twislaandClaude Opus 5.5
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Settings had grown to 21 rows in one list. It opens on five groups (This device, Display, GNSS and radio, Network, System); Enter opens one, Back returns to the groups, and Back from the groups leaves Settings. SettingsMenu holds the groups and which one is open (host-tested: every setting is in exactly one group). The guide, the how-tos, the README, the scripts' messages and the firmware's own name the new paths, such as "Settings > System > Firmware". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0162FokPdvY2KsS4NBfwyWPk
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+++ title = "Settings" description = "The device's names, region, screen, sound, GNSS, Wi-Fi and VPN, and where firmware updates are found." weight = 11 [extra] tag = "Settings" +++
Settings opens on five groups. Enter opens a group, and Back returns to the groups; Back from the groups leaves Settings.
Inside a group, move with the arrows. On a toggle, a choice or a slider, left and right change the value; Enter opens a text field or a list of choices, or a page marked >.
This device
| Setting | What it is |
|---|---|
| Long name, Short name | The names you gave in the first-start Setup (up to 39 bytes, and up to 4 characters) |
| Region | The regulatory region; EU868 |
| Timezone | For the clock and the dates in file names |
| Sound & LED | The beep and the flash on a Toast |
Display
| Setting | What it is |
|---|---|
| Brightness | A slider |
| Dim after, Screen off after | Screen timeouts. Dimming must come before the screen turns off |
| Theme | The colours of every screen: roro9stack (the website's), Catppuccin, Dracula, Nord, ANSI terminal, Gruvbox or Solarized |
| Light or dark | Which side of the theme: every one has both |
| Launcher | The home screen as a Grid of icons or a List of names (see The basics) |
GNSS and radio
| Setting | What it is |
|---|---|
| GNSS | Switches the receiver on and off (see GNSS) |
| Pause GNSS for LoRa | Puts the receiver on standby while the radio listens (see LoRa Scanner) |
| Coordinates | Decimal degrees, or degrees, minutes and seconds |
| Probe MACs | Whether the Wi-Fi Tools' logs of probe requests keep the addresses as they are (Raw) or Pseudonymised |
Network
| Setting | What it is |
|---|---|
| Wi-Fi | The page below |
| VPN | A WireGuard tunnel: its switch, "Start with Wi-Fi", and importing its configuration from the card. See VPN |
System
| Setting | What it is |
|---|---|
| Check for updates | Once a day, see Updates |
| Firmware | The page described in 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. Leave it off if that means nothing to you |
| About | The firmware version, the node number, battery, memory, uptime, clock and licence |
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi on its own page switches the radio on and off. The page also has:
- Status: whether it is searching, joining, or connected, and to what.
- Add a network: scans, lets you pick one, and asks for the password (leave it empty for an open network). Add a hidden network asks for the name first.
- DNS and NTP: see below.
- Your saved networks. The device joins one on its own whenever it is in range, the strongest first. Enter on a network opens its page.
An address by hand
A network normally gives the device its address by itself (DHCP, Automatic). On a network without DHCP, open its page and set IP address to Fixed: then it takes an address, a prefix (24 is 255.255.255.0) and an optional gateway. Switching to Fixed starts from what the network is giving the device at that moment, and the setting is checked and applied when you leave the page. IPv4 only. Forget this network is on the same page.
DNS and NTP
Two DNS servers (9.9.9.9 and 1.1.1.1 by default), used on Fixed networks, or on every network if Always use my DNS is on; and two NTP servers (pool.ntp.org and time.cloudflare.com), used after any that the network's DHCP offers. Enter on Status shows what is in use and where each value came from.
The keys, as the device lists them
What Fn + h shows on these screens. These tables are generated from the firmware's own lists, so they are always the current ones.
{{ keys(scopes=["settings", "settings-choice", "wifi", "wifi-servers", "wifi-network", "wifi-status", "wifi-scan", "wifi-name", "vpn", "debug-console"]) }}
Themes
A theme changes the colours and nothing else: the fonts and the layout stay. It applies at once, to every App, and is kept across restarts.
The screen shows 256 colours, so a theme here is the nearest the screen can do to the palette it is named after, not an exact copy: pale backgrounds turn white or cream, and dark ones turn a deep blue or olive. Each theme is checked for contrast after that rounding.
Three things keep their own colours whatever the theme: the SSH terminal (the 16 colours a remote program asks for), the Sweep's waterfall (its colours are a scale of signal strength), and pictures.