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Plai v1.7

Standalone Meshtastic communicator for M5Stack CardPuter ADV.
No phone. No BLE. No WiFi. LoRa mesh communication with full on-device UI.

What's New

Power Saving

• Display sleep — Screen turns off when idle to save power
• Skip UI when sleeping — No UI updates while display is off; wake on keypress or radio activity
• Improved main task wait — More efficient idle handling during sleep
• Display blink fix — Fixed power-on display blink behavior
• Volume and brightness callbacks — Moved to callback-based handling for better integration

Nodes

• Persistent favorites and ignored lists (#1) — Favorites and ignored nodes stored in NodeDB, survive node database resets
• Ignore nodes — Mark nodes as ignored to filter their traffic
• Exchange position and node info — New hotkeys [P] and [N] for exchange position and node info dialogs
• Node name centering — Node names centered in chat views
• Node name helpers — Added helpers for node name display
• Initial [CTRL] state — Fixed initial state when holding CTRL in node views
• Traceroute navigation — PageUp/PageDown in traceroute log and details
• Role fix — Fixed missing role in node info display
• Config-based node rendering — Use config for our node rendering vs node_db

Mesh & Compatibility

• Meshtastic UserId alignment (#2) — UserId now uses same MAC-based scheme as Meshtastic (!xxxx97cc) for consistent identity across firmware flashes and backups
• Packet decoding fix — Fixed decoding of our packets when relayed by other nodes
• Node info response — Respond with node info only when packet was for us
• Force info broadcast — Restored logic for forcing node info broadcast on settings change
• ROUTING error codes — Added correct mesh error codes for ROUTING packets

Monitor

• Packet payload refactor — Refactored packet payload handling and display
• ROUTING error details — Extended error codes and details for ROUTING packets
• Packet payload details — Added packet payload details in monitor view
• Implicit ACK logging — Log implicit ACKs in monitor
• Keyboard control — Improved keyboard navigation in details view

Settings

• Position settings — Fixed position settings; added "location = off" option
• Scroll position — Fixed back item scroll position in settings
• Input validation — Fixed UTF-8 input string size validation (bytes vs chars) in dialogs
• Import settings fix — Apply LoRa/mesh configuration correctly after successful import

Refactoring

• Timezone apply — Refactored timezone application logic
• GPS fix — Refactored GPS fix from polling to callback-based
• Code cleanup — Added helpers to simplify code