One firmware: the Debug Console in every build, off until switched on, with the device's own token
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There is no Debug Build any more (ADR 0010, issue #68, Q188 to Q195). The
console and the test commands are compiled into every firmware. It listens
only while Settings > Debug Console is on, which isn't the default; off,
neither its task nor its 4 KB ring exists. The token is made by the device
and shown on that page; a client proves it knows it by answering a challenge
with an HMAC, so it never crosses the network, and five wrong answers close
the console for a minute. DBG in the Status Bar while it listens.

Over USB serial only: debug on, debug token <value>, debug token new.
scripts/flash.sh --debug uses them to set a device up with the developer's
token. scripts/rdbg.py takes the token from -t, $RORO_DEBUG_TOKEN or the
file, answers the challenge, and fetches a release's ELF to decode a crash.

Gone: the cardputer-adv-debug environment, RORO_DEBUG, the +debug version,
scripts/debug_flags.py, update install ... force, and the rule that a Debug
Build doesn't install releases. Old clients and old firmwares don't talk to
each other.

Against the builds it replaces: 30 KB more flash and 88 bytes more static
RAM than the release, 4 KB less RAM than the Debug Build. 468 host tests.
Checked on the device: off by default, login, the pause after wrong tokens,
Safe Mode with the console, the setting surviving an update, debug off.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EhqxQ49eCju4CzKYNjZzwT
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| `97%` | The battery (in the warning colour at 15% and under) |
| `SD` | A card is in; the warning colour at 80% full |
| bars and `W` | Wi-Fi connected, with its signal; `W?` is searching; `MON` is the Wi-Fi radio in its monitoring mode, which pauses IRC |
| `DBG` | The Debug Console is switched on (Settings → Debug Console); brighter while a PC is connected to it |
| `REC` | A GNSS Track is being recorded |
| `CAP` | A LoRa capture is being recorded |
| `L` | The radio is listening; it lights up for a moment on each packet. `SW` while a Sweep runs |
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| **Wi-Fi** | The page below |
| **Check for updates** | Once a day, see [Updates](/guide/updates/) |
| **Firmware** | The page described in [Updates](/guide/updates/) |
| **Debug Console** | Off unless you switch it on. It lets a PC on the same network read the device's console and drive it, with a token shown on this page: see [the developer docs](/dev/debug/switch-it-on/). Leave it off if that means nothing to you |
| **About** | The firmware version, the node number, battery, memory, uptime, clock and licence |
## Wi-Fi
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## For developers
Updates can also be pushed from a PC over Wi-Fi, with `scripts/flash.sh --ota <ip>`, or put on the card with `scripts/sd_put.sh`: see the [README](https://git.twis.la/twisla/roro9stack#firmware-updates-over-wi-fi-ota). **Debug Builds** show the latest release but do not install it, because a release has no debug console: update a Debug Build from the PC.
Updates can also be pushed from a PC over Wi-Fi, with `scripts/flash.sh --ota <ip>`, or put on the card with `scripts/sd_put.sh`: see the [README](https://git.twis.la/twisla/roro9stack#firmware-updates-over-wi-fi-ota). The firmware's console can be reached over Wi-Fi too: see [The Debug Console](/dev/debug/).