Cleanup after BLE stability debugging - the Serial.printf heartbeat and
loop_count were temporary instrumentation no longer needed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause: connectNative() used raw ble_gap_connect() which bypasses
NimBLE's client management. The NimBLEClient created afterwards wasn't
associated with the connection handle, causing service discovery to fail
with "could not retrieve services". This led to a connect-disconnect loop
where no BLE peers could complete handshakes.
Fix: Replace raw ble_gap_connect() with NimBLEClient::connect() which
properly manages the GAP event handler, connection handle tracking, MTU
exchange, and service discovery. Connections now succeed with MTU 517
and identity handshakes complete.
Also fixed:
- Error recovery escalates to full stack reset (deinit/reinit) when
NimBLE host fails to sync, instead of looping in a dead state
- Added recursion guard in enterErrorRecovery()
- Promoted key BLE logs (scan, connect, peer status) to INFO level
for visibility during monitoring
- Added 10-second serial heartbeat with connection/peer/heap stats
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause: Bytes objects stored in PSRAM-allocated BLEInterface had
corrupted shared_ptr members from uninitialized memory, causing crashes
in processDiscoveredPeers(). Fixed by using heap_caps_calloc instead of
heap_caps_malloc for PSRAM placement-new allocation.
Additional fixes:
- Reduce pool sizes to fit memory budget (reassembler 134KB→17KB,
fragmenters 8→4, handshakes 32→4, pending data 64→8)
- Store local MAC as BLEAddress struct instead of Bytes to avoid
heap allocation in PSRAM-resident object
- Move setLocalMac after platform start (NimBLE needs to be running
for valid random address), add lazy MAC init fallback in loop()
- Add stuck-state detector: resets GAP state machine if hardware
is idle but state machine thinks it's busy
- Enhance getLocalAddress with 3 fallback methods (NimBLE API,
ble_hs_id_copy_addr RANDOM, esp_read_mac efuse)
- Fix C++17 structured binding to C++11 compatibility
- Increase BLE task stack 8KB→12KB for string ops in debug logs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Replace std::map and std::vector with fixed-size pools in
BLEInterface (fragmenters, pending handshakes, pending data)
- Track keepalive failures and disconnect after 3 consecutive
- Force-disconnect zombie peers detected by BLEPeerManager
- Add periodic advertising refresh (every 60s) to combat silent stops
- Buffer incoming data when identity not yet mapped instead of dropping
- Subtract ATT_OVERHEAD from MTU in NimBLEPlatform connection setup
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Split T-Deck firmware from microReticulum examples/lxmf_tdeck/ into its
own repo. microReticulum is consumed as a git submodule dependency pinned
to feat/t-deck. All include paths updated from relative symlinks to bare
includes resolved via library build flags.
Both tdeck (NimBLE) and tdeck-bluedroid environments compile successfully.
Licensed under AGPLv3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
