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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"
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description = "The device's names, region, screen, sound, GNSS, Wi-Fi and VPN, and where firmware updates are found."
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weight = 11
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[extra]
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tag = "Settings"
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Settings opens on five **groups**. <kbd>Enter</kbd> opens a group, and Back returns to the groups; Back from the groups leaves Settings.
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Inside a group, move with the arrows. On a toggle, a choice or a slider, left and right change the value; <kbd>Enter</kbd> opens a text field or a list of choices, or a page marked `>`.
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### This device
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| Setting | What it is |
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| **Long name**, **Short name** | The names you gave in the first-start Setup (up to 39 bytes, and up to 4 characters) |
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| **Region** | The regulatory region; EU868 |
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| **Timezone** | For the clock and the dates in file names |
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| **Sound & LED** | The beep and the flash on a [Toast](/guide/basics/) |
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### Display
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| Setting | What it is |
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| **Brightness** | A slider |
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| **Dim after**, **Screen off after** | Screen timeouts. Dimming must come before the screen turns off |
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| **Theme** | The colours of every screen: **roro9stack** (the website's), **Catppuccin**, **Dracula**, **Nord**, **ANSI terminal**, **Gruvbox** or **Solarized** |
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| **Light or dark** | Which side of the theme: every one has both |
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| **Launcher** | The home screen as a **Grid** of icons or a **List** of names (see [The basics](/guide/basics/#the-launcher)) |
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### GNSS and radio
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| Setting | What it is |
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| **GNSS** | Switches the receiver on and off (see [GNSS](/guide/gnss/)) |
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| **Pause GNSS for LoRa** | Puts the receiver on standby while the radio listens (see [LoRa Scanner](/guide/lora-scanner/)) |
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| **Coordinates** | Decimal degrees, or degrees, minutes and seconds |
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| **Probe MACs** | Whether the Wi-Fi Tools' logs of probe requests keep the addresses as they are (**Raw**) or **Pseudonymised** |
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### Network
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| Setting | What it is |
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| **Wi-Fi** | The page below |
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| **VPN** | A WireGuard tunnel: its switch, "Start with Wi-Fi", and importing its configuration from the card. See [VPN](/guide/vpn/) |
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### System
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| Setting | What it is |
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| **Check for updates** | Once a day, see [Updates](/guide/updates/) |
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| **Firmware** | The page described in [Updates](/guide/updates/) |
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| **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 |
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| **About** | The firmware version, the node number, battery, memory, uptime, clock and licence |
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## Wi-Fi
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**Wi-Fi** on its own page switches the radio on and off. The page also has:
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- **Status:** whether it is searching, joining, or connected, and to what.
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- **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.
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- **DNS and NTP:** see below.
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- **Your saved networks.** The device joins one on its own whenever it is in range, the strongest first. <kbd>Enter</kbd> on a network opens its page.
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### An address by hand
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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.
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### DNS and NTP
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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. <kbd>Enter</kbd> on **Status** shows what is in use and where each value came from.
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## The keys, as the device lists them
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What <kbd>Fn</kbd> + <kbd>h</kbd> shows on these screens. These tables are generated from the firmware's own lists, so they are always the current ones.
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{{ keys(scopes=["settings", "settings-choice", "wifi", "wifi-servers", "wifi-network", "wifi-status", "wifi-scan", "wifi-name", "vpn", "debug-console"]) }}
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## Themes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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