- Updated CommandManager to prioritize recipient identification by full public key for direct messages, improving accuracy in DM routing.
- Introduced configurable delay for DM replies in pyMC mode to ensure proper ACK order, enhancing message reliability.
- Improved MessageHandler to resolve sender identity using full public key first, ensuring correct sender identification in DMs.
- Refined .gitignore to include additional test and configuration files for better project organization.
- Enhanced config.ini.example with new DM reply delay configuration option for improved user guidance.
- Enhanced the CommandManager to support both pymc and standard meshcore modes for sending channel messages, improving flexibility in message handling.
- Updated the MessageHandler to prioritize channel name retrieval from payloads in pymc mode, ensuring accurate sender identification.
- Refined the ChannelDatabaseAdapter to streamline channel loading from configuration, including private channels, and improved logging for better operational transparency.
- Introduced a method in MessageScheduler to check for pymc connection mode, optimizing channel operation processing based on connection type.
Add support for pyMC_core with MeshTNC as an alternative to the standard
meshcore package. This enables storing unlimited contacts in the SQLite
database instead of being limited by radio firmware (300 contacts).
New files:
- modules/pymc_connection.py: Wrapper for pyMC_core MeshNode with KISS TNC
- modules/pymc_identity.py: Identity persistence and import/export
Modified files:
- modules/core.py: Add pymc connection type handling
- modules/*.py: Conditional imports for meshcore/pymc compatibility
- requirements.txt: Add pymc-core[radio] as connection backend option
- config.ini.example: Add pymc connection configuration options
To use pyMC connection, set connection_type = pymc in config.ini and
flash a radio with MeshTNC firmware.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
- Introduced a new configuration option for command prefix in config.ini.example, allowing users to customize command invocation.
- Updated CommandManager to load and utilize the command prefix, ensuring commands are processed correctly based on the configured prefix.
- Enhanced message handling logic to check for the command prefix, maintaining backward compatibility with the legacy "!" prefix.
- Improved keyword matching to ensure bot responses are only triggered when the bot is mentioned, refining interaction accuracy.
- Modified configuration examples to clarify that banned users are now identified by sender names using prefix matching.
- Implemented a new method in CommandManager to check if a user is banned based on prefix matching, enhancing the bot's ability to ignore messages from banned senders.
- Updated message handling logic to utilize the new prefix matching functionality for improved user management.
- Added QueuedCommand dataclass to represent commands waiting for cooldown expiration.
- Enhanced CommandManager to support queuing commands when near global cooldown expiration, allowing for smoother command execution.
- Implemented background task to process queued commands, ensuring they are executed once cooldowns expire.
- Updated BaseCommand to include a method for retrieving queue threshold seconds, improving flexibility in command handling.
- Adjusted core.py to initiate the command queue processor upon bot startup.
- Updated the CommandManager to include channel restrictions for help keyword processing, ensuring that help requests are only handled in monitored channels or DMs when enabled.
- Improved the HTML documentation for commands by adding a new "General Commands" section and refining existing command descriptions.
- Added new CSS styles for better presentation of command subcommands in the website documentation.
- Updated the content matching logic in the CommandManager to ensure only exact matches are considered, preventing false positives from substring matches.
- Enhanced comments to clarify the purpose of the changes and the importance of accurate timestamp checks in transmission linking.
- Updated the `CommandManager` and `BaseCommand` classes to include an optional `skip_user_rate_limit` parameter in the `send_response`, `send_dm`, and `send_channel_message` methods, allowing automated responses to bypass user rate limits.
- Adjusted the `GreeterCommand` to utilize the new parameter, ensuring that automated greetings do not trigger user rate limiting checks.
- Enhanced documentation to clarify the purpose of the new parameter and its impact on message sending behavior.
- Revised `config.ini.example` and `README.md` to clarify the usage of escape sequences for newlines, changing from double backslashes (`\\n`) to single backslashes (`\n`).
- Enhanced comments in `CommandManager` and `GreeterCommand` to reflect the updated escape sequence behavior, ensuring accurate processing of newline characters and literal backslashes.
- Improved logging in `GreeterCommand` for better debugging of mesh info formatting.
- Updated `config.ini.example` and `README.md` to document the use of escape sequences for newlines and other formatting in keyword responses.
- Implemented `_decode_escape_sequences` method in `CommandManager` to process escape sequences like `\\n`, `\\t`, and `\\r`, allowing users to format responses more flexibly.
- Modified `load_keywords` and `load_syntax_patterns` methods to decode escape sequences in keyword responses and formats, improving user experience.
- Updated `send_dm` and `send_channel_message` methods to include an optional `command_id` for tracking message repeats.
- Integrated transmission tracking to record and manage repeat messages, improving message handling and response accuracy.
- Enhanced `capture_command` method in `BotIntegration` to store repeat information for better analysis in the web viewer.
- Added favicon support and improved web viewer templates to display repeat information effectively.
- Implemented JavaScript updates in the web viewer to handle command updates and display repeat counts dynamically.
- Changed the lock attribute to a private variable and introduced a lazy initialization method for the async lock.
- Updated the CommandManager to use the new _get_lock method, enhancing thread safety and preventing potential RuntimeErrors when the event loop is not running.
- Introduced a thread-safe InternetStatusCache class to manage internet connectivity status with caching.
- Refactored internet connectivity checks to utilize the new cache, reducing redundant checks.
- Added a unified method for handling message send results, improving error logging and response management.
- Enhanced rate limit checks to streamline command execution and prevent spam.
- Improved plugin loading error handling and validation, ensuring robust plugin management.
- Replaced the validate_safe_path function with a new resolve_path utility to simplify database path resolution in BotDataViewer, BotIntegration, and MapUploaderService.
- Updated the logic to ensure that both relative and absolute paths are handled correctly, enhancing the robustness of database connections.
- Improved code readability and maintainability by centralizing path resolution logic.
- Centralized placeholder handling in utils instead of individual function handlers
- Introduced caching mechanisms for internet connectivity status in CommandManager to optimize performance and reduce redundant checks.
- Updated command execution logic to skip commands requiring internet access when connectivity is unavailable, improving user experience and error handling.
- Added synchronous and asynchronous utility functions for checking internet connectivity in utils.py.
- Marked relevant commands (e.g., AlertCommand, AqiCommand, DadJokeCommand) as requiring internet access to ensure proper execution conditions.
- Updated CommandManager to log rate limiting warnings only for meaningful wait times, avoiding misleading messages.
- Enhanced WxCommand to support a new "alerts" keyword for fetching weather alerts, with special handling for alert data.
- Improved alert fetching logic to differentiate duplicate special statements and prioritize alerts based on severity and urgency.
- Added methods for compactly formatting alerts and abbreviating city names for better display in responses.
- Add Flask + Flask-SocketIO web viewer with dashboard (modules/web_viewer/app.py and related)
- Add web viewer templates: index, realtime, tracking (contacts), cache, purging, stats (modules/web_viewer/templates/)
- Add integration hooks and utility functions for web viewer (modules/web_viewer/integration.py, modules/utils.py)
- Add command to launch web viewer from bot CLI (modules/commands/webviewer_command.py)
- Update .gitignore: ignore db/log files, test scripts, and web viewer artifacts
- Add restart_viewer.sh helper script for standalone web viewer restart/troubleshooting
- Add guidance and documentation for modern viewer in WEB_VIEWER.md and docs/
- Various code structure and import improvements to core bot and command modules to support integration
- Add ACL support for sensitive commands
- Example config updates
Benefits:
- Decouples monitoring/UI from bot core process
- Enables real-time browser dashboard and unified contact/repeater tracking
- Easier integration, dev, and troubleshooting
- Updated the test command response format to include optional phrases.
- Removed the at_phrase command and its references from the command manager and help command.
- Adjusted configuration examples to reflect the new syntax for message acknowledgments.
- Enhanced the sports command with additional WNBA team support and improved city mappings for team searches.
