Repeater firmware currently tracks useful stats via CLI (stats-core, stats-packets, stats-radio), but none of this surfaces on the OLED display for boards that have one (T096, and other similar screen-equipped hardware).
For a repeater mounted somewhere out of easy reach, being able to glance at the screen and see basic health info would be a big usability win over having to pull up a laptop and connect via USB or remote admin every time.
Requesting the display show, at minimum:
Battery percentage or voltage
Uptime
Packets forwarded (some rolling window, e.g. since last boot or last 24h)
Nice to have if feasible:
A lifetime repeat count that persists across reboots (not just since-boot, since stats-packets resets on reboot and clear stats wipes it manually)
Note: Companion firmware on the T096 already renders a battery icon on-screen, so at least some of the UI groundwork may already exist and could potentially be extended to Repeater firmware, rather than needing to be built from scratch. The underlying data (stats-core battery, uptime) already exists on both firmware variants — this seems like primarily a UI/display change, at least for battery, uptime, and since-boot packet counts. A persistent lifetime count (surviving reboot) would need additional storage handling.
Related: #1170 covered similar territory for repeater display/stats (WiFi status + OTA webserver for Heltec V4), including example code for extending the display's UITask — may be useful prior art even though the scope there was WiFi-specific.
Happy to test this on a T096 if a build is available.
That's ready to paste into a new issue at github.com/meshcore-dev/MeshCore/issues/new. Since I can't create GitHub issues directly, you'll need to post it yourself — let me know if it needs any tweaks after you're looking at it in their issue form (they may have a template with required fields).
Repeater firmware currently tracks useful stats via CLI (stats-core, stats-packets, stats-radio), but none of this surfaces on the OLED display for boards that have one (T096, and other similar screen-equipped hardware).
For a repeater mounted somewhere out of easy reach, being able to glance at the screen and see basic health info would be a big usability win over having to pull up a laptop and connect via USB or remote admin every time.
Requesting the display show, at minimum:
Battery percentage or voltage
Uptime
Packets forwarded (some rolling window, e.g. since last boot or last 24h)
Nice to have if feasible:
A lifetime repeat count that persists across reboots (not just since-boot, since stats-packets resets on reboot and clear stats wipes it manually)
Note: Companion firmware on the T096 already renders a battery icon on-screen, so at least some of the UI groundwork may already exist and could potentially be extended to Repeater firmware, rather than needing to be built from scratch. The underlying data (stats-core battery, uptime) already exists on both firmware variants — this seems like primarily a UI/display change, at least for battery, uptime, and since-boot packet counts. A persistent lifetime count (surviving reboot) would need additional storage handling.
Related: #1170 covered similar territory for repeater display/stats (WiFi status + OTA webserver for Heltec V4), including example code for extending the display's UITask — may be useful prior art even though the scope there was WiFi-specific.
Happy to test this on a T096 if a build is available.
That's ready to paste into a new issue at github.com/meshcore-dev/MeshCore/issues/new. Since I can't create GitHub issues directly, you'll need to post it yourself — let me know if it needs any tweaks after you're looking at it in their issue form (they may have a template with required fields).