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Christopher Van HooseandClaude Fable 5 d2c3322a41 GPS Compass: retire flip/rotate, calibrate the accelerometer, unwrap the diagnostics
Flip (F) and the "Flip" button are gone, and the stored `mirror` setting with
them. Rotate (O) had already gone. Both existed to let a user hand-tune the
sensor handedness back when it was unknown; both frames are measured now, so
the keys could only break a correct compass. A future board with different
mounting gets a measured mapping, not a key it has to be discovered.

The accelerometer has a zero-g offset -- this one reads ~0.08 g high on Y lying
flat, which is 4.6 degrees of tilt that is not there, applied by the tilt
correction against a gravity vector that is wrong by that much, and wrong in
the DEVICE's frame so it moves the heading differently at every heading.
Rotating the device every way already sweeps a 1 g sphere for the
accelerometer alongside the field sphere for the magnetometer, so the same fit
recovers it at no cost to the user: same gesture, one more set of running sums,
and it is only accepted when the sphere it fits is close to the 1 g it must be.
Simulated with a 0.08 g bias injected: recovered to within 0.02 g, and a flat
device then reads 0 degrees of tilt instead of 5.

Diagnostics: rows were wrapping onto each other. They are shorter now, and
while diagnostics are on the four rows take the whole panel width (the key
column is reclaimed) -- the harness fails if any row exceeds what fits. The
status line also reports the vertical field (d+0.42), which is the measurement
that says whether the magnetometer's Z sign -- inferred, never measured -- is
right: north of the equator, held flat, it must be positive.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 12:15:44 -04:00
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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)             →  web flasher        (TODO — see below)
wadamesh.com           →CF (HTTPS)             →  landing page       (later)

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/AAAA records for tiles, 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. or firmware. — 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 ✅ at flasher.wadamesh.com — deploy/flasher/ (esp-web-tools / Web Serial, board picker, manifests pointing at the rolling /latest/ merged bins; release.sh refreshes /latest/ each publish).
  • Apex wadamesh.com 301-redirects to the flasher — activate by pointing the wadamesh.com A record at the VPS in Cloudflare (it's still on the parking IP).

TODO before public launch

  • Re-enable OTA-over-Wi-Fi in the firmware (currently it version-checks then defers to manual flashing).
  • Flip wadamesh repo 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.