pisti87 read v18 and called it chaos. He was right, and it was mine.
Two defects in the extractor I added yesterday:
- It joined every string literal in a call argument, so a ternary became one
key. `cut ? "Paste (move)" : "Paste (copy)"` shipped as the single key
"Paste (move)Paste (copy)", and with it "Unblock Block",
"Unfav Favorite", "Other networksNetworks", "Batteryactivityon" and
"Stop sharing loc Share my loc". None of those strings exist anywhere in
the firmware. Literals are now grouped only when genuinely adjacent, which
is what the compiler concatenates, so both branches become their own key.
- It scanned raw source, comments included. That is how "Geblokkeerde
gebruikers" -- Dutch, appearing only inside a comment about how a long
translation degrades -- became a KEY in the Hungarian file. Comments are
stripped now, string literals preserved.
202 invented rows removed across the thirteen files. Only rows that were both
unknown to the extractor AND still untranslated were touched, so no
translator's work could be lost either way.
Also his: the curly quotes in the Hungarian credits render as boxes because no
bundled font carries U+201E/U+201D. Five values de-curled. And five strings he
found raw are wrapped: the Wi-Fi rescan and hidden-network rows, the update
check, and the downgrade prompt. The two Wi-Fi rows build their label at
runtime, since TR() returns a pointer and cannot join a glyph literal at
compile time.
Languages go to v19. v18 is deleted rather than left behind: it was only ever
correct for about a day and everything in it is superseded.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
wadamesh.com infrastructure
Distribution stack for wadamesh: a VPS nginx origin behind Cloudflare.
tiles.wadamesh.com →CF (HTTP, edge-cached) → nginx → OpenStreetMap / OpenTopoMap
firmware.wadamesh.com →CF (cache bins) → nginx → /srv/wadamesh/firmware
flasher.wadamesh.com →CF (HTTPS) → 301 → wadamesh.com
wadamesh.com →CF (HTTPS) → nginx → /srv/wadamesh/site
Map tile styles. The default /{z}/{x}/{y}.jpg route serves OpenStreetMap
(the firmware default). An opt-in OpenTopoMap topographic style is served from
/opentopo/{z}/{x}/{y}.jpg (explicit OSM alias at /osm/...); the device requests
it only when the user enables Map → Options → Topographic map. Legal: OpenTopoMap
map tiles are © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) over © OpenStreetMap contributors
(ODbL) + SRTM — the touch UI shows that attribution when topo is active, and the
14-day disk cache keeps each tile hitting OpenTopoMap at most once per fortnight
(their tile-usage policy asks for a contactable UA + caching, both of which the
transcode service provides). Deploying the topo routes = update
tiles.wadamesh.com.conf + tile-transcode.py, then
systemctl restart wadamesh-tile-transcode && nginx -t && systemctl reload nginx
and purge the Cloudflare cache for tiles.wadamesh.com/opentopo/*.
The firmware fetches tiles + the update-check over plain HTTP (on-device HTTPS isn't viable — mbedTLS needs ~30 KB heap, only ~5 KB is free post-Wi-Fi), so the tile + firmware hosts must stay reachable over HTTP. Cloudflare provides the edge cache, HTTPS for the flasher, and hides the origin IP (so no IP lives in this repo or the firmware).
1. VPS (origin)
sudo apt install nginx
sudo mkdir -p /srv/wadamesh/firmware/releases/TOUCH /var/cache/nginx/wadamesh-tiles
sudo cp deploy/nginx/tiles.wadamesh.com.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/
sudo cp deploy/nginx/firmware.wadamesh.com.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/tiles.wadamesh.com.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/firmware.wadamesh.com.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
sudo nginx -t && sudo systemctl reload nginx
2. Cloudflare
- DNS:
A/AAAArecords fortiles,firmware,flasher,@→ the VPS IP, all Proxied (orange cloud). - SSL/TLS: mode Flexible (CF↔origin HTTP) is enough since the origin is
HTTP-only. Do NOT enable "Always Use HTTPS" on
tiles.orfirmware.— the firmware needs plain HTTP there. - Cache Rules:
tiles.wadamesh.com/*→ Eligible for cache, Edge TTL ~14d.firmware.wadamesh.com/releases/*/*.bin→ cache, Edge TTL ~1d.firmware.wadamesh.com/releases/TOUCH(the listing) → short TTL (~60s) or Bypass, so new releases appear promptly.
3. Publishing a release
From a wadamesh checkout (builds both boards, refreshes the listing, rsyncs up):
WADAMESH_VPS=user@your-vps scripts/release.sh beta_2
The on-device check GETs http://firmware.wadamesh.com/releases/TOUCH, finds the
highest beta_<N>, and (once OTA-over-Wi-Fi is re-enabled) pulls
…/releases/TOUCH/beta_<N>/<board>.bin.
Done
- Web flasher ✅ — the guided install page at
wadamesh.com, served fromdeploy/site/and published byscripts/deploy-site.sh(esp-web-tools / Web Serial, per-board install buttons + .bin downloads, manifests generated per release byscripts/build/gen-flasher-meta.pyinto the/latest/and/latest-beta/feeds thatrelease.shrefreshes each publish). flasher.wadamesh.com301-redirects to the apex (seedeploy/nginx/flasher.wadamesh.com.conf) — it is an alias, not its own page.deploy/flasher/is the original standalone flasher page. No deploy script publishes it —deploy-site.shshipsdeploy/site/only — so it is effectively an offline/local copy kept in parity by hand. Retire it or wire it into a deploy target; until then, treatdeploy/site/index.htmlas the only install page users can reach.
TODO before public launch
- Re-enable OTA-over-Wi-Fi in the firmware (currently it version-checks then defers to manual flashing).
- Flip
wadameshrepo public = launch. - Decide tile-proxy sharing: dedicated
tiles.wadamesh.com(this config) vs reusing the meshcomod proxy.
Never commit the VPS IP, SSH keys, or
WADAMESH_VPS. Cloudflare fronts the origin; the deploy target is supplied via the environment at publish time.