Tab used to complete a command's first word only. It now follows the help
text word by word: `lora st` gives `lora status`, `gnss track ` lists
`start stop`. The words are read from the help text as written, so a new
command completes with no table to keep; the Shell's own words are added in
the same notation.
`*` and `?` in the last part of a path, for ls, du, rm, cp and mv, from the
Shell and both consoles. The command runs once for each name matched, lined
up and run by the main loop as each finishes; `cancel` empties the line-up.
64 matches at most, refused whole past that. In the Shell, rm with a pattern
asks once, with the count.
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Past the command's name, Tab completes the word being typed as a path: a
folder keeps its slash to go on from, a file completed whole gets a space,
several candidates are listed. Any case typed, the name's own is taken.
After a file command the first slash is understood (`cat no` is /no).
The folder is read on the storage task, bounded to 400 entries looked at
and 24 candidates.
489 host tests (2 new). Checked on the device: a folder, a file inside it,
several candidates, no slash, another case, nothing matching.
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The Shell shows the replies to its own commands and nothing else. The
console knows who each line is printed for (Console::As, Console::origin):
a command run from the Shell prints as the Shell's, and what answers it
later from another task carries that along (ls, tasks, du, cp, update
check, sd list, screenshot, gemini get). Ctrl+b shows everything instead.
This replaces the ten-second window, which was a guess.
An App's name with a capital opens it (Notes, Irc, Wifi, Gnss, Gemini, Lora,
Storage, Shell, System, Settings), from the Shell and from the consoles.
rm needs -r for a folder, here and over the consoles. In the Shell a file,
or a folder with something in it, is asked about unless -f; an empty folder
with -r goes without a word.
The Shell now hands its line to the main loop to run: run from inside the
key handler, rm on a folder overflowed the loop's stack and crashed the
device. `info` says which App is in front.
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An App in the Launcher that runs the same commands as USB serial and the
Debug Console, trusted like the first. It shows what the console prints
while it is open, through a second ring of the console's that exists only
meanwhile; Ctrl+b keeps only what follows your own commands. Tab completes
a command's name from the firmware's help text, Fn with up and down recalls
earlier lines, Alt with up and down scrolls back. `rm` asks first in the
Shell, `rm -f` doesn't. Nothing is kept once the App is left.
`screenshot [seconds]` saves the screen as a PNG in /screenshots on the
card, now or after a pause: written a row at a time, indexed colour with
RGB332 as the palette, in one stored deflate block.
487 host tests (11 new: the PNG writer, the Shell's log filter, Tab).
Checked on the device over the Debug Console: commands, Tab, history, a
screenshot fetched and decoded on the PC, rm with and without the question,
a delayed screenshot of another screen. 12 KB of flash; 7 KB of heap while
open. Decisions Q204 to Q212 in docs/milestones/S1.md. Safe Mode: #77.
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Debug Builds: `lora noise test` changes one thing at a time, Sweeps the
band, and reports the floor under each condition; it runs on the device
by itself, since one condition pauses Wi-Fi (not saved, so a restart
brings it back). Result, at 125 kHz: -117 dBm with the antenna switched
off, -106 with the GNSS receiver in standby, -98 with it running. The
receiver's serial line isn't it (one sentence a second changes nothing),
and neither are the main loop, the CPU frequency, Wi-Fi, the screen or
the radio's own regulator, all within 1 dB.
Settings > "Pause GNSS for LoRa", off by default: the receiver waits in
standby while the radio listens or sweeps, except during a Track, and
has a Fix again about 7 s after. The GNSS App says it's paused.
11 dB remain between the antenna with GNSS quiet and the chip alone,
untouched by anything that can be switched from the firmware.
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It made 50,000 passes a second and kept core 1 100 % busy at rest. Keys
are buffered by the keyboard controller, the consoles and the radio have
their own tasks, and no Service ticks more often than every 50 ms, so
the loop now rests 5 ms after a pass with the screen on and 20 ms with
it off; never during a serial file transfer. Safe Mode's loop too.
Screen off: 50 passes a second and core 1 at 1 %; screen on: 167 and
10 %. The chip settles 4 C cooler (34.3 against 38.3). GNSS, Gemini, an
upload, the Sweep and the radio's interrupt all checked at the new pace.
`tasks` shows the loop's passes; Debug Builds: `loop spin on|off`.
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Five views, Tab between them: Overview (each core's load, memory,
traffic, battery, two minutes of load), Tasks (share of a core over the
last second, lowest free stack, flagged under 512 bytes; `s` sorts),
Memory (free heap against the floors of Q86), Network (bytes per
service, and what's moving now), System (what `info` prints, plus
battery, card, radio, GNSS). It samples once a second and keeps history
only while open.
The arithmetic is host-tested, including the trap found on the device: a
task's run-time counter only moves when it's switched out, so the task
that samples (the main loop, alone on its core) gets what's left of its
core. `tasks` now samples across a second of normal running instead of
inside its own wait. The main loop uses 100 % of core 1 at rest (#40).
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Enter on a Saved Network opens its page instead of asking to forget it:
"IP address" switches between Automatic and Fixed, with an address, a
prefix and an optional gateway. Fixed starts from what the network is
giving the device; the draft is checked and applied on leaving the page,
so a half-typed address is never used. "DNS and NTP" holds the two DNS
servers, "Always use my DNS" and the two NTP servers. Enter on Status
shows the connection's details and where each value came from. Address
fields take digits and dots only; refusals show as Toasts.
Checked on the device through the screens: Fixed 10.39.39.13 applied and
reverted to Automatic, a prefix of 99 refused. Measurements in
docs/milestones/S1.md.
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The plan and decisions Q105 to Q116 (docs/milestones/S1.md). lib/net:
strict IPv4 parsing, prefix and mask, and the checks a Fixed setting must
pass, each refusal with its reason. A Saved Network is Automatic or Fixed
(address/prefix and an optional gateway), kept with it in flash. Settings:
two DNS servers (9.9.9.9, 1.1.1.1), "Always use my DNS", two NTP servers
(pool.ntp.org, time.cloudflare.com). Host-tested: 383 tests.
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