thinknode_m8: initial support
adds some functionalities to ui_task and epddisplay:
epd display,
- supports screen off, and clear screen
- supports forcing full refresh every N partial refreshes (off by default, configured to 60 for M8)
ui_task
- UI_SHOW_CLOCK flag to display clock on first screen
- rotary button can act like joystick (with regards to Enter key), defaults to old config for existing nodes
- screen off on long press when using rotary button (very handy for the watch)
Introduced consistent preferences for external LoRa FEM RX and TX gain settings in NodePrefs. Updated companion MyMesh to apply these settings during initialization and transmission. Added unit tests to verify the round-trip serialization of these new preferences.
The room server never supported RX boosted gain, while the repeater
does. Three consequences on SX1262/SX1268 boards:
- boosted gain was never applied to the radio at boot, so a room server
ran in power-saving RX mode while an identical repeater ran boosted -
a real receive-sensitivity difference with nothing pointing at it
- _prefs.rx_boosted_gain was never initialised (the prefs are memset to
0 before defaults are set), so it defaulted to off
- 'set radio.rxgain on' replied "Error: unsupported" but CommonCLI had
already written the value to prefs and saved them, so a stale setting
survived reboot and was never applied
Mirror the repeater's implementation: initialise the pref default under
the same USE_SX1262/USE_SX1268 and SX126X_RX_BOOSTED_GAIN guards, apply
it during radio init, and override setRxBoostedGain() so the CLI reports
success and takes effect.
Built Heltec_v3_room_server (SX1262) and LilyGo_T3S3_sx1276_room_server
(guards compile out cleanly).
setTxTimeoutMs() and setTxBufferSize() are HWCDC-only APIs; calling
them on HardwareSerial (UART-bridge boards like T-Beam) fails to compile.
Co-Authored-By: Adam Gessaman <adam@gessaman.com>
Switch ESP32-S3 KISS modem environments to HWCDC and move outbound KISS writes to a non-blocking queued frame path so loop() and TX completion keep progressing when the host reads slowly. Add native backpressure regression tests and correct the native_kiss_modem test filter so this suite runs directly with pio test.
fdlamotte