Torlando
feb7f0574b
The SD page cache (16af3b5) made the SD card a soft dependency of
NomadNet page loads, but its step machine retries a transient storage
result (BUSY = SPI-mutex timeout, UNAVAILABLE = card not mounted)
forever with no budget. On a persistently unhealthy seam the boot-time
recovery pins operation_ != NONE, the flow stays LOOKUP, and the UI
freezes at 'Checking SD page cache...' (the CACHE state has no
deadline, unlike every other NomadNet state).
NomadNetCache::service() now compares each call's entry state to the
previous call's. Any advance (op, offset, scan/cleanup index, scan
count, open-flags) resets a stall counter, so slow-but-progressing
steps (chunked 64 KB transfers, up to 96-record directory scans) never
false-trip; a no-progress tick is a transient stall. Past 500
consecutive no-progress ticks (far beyond any real SPI contention or
SD mount window) the cache bails: mark the namespace non-authoritative
for the session (lookups/commits bypass) and clear the op, so the flow
falls through to a live fetch -- the pre-cache page-load behavior.
Regression tests: cache-level (persistent UNAVAILABLE recovery bails;
lookup bypasses after bail) and flow-level (a permanently BUSY
beginList no longer parks the flow in LOOKUP; it reaches NEED_LIVE in
bounded ticks). Both fail on the pre-fix code and pass with it.
Verified: tdeck firmware build SUCCESS; tests/native 121 passed (3
pre-existing env failures, fail identically on origin/main baseline);
tests/build_scripts 184 passed.
Pyxis
An LXMF and LXST client firmware for T-Deck, built on a highly modified fork of microReticulum
Very much WIP, don't expect stability :)
Features
Reticulum transport over:
- RNode-compatible LoRa
- AutoInterface (local wifi)
- TCP Client
- BLE Interface (barely working if at all)
Other features:
- GPS-synced time
- One really annoying beep when you get a new message (user toggle)
- View the announce stream
- Choose a propagation node (and sync with it) (fixed in v0.2.1)
- Set auto announce timer
- Light up keyboard (user toggle)
Will crash in about 5 minutes of normal use (sorry)I had 5d uptime on v0.2.0 with BLE disabled- Make LXST voice calls (codec2 only, quality sounds horrible coming out the other end in Columba, needs work)
Flashing
The easiest way to get Pyxis running is the web flasher, which downloads release firmware from this repository's releases and verifies each image's SHA-256 digest against the release metadata.
For esptool (or any other tool that writes raw flash), each release also publishes a merged binary (pyxis-<tag>-merged.bin) that contains the bootloader, partition table, OTA selector, and application at their fixed offsets. Provision a T-Deck Plus (8 MB flash) with:
esptool.py --chip esp32s3 erase_flash
esptool.py --chip esp32s3 write_flash 0x0 pyxis-<tag>-merged.bin
Merged binaries are for first install / provisioning. Flashing one overwrites every flash region, including NVS (settings, identity) and the LittleFS partition (messages, paths, maps). To update an existing device without losing data, flash firmware.bin to 0x10000 only, or use the Columba-compatible pyxis-<tag>.pyxis.zip update package.
Why "Pyxis"
Pyxis, latin for "compass," is a constellation in the southern sky depicting a mariner's compass. Small but essential, the compass ensures every message finds its destination - even when the path is uncertain.