Conflict in wx_command.py: the refactor split _get_weather_for_location_sync into _locate_*, _noaa_forecast_body and _with_noaa_alerts. The fallback now checks coverage after _locate_* and when _noaa_forecast_body returns its fetch error. _openmeteo_weather takes no address_info: a city's label comes from city_to_lat_lon again, answered from the geocoding cache the first lookup filled.
[Weather] openmeteo_fallback (default false, only with weather_provider = noaa) answers wx from Open-Meteo when NWS reports a point as outside its coverage (HTTP 400/404 from /points), in gwx's format and labels and wx's units. Timeouts and server errors keep today's error. The point goes into the existing NWS no-coverage cache, so later requests skip NWS for 24 hours. wx <place> alerts there replies that alerts are not available.
gwx's per-point body moves into _weather_for_point so wx can reuse it without geocoding twice; gwx's output is unchanged.
S7's units item. GlobalWxCommand and WeatherService each read [Weather] temperature_unit, wind_speed_unit and precipitation_unit, lowercased them and fell back to fahrenheit/mph/inch with the same three warnings; weather_common.load_open_meteo_units does that once, next to load_open_meteo_model. Both still accept kn. wx keeps its own NOAA unit reading (_unit_setting), which has different fallbacks and sources. Old-vs-new over 5,000 random configs matched on values and warnings.
S4. BaseCommand and the 40 bundled overrides that took no argument now take `message: MeshMessage | None = None`, matching joke and rain, which already use the message. None of the 40 bodies read it, so their help text is unchanged. help and command_manager keep their TypeError retry, since local plugins may still implement get_help_text(self). For bundled commands the retry no longer runs: `help <command>` calls get_help_text(message) once instead of failing and calling it again. A new test pins the signature for every bundled command class. The offline smoke run against the real config produces the same help text for all 46 commands.
_visibility_miles converts Open-Meteo's visibility from feet or meters; _open_meteo_extra_conditions builds the dew point, visibility and pressure strings. Both bodies and the rest of _open_meteo_current are AST-identical to the original statements, called at the same points, so translate calls and log lines keep their order. The Open-Meteo characterization passes unchanged.
geocode_location now dispatches to _geocode_coordinates, _geocode_zipcode and _geocode_city inside its original try, so a failure in any of them still logs and returns four Nones. _format_location_display takes its city from _display_city and its last-resort label from _fallback_location_label. Bodies moved verbatim; an old-vs-new run over 30,000 label cases and 20,000 geocode cases (faked lookups that succeed, miss or raise) found no difference in results or log lines.
The custom MQTT and WXSIM replies, the no-location fallback chain (sender's position, default_city, bot's position) and the reply tail (two-part alerts, multiday split, single message) move into WeatherCommandMixin. Each command keeps its own WXSIM fetch (_fetch_wxsim) and wx keeps naming fallback positions in its log lines (_fallback_place_name). The no-location MQTT reply still never splits a multiday answer. The execute dispatch goldens are unchanged.
wx and gwx name the place only when it adds information: a city outside default_state or default_country, or a position. always_show_location (default false) names every place a lookup finds instead, including cities in the bot's own state and ZIP codes.
For a ZIP code, gwx now does a reverse lookup when the option is on (it skipped that since the name was never shown), and wx reuses the reverse lookup it already did for a companion position. A failed lookup leaves the reply unnamed rather than repeating the ZIP code. The prefix comes out of the message budget as before. The option is in the wx settings schema for the web viewer, the example config, the command reference and the changelog.
The hourly forecast still showed ☀️ for clear hours after dark. I now request Open-Meteo's hourly is_day with the hourly forecast and pick each hour's emoji from it, falling back to 06:00–18:00 local when it's absent, as the current conditions do.
At 5:58 am wx 98258 (Open-Meteo provider) replied "Tonight: ☀️Clear … | H:68°F L:50°F | Tomorrow: 🌫️ H:67°F L:51°F". Any hour before 06:00 was labeled "Tonight", which next to today's high/low and a "Tomorrow" for the following day read like last night's forecast, and code 0 always showed a sun.
I now request Open-Meteo's is_day and use it for both the label and the emoji, falling back to 06:00–18:00 local when it's absent. Night before noon is "Overnight" (the NWS name for that period, new key in every catalog), night after noon stays "Tonight". Clear and mostly clear at night show 🌙. Tomorrow's segment adds its description when it fits and keeps the emoji-only form otherwise.
Goldens change for the new request field, Overnight on the fixtures captured after midnight, 🌙 on clear night fixtures, and tomorrow's description.
A codex re-review of the last two commits confirmed their fixes and found three gaps. wx alerts (and gwx alerts) with no location looked up a place called "alerts"; the option now applies to the fallback location like the others. A custom source named like an option (custom.wxsim.hourly or custom.mqtt_weather.hourly) was treated as the option and answered from the default source; a configured name now wins. The full alert list (wx <place> alerts) kept sending after a refused first message and reported success; it now stops and reports the refusal.
- A scheduled {cmd:gwx ...} or {cmd:wx ...} with a forecast and an alert slept out the TX pacing between them during capture; with bot_tx_rate_limit_seconds = 30 that passed the 30 s render timeout and the whole reply was lost. Pacing is skipped when the message has a capture_sink.
- gwx tomorrow ignored its byte budget (a Russian Reykjavik forecast was 99 bytes against 89). It now drops the precipitation amount, gusts, wind, the precipitation chance and the description, in that order. The Open-Meteo goldens give tomorrow runs a roomy budget, since their key-name translator makes the text much longer than real; trimming is tested with real catalogs in test_gwx_tomorrow_budget.
- Custom default sources (bare wx/gwx) still returned True after a refused send.
- An option without a location (wx hourly, gwx tomorrow, wx 5d) showed usage, since the fallback location was resolved before the option was parsed; the option now applies to the fallback, custom default sources included. The docs say how far each provider's forecast reaches.
- wx read its unit settings through get_config_value, whose [Weather] fallback logged a notice to move them into [Wx_Command] on every lookup (14 per reply); _unit_setting reads [Wx_Command], then [Weather], without it.
- NOAA forecasts that mention thunderstorms after sun ("Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms") still got ☀️; thunderstorms now outrank sun.
- The catalog tests passed with keys removed, since a missing key differs from English; they now require each key and every wind point, with en-GB and Polish allowed to use the English letters.
A space bunny review of this branch's commits found:
- gwx's high-wind warning converted the speed to mph for every catalog, so on a km/h bot it read 49 next to a reply saying 80, and Polish (whose template said km/h) regressed in the merge. The threshold stays 30 mph; the warning shows the speed in the configured unit with a {unit} placeholder in every catalog.
- tomorrow_not_available, tomorrow_error, multiday_not_available and multiday_error were still English in seven catalogs; they are translated, and the catalog test now fails on any weather reply left in English.
- wx kept NOAA's English wind letters and English weekday letters while gwx's are translated, so one German bot showed NE and NO for the same wind. wx now translates both through the catalog (commands.wx.day_abbrev added); English output is byte-for-byte unchanged, which the goldens show (their stub translator gives English for these short labels, via tests.helpers.key_name_translate).
- Polish feels_like was ungrammatical (odczuwalna -> odczuwalnie), Russian's used a nonstandard abbreviation, and Russian gwx's MQTT subscriber error lacked wx's hint.
- The help text (commands.wx.description/usage, commands.gwx.usage) described wx as ZIP-only; it now lists cities, coordinates and the options, under 130 bytes in every language.
- The generated default config, the docs' default_state wording, _fit_tomorrow_parts' docstring and the CHANGELOG's stats claim were inaccurate.
The weather service took [Weather] wind_speed_unit = kn, while wx and gwx rejected it with a warning and used mph, so the same setting gave knots in one and mph in the other. Knots now work in all of them: Open-Meteo is asked for kn, NOAA's mph and km/h values and station gusts are converted, gwx's high-wind warning converts back to mph for its threshold, and the WXSIM parser converts its km/h. The web config's wind unit choices gain m/s and knots.
gwx prefixed every reply with the resolved place. It now follows wx's policy: a city is named when it resolved to another country than [Weather] default_country or, in the US, to another state than default_state (or no default_state is set); coordinates are named when the reverse lookup found a place; a ZIP code is not named. A failed reverse lookup for coordinates used to turn the input into a label like "47.60620, -122.33210" (the longitude standing in for a country); such replies now have no label. The ZIP path drops its reverse-geocoding request, whose only use was the label.
Follow-up parts of a wx or gwx reply skip the per-user rate limit, since the limiter already let the first part through. When it had not (rate-limited, or the send failed), the alert after the forecast and the later parts of a multi-day forecast still went out on their own. Now a refused first part ends the reply. The multi-day sender also sent a forecast that fits one message only after dropping blank lines as a continuation, skipping the limit; the first message now always goes through it. execute returns whether the reply was sent, which the stats and web viewer record.
The codex review of this port also found that the shared companion lookup dropped the three DEBUG lines wx and gwx logged on dev (no sender key, no row for the key, the position found). get_companion_lat_lon takes a trace flag that wx and gwx pass; rain and aurora, which never logged these, stay quiet. With trace, a bot without a db_manager logs the lookup error at the caller's level again instead of returning silently.
Goldens conflicted; I regenerated them, and against this branch they differ only in NOAA emojis, gwx wind labels and the Phoenix width budgets the merged branch corrected. gwx's new hourly test expected the old truncating conversion (202.5° as SW); with nearest-point directions it is SSW.
A review of this branch found three things. Moving the partly/mostly cloudy check ahead of rain gave forecasts like "Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Cloudy" (ten of the 79 forecasts it sampled from live NWS points) a sun-behind-cloud emoji; rain and snow now come before every cloud check, so they get 🌦️ or ❄️. A NaN or infinite wind direction made gwx's new nearest-point conversion raise; it is now left out like a null one. The Phoenix daily-width test's budgets were written for a reply one byte shorter (SW is now WSW), so they no longer pinned <= at equality; they are 330/343 now and the regenerated golden shows each segment fitting exactly at its budget.
Conflicts: NOAA hourly wind keeps this branch's full 16-point direction and fix/noaa-configured-units' speed conversion (a test pins both); gwx's hourly forecast returns (reply, {}) like the other forecast types since fix/gwx-warnings-structured, and _open_meteo_current keeps fix/gwx-missing-current's Optional return.
fix/gwx-missing-current returns the fetch error as a bare string when the current temperature is missing, and this branch moved that code into a method whose callers unpack (reply, current conditions). Git merged it without a conflict; the merged early return now returns the pair, so the reply is the fetch error again instead of an unpacking error.
The distorted-London golden conflicted; I regenerated it, and it differs from this branch only in the no_current and null_temp keys the merged change means to move.
A review pointed out that Open-Meteo documents WMO code 97 as a heavy thunderstorm, and neither gwx nor the weather service knew it: the reply showed an unknown condition with the generic emoji and gwx gave no thunderstorm warning. It now has a description in every language, the ⛈️ emoji and the thunderstorm warning.
A review found that an Open-Meteo response with no wind_direction_10m key still defaulted the direction to 0°, so the reply read ⬆️N; a null direction was already left out. Both now give the wind speed with no direction.
gwx was not render_safe, so {cmd:gwx ...} expanded to nothing, while {cmd:wx ...} already ran gwx through delegation when weather_provider = openmeteo. gwx sends every reply, including the two-part warning, through send_response, which is what render_safe requires. Tests render gwx (plain and two-part replies) through the real CommandManager capture and check nothing is transmitted.
gwx's _degrees_to_direction picked the 8-point sector starting below the angle (22.5° → NE, 241° → SW, negative angles → N); it now picks the nearest of the 16 points the catalog already translates, with the arrow wx uses, via _COMPASS_16/_ARROWS_8 moved to weather_common so both commands share them. wx's get_weather_emoji tested 'cloudy' before 'partly cloudy'/'mostly cloudy' and rain before thunderstorms, so those got ☁️ and 🌦️; thunderstorms (and 't-storm') now come right after heavy rain, and the partly/mostly cloudy check before plain cloudy. Golden moves: NOAA emojis for thunderstorm and partly/mostly cloudy periods (Seattle hourly fits one more hour, ⛅ being shorter than ☁️), and gwx wind labels where the nearest point differs.
gwx advertised hourly but parsed it as part of the place name. It now requests Open-Meteo's hourly precipitation probability alongside the hourly fields it already got and formats the hours after Open-Meteo's location-local current time in wx's compact one-reply style, sharing the hour label, description shortening and byte packing through WeatherCommandMixin. Hourly lines drop the wind arrow (both commands) so the arrow's six bytes do not push an hour out of the reply; wx's NOAA hourly now keeps the full 16-point letters instead of the first two. WXSIM sources answer hourly and alerts with source_option_not_available instead of their default conditions; wx no longer skips an MQTT alias for alerts (the alias then got geocoded as a city); gwx answers 'alerts' the same way. WXSIM highs and lows of exactly 0° are no longer treated as missing, and gwx warns about a stale WXSIM forecast as wx does. Only noaa_wx_hourly_seattle moved (WNW/NNW instead of WN/NN).
_check_extreme_conditions regex-searched the finished, translated reply: it only saw temperatures followed by °F (so -10°F read as 10 and Celsius replies never warned), took the number after a direction label as the wind speed and called it mph whatever the unit, and lost it when the direction letters were translated. The check now gets the current conditions from the same Open-Meteo request (via _get_open_meteo_weather_with_conditions; get_open_meteo_weather keeps its signature) and uses the weather codes the description match stood for (65/82 heavy rain, 95/96/99 thunderstorms, 75/85/86 snow), and the temperature and sustained wind converted to °F and mph for the unchanged thresholds. Warning text and the multi_message shape are unchanged.
_open_meteo_current defaulted every missing current field to 0, so a response without current conditions read as clear skies, 0° and 0% humidity, and called int() on present-but-null fields, which failed the whole reply. A missing current temperature now returns None (the caller replies with error_fetching and logs a warning); null or absent humidity, wind, gusts, feels-like and weather code are each left out. The no_current and null_temp distortion goldens move accordingly; nothing else does.
A codex review of this port found solarforecast relying on the enabled_attr hook, which dev's BaseCommand does not have, so [Solarforecast_Command] enabled = false stopped working; its can_execute override is back as on dev. It also found names an earlier refactor commit had dropped as unused, which local plugins could still read: WxCommand.forecast_duration, num_wx_alerts, use_metric, zulu_time and geolocator, geolocator on gwx and solarforecast, the WXSIM_PARSER_AVAILABLE and WX_INTERNATIONAL_AVAILABLE flags, and the _mqtt_weather_error_key hook (now a WeatherCommandMixin method that _mqtt_weather_line calls through self, so an override takes effect again). tests/unit/test_weather_compat_surface.py pins all of them.
wx took "today" from the bot's clock: on a server running UTC, or answering for a city in another zone, tomorrow and multi-day started a day late, and hourly compared NOAA's local wall-clock times with the bot's after dropping their offsets, keeping hours that had passed. wx now takes today from the forecast's first period date and compares hourly times as absolute times; multi-day groups NOAA periods by their start date, which also keeps holiday-named periods ("Columbus Day") the weekday-name grouping skipped. Name-based grouping remains the fallback when periods have no startTime. gwx chose Today/Tonight and the multi-day weekday labels from the bot's clock; it now uses Open-Meteo's location-local current time and daily dates. gwx also asked for N days counting today and then skipped today, so 7d showed six days; it now asks for N+1 (capped at Open-Meteo's 16). The NOAA characterization clock gains its time zone, so aware comparisons do not depend on the machine running the tests; the regenerated goldens move only where these fixes apply (drop-period variants whose first period is a later day, Miami's already-started 6 PM hour, gwx Today/Tonight and weekday labels, and gwx's forecast_days request parameter).
gwx with no location reverse-geocoded the companion's (or bot's) coordinates to a town name and then forecast that name: three Nominatim lookups, and a forecast for wherever the geocoder put the town rather than for the sender. It now passes the coordinates through, as wx does; the reply's label still comes from the one reverse lookup in geocode_location. Both commands write those coordinates in fixed decimals (`_coordinates_query`), since str() of a small float gives "1e-05", which the coordinate pattern does not match. The companion and repeater position queries in modules.location skipped any zero latitude or longitude; only 0,0 is the no-position sentinel, so they now exclude just that. wx's city lookup used truthiness and rejected a geocoded zero coordinate.
This brings the weather slices of my long-running refactor branch to dev ahead of converging wx and gwx, so the convergence PRs build on one copy of the code instead of rewriting it twice.
- `modules/weather_common.py` (WeatherCommandMixin): code wx and gwx shared by copy (MQTT and WXSIM source lookup, multi-day sending, high/low formatting, the forecast-option parser, the Open-Meteo model loader).
- `modules/nws_alerts.py`: one NWS alert entry parser for wx and the weather service, keeping each caller's own Special Weather Statement rules.
- `modules/http_retry.py`: one retrying session builder for the weather HTTP clients.
- wx: get_noaa_weather, the hourly, tomorrow and multi-day formatters, _add_period_details and the extract_* readers broken up or made table-driven; NOAA fetches go through `_noaa_fetch`.
- gwx: one fetch path; `_open_meteo_current` and `_open_meteo_daily_tail` split out of get_open_meteo_weather.
- solarforecast: `_format_forecast` built from one timestamp parser and one day builder (418 → 155 lines).
- aurora, rain, wx, gwx: companion and bot location lookups through `modules.location` (which gains optional logging arguments).
The changes outside these files that the refactor branch made (the base command's enabled_attr hook, the service base's run_periodic and _cancel_tasks) stay out: aurora and rain keep their can_execute overrides and the weather service its own loops, exactly as on dev.
Tests: characterization goldens over real captured NOAA, NWS, Open-Meteo and forecast.solar responses (tests/characterization, fixtures in tests/fixtures), 50 tests and several hundred cases, all of which also pass against dev's unmodified weather code. Each refactor step was additionally checked on the branch with an old-vs-new differential run (tens of thousands of generated inputs, including log calls and exceptions) and reviewed by codex.
Open-Meteo always returns the requested number of days but fills the ones past the model's horizon with nulls: the last one or two with the default model, nine of sixteen with icon_seamless. format_multiday_forecast called int() on them, so the whole reply became the multi-day error (gwx 15d for London and Reykjavik on 2026-10-01; gwx 7d under icon_seamless). It now stops at the first day without a high and low. The tomorrow forecast and the default reply compared a null precipitation probability with 30, which raised too; a null probability now just leaves the precipitation out, and a tomorrow with null temperatures reports that it is not available.
A user who raised bot_tx_rate_limit_seconds to 5 noticed wx's weather-then-alerts reply did not seem to honor it. The gap between those two messages was in fact longer than the limit (every send already waits on the bot TX limiter in _check_rate_limits, and wx sleeps limit + 1 s on top), but looking at it turned up two real bugs.
The second part of wx's and gwx's two-part reply, and every part after the first of 'alert all', went through the reply rate limiter (rate_limit_seconds, 10 s by default) a few seconds after the first part had used it, so it was refused: with default settings the alert message was never sent. These now pass skip_user_rate_limit=True, as the other multi-part senders already did. The repeater command's two-part branch gets the same change for consistency.
BotTxRateLimiter.wait_for_tx only checked the time since the last recorded transmission, and record_tx runs after the radio confirms, so concurrent senders (two replies, a reply and a scheduled message) all passed the wait before any of them recorded and transmitted back to back. wait_for_tx now claims the slot under the lock when it returns. A coverage test that monkeypatched can_tx to drive the old loop is rewritten against the new one.
An oversized webhook or channel body was handed to the firmware whole. The device dropped it without an ack, retries stalled the transport, and the radio looked dead. Split to the frame budget, keep links intact, and tag multi-part sends so they can be reassembled.
Reserve the wx location prefix from that same budget, and let NOAA alert polling be turned off without disabling the rest of the weather service.
- Extracted `modules/alert_format.py` as the single NWS alert formatter, replacing four copies of the event-type abbreviation table and two of the time compactor. `!wx alerts` and the proactive `WeatherService` broadcasts now localize from one code path, so a Russian bot no longer answers `!wx alerts` in English while its proactive alerts are Russian.
- Stopped leaking translation key paths into mesh broadcasts. `Translator.translate` returns the dotted key when a lookup misses in both the locale and the English fallback, which is right for development but reached the air in production: an unclassifiable NWS title rendered as `⚪Hazardous services.weather_service.event_types.Unknown`, an unmapped WMO code as `services.weather_service.weather_descriptions.4`, and an oddly-cased `wind_speed_unit` as `services.weather_service.wind_speed_units.KMH`. `alert_format.translate_or()` carries an English default at each site, and `WeatherService` now normalizes and validates its three `[Weather]` unit settings the way `GlobalWxCommand` already did.
- Fixed alert expiry rendering in every locale. The formatter rendered a timestamp to a string and re-parsed its own output with `(\d+)(AM|PM)` against a hardcoded English month list, so translated months took the wrong branch and truncated mid-string. Times now carry parsed parts and render through a per-locale `common.alerts.time_12h` template — the space before AM/PM was correct (Russian writes "6 дня", not "6дня"); the downstream regex was the bug.
- Restored month abbreviation. `_compact_time` iterated over abbreviations and replaced them in the string instead of mapping full names, so English stopped shortening "June 28" and Russian replaced the "Jun" inside "June", leaving a stray Latin "e" (`июнe 28`). Reuses the existing `common.date_time.month_abbreviations` rather than the duplicate `services.weather_service.months` block.
- Made `!gwx` display units follow `[Weather]` config instead of the response language. Visibility switched on `base_language != 'en'`, so `language = ru` with the default `temperature_unit = fahrenheit` printed Fahrenheit beside kilometers, and `en-GB` was forced to miles. Pressure is a locale convention rather than a metric/imperial split, so each catalog names its own via `commands.gwx.pressure_unit` — previously every non-English locale inherited mmHg from the English catalog, whose `pressure_mmhg` string contained Russian text, giving German and French users Cyrillic pressure units.
- Let localized `H`/`L` labels reach a standard install. `config.ini.example` shipped the three `temperature_*_format` keys uncommented with literal `H:`/`L:`, and a config value always beats the new locale-aware default, so a Russian bot built from the documented example still rendered `H:47°C L:33°C`. The example now uses the `{high_label}`/`{low_label}` placeholders, which were documented in the docstring but not in the file.
- Routed high/low labels through the reply's translator. `_format_high_low` passed `bot.translator`, so with `auto_detect_language` on, an English-default bot answering a Russian sender localized the rest of the line but not `H:`/`L:`. Added `BaseCommand.response_translator` for this, replacing `wx_international`'s reach into the private `_response_translator` ContextVar.
- Fixed a byte-budget overrun in `!gwx`. The guard on the extra conditions block compared a character count against a byte-derived budget while the rest of the function used `_count_display_width`; Cyrillic is two bytes per character, so the block was appended after the budget was spent.
- Reverted nine `commands.gwx` English rewordings that were not localization work, including the configuration hint in `mqtt_weather_no_subscriber` — dropping it left a mis-configured operator with no pointer to the two keys they need.
- Fixed the Russian `visibility` string, which said "км" on the miles key — the same locale/config conflation as the code bug, in the data. Shortened the Russian event-type abbreviations, which were full words consuming a quarter of the 130-byte budget at two bytes per character.
- Added `commands.wx.hourly_not_available`, missing from every catalog so `!wx hourly` printed the raw key path. Predates this branch; found while auditing every translation key the weather modules reference.
- Moved alert strings to `common.alerts.*` and wind directions to `common.wind_directions.*`, since a command and a service both read them.
- Addresses #267
- Added `original_content` attribute to `MeshMessage` to store the on-air body of messages, ensuring it remains unchanged during command processing.
- Updated command matching methods across various commands to utilize `_cleaned_content_matches`, which restores original content when necessary, preventing mention stripping from altering the message context.
- Implemented tests to verify that original content is preserved and correctly utilized in command execution and message handling.
Render GWX pressure in mm Hg (rounded hPa->mmHg conversion) for
non-English locales instead of hPa, matching the metric handling used for
visibility. Also fix format_temperature_high_low so custom [Weather]
templates can use the documented {high_label}/{low_label} placeholders,
and add tests for the translator param.
- Add optional translator param to format_temperature_high_low()
- Translate temperature labels (H/L) via common.temp_high_label/low_label
- Translate wind directions via services.weather_service.wind_directions
- Fix wind format spacing (direction and speed were concatenated)
- Pass translator from Weather_Service, !wx, and !gwx callers
- Added a tracked `LICENSE` file and updated `pyproject.toml` to include license metadata.
- Enhanced `CHANGELOG.md` with recent changes and clarifications.
- Updated `config.ini.example` and related documentation to reflect clamping behavior for numeric limits in `[Feed_Manager]`.
- Improved startup validation to suggest corrections for unknown and misspelled keys.
- Refactored geocoding and HTTP request handling to run off-thread, preventing event loop stalls.
- Added thread safety to cache management in geocoding functions to avoid race conditions.
- Introduced a new configuration option `default_city` in `config.ini.example` for fallback city names when no location is provided.
- Updated `wx_command.py` and `wx_international.py` to utilize the `default_city` for location disambiguation, enhancing user experience when companion location is unavailable.
- Improved logging to reflect the use of default city or bot location as fallback options.
- Updated `config.ini.example` to introduce the `respond_to_mentions` setting, allowing configuration of how the bot responds to mentions in channel messages.
- Refactored `MessageHandler` to implement logic for handling mentions based on the new configuration, including stripping mentions when appropriate.
- Added `cleanup_message_for_matching` method in `BaseCommand` to streamline message processing and mention validation.
- Enhanced various command classes to utilize the new cleanup method for consistent mention handling.
- Introduced tests to validate the behavior of the new mention handling logic across different configurations.
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