Fixes from a Codex review of the previous commit, plus the shared settings the rebase onto dev showed were still missing.
Settings that misstated or changed what runs:
- sports never read [Sports_Command] api_timeout (documented in the example config); the new field did nothing. It now sets the ESPN timeout.
- The path-byte requirement help on test, multitest and path said "bytes per hop"; the gate checks the path's total size (at least 2, or exactly 3).
- feed's allow_private_urls showed false while it inherited true from [Feed_Manager]. Fields can now name an inherit_section whose value they show when unset.
- notify_on_prefix_bytes was an int field for a value the service reads as a list (2,3), so the form refused a valid setting.
- The greeter's form defaults differed from the fallbacks it uses when the keys are missing. Both now come from shared constants.
- The MQTT weather limits accepted values the service clamps (payload 256 to 1 MiB, staleness 5 s to 7 days, length 64 to 4000).
Shared settings: the wx card now carries the [Weather] temperature, wind and precipitation units and the three temperature_*_format templates (with previews through format_temperature_high_low), next to wx's own [Wx_Command] unit overrides, which default to "Same as [Weather]". Two fields with one key in different sections are told apart as key@Section in the save payload; a bare key still resolves when only one field has it. An enum's "" option, like a blank number, removes the key. Packet capture brokers gain username, password, topic prefix, JWT timings and include_decoded; blank inheriting values are left out of block saves, since the service reads them with getint/getboolean when present.
Previews:
- They use the bot's saved config: a blank test format falls back to [Keywords] test, multitest lays out paths per condense_paths, and MQTT applies passthrough_max_length.
- A quoted empty template ("") counts as blank, as the commands strip the quotes first.
- A str.format width or precision over 500 isn't rendered, so `{sender:100000000}` can't make the endpoint build a huge string.
- The page invalidates an in-flight preview as soon as the field changes, and shows the server's note about fallbacks instead of guessing it.
The endpoint inventory golden gains the preview route (401 for anonymous requests when a password is set).
The Plugins page now has a field for every setting the plugins read. I compared each plugin's settings_schema against config.ini.example and the keys the code reads; fourteen plugins had gaps (greeter, trace, stats, path, wx/gwx, rain, test, multitest, sports, worldcup, cmd, feed, the webhook, weather, packet capture, earthquake and prefix-collision services) and the World Cup service had no form at all. Webhook URLs, bot tokens and channel keys use the password field. A guard test needed four [Rain_Command] keys documented in config.ini.example.
Template fields get a { } button that opens a reference of the placeholders they take, with click-to-insert. Fields rendered by the piped engine (test's response_format, path's reply_prefix) also list the filters and conditionals. Every template field previews as you type: piped fields against a 2-byte, a 1-byte and a direct sample message, so a conditional's effect shows before saving, and the str.format fields (greeter, mesh info, multitest, MQTT weather) as their plugin renders them, including what it sends when the template has a mistake. The specs and renderers live in modules/template_reference.py; the preview endpoint only renders and never saves. The greeter's channel_greetings parser and multi-part split moved into module functions so the command and the preview share them.
Fixes the new fields would otherwise have exposed:
- Clearing a number field saved `key =`, which makes getint/getfloat raise and the plugin fail to load. A cleared number now removes the key.
- The weather service raised in __init__ when only some blitz_area_* corners were set. It now needs all four and logs a warning otherwise.
- A blank MQTT weather json_template saved an empty template, so every reply said no message had arrived. Blank now saves the default.