HaloKeymind/docs/cli_build_matrix.md

CLI Availability by Firmware Build

MeshCore command availability is determined in three layers:

1. Role - repeater, room server, sensor, companion, bridge, or KISS modem.
2. Build profile - standard, logging, OTA, or FULL.
3. Compiled hardware features - WiFi, MQTT, GPS, external sensors, PSRAM, Ethernet, and similar optional support.

The complete command descriptions are in CLI Commands. This page describes the commands intentionally omitted or limited by build profile. The CLI Command Availability Matrix expands this summary into separate nRF52 and ESP32 command tables.

Selecting a build profile

The runtime settings profile and the feature profile are separate switches:

bash build.sh build-firmware RAK_3401_repeater \
  --profile cascade \
  --build-profile auto

--profile default|cascade selects saved-setting defaults. It does not select which code is linked. --build-profile auto|standard|full controls features and partition policy:

Selection	Behavior
auto	For one explicit target, pass 1 builds the complete supported LoRa-OTA-capable recipe. ESP32 boards with a qualified expanded profile use it; other repeaters attempt the complete recipe in their current application region. A measured flash/partition overflow starts the standard no_external_sensors LoRa OTA pass. Internal-flash nRF52 repeaters publish that reduced pass even when the complete image fits, because the smaller running image leaves more room to stage a delta; matched QSPI/SD repeaters do not need the redundant artifact. Compiler errors and missing-capability checks never trigger or conceal a reduced build. Canonical bulk commands keep their established standard partition contract.
standard	Immediately uses the deployed/portable partition contract and its documented reductions. This is useful when the operator already knows the expanded or complete image is unsuitable.
full	Requires a qualified ESP32 expanded-partition target (or an explicitly named Full Companion). Install a matching merged image when this changes the partition table.

Successful builds also emit <firmware>.capabilities.json. The sidecar records the effective profile, logical OTA target, actual PlatformIO base, artifact name target, promised capabilities, and every reduction selected by the script. The build fails if a promised linked marker is absent. Current invariants include retry.preset for repeater/room-server roles, WebConfig for the Indicator and ESP32 Full Companion, TempRadio/mOTA controls for Full Companion, and the advanced flood-rule engine for Full room servers. Resume mode will not accept an old or failed artifact without a verified sidecar.

Role comes first

Role	Text administration CLI
Repeater	Full repeater administration surface, subject to the profile differences below
Room server	Room-server administration surface, subject to the profile differences below
Sensor	Sensor command surface; it does not acquire the repeater administration tree
Serial, USB, BLE, or WiFi companion	Uses the companion protocol; any serial diagnostics are target-specific
KISS modem	Uses the KISS/TNC frame interface, not the repeater text CLI
Bridge	Uses its base role plus commands for the bridge transport compiled into that target

A command belonging to a different role is not considered a profile cut. For example, adding FULL features to a sensor does not turn it into a repeater administrator.

Repeater profiles use 254 neighbor entries across supported platforms. The classic T-Beam SX1262 and SX1276 MQTT observer repeaters are the exception and retain 50 because their MQTT discovery tables are constrained by internal DRAM.

Profile matrix

Build/profile	Command availability
Standard non-MQTT repeater or room server	Keeps the normal role CLI. The explicitly selected portable policy can omit WebConfig and browser WiFi OTA, so those commands are unavailable and the omission is recorded in the capability manifest.
Standard logging	Logging does not remove commands by itself. It has the same CLI as the selected role/profile and adds compiled logging behavior. CommonCLI roles persist get/set usb.logging. ESP32 roles covered by unified FULL and nRF52 Companions covered by dual-CDC Full Companion are not duplicated here.
LoRa-OTA (-ota-)	LoRa OTA adds the ota ... commands; it does not otherwise reduce the role CLI. ESP32 no_external_sensors artifacts retain the compact browser WiFi uploader, the complete CLI, and a 254-entry neighbor table.
Internal-flash nRF52 repeater auto pair	full-ota retains the board's external-sensor drivers; reduced-ota omits the declared optional sensors to leave additional internal-flash staging room. RAK3401 and RAK4631 reduced builds retain INA219, INA226, INA260, and INA3221 I2C voltage/current monitors at a measured 4,808-byte flash cost. Both artifacts carry the same stable OTA target identity and are checked for ota ... and retry.preset; RAK artifacts also verify the retained monitor drivers.
ESP32 MQTT observer or ESP-NOW bridge	Always uses the expanded FULL partition profile. The build never substitutes a reduced CLI to fit the legacy application slot.
FULL ESP32 USB + WiFi	Uses the matching MQTT target with packet logging on, verbose debug off, and the complete command surface supported by that role and hardware. get/set logging.output off|usb|wifi|both selects and persists the active output paths.
FULL ESP32 logging fallback	Uses the matching non-MQTT target only when no WiFi MQTT sibling exists, with debug and packet logging enabled and the complete command surface supported by that role and hardware. Its persistent USB gate also covers output-off operation, avoiding a second FULL ESP-NOW image.
Dual-CDC Full Companion	nRF52 and qualified native-USB ESP32-S3 Full images use one physical USB connection. Fresh installs expose only interface 00 for framed Companion/terminal/mOTA traffic. Enabling logging and rebooting adds interface 02 for plaintext logs. They also provide BLE and source-only LoRa OTA; ESP32 additionally provides WiFi. get/set usb.logging persistently controls whether the logging interface is present.
no_external_sensors	Removes optional external-sensor drivers and their settings; it does not remove core repeater discovery or routing commands. RAK3401 and RAK4631 profiles retain the four common INA I2C voltage/current monitors. GPS-preserving RAK nRF52 OTA profiles also retain their GPS commands and provider. The RAK4631 Serial1 RS232 bridge remains GPS-off because both features require Serial1. The legacy target suffix is retained for OTA identity compatibility.

logging, OTA, and FULL describe independent build features. Do not infer that a command is missing merely because logging appears in the filename.

Canonical bulk-build policy

Bulk and release-matrix commands omit legacy names whose behavior is already available from a canonical image:

• Companion _ps names are replaced by the ordinary Companion image plus the persisted powersaving on|off setting.
• Companion _femoff names are replaced by the matching controllable-FEM image plus radio.fem.rxgain on|off. The old names remain explicit build targets for compatibility.
• Station_G2_logging_* and Station_G3_ESP32_logging_* hardware names are replaced by their ordinary Station target. G2 boosted receive gain is the persisted radio.rxgain on|off setting; the G3 alias changed only the advertised default name.
• When a board has a dual-CDC Full Companion, that one artifact replaces its separate USB, BLE, ordinary WiFi, and USB packet-logging Companion artifacts. Current support includes nRF52 Full Companion plus qualified native-USB ESP32-S3 Full targets: Heltec V4, T-Beam 1W, Station G2/G3, XIAO S3 WIO, Heltec Tracker V2, Meshnology W12, and Nibble Screen/Zero Connect. RAK3112 and Heltec RC32 keep separate transport and logging artifacts pending live hardware validation. It provides BLE plus an always-present interface 00 for framed Companion/terminal/mOTA traffic. Enabling logging and rebooting adds interface 02 for plaintext logs. Its LoRa OTA support is source-only: it can serve a host file to another node but has no staging store and cannot update itself over LoRa.

The old aliases still work with build-firmware and build-matching-firmwares. Dedicated repeater LoRa OTA receiver images are not collapsed; they retain their exact storage, bootloader, role, and target identity contracts. ESP32 boards without the tested dual-CDC Full profile keep USB, BLE, WiFi, and Full Companion images separate because Full changes partitions, RAM use, active transports, and power behavior.

Complete CLI policy

The compact ESP32 CLI has been removed. retry.preset is a checked invariant for every repeater and room-server artifact, not a FULL-only command. MQTT observers and ESP-NOW bridges are automatically promoted to FULL builds with expanded partitions rather than dropping administration commands. This keeps tempradio, LoRa OTA, power saving, RXPS, logging, statistics, sensor, ACL, routing, and advanced radio commands whenever the role and compiled hardware support them.

Some commands still have hardware or feature limits. MQTT neighbor-table publishing and discover.scopes require the compiled WITH_MQTT_NEIGHBORS feature. PSRAM boards enable it automatically, and selected non-PSRAM variants opt in with MQTT_NEIGHBORS_WITHOUT_PSRAM. discover.neighbors does not require MQTT or PSRAM.

Discovery invariant

discover.neighbors sends the zero-hop node-discovery request used to refresh the repeater neighbor table. It is available in every repeater build profile, including standard, logging, OTA, unified FULL, and FULL logging-fallback builds.

The exact command is:

discover.neighbors

It accepts no options and returns:

OK - Discover sent

Some MQTT room-server targets also expose the command as part of their compiled neighbor-table feature. It is not a cross-role guarantee: companion, KISS, sensor, and ordinary room-server firmware use different interfaces or do not maintain the repeater administrator neighbor table.

Feature-dependent commands

Even in a FULL build, a command can be unavailable when its underlying feature does not exist on that target:

• WebConfig and the wifi.ssid, wifi.status, wifi.powersave, and wifi.cli command family require an ESP32 WebConfig build. FULL standalone repeater and room-server builds support the corresponding WiFi setters and status commands. ESP32 WiFi Companions with WebConfig expose WiFi credentials, connection status, WebConfig, CLI-tab, and power-save controls from their USB text terminal as well as power saving through WebConfig and the binary protocol. Full Companion additionally exposes its complete role-specific text terminal on TCP port 5002.
• MQTT commands require an MQTT observer target.
• discover.scopes requires an MQTT observer with compiled neighbor support; it does not independently require PSRAM or the FULL parser.
• GPS and external-sensor commands require their drivers and pins.
• Ethernet and bridge commands require the corresponding transport.
• LoRa OTA commands require an artifact with OTA enabled.
• uf2reset applies only to nRF52.

When diagnosing an unavailable command, check the role first, then the filename profile, then the target's compiled hardware features and its adjacent .capabilities.json file. A current artifact that promises the command but does not contain its linked marker is rejected during the build.