- 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.
- Added SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) data handling to improve zero-hop bonus calculations for repeaters, enhancing selection accuracy.
- Implemented location validation checks to prioritize repeaters with valid geographic data, especially for final hop scenarios.
- Updated scoring logic to apply penalties for repeaters lacking valid location data, ensuring better routing decisions.
- Enhanced logging for SNR bonuses and location penalties to improve debugging and performance tracking.
- Added configuration options for the "prefix best <location>" command in config.ini.example, allowing users to enable/disable the feature and customize its behavior.
- Implemented logic in the PrefixCommand class to find the best prefix for a given location, considering neighbor prefixes and user-defined criteria.
- Enhanced MessageHandler to skip processing old cached messages based on connection time, improving message handling efficiency.
- Updated core bot to track connection time, ensuring accurate message processing and cache management.
- Introduced a new MultitestSession dataclass to manage active multitest sessions per user, enhancing concurrency handling.
- Replaced global variables with session-specific attributes to track listening duration, collected paths, and target packet hashes.
- Updated message handling logic to check active sessions and prevent race conditions during multitest execution.
- Enhanced path collection and RF data scanning to be user-specific, improving accuracy and logging for each session.
- Implemented execution locks to ensure thread safety during multitest command execution.
- Added new configuration options for path selection presets and proximity methods in config.ini.example, allowing users to customize routing behavior.
- Implemented a new database table for storing observed paths, enabling better tracking of paths from advertisements and messages.
- Updated MessageHandler to store complete paths in the observed_paths table, improving path validation and selection accuracy.
- Enhanced the PathCommand class to utilize new proximity and recency settings, optimizing repeater selection based on user-defined criteria.
- Improved web viewer functionality to display multiple paths for contacts, enhancing user experience and interaction with path data.
- Added a new mesh graph feature for improved path validation, allowing for enhanced routing accuracy.
- Introduced configuration options for recency decay half-life and graph-based validation settings in config.ini.example.
- Updated the PathCommand class to utilize graph-based selection methods, combining graph and geographic scores for better repeater selection.
- Implemented new methods in MessageHandler to update the mesh graph with advertisement paths and trace packet data.
- Created a new database table for mesh connections to support graph-based path validation.
- Enhanced web viewer integration to display mesh graph updates in real-time, improving user interaction and monitoring capabilities.
- Introduced a new section in configuration files for the Aurora command, allowing users to enable/disable the feature and set default coordinates.
- Updated English translations to include descriptions, usage instructions, and error messages for the Aurora command, enhancing user interaction and support.
- Added a new configuration option for service restart backoff timing in config.ini.example.
- Enhanced the MeshCoreBot class to track service health and manage restarts for unhealthy services.
- Introduced a new method for service health checks in the BaseServicePlugin class, allowing for custom health validation in subclasses.
- Updated the PacketCaptureService to include specific health check logic based on connection status.
- Updated utility functions to improve country name validation, ensuring accurate identification of country names and US states.
- Enhanced geocoding logic in multiple command classes to handle default state and country configurations more effectively.
- Modified error messages to reflect the correct region based on user input, improving user experience.
- Added short usage descriptions for satellite pass commands in multiple languages, enhancing internationalization support.
- Updated the message handling logic to format elapsed time more accurately, displaying "Nms" when the device clock is valid or "Sync Device Clock" when invalid.
- Introduced a new utility function `format_elapsed_display` to centralize elapsed time formatting, improving code maintainability.
- Modified configuration examples to clarify the usage of the {elapsed} placeholder.
- Added translations for the "Sync Device Clock" message in multiple languages to support internationalization.
- 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.
- Introduced a new database table 'unique_advert_packets' for tracking unique advert packets by their hash.
- Enhanced the RepeaterManager to handle unique packet tracking during daily advertisement statistics.
- Updated StatsCommand to include a new subcommand for displaying the leaderboard of nodes with the most unique advert packets in the last 24 hours.
- Modified translations to support the new advert statistics feature, ensuring user-friendly command descriptions and error messages.
- Implemented geocode_zipcode_sync to handle US ZIP code queries, ensuring accurate geocoding results.
- Enhanced location handling to prevent foreign matches for ZIP codes, improving the reliability of location-based commands.
- Added error handling for reverse geocoding failures, ensuring robust logging and feedback for invalid ZIP codes.
- 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.
- Introduced functionality to configure custom weather sources in config.ini, allowing users to specify URLs for different locations.
- Enhanced WxCommand and GlobalWxCommand classes to fetch weather data from custom WXSIM sources, improving flexibility in weather reporting.
- Implemented methods to retrieve and parse weather data from specified sources, ensuring compatibility with existing weather command structures.
- Updated documentation in config.ini.example to guide users on configuring custom weather sources.
- Enhanced docker-setup.sh to ensure device mappings are correctly moved from the volumes section to the devices section in Docker Compose files.
- Added checks for serial device permissions and provided detailed instructions in DOCKER.md for resolving permission issues.
- Updated Dockerfile to add the meshcore user to the dialout group for serial port access, improving compatibility with serial devices.
- Improved logging functionality in core.py to handle log file paths more robustly, ensuring directories are created as needed and handling errors gracefully.
- Added checks to verify the correct configuration of log_file and db_path in config.ini, ensuring they are set to expected absolute paths.
- Implemented logic to attempt automatic correction of log_file if the update fails, improving robustness of the setup process.
- Updated user prompts to guide through necessary steps after running the script, emphasizing the importance of restarting containers for changes to take effect.
- Added logic to resolve symlinks for serial devices, ensuring the actual device path is used for Docker compatibility.
- Updated docker-compose file handling to prefer docker-compose.override.yml and streamline device mapping updates.
- Improved comments and structure for better clarity and maintainability in the script.
- Clarified comments in docker-compose.yml regarding build configuration and updated pull_policy to 'missing' for clearer intent.
- Enhanced docker-setup.sh to ensure .env file creation and updates are more robust, with improved error handling and verification steps for Docker image configuration.
- Updated docker-compose.yml to clarify the build configuration, ensuring local builds occur if the image is not present in the registry.
- Added pull_policy to optimize image retrieval, enhancing the overall Docker setup experience.
- Updated docker-compose.yml to clarify device access instructions for Linux and added notes for ARM devices regarding network mode.
- Enhanced docker-setup.sh to resolve symlinks for serial devices, improving Docker compatibility and providing fallback options for device paths.
- Modified docker-compose.yml to support using a pre-built image from GitHub Container Registry, with automatic tagging based on the current git branch.
- Enhanced docker-setup.sh to detect the current git branch and set the Docker image tag accordingly, creating or updating the .env file with the appropriate configuration.
- Added 'dev' branch to the trigger conditions for both push and pull_request events in the Docker build workflow, ensuring builds are initiated for development changes.
- Revised DOCKER.md to recommend building directly with `docker build` for improved compatibility on ARM devices and clarified the use of host network mode.
- Enhanced Dockerfile to utilize cache mounts for apt and pip installations, improving build efficiency and reducing redundant downloads.
- Updated GitHub Actions workflow to support multi-platform builds for both amd64 and arm64 architectures, ensuring broader compatibility.
- Updated docker-setup.sh to automatically configure database and log paths in config.ini for Docker deployment, including checks for relative paths in specific sections.
- Revised DOCKER.md to clarify that the setup script handles path updates, emphasizing the need for absolute paths for log files.
- Removed unnecessary version declaration from docker-compose.yml.
- Added detailed troubleshooting steps for build failures on ARM devices in DOCKER.md, including network mode adjustments and Docker daemon checks.
- Updated Dockerfile to maintain consistent casing in the build stage declaration.
- Added new configuration options in config.ini.example for monitoring channels, direct message responses, and banned users.
- Updated docker-setup.sh to clarify build and start commands for Docker containers, including options to avoid pull warnings.
- Revised README and DOCKER.md to reflect changes in Docker commands, emphasizing the importance of building the image before starting the container.
- Modified the sed command in the update_config function to use '|' as a delimiter, enhancing compatibility with paths containing '/'.
- Ensured consistent handling of key updates for both Linux and macOS platforms.
- Updated the docker-setup.sh script to automatically configure database and log paths in config.ini for Docker usage.
- Implemented platform detection to handle serial device identification for both Linux and macOS, improving compatibility.
- Added functionality to update docker-compose.yml with detected serial devices, ensuring proper device mapping for Docker containers.
- Enhanced user prompts for setup completion and next steps, streamlining the initial configuration process.
- Added Docker deployment instructions to the README, including steps for creating data directories, updating configuration paths, and starting the application with Docker Compose.
- Updated .gitignore to include a new data directory structure, ensuring user-specific configurations, databases, and logs are ignored while maintaining the directory structure.
- Introduced a new method `reload_config` to allow dynamic reloading of the configuration without restarting the bot, ensuring seamless updates to settings.
- Added a helper method `_get_radio_settings` to retrieve current radio settings for comparison during reload.
- Updated `admin_commands` in `config.ini.example` to include the new `reload` command, enabling admin users to reload configurations on-the-fly.
- Enhanced the `setup_scheduled_messages` method in the scheduler to clear existing jobs before reloading, preventing duplicates.
- Introduced multiple CSS styles for the generated website, allowing users to select their preferred theme.
- Enhanced the `generate_html` function to accept a style parameter and apply corresponding CSS variables.
- Added a `list_styles` function to display available styles and their descriptions.
- Implemented a `generate_samples` function to create sample HTML files for each style, including an index page for easy navigation.
- Updated command-line interface to support style selection and sample generation options.
- Added support for multiple CSS styles in the `generate_html` function, allowing users to select a theme for the generated website.
- Introduced a new `list_styles` function to display available styles and their descriptions.
- Enhanced the command-line interface with options to list styles and generate sample pages for each style.
- Removed the old static `index.html` file, replacing it with a dynamically generated index that links to all available style samples.
- Updated the `generate_html` function to include detailed command usage information, including syntax, examples, and parameters for better user guidance.
- Added CSS styles for improved presentation of command usage and parameters in the generated website documentation.
- Enhanced command classes with structured documentation fields, allowing for consistent and informative command descriptions across the platform.
- 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.
- Implemented `get_usage_info` method in `BaseCommand` to provide structured usage information, including descriptions, sub-commands, usage patterns, and examples.
- Enhanced `generate_html` function to display sub-commands in the generated HTML output, improving command documentation.
- Updated translations in `en.json` to include sub-command details for various commands, enhancing user guidance and interaction.
- Added methods to retrieve companion and bot locations from the database and configuration.
- Enhanced weather command execution to utilize companion location if no user-specified location is provided.
- Improved location handling by supporting coordinates, zip codes, and city names, with reverse geocoding for display.
- 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.
- Added optional geocoding helper libraries for improved country name validation and US state handling.
- Implemented functions to normalize country names and US state abbreviations, enhancing location parsing accuracy.
- Updated weather command to utilize new geocoding features for better location handling in weather queries.
- Adjusted message length calculations in weather responses to accommodate dynamic content based on location information.
- Introduced the `airplanes` command to retrieve aircraft tracking information using ADS-B API data.
- Added detailed usage instructions, location options, and filter options for enhanced functionality.
- Updated `config.ini.example` to include configuration settings for the new command.
- Included translations for command descriptions and error messages in `en.json` to support user interaction.
- Implemented `_decode_escape_sequences` method in `GreeterCommand` to process escape sequences like `\\n`, `\\t`, and `\\r` in greeting messages.
- Updated `_load_config` to decode escape sequences in `greeting_message` and `mesh_info_format`, enhancing user flexibility in message formatting.
- Added decoding for per-channel greetings to ensure consistent message formatting across different channels.
- Updated comments in `message_handler.py` and `transmission_tracker.py` to specify that the repeater prefix is extracted from the last hop in the message path.
- Modified the `extract_repeater_prefixes_from_path` method to focus on the last node, improving clarity and functionality by returning only the prefix from the last hop instead of intermediate nodes.
- 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.
- Streamlined the shutdown process for the bot by ensuring cleanup occurs in a finally block, enhancing reliability during shutdown.
- Added checks to ensure the bot task is only canceled if it is running, preventing unnecessary exceptions.
- Improved signal handling for graceful shutdown, ensuring all tasks are properly managed and canceled as needed.
- Introduced a new minimal configuration file `config.ini.minimal-example` for users who only need core testing commands.
- Updated `.gitignore` to include `config.min.ini` to prevent accidental commits of sensitive configuration files.
- Implemented comprehensive light mode styles for various components in the web viewer, including modals, segment cards, and tables.
- Enhanced visual consistency by applying theme-based background and text colors across different UI elements.
- Updated styles for header and message content to ensure readability and aesthetic appeal in light mode.
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