Replace raw dict dumps and debug-style prints with consistent
themed output using >>> / <<< markers and formatted responses.
Quiet TxDone noise, dim status messages, and align all output
with the 2-space indent used by RX packet lines.
New layout:
- Mode box (left): RX/TX indicator with vertical separator
- Title box (right): 'DongLoRa v{ver}' + radio settings (freq/bw/sf/cr)
- Centered info rows: packet counters + RSSI/SNR with labels
- Sparkline bar graph fills remaining height
- Idle state returns to splash screen (active screen only for RX/TX)
- Layout positions derived from display dimensions (h/w agnostic)
- RSSI history buffer doubled to 128 slots (~2 min at 1s/slot)
- Smart compact_count() formatting for large RX/TX counters (k/M)
The rightmost graph bar now renders the current (uncommitted) time
slot, so incoming packets appear on the sparkline instantly instead
of waiting up to 1 second for the slot timer to commit them. When
the slot advances, the live bar shifts left into committed history
and a fresh live slot begins.
build-std=core,alloc was globally enabled in .cargo/config.toml, which
conflicted with cargo-fuzz's own -Zbuild-std, causing duplicate core
errors. Now only passed for Xtensa targets via the Justfile.
New protocol command (tag 8): GetMac returns the board's 6-byte hardware
address. Useful when multiple dongles are connected to one host.
Response (tag 6): MacAddress containing 6 raw bytes.
Updated: PROTOCOL.md, CHANGELOG, donglora.py decoder, all_commands.py.
- 8 new interop tests cross-validating our COBS encoder/decoder against
corncobs (including 500 random payloads). Total: 39 tests.
- New: src/board/PORTING.md — step-by-step guide to adding a new board
- New: crates/donglora-cobs/README.md — documents design choice and testing
- Updated README with lora_bridge.py example
Every board's Board struct now implements the LoRaBoard trait, which
enforces that NAME, TX_POWER_RANGE, init(), and mac_address() are all
provided. Missing any of these is a compile error — no "good intentions"
needed.
The trait verifies metadata and initialization. Tasks use the board's
concrete types directly (Embassy tasks must be concrete). Board-specific
type aliases (RadioDriver, UsbDriver, DisplayI2c) and struct definitions
(RadioParts, UsbParts, DisplayParts) remain in each board file.
- New: src/board/traits.rs (LoRaBoard trait definition)
- Modified: all 3 board files (implement trait, remove standalone constants)
- Modified: main.rs (import trait for init)
- Modified: radio/task.rs (use Board::TX_POWER_RANGE via trait)
- Modified: display/task.rs (use Board::NAME via trait)
- Modified: build.rs (exclude traits.rs from board discovery)
- Removed: embedded-hal-async direct dep (not needed for trait approach)
Board init: all .unwrap() → .expect() with diagnostic messages.
Vext/reset forget(): documented why pin must stay in output state.
Fixed LoRa params (PREAMBLE_LEN, CRC_ON, etc.): documented as
intentionally non-configurable.
Watch capacity: documented that display sees latest state only.
Config response (GetConfig) now returns decoded RadioConfig fields instead
of raw hex. New all_commands.py exercises all 8 protocol commands in
sequence — Ping, SetConfig, GetConfig, StartRx, StopRx, Transmit,
DisplayOff, DisplayOn.
If Transmit included a per-packet config with different bandwidth/SF,
the radio would silently switch parameters when resuming RX. Now uses
state.config (the config from SetConfig) for post-TX RX restart.
All examples now catch serial.SerialException instead of crashing with
a traceback. This covers port contention (multiple processes), device
disconnect, and USB errors. meshcore_rx.py already had this.
Extract COBS encoder/decoder into a separate no_std workspace crate
(crates/donglora-cobs) with comprehensive tests against the Cheshire &
Baker 1999 IEEE/ACM specification and Wikipedia canonical vectors.
Tests cover: empty input, single/multiple zeros, block boundaries at
254/255 bytes, alternating patterns, the Ping regression case (tag 0x00),
round-trip verification, and error cases (truncation, unexpected zeros).
Replace inline cobs_decode() in usb/task.rs with the tested crate.
Replace external cobs dependency with workspace crate.
Fix encoder bug at 254-byte block boundary (spurious trailing code byte).
to_sf() relied on the catch-all _ => _7 to handle SF=7, and to_cr()
relied on _ => _4_5 for CR=5. Both work by accident but are misleading
— a reader would think SF=7 and CR=5 are unhandled. Make them explicit.
The cobs_decode() function had a bogus 'strip trailing zero' step that
removed the last byte if it was 0x00. The Ping command IS tag byte 0x00,
so its decoded payload was stripped to empty, causing from_bytes to return
None. The COBS standard algorithm doesn't produce spurious trailing zeros
— the post-processing was simply wrong.
Also fix read_frame to skip bare 0x00 sentinels on fresh USB connects.
Splash/waiting screen now shows:
Row 1: "DongLoRa" (bold)
Row 2: "Board Name vX.Y.Z"
Row 3: MAC address (XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX)
Row 4: "Waiting for host..."
Each board reads its MAC at init:
- ESP32-S3: efuse MAC via esp_hal::efuse::Efuse::mac_address()
- nRF52840: FICR device address registers
BoardInfo struct bundles name/version/mac to keep dashboard() under
clippy's argument limit.
Remove all varint/zigzag encoding. Every field is now struct.pack/unpack
with fixed-size little-endian format strings. RadioConfig is a single
struct.pack('<IBBBHB', ...) call. Response decoding uses struct.unpack_from
with known offsets. No encoding helpers needed beyond struct.
Drop postcard and serde dependencies entirely. All integers are now
fixed-width little-endian on the wire — no varints, no zigzag encoding.
A developer sending tx_power_dbm=14 sees 0x0E on the wire. No surprises.
- RadioConfig: 10 bytes fixed (freq:4 LE, bw:1, sf:1, cr:1, sync:2 LE, pwr:1)
- Commands/Responses: tag byte + fixed-size fields
- Vec<u8>: 2-byte LE length prefix + raw bytes
- Option<T>: 1-byte (0=None, 1=Some) + T
- COBS framing preserved (just byte-stuffing, no encoding tricks)
- Manual COBS decode replaces postcard's CobsAccumulator
- Removes ~15KB from firmware binary (no serde monomorphization)
- Each board exports TX_POWER_RANGE constant (min, max dBm)
- RadioConfig::validate() uses the board's range, not hardcoded limits
- TX_POWER_MAX sentinel (-128 on the wire) means "use board's maximum"
— resolved to the actual max before storing config
- GetConfig returns the resolved actual power, not the sentinel
- Default configs in examples use TX_POWER_MAX
- Protocol docs updated
ROOT CAUSE: postcard encodes u8 and i8 as raw bytes, NOT varint/zigzag.
The Python encoders used varint() for u8 and zigzag() for i8. For small
values this was silently correct (varint(7) == raw byte 7), but for
tx_power_dbm: zigzag(14) = 28, which the new validation correctly
rejected as out of range (-9..22). This was a pre-existing bug masked
by the absence of validation.
Fix all RadioConfig field encoders in both donglora.py and meshcore_rx.py.
Fix docs/PROTOCOL.md to correctly document i8 as raw byte, not zigzag.
Restore full config validation.
MeshCore is a protocol implementation ON TOP of DongLoRa, not part of the
dongle itself. Moving it to examples/ makes the separation clear while
keeping it accessible as a real-world usage example.
CodingRate was an enum with repr(u8) values that didn't match postcard's
wire encoding (variant index). Instead of papering over the mismatch,
make cr a plain u8 in RadioConfig. Host sends the denominator directly:
5 for CR 4/5, 6 for CR 4/6, etc. No lookup tables, no index confusion.
Remove CodingRate enum, cr_denom() helper, and the Bandwidth import that
was only needed for cr_denom. ErrorCode repr values also fixed to 0-based.
Firmware:
- fix(protocol): SNR type i8→i16 to match lora_phy PacketStatus
- fix(display): combine splash + waiting into one screen
- fix(display): move TX power to row 0 right-justified
- feat(display): sparkline distinguishes TX from RX — TX bars are dotted
(alternating pixel rows), RX bars are solid. TX-only slots show a short
marker. TX takes precedence over RX in the same time slot.
Host tool (tools/meshcore_rx.py):
- feat: full MeshCore packet decoder with colored ANSI output
- feat: GRP_TXT decryption using 276 channels from channels.csv
- feat: Watchman loop/collision reporter to #watchman
- feat: ADVERT-informed node registry with 12h TTL persistence
- feat: transport code fallback for older MeshCore firmware
- fix: robust error handling for long-running operation
- fix: collision detection uses evidence-based reasoning from advert cache
Channel directory (tools/channels.csv): 276 channels
Test corpus (corpus/): JSON Schema, 28 hand-crafted vectors, Hypothesis generator
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