust donglora-mux 1.0 one-for-one and implementing the full §13 multi-client semantics on the DongLoRa Protocol v2 wire format.
* Structural rewrite. donglora_mux/{daemon,intercept,session,tagmap}.py replace the 601-line __init__.py monolith.
* Tag-aware dispatch. TagMapper with skip-zero allocation and per-client bulk drop on disconnect. Multiple clients can have commands in flight concurrently; the single-oneshot response slot is gone.
* Full §13.2 multi-client SET_CONFIG semantics. Tracks (client_id, modulation) lock owner and synthesizes OK(APPLIED/MINE), OK(ALREADY_MATCHED/OTHER), or OK(LOCKED_MISMATCH/OTHER).
* TX loopback fan-out (§13.4). On TX_DONE(TRANSMITTED) the mux synthesizes an RX frame with origin = LOCAL_LOOPBACK for every connected client except the transmitter.
* Async ERR(EFRAME) fan-out: tag-0 framing errors are broadcast to all clients.
* Per-client TX cache on ClientSession so the loopback fan-out does not need the sender to re-buffer.
* Socket and serial fcntl.flock to prevent multiple mux instances from fighting over the same dongle or socket path.
* 500 ms keepalive matching PROTOCOL.md §3.4 (2x margin on the 1 s inactivity timer), replacing the 5 s cadence from 0.x.
* Clean SIGINT / SIGTERM shutdown: per-client handler tasks are tracked and cancelled, so blocked reader.read() calls no longer pin the event loop open.
DongLoRa Mux (Python)
USB multiplexer daemon — lets multiple applications share one DongLoRa
dongle simultaneously. Speaks the DongLoRa Protocol v2 wire protocol
(see PROTOCOL.md).
What It Does
- Owns the USB serial connection exclusively (flock-protected).
- Exposes a Unix domain socket and optional TCP listener speaking the DongLoRa Protocol v2 frame format.
- Tag-correlated solicited responses — concurrent commands from
multiple clients are routed back to the originator via a mux-allocated
device-tag map (
PROTOCOL.md §13.6). RXfan-out — every over-the-air RX is broadcast to all clients.- TX loopback (
§13.4) — a successful TX from one client is delivered to every other client as anRXevent withorigin = LOCAL_LOOPBACK. - Smart
SET_CONFIGarbitration (§13.2) — the first successful call locks the config; cross-client calls getALREADY_MATCHED/LOCKED_MISMATCHwith the lock owner's params echoed. A single connected client can still retune freely (scanner mode). RX_START/RX_STOPref-counting — the radio stays in RX as long as any client wants it.
Running
just run # start the mux daemon
just verbose # start with verbose logging
just run --tcp 5741 --port /dev/ttyACM0 # with options
Depends On
donglora(>= 1.0) — the Python client library. Provides the wire-level frame codec, event parsers, and USB discovery helpers this mux is built on.
Relationship to donglora-mux (Rust)
This package is a Python port of the Rust
donglora-mux daemon. The two
implementations are functionally equivalent — they speak the same
DongLoRa Protocol v2 wire protocol, implement the same §13.2 / §13.4 multi-client
semantics, and are drop-in interchangeable in front of the same dongle.
Pick whichever fits your ops environment:
- Rust (
cargo install donglora-mux) — single binary, no runtime deps, ~5 MB release build. Better for production / embedded Linux. - Python (
pip install donglora-mux) — easy to hack on, integrates with a Python toolchain, useful when Rust isn't an option.
If you find a behavioural divergence between the two, that's a bug — please file it.
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