leds: do not reclaim a PWM-shared pin as plain GPIO in main()

server_main_common.cpp and main_observer.cpp both configured led0 as
a plain GPIO output at boot, unconditionally. On ESP32 that calls
esp_rom_gpio_matrix_out() under the hood, which routes the pin's
output to the GPIO signal and takes it away from whatever peripheral
had it before, including the LEDC channel a heartbeat-pwm-led or
lora-tx-pwm-led alias had already claimed during the PWM driver's own
init. The PWM write then succeeds (no error, no warning) but never
reaches the pin: confirmed on V4.3 hardware, where the same pin lights
up fine over plain GPIO, and over PWM in a different (non-Zephyr)
firmware, but stays dark over Zephyr's PWM once this GPIO configure
has run.

Companion builds never hit this (they don't use server_main_common.cpp)
and nRF52 isn't affected (no shared GPIO matrix), which is why T096
tested fine while V4.3 didn't.

Fix is alias-based, not a board list, so any future board with either
PWM alias is covered without extra wiring.

Also: CLI_HAS_RADIO_LED only checked the plain lora-tx-led alias, so
"set leds.radio" replied "(no radio LED on this board)" on boards
whose radio LED exists only via lora-tx-pwm-led (V4.3). Check both.

Documents the two PWM aliases in the board porting guide, and
leds.brightness plus the corrected LED topology counts in
docs/CLI_commands.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
ZephCore T096
2026-10-08 18:27:42 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
parent e5e927e530
commit 6b9d205b00
6 changed files with 91 additions and 13 deletions
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@@ -358,8 +358,9 @@ The observer role (ESP32, `boards/common/observer.conf`) has its own CLI and non
| `get owner.info` | Owner/contact info (pipes `\|` display as newlines) |
| `get int.thresh` | Interference threshold |
| `get leds` | *(ZephCore only)* LED master switch: `on` or `off` |
| `get leds.radio` | *(ZephCore only)* Activity-LED mode: `tx`, `rx`, `all` or `off`. Appends `(no radio LED on this board)` where the board has no `lora-tx-led` alias |
| `get leds.radio` | *(ZephCore only)* Activity-LED mode: `tx`, `rx`, `all` or `off`. Appends `(no radio LED on this board)` where the board has neither a `lora-tx-led` nor a `lora-tx-pwm-led` alias |
| `get leds.hb` | *(ZephCore only)* Heartbeat-LED mode: `all`, `hb`, `unread` or `off`. Appends `(no heartbeat LED on this board)` where the board has neither `led0` nor `led1` |
| `get leds.brightness` | *(ZephCore only)* Brightness of a PWM-capable heartbeat/activity LED, `0` to `100` as a percentage. Boards without a `heartbeat-pwm-led` / `lora-tx-pwm-led` alias still report a value (nothing reads it) |
| `get buzzer` | *(ZephCore only; room server only)* Buzzer/vibration mode as `<n> (<name>)`: `0 (silent)`, `1 (sound+vib)`, `2 (vibrate)`, `3 (sound)`. Compiled out on repeater builds (`#ifndef ZEPHCORE_REPEATER`) — a repeater answers `unknown config: buzzer`. |
| `get agc.reset.interval` | Removed — replies `Removed - Automatic AGC reset is on`. Periodic AGC recalibration was deleted (it reset the noise floor to its unseeded sentinel on every fire). Use `set rxduty` to cut RX current. |
| `get multi.acks` | Extra ACK transmit count (`0` or `1`) |
@@ -441,8 +442,9 @@ four radio parameters together, since they are one interop-critical set.
| `set int.thresh <value>` | | Interference detection threshold |
| `set buzzer <0\|1\|2\|3>` | or `off` / `on` / `vibrate` / `sound` | *(ZephCore only; room server only)* `0`/`off` silent, `1`/`on` sound + vibration, `2`/`vibrate` vibration only, `3`/`sound` sound only. Modes 2 and 3 need a vibration motor; without one the node replies `Error: no vibration motor on this board - use 0 or 1`. Applied live and persisted. Compiled out on repeater builds. |
| `set leds <on\|off\|1\|0>` | default **on** | *(ZephCore only)* Master switch for every LED on the node, applied live and persisted: heartbeat, unread-message and LoRa TX-activity LEDs, plus the message and shutdown flashes. Works on every role, including headless repeaters where the TX LED is the only one that ever lights. Does **not** cover the display backlight, which is a separate UI brightness setting. |
| `set leds.radio <tx\|rx\|all\|off>` | default **tx** | *(ZephCore only)* What the LoRa activity LED reacts to, applied live and persisted. `tx` lights it for the duration of each transmit (the behaviour before this setting existed), `rx` gives a 30 ms blink per valid packet received, `all` does both, `off` keeps it dark. Sits **below** `set leds` — the master switch off keeps it dark whatever this says. Only boards defining the `lora-tx-led` alias have this LED; elsewhere the value is stored but does nothing, and the reply says so. |
| `set leds.radio <tx\|rx\|all\|off>` | default **tx** | *(ZephCore only)* What the LoRa activity LED reacts to, applied live and persisted. `tx` lights it for the duration of each transmit (the behaviour before this setting existed), `rx` gives a 30 ms blink per valid packet received, `all` does both, `off` keeps it dark. Sits **below** `set leds`: the master switch off keeps it dark whatever this says. Only boards defining a `lora-tx-led` or `lora-tx-pwm-led` alias have this LED; elsewhere the value is stored but does nothing, and the reply says so. |
| `set leds.hb <hb\|unread\|all\|off>` | default **all** | *(ZephCore only)* What the heartbeat LED reacts to, applied live and persisted. `all` is the 4 s liveness tick that widens from 20 ms to 200 ms while messages are unread (the behaviour before this setting existed), `hb` never widens, `unread` stays dark until there are unread messages, `off` keeps it dark. Also sits below `set leds`. See the LED-topology notes below for what this does on single-LED boards. |
| `set leds.brightness <0-100>` | default **100** | *(ZephCore only)* Brightness of a PWM-capable heartbeat/activity LED, applied live and persisted, `%` suffix accepted. Only boards defining a `heartbeat-pwm-led` or `lora-tx-pwm-led` alias have a dimmable LED; elsewhere the value is stored but has no effect. Also sits below `set leds`. |
| `set agc.reset.interval <ms>` | Accepted, ignored | Removed — replies `Removed - Automatic AGC reset is on`. The prefs byte is still read and written so the on-flash layout stays byte-exact, but nothing acts on it. |
| `set multi.acks <0\|1>` | | Enable extra ACK transmits |
| `set path.hash.mode <mode>` | 0, 1, or 2 | Path hashing algorithm |
@@ -477,9 +479,9 @@ four radio parameters together, since they are one interop-critical set.
## Notes
- **LED topology differs by board, and it changes what `leds.radio` / `leds.hb` can do.** Two DT aliases
decide it: `lora-tx-led` drives the radio activity LED, and `led0` (falling back to `led1`) drives the
heartbeat. Of the 35 boards in tree:
- **LED topology differs by board, and it changes what `leds.radio` / `leds.hb` can do.** DT aliases
decide it: `lora-tx-led` or `lora-tx-pwm-led` drives the radio activity LED, and `led0` (falling back
to `led1`) drives the heartbeat. Of the 35 boards in tree:
- **Separate pins (6)** — `rak4631`, `sensecap_solar`, `thinknode_m1`, `thinknode_m6`, `lilygo_techo`,
`xiao_nrf52840`. Both settings are fully independent. `xiao_nrf52840` has three LEDs: blue heartbeat,
green unread, red radio.
@@ -487,8 +489,17 @@ four radio parameters together, since they are one interop-critical set.
`gat562_30s`, `rak3401_1watt`, `rak_wismesh_tag`, `lilygo_timpulse_plus`. Here `lora-tx-led` **is** the
heartbeat pin, so both settings drive one LED. Radio activity takes priority and the heartbeat yields
while the radio holds the pin, so a transmit is never blanked mid-packet by the heartbeat's off-timer
(and vice versa). Use `set leds.hb off` for an unambiguous radio indicator.
- **No radio LED (20)** — including `wio_tracker_l1`, `t1000_e`, `meshtracker_x1`, Heltec V3/V4/V43 and
(and vice versa). Use `set leds.hb off` for an unambiguous radio indicator. `heltec_t096` and
`heltec_wireless_tracker_v2` also alias the same LED to `heartbeat-pwm-led`/`lora-tx-pwm-led`, so it is
dimmable with `leds.brightness`.
- **One shared PWM-only pin (1)**: `heltec_wifi_lora32_v43` has no plain `lora-tx-led`, only
`lora-tx-pwm-led` aliased to the same PWM LED as the heartbeat: a radio LED that exists only through
the PWM path, dimmable with `leds.brightness` like the boards above. On ESP32, a board in either PWM
category must not configure that pin as plain GPIO in `main()`, or the GPIO matrix takes the pin back
from the LEDC peripheral and the PWM output goes dark; `src/server_main_common.cpp` and
`app/main_observer.cpp` skip it automatically (`ZEPHCORE_HAS_PWM_SHARED_LED`) whenever a PWM LED alias
is present.
- **No radio LED (19)**: including `wio_tracker_l1`, `t1000_e`, `meshtracker_x1`, Heltec V3/V4 and
both ProMicros. `set leds.radio` is accepted and stored (so the setting survives onto a board that does
have the LED) but does nothing; the reply says `(no radio LED on this board)`.
- **No heartbeat LED (1)** — `lilygo_t3s3` has `lora-tx-led` but neither `led0` nor `led1`, so `set leds.hb`
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@@ -44,7 +44,15 @@ LOG_MODULE_REGISTER(zephcore_observer_main, CONFIG_ZEPHCORE_MAIN_LOG_LEVEL);
/* ========== LED (optional) ========== */
#if DT_NODE_HAS_PROP(DT_ALIAS(led0), gpios)
/* True when a board aliases its heartbeat or TX-activity LED to a PWM node.
* On ESP32, configuring led0 as plain GPIO after the PWM driver has already
* routed the pin takes the pin back from the LEDC peripheral (the GPIO
* matrix only serves one signal at a time), so on those boards led0 must be
* left to the PWM driver instead of reconfigured here. */
#define ZEPHCORE_HAS_PWM_SHARED_LED \
(DT_NODE_EXISTS(DT_ALIAS(heartbeat_pwm_led)) || DT_NODE_EXISTS(DT_ALIAS(lora_tx_pwm_led)))
#if DT_NODE_HAS_PROP(DT_ALIAS(led0), gpios) && !ZEPHCORE_HAS_PWM_SHARED_LED
#include <zephyr/drivers/gpio.h>
#define LED0_NODE DT_ALIAS(led0)
static const struct gpio_dt_spec led0 = GPIO_DT_SPEC_GET(LED0_NODE, gpios);
@@ -320,7 +328,7 @@ int main(void)
LOG_INF("=== ZephCore Observer starting ===");
/* Configure LED */
#if DT_NODE_HAS_PROP(DT_ALIAS(led0), gpios)
#if DT_NODE_HAS_PROP(DT_ALIAS(led0), gpios) && !ZEPHCORE_HAS_PWM_SHARED_LED
if (gpio_is_ready_dt(&led0)) {
gpio_pin_configure_dt(&led0, GPIO_OUTPUT_INACTIVE);
}
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@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ Only `lora0` is required. Everything else enables its feature by being present.
| `lfs_partition` + `filesystem.dtsi` | `/lfs`: identity, prefs, contacts, channels |
| chosen `zephyr,settings-partition` | NVS for BLE bonds (nRF52, ESP32). nRF54L and MG24 keep bonds in a file on `/lfs` |
| aliases `led0`, `led1`, `lora-tx-led` | Heartbeat, unread, TX blink |
| aliases `heartbeat-pwm-led`, `lora-tx-pwm-led` | Same heartbeat/TX blink, brightness-adjustable (`leds.brightness`). Point both at one `pwm-leds` node to share a single physical LED. On ESP32, leave `led0`/`led1` out of the board's `main()` GPIO setup when either alias is present: configuring the same pin as plain GPIO after the PWM driver has claimed it takes the pin back from the LEDC peripheral (`ZEPHCORE_HAS_PWM_SHARED_LED` in `src/server_main_common.cpp` and `app/main_observer.cpp` already skips this for you) |
| alias `sw0` | User button; wake source from nRF System OFF and ESP32 light sleep |
| chosen `zephyr,display` | Display UI |
| node labelled `buzzer` + alias `buzzer` | PWM buzzer |
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@
* led0 heartbeat LED
* led1 second LED (unread messages on a companion)
* lora-tx-led blinks while transmitting
* heartbeat-pwm-led, lora-tx-pwm-led
* same two roles, brightness-adjustable (leds.brightness);
* point both at one pwm-leds node to share a physical LED
* sw0 user button; also the wake source from nRF System OFF
* and from ESP32 light sleep
* buzzer PWM buzzer (the node must also be LABELLED buzzer)
@@ -604,6 +607,51 @@ zephyr_udc0: &usbd {
};
#endif
#if 0 /* ---- Heartbeat/TX LED, brightness-adjustable (heltec_t096, heltec_wifi_lora32_v43) ----
* One physical LED standing in for both led0 and lora-tx-led, but wired
* through a pwm-leds node instead of gpio-leds so leds.brightness can
* dim it. Point heartbeat-pwm-led and lora-tx-pwm-led at the same node
* to share it, same as the plain-GPIO led0/lora-tx-led pair above.
*
* ESP32 only: also declare a plain led0 (gpio-leds) for this pin if the
* board wants one, but do NOT add GPIO setup for it in the board's
* main() -- src/server_main_common.cpp and app/main_observer.cpp skip
* that already (ZEPHCORE_HAS_PWM_SHARED_LED) when either PWM alias is
* present, because on ESP32 configuring the pin as plain GPIO after
* the PWM driver has claimed it takes the pin back from the LEDC
* peripheral: the GPIO matrix only routes one signal to a pin at a
* time. nRF52 PWM and GPIO don't share hardware that way, so this does
* not apply there. */
/ {
aliases {
heartbeat-pwm-led = &pwm_led_white;
lora-tx-pwm-led = &pwm_led_white;
};
pwmleds {
compatible = "pwm-leds";
pwm_led_white: pwm_led_0 {
pwms = <&ledc0 0 PWM_MSEC(10) PWM_POLARITY_NORMAL>;
label = "White PWM LED";
};
};
};
&ledc0 {
status = "okay";
pinctrl-0 = <&ledc0_default>;
pinctrl-names = "default";
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <0>;
channel0@0 {
reg = <0x0>;
timer = <0>;
};
};
#endif
#if 0 /* ---- Battery voltage (rak4631) ----
*
* mV = raw * vbat-mv-multiplier / 4096, so the multiplier is the ADC's
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@@ -68,9 +68,11 @@ static const NodePrefs* cliDefaults() {
/* ---- leds.radio / leds.hb mode names ----------------------------------- */
/*
* Which LEDs this board has, so the CLI can say when a setting it stored
* does nothing here. Mirrors the aliases the drivers use.
* does nothing here. Mirrors the aliases the drivers use: lora-tx-led or
* lora-tx-pwm-led, led0 with an led1 fallback.
*/
#define CLI_HAS_RADIO_LED DT_NODE_EXISTS(DT_ALIAS(lora_tx_led))
#define CLI_HAS_RADIO_LED (DT_NODE_EXISTS(DT_ALIAS(lora_tx_led)) || \
DT_NODE_EXISTS(DT_ALIAS(lora_tx_pwm_led)))
#define CLI_HAS_HB_LED (DT_NODE_HAS_PROP(DT_ALIAS(led0), gpios) || \
DT_NODE_HAS_PROP(DT_ALIAS(led1), gpios))
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@@ -71,8 +71,16 @@ extern "C" void bt_ctlr_assert_handle(char *file, uint32_t line)
#include "wifi_ota.h"
#endif
/* True when a board aliases its heartbeat or TX-activity LED to a PWM node.
* On ESP32, configuring led0 as plain GPIO after the PWM driver has already
* routed the pin takes the pin back from the LEDC peripheral (the GPIO
* matrix only serves one signal at a time), so on those boards led0 must be
* left to the PWM driver instead of reconfigured here. */
#define ZEPHCORE_HAS_PWM_SHARED_LED \
(DT_NODE_EXISTS(DT_ALIAS(heartbeat_pwm_led)) || DT_NODE_EXISTS(DT_ALIAS(lora_tx_pwm_led)))
/* LED configuration */
#if DT_NODE_HAS_PROP(DT_ALIAS(led0), gpios)
#if DT_NODE_HAS_PROP(DT_ALIAS(led0), gpios) && !ZEPHCORE_HAS_PWM_SHARED_LED
#define LED0_NODE DT_ALIAS(led0)
static const struct gpio_dt_spec led0 = GPIO_DT_SPEC_GET(LED0_NODE, gpios);
#endif
@@ -610,7 +618,7 @@ int server_main(const ServerRole &role)
#endif
/* Configure LEDs */
#if DT_NODE_HAS_PROP(DT_ALIAS(led0), gpios)
#if DT_NODE_HAS_PROP(DT_ALIAS(led0), gpios) && !ZEPHCORE_HAS_PWM_SHARED_LED
if (gpio_is_ready_dt(&led0)) {
gpio_pin_configure_dt(&led0, GPIO_OUTPUT_INACTIVE);
}