The SSH App opens one session to a shell, over libssh (LibSSH-ESP32 5.10.0)
on mbedTLS. A server is trusted the first time on its fingerprint, and a
changed key is a warning with Cancel selected. The password is typed each
time and kept nowhere; or the device makes itself an Ed25519 key, whose
public half is shown, written to /ssh/id_ed25519.pub and printed by
`ssh status`.
lib/term is the terminal: what a shell, less, top, nano and vim send, with
sixteen colours, scroll regions, the alternate screen and 100 lines of
scrollback. Five text sizes with Ctrl and + or -, from 60x20 to 26x8, told
to the far end. The session goes on when the App is left; SSH shows in the
Status Bar. `ssh user@host` in the Shell opens the App.
Also:
- Keys that aren't characters carry Shift, Ctrl and Alt. The terminal needs
it, and it makes Ctrl+Fn+up/down in a note and Shift+Tab in Gemini work
from the real keyboard.
- IRC doesn't try to connect under 60 KB free: started with a session open,
its TLS handshake took the heap down to 236 bytes.
- libssh's own curve25519 is left out of the build (scripts/libssh_filter.py):
libsodium's has the same names.
Costs 292 KB of flash and about 50 KB of heap while a session is open; not
started under 75 KB free.
Docs: guide page, how-to, FAQ, home page, Status Bar, SD card folders, the
memory how-to, README, glossary, N1 notes with Q254 to Q266 and the checks.
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A release downloads straight into the inactive slot through the existing
install path: the signature is checked after 160 bytes, before anything
is written, the hash at the end. Tried on the device against the real
server: a download cut short, a flipped byte in the signature and one in
the image are each refused with the running firmware untouched; the real
v0.10.0 installed, restarted, and confirmed itself on Probation.
A TLS connection to Gitea peaks at about 52 KB of heap whether or not the
certificate is verified. With IRC connected (66 KB free) a check left 3 KB
and a download 836 bytes. A check, list or install a person asks for now
makes IRC step aside (holdForUpdate) and come back after: the lowest free
heap during a full download with IRC connected is 38 KB. The daily check
never interrupts IRC; with IRC up it waits. A TLS connection starts with
80 KB free (it was 55).
Debug Builds get test knobs: update probe <host>, update damage cut|flip,
update pretend <version>.
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A Counted<> wrapper around the network clients adds what goes through
their buffer read and write to a per-service counter (IRC, Gemini, Debug
Console, Updates); the single-byte calls and print() end up there, so
each byte counts once. `net` prints the totals. For TLS it's the plain
text the service sees.
Checked on the device: a Gemini fetch counts 164,986 in (a 164,970-byte
page and its 16-byte header) and 42 out (the URL and CRLF).
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IrcService::disconnect() stops the session from any state: QUIT if
connected, then no more retries. /quit goes through it (before, it only
stopped a connected session; while waiting for Wi-Fi or retrying it did
nothing), and so does the new `irc stop` command. Stopped by hand,
opening the IRC App no longer reconnects; typing a line does.
mDNS is gone: it never crossed the dev box's routed network, and it
cost about 7.5 KB of RAM. Pushes go to the IP shown in Settings ->
Firmware, which drops its Name row. OTA Q54 records the change.
On the device, Debug Build: 105.6 KB free with Wi-Fi (was 98); with IRC
on TLS 54 KB free (was 46); after `irc stop`, back to 99 KB.
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The IRC App edited the live config while the IRC task could be reading
it to connect. The App now edits a copy; applyConfig() validates it and
swaps it in under the lock, and the task connects from a snapshot.
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- Chat: header (Buffer n/N, unread elsewhere, topic or connection
state), wrapped hh:mm <nick> lines (own in accent, Mentions green,
info grey), input line; Tab cycles Buffers, Fn+Up/Down scrolls back,
Enter sends, Back leaves while the IRC Service keeps running
- /settings: server form (host, port, TLS, self-signed pinning, nick,
SASL, NickServ, auto-join); Save & reconnect restarts the session
- Opening the App starts the IRC Service; viewing a Buffer clears its
unread count; IrcSession gains a revision counter for redraws
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- IrcService: networking on its own task, TLS with the built-in CA
bundle (or trust-on-first-use pinning when self-signed is allowed),
plain TCP when TLS is off; connects only while Wi-Fi is Connected,
marks pauses for Monitoring, reconnects with backoff, pings a quiet
server, writes Logs, raises Notifications for Mentions
- Session: forget /quit once disconnected (it was handled every loop);
the server Buffer never counts as unread (MOTD showed as [4])
- Status Bar: unread count
- Frame buffer 16 -> 8-bit colour (M1 Q46): min free heap with IRC on
TLS went from 51 KB to 79 KB
- Serial: irc start / say / dump
Verified on the device against irc.libera.chat:6697: certificate
checked, joined #roro9stack-test, sent a message, quit cleanly.
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