Beacon: pin broadcast targets and the offer to a resolved channel and frequency slot - #11662
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sendBeaconPacket() only released the packet's targetRadioSettings entry when router->send() returned ERRNO_SHOULD_RELEASE. That is the NODENUM_BROADCAST_NO_LORA case, where the Router hands ownership back to the caller. Every other failure - duty cycle limit, oversized payload, position precision, tx disabled - releases the packet inside the Router or the interface without notifying any TX hook, so the entry kept inUse forever. The pool is fixed at 8 entries, exactly four targets times two packets under FLAG_LEGACY_SPLIT, and the per-target loop keeps allocating through a duty cycle condition rather than breaking out. So a single throttled beacon cycle on a 10% region can leak the whole pool, after which setTargetRadioSettings() falls back to overwriting entry 0 and beacons silently transmit on the home radio config until reboot. Only ERRNO_OK means the interface queued the packet and now owns both it and its settings. Route every other return through a helper that frees the entry, and the packet too when the caller still owns it. Completes meshtastic#11573, which introduced the ERRNO_SHOULD_RELEASE guard for the ownership-handback case; the drop paths are the opposite ownership shape.
…d state validateConfigLora() delegates to checkOrClampConfigLora(cfg, false), and the copy it takes protects the caller's struct but nothing else. Asking whether a config was legal also wrote uses_default_frequency_slot and uses_custom_channel_name, recorded a critical error, and pushed a ClientNotification to the phone - all before the if (clamp) that decides whether anything is being applied. Seven of the nine callers ask about configs that are never applied: five in AdminModule, the wasm config check, and the beacon TX guard, which runs on every transmit. The static matters because NeighborInfoModule gates its LoRa transmit on it and Channels::hasDefaultChannel() coerces telemetry intervals from it, so a probe for some other config could flip either. Compute both flags as locals and publish them only on the clamp path, and move the three announce blocks inside the if (clamp) that already follows them. The clamp branch now reads its local rather than the static it just published. applyModemConfig() clamps unconditionally on both paths instead of validating and hand-rolling a preset fallback. It depended on the static being set as a side effect of validation, so it has to be the clamp that runs; the fallback it rolled by hand also missed the sibling EU region swap that clampConfigLora performs. Also add an optional channelName so a caller can ask about a config that is not the running one - the frequency slot is picked by hashing the channel name, and the name was hardcoded to the current primary. Defaults to the previous behaviour. test_admin_radio 109/109.
…un on Both beacon validation paths built a probe from the running config and evaluated it against the running primary channel. The frequency slot is picked by hashing the channel name, so a target naming its own channel was checked against the wrong name, and its slot was never checked at all - beaconTxConfigInvalid() passed nullptr for the slot out-param. Latent today, since the slot always resolves to 0, but it is the mechanism a per-target slot would rely on. Pass beaconChannelSettings(), the same function the switch uses to build the channel it installs as primary. It fills a blank name with the target preset's display name, so the name is never empty even for a target carrying no channel of its own. Made public for the admin side, which needs the same answer before anything is applied; it is pure. The admin path also cleared has_channel_index whenever it rejected a preset, so a target with a good channel and a bad preset silently fell back to the primary channel under the primary PSK, indistinguishable from never having set one. Clamp the preset instead and leave the channel alone. The channel_index range check moves ahead of the preset check, because the preset check now reads that slot to build the name it hashes. The region is written back only when the clamp actually moved it: assigning it unconditionally would turn an UNSET region, meaning "inherit whatever the node is running at TX time", into a pin on today's running region. test_mesh_beacon 58/58.
…g it Four cases asserted the previous contract, where an illegal preset for a target's region cleared has_preset. One also asserted that it cleared has_channel_index, pinning as intended behaviour the bug where a target with a good channel and a bad preset silently fell back to the primary channel under the primary PSK. The property they protect is unchanged: an illegal preset still cannot survive validation. It now becomes the region's default rather than being cleared, which is stricter - clearing let the target inherit whatever preset the node happened to be running. Renamed to match, and the fourth now asserts the opposite of what it did: the channel survives a rejected preset. test_mesh_beacon 58/58.
…the primary slot The beacon transmitted on another channel by copying that channel's settings into the primary table slot for the duration of the switch, because perhapsEncode() keys the cipher off the primary. That made a transient radio state globally visible: anything reading slot 0 saw the beacon's channel. NeighborInfoModule gates its LoRa transmit on channels.isDefaultChannel(getPrimaryIndex()), so a private beacon channel swung that gate open and any module sending during the window encrypted with the beacon's PSK - the same read, so the two cannot happen independently. The hijack existed because a destination could be an inline ChannelSettings with no table slot, leaving no index to encrypt on. Consolidating targets onto channel_index removed that, so the packet can just name its slot: perhapsEncode() resolves the key from p->channel and replaces it with the wire hash, exactly as a secondary-channel send already works. Only RF parameters are switched now. Removes the swap and its restore, the originalPrimaryChannel snapshot, the post-encryption hash re-stamp, sendBeaconPacket's crypto-override branch and the channelDiffers lambda. Adds RadioInterface::resolveFrequencySlot(): with the target no longer primary, nothing would derive the slot from its channel name, and the beacon would have transmitted on the target's channel at the home channel's slot - inaudible to the nodes it is aimed at. Both sides of every slot comparison are resolved through it, because channel_num is 1-based with 0 meaning "derive" and comparing a resolved slot against that reads as a difference: a target on the running config would have switched the radio to the frequency it was already using, opening the very window this removes. Covered by test_broadcaster_targetMatchingRunningConfig_armsNoSwitch, which fails if either side is left unresolved. A disabled slot holds whatever channel was deleted from it and yields no key, so the target loop now falls back to the primary rather than transmitting a retired identity. Under the hijack it worked by accident, the settings being copied into a slot whose own role supplied the key. Behaviour change: beacons uplink to MQTT on the target channel's uplink_enabled rather than the primary's. The old split - primary's flag, beacon's topic - was an artefact of the swap. test_mesh_beacon 59/59, test_admin_radio 109/109.
A broadcast_target names a channel-table slot, so disabling or blanking that slot leaves the target pointing at a channel the node no longer has. The beacon now encrypts on the slot itself, so such a target would fall back to the primary at transmit time with only a log line to explain it. handleSetChannel() detects a slot being retired and clears any target referencing it, so the reference goes when the channel does. The save widens to include SEGMENT_MODULECONFIG only when a target actually changed, or the cleared reference would not survive a reboot - the channel gone, the target still pointing at it. The write-time check on channel_index stays a range check. Role_DISABLED is the zero value, so an unprovisioned slot reads as disabled, and rejecting that would force channels to be created before the beacons that use them.
The offer carried its own inline ChannelSettings, a second copy of a name and
PSK that the admin round-trip had to fit alongside four targets. Point at a
channel-table slot instead, the way broadcast_targets already does: one entry
point for channel data, free referential validation, and ModuleConfig drops
from 244 to 230 bytes. A fully populated admin message now measures 182 of the
233-byte LoRa ceiling against 219 before, which is what makes room for the
per-target frequency slot that follows.
A disabled or blank slot advertises nothing rather than handing out the name
and PSK of a channel that was deleted from that slot.
USERPREFS_MESH_BEACON_OFFER_CHANNEL_{NAME,PSK} become _INDEX. Old keys now
fail the build rather than silently shipping a beacon that advertises nothing,
matching what the MESH_BEACON_ON_* keys already do.
The PhoneAPI unauth gate stays: no PSK rides in this config any more, but it
still names the beacon message and which slots are advertised.
The slot width and count arithmetic existed in four places: validation, its narrowed-bandwidth retry, resolveFrequencySlot, and applyModemConfig. Same expression each time, so the three could silently disagree if one were edited. Put it in frequencySlotCount(), with a config-level overload for callers that have neither a region nor a bandwidth to hand. No behaviour change.
A target could only ever land on the slot its channel name hashed to. Add an
optional frequency_slot so it can pin one instead, 1-based to match
Config.LoRaConfig.channel_num, and the same for the advertised offer.
A pin resolves through the same path a derived slot does, so it is checked
against the target's own region and bandwidth and compares correctly against
the running config: pinning the slot the node already uses arms no radio
switch, as pinning "the slot we are on" should. The pin applies whether or not
the target names a channel.
Admin validation clears a slot outside the region, and runs after the preset
clamp - that clamp can move both preset and region, either of which changes how
many slots exist.
The offer advertises its slot only where a receiver could not derive it from
the region, channel name and preset already in the offer. A region with a
mandated slot, or a mesh on the default hash, costs nothing on the air.
Adds USERPREFS_MESH_BEACON_{TARGET_n,OFFER}_FREQUENCY_SLOT.
A rejected setting was only ever a LOG_WARN, so an administering client wrote a config, read it back and saw something it never sent, with no way to tell an accepted write from an altered one. Populate clamped_fields on each target. A region SWAP is reported separately from a preset being CLAMPED: the first keeps the operator's preset and moves their region, the second the reverse, and that is the distinction a remote admin most needs. Names the bits in a ClampedField enum rather than leaving the meanings in prose. Costs nothing on the wire - BroadcastTarget and ModuleConfig are the same size either way. The field is firmware-owned, so a value a client sends is discarded rather than stored, or a stale echo would misreport a clean write.
The offer settings were checked, but weakly, and in three ways that a target had already been fixed for: Preset was CLEARED, not clamped, so a preset the region cannot run took the operator's preset away entirely instead of falling back to one that works. Preset was validated BEFORE region, so an unknown region reached the probe and could reject a perfectly good preset - which was then discarded a few lines later anyway, leaving a config that lost the preset for nothing. Validation was passed no channel name, so it hashed the running primary rather than the channel the offer advertises. Same defect fixed for targets earlier on this branch. Order is now region, channel index, preset, frequency slot, matching the target loop, and broadcast_offer_clamped_fields reports any of it back. None of this had test coverage; it does now.
A target pointed at the offered channel beacons an invitation to the mesh every listener is already on. Config reaches this legitimately - set the offer, then reconfigure a target onto that channel - so it is valid on write and only redundant at transmit, which is where it has to be caught. Suppression is per target, not per config: an offer redundant for one target is still worth sending on another, and refusing to store the config would block a valid multi-target setup. Only when the offer names a channel. An offer carrying just a preset and region is an announcement rather than an invitation elsewhere, and stays valid even when it matches - the plain offer-only beacon depends on it. A target left with nothing to say sends nothing; one that still has text sends the text alone rather than being dropped.
A client built before the consolidation still sends broadcast_send_as_node on MeshBeaconConfig tag 3, and an older one an inline ChannelSettings on BroadcastTarget tag 3. nanopb must treat both as unknown fields rather than failing the decode, or those clients cannot write a beacon config at all. Hand-built wire bytes with fields on either side of the retired tag, so a skip of the wrong length desynchronises the stream and fails the assertions after it. The two tags exercise different skip paths: varint and length-delimited.
clamped_fields put the result of a write inside the resource the write acted on. That breaks idempotency - read a config, write it back unchanged, and the mask you just read is discarded and recomputed - and puts unsettable state in a settable message, persisted to flash so it goes stale and reports one client's write to another. No other Meshtastic config surface does this. The problem it addressed is real: a node that clamps a setting tells the client nothing but a LOG_WARN, and a remote admin has no other feedback channel at all. ClientNotification is where that belongs, keyed by reply_id to the request - attached to the operation rather than the resource, expiring naturally, and generalising past the beacon. Left for separate work. All the validation stays. Only the reporting goes. ModuleConfig is now 227, seventeen bytes below what the branch started from. Also points the protobufs submodule at the fork branch so CI can fetch it. REVERT BEFORE THE UPSTREAM PR: the URL must go back to meshtastic/protobufs once these protos merge there.
…idth frequencySlotCount() had two overloads answering different questions behind one name. The config form derives the bandwidth itself, honouring use_preset and the region's wideLora; the other trusts whatever the caller hands it. A caller with a config who reached for the second - forgetting to clamp, or ignoring wideLora - would get a count that silently disagrees with the one the radio runs on, which is the divergence this consolidation existed to remove. Every caller outside RadioInterface.cpp already used the config form, so the primitive becomes a file-static named for what it demands of the caller. The header now exports only the form that cannot be called wrongly. Also corrects the comment: spacing is the gap between slots, one fewer than the slot count, not a gap at the start of the band. The frequency formula applies padding before the first slot and no spacing, which is what the +spacing in the count numerator compensates for. Verified behaviour-preserving against upstream develop: every region against every preset its profile permits - 266 combinations - produces identical bandwidth, spreading factor, coding rate and frequency.
Nothing pinned a slot count or a computed frequency, so the slot arithmetic was
unguarded against any future edit to it. Four regions that tile their band
exactly are the sharpest check: the top slot has to finish flush against
freqEnd and never past it.
Each was picked to cover a different term rather than repeat the same one:
US 250kHz, no padding 104 slots, top ends on 928.000
NZ_865 125kHz, no padding 32 slots - a width error shows here, not
in US, since halving the bandwidth doubles
the count
EU_868 the degenerate case 1 slot filling the whole allocation, and
the guard on the divide-by-zero path
ITU1_2M 15.6kHz + 2x2.2kHz pad 100 slots on the ham 20kHz raster, the only
one pinning the padding term
Verified by mutation: dropping the padding term from the width fails ITU1_2M
alone (100 becomes 128) and leaves the other three green, so the four cover
distinct ground.
None is a region where round() over-counts, so these stay green either way if
that is ever changed to floor().
…block Repo rule is one to two lines per comment; several of mine had grown past it. Two were more than long. The fillOffer declaration had been inserted inside beaconChannelSettings' existing doc block, so that comment documented fillOffer and beaconChannelSettings was left with none. And the note about uses_default_frequency_slot being published only on the clamp path sat above the computation rather than the publishing site, merging into two upstream lines while describing something fifteen lines further down. Both are back where they belong. No code change.
A target that pins a frequency slot without naming a channel compared equal to any other channel-less target, so the second was dropped as a duplicate and never went out. The key now carries the slot and the channel index - everything that reaches the air. That also collapses a bare target and one naming the primary index, which used to send twice.
Router::send() releases the packet on every failure path except ERRNO_SHOULD_RELEASE, so reading p->id back out of it is a use-after-free wherever packetPool is the dynamic pool - Portduino, STM32WL and PSRAM boards. ASan reports heap-use-after-free on a NO_CHANNEL send.
Retiring a channel already cleared the targets naming it but left broadcast_offer_channel_index dangling, so the offer quietly stopped naming a channel instead of being corrected on write.
The sidecar carried a whole ChannelSettings to use the 12-byte name, 576 bytes of BSS across the eight entries. Resolving the name once at send time also gives the TX path and the pre-key-up validation a single derivation instead of two that disagreed on a blank name. reconfigureForBeaconTX's channel reads have been dead since the channel install was removed.
checkOrClampConfigLora() published uses_default_frequency_slot and uses_custom_channel_name on every clamp. Admin beacon validation clamps a probe config the node will never run, so a bad target preset rewrote state describing the live radio. applyModemConfig() republishes both before it reads them, so frequency selection was never affected - but NeighborInfoModule::runOnce() and Channels::hasDefaultChannel() read them between an admin module-config write and the next reconfigure, and a module-config write does not reconfigure. Add a speculative mode that withholds the two statics and the critical error, exposed as clampCandidateConfigLora(), and route the two beacon probes through it. The three identical LOG_ERROR/RECORD_CRITICALERROR/sendErrorNotification triples collapse into one lambda, and the scattered writes to uses_default_frequency_slot become a local published once at the end. Also moves the doc block that had drifted onto slotCountForBandwidth back onto checkOrClampConfigLora, and drops applyModemConfig()'s claim that it must be given pre-validated settings - it clamps in place itself.
Admin validation and the TX path derived the channel name a target's frequency slot hashes from two different ways. Admin passed the primary settings as the base with the target's slot as an override, so a slot holding a PSK but no name hashed the PRIMARY's name; sendBeacon passed the slot settings as the base, so the same slot hashed the preset display name. Admin also did not mirror the TX path's fallbacks to the primary for a disabled or blank slot. A config admin had accepted could therefore still be refused by beaconTxConfigInvalid() at TX. Both now call resolveBeaconChannel(), the single answer to "where does this target transmit": out of range, disabled or blank all fall back to the primary, and the name always comes from the resolved slot. That retires beaconChannelSettings()'s overrideChannel parameter, whose only callers these were, and folds the slot-usability test into one predicate shared with offerChannelSettings(). Role_DISABLED is also the zero value, so a never-provisioned slot read as disabled and warned on every beacon cycle. Only a populated-but-disabled slot - an actually retired channel - warns now; an empty one stays at debug.
A target that named only a preset kept the home frequency slot as a number. Slot count scales with bandwidth, so a wider target preset holds fewer slots and the home number could fall outside the band: US LONG_FAST is 104 slots, SHORT_TURBO is 52. beaconTxConfigInvalid() then failed the range check and MeshBeaconTxHook dropped the packet, silently, for roughly half of all channel names. Every target now resolves its slot through one call seeded by its pin, or its own channel's name, or the home slot - which resolveFrequencySlot() re-derives when the target's band cannot hold it. A bare target still resolves to exactly homeSlot and arms nothing. The switch also sets config.lora.use_preset now, carried on the sidecar and restored with the rest. applyModemConfig() only reads modem_preset when use_preset is set, so on a node running custom bandwidth/SF/CR a target's preset was ignored entirely and the beacon went out on the home modem config. Targets that name no preset keep the node's own use_preset, so they still switch nothing, and their slot is sized by the bandwidth actually in use. Collapses the two targetSlot() calls a channel-plus-pin target used to make into one, and carries usePreset into the dedup key and the switch comparison.
fillOffer() advertised broadcast_offer_frequency_slot verbatim while sendBeacon resolved the same pin through resolveFrequencySlot(), so a pin outside the region went out on the air as a slot no receiver can tune while the redundancy check compared against the derived one. Admin validation clears an out-of-range pin, but installDefaultModuleConfig() does not - a build setting USERPREFS_MESH_BEACON_OFFER_FREQUENCY_SLOT never passes through it. Both now call offerFrequencySlot(), which resolves the pin and hands back the derived slot alongside it. The redundancy gate keyed on has_broadcast_offer_channel_index rather than the offer actually carrying a channel. A channel_index naming a disabled or blank slot advertises nothing, which is the bare preset-and-region announcement the gate is meant to leave alone; it now tests the resolved channel.
Every comment this branch added or touched is back inside the one-to-two-line limit in copilot-instructions.md. Several were also stale rather than merely long: the target channel block still described a fallback to "the default channel for the target preset (see beaconChannelSettings)" when it now falls back to the primary index, the sidecar's channelName is no longer ever empty, and the dedup key compares five fields rather than four. Renames targetChannelIndex_blankSlotFallsBackToPreset to ...ToPrimary, which is what it now asserts, and gives it the p->channel assertion it was missing - it only ever checked that the primary channel had not been swapped.
checkOrClampConfigLora() wrote uses_default_frequency_slot and uses_custom_channel_name directly, so asking whether some other config was legal moved state that NeighborInfoModule and Channels::hasDefaultChannel() read as the running radio's. This branch had been suppressing that with a speculative flag threaded through the function; report the two flags instead and let applyModemConfig() apply them, where the config becomes the radio they describe. clampConfigLora() seeds the verdict from the live values so an override_frequency config, which settles neither flag, reports them unchanged rather than resetting them.
With the slot verdict no longer written from inside the clamp, the only thing separating clampCandidateConfigLora() from clampConfigLora() was whether it announced, so the second entry point is not earning its place in the header. Collapse it into a defaulted parameter and rename the underlying flag to what it now controls: speculative meant both "stay silent" and "do not publish", and only the first survives.
Sharing one slot-count helper meant rewriting three sites that were not otherwise changing, which buried the actual feature in a diff that read as a rewrite of the slot math. Put all three back verbatim and let frequencySlotCount() carry its own copy: the width out-param was the only thing forcing a shared helper, and only the two sites that compute a frequency ever wanted it. resolveFrequencySlot() now asks frequencySlotCount() rather than re-deriving the bandwidth. The mid-clamp recompute deliberately does not, and says why - loraConfig.bandwidth is rewritten there while modem_preset is not, so in preset mode the query would answer with the preset that just failed.
The slot picker carried its own copy of the arithmetic, with a comment saying it was copied from applyModemConfig() - so a change to how slots are counted had four places to reach. It also derived the bandwidth without clampBandwidthKHz(), so a persisted bandwidth of 0 offered a slot list the radio would never run.
setTargetRadioSettings() took seven parameters and its reader took seven out-params, six of them optional, so every consumer unpacked the entry into locals and reassembled a probe from them. Both sides already had the struct in hand. Pass it, and return a pointer to the entry instead. No field changes: this is the call shape only, so the field change that follows reads on its own.
The entry named the four fields the beacon happens to vary today, so a target wanting a custom bandwidth, spread factor or coding rate could not be expressed without adding a field and threading it through both consumers. Carry the config instead: the sidecar describes the radio the packet needs, and future per-target parameters need no plumbing. Region is resolved at the producer now, so the entry never holds UNSET and neither consumer re-derives it - which collapses beaconTxConfigInvalid() to validating the stored config directly. A target inheriting the region therefore binds it when the beacon is queued rather than when it keys up. reconfigureForBeaconTX() still installs only the RF fields: the rest of the stored copy is a send-time snapshot, and applying it wholesale would revert any config edit made while the beacon was in flight. Costs 768 bytes of .bss for the table of 8, against 288 before and 736 on develop before this branch narrowed it.
The existing clamp test went vacuous with the verdict change: no clamp publishes the flags now, so "a candidate clamp leaves them alone" passes whether or not anything ever publishes. Add the other half - applying a config on a pinned slot and a non-preset channel name must move both. That test needs a shim keeping the base reconfigure(): the existing one overrides it to count calls, so applyModemConfig() never runs and the assertion would hold against a broken publish path. Also pin that the sidecar round-trips custom modem params. Nothing in the beacon config can ask for them yet, so without this the whole-config entry is untested and would regress to a preset-only carrier unnoticed. trufflehog's Lob detector reads test_* function names as credentials; the file already carried four such findings and the new cases renumber two of them into "new". Suppress the detector for the file rather than leave the trunk_check job failing on function names.
The offer-side channel-index check pointed at dropBeaconTargetsForChannel(); the function is dropBeaconRefsForChannel(), and has been since it grew to cover the offer as well as targets. Two comments this branch added ran to three lines against the repo's two-line rule.
Legacy split sends the offer and the text as two packets on identical settings, so the table held two byte-identical copies per target and four targets filled all eight slots exactly. Any entry still live from a previous cycle then pushed the next one straight into the eviction path, which overwrites a queued packet's settings and keys it up on the home config. Carry the packet ids on the entry instead: identical settings take the id rather than a second slot, and the entry is freed only when its last packet has gone - releasing the offer half must not strip the settings from the text half still queued. The table is four entries because broadcast_targets holds four, so a cycle can no longer fill it. 400 bytes, against 768 undeduped and 736 on develop before this branch. sameRadioSettings() compares fields rather than memcmp: s.lora is copied from config.lora, whose padding is not guaranteed zero, and a stray padding byte would silently defeat the dedup. resetConfig() now clears the table. The mock router never releases a packet, so entries armed by an earlier case stayed occupied - invisible while there were eight slots and two spare.
A beacon that has sat in the TX queue for a full broadcast interval describes a mesh that has moved on, and the next cycle is already due. Stamp the sidecar entry when it is armed and refuse it at the TX gate, so the packet is dropped rather than keyed up on an hour-old description. setTargetRadioSettings() also reaps expired entries before looking for room. That is what makes the four-entry table sound rather than merely adequate: no entry can outlive one interval, so a cycle can never find a previous one still holding a slot and evict a live entry to get in. Armed on allocation, not on attach, so a legacy split pair expires together timed from the first of the two. The 3600s floor itself already existed (Default.h) and is unchanged.
Five cases, each named for what it covers: - all four target shapes in one config: the home channel, another channel on the same frequency slot, a different slot, and a different region, preset and slot together. It asserts the distinction, not just the count - a channel change on the home slot must arm no radio switch, while a slot or region change must, on the values the target named. - an offer unlike home advertises its own channel, preset and slot. - an offer identical to home still goes out when the target is elsewhere, which is the point of the feature: I am over here, come and join me. - an offer naming the same mesh as a target is legal and still transmits. - an offer identical to the target carrying it is dropped, and the text it rode with is not. The third of those first asserted that an offer matching home is sent with no target configured. It is not: the implicit target is the running config, so the offer is redundant for the only packet that could carry it and, with no text, nothing goes out at all. That is by design and already pinned elsewhere, so the case is only meaningful with an audience that is not already on the offered mesh.
The drop path was covered only for the packet being dropped - its own entry released, the radio not reconfigured, the home preset untouched. Nothing held that the targets still queued behind it survive, which is what the driver actually does: it dequeues the refused packet and carries on with the rest. Two cases. A drop must take only its own entry, leaving another target's settings and slot intact. And a drop of one legacy split half must leave the other armed, since the pair now share an entry and the release runs against settings the survivor is still queued on. Also pin that releasing the second half does not resurrect the first. The compaction copies the tail id down without erasing it, so a freed entry always holds a stale but live-looking id; every reader bounds by idCount, and nothing was testing that. Reusing the freed entry is asserted too, because a reallocation that set idCount before overwriting ids[0] would hand the entry to a packet already released.
A target naming no region follows the node's. Resolving that when the beacon is queued pins it to whatever region was running then, so a node moved from US to EU_868 with a beacon still in the queue switches the radio back to US and keys up there, on frequencies it is no longer permitted to use. The stored config stays complete - lora.region holds what it resolved to - and the entry records separately that the target asked to inherit. effectiveLora() re-reads the live region for those entries, and both consumers go through it so validation and the switch cannot disagree. A target that named a region still means that region, whatever the node moved to. regionInherited joins the key two entries must match to share one sidecar entry: entries resolving to the same region today diverge the moment the node moves. Tests: MEDIUM_TURBO inherited on US stops being transmittable once the node moves to EU_868, which cannot hold its bandwidth, while the same preset pinned to US does not. Plus the offer-redundancy matrix over all four ways region can be spelled - the mixed UNSET/explicit pairs were untested, and they are where a gate comparing raw fields rather than resolved ones would show.
UNSET is "no region chosen yet", not a regulatory domain, so validation accepts any preset a real region offers rather than clamping to LONG_FAST - otherwise the clamp would discard a preset the user picked, on every boot and every set_config until they set a region. Walks the enum rather than sampling it: the existing coverage exercised SHORT_TURBO alone, and missed that VERY_LONG_SLOW is rejected. That one was deprecated in 2.5 and appears in no region's list, so it is not a preset anyone can be holding - pinned separately, along with a fabricated value, so the UNSET path is not mistaken for accept-anything.
…entry The legacy split pair was detected by comparing settings, which meant a hand-written list of fields over a proto struct: nine of LoRaConfig's twenty, omitting frequency_offset - which feeds saveFreq(). Two entries differing only there compare equal, share one entry, and the second packet transmits on the first's frequency. The comparison was also reconstructing something the caller already knew: applyTarget() runs twice for one target, with the same settings in hand. Return the entry index and let it pass that back, so sharing is instructed rather than inferred - no field list to drift, and packets that need different radios cannot land on one entry however they compare. Also notes at the install site that bandwidth, spread_factor and coding_rate ride in the sidecar but are not applied: the switch installs only region, preset, use_preset and channel_num, so per-target modem params are inert until that changes.
A broadcast target and the offer now store the request rather than a resolved result. Validation on write rejects only what can never become valid - a value that is no preset at all, a channel index past the table, a slot outside every region - and leaves the rest as written. sendBeacon() resolves the region against the settings in force, applies the EU sibling swap, derives the slot from the region that swap settled on, and skips a target it cannot resolve rather than substituting something else. Rewriting the request on write loses it: a preset this region cannot run may be exactly right after the node moves, and a region written back from a sibling swap outlives the move that justified it. Skipping is quiet but reversible; clamping transmits something nobody asked for. The region must be resolved before the slot. The band decides how many slots there are, so deriving from the region as written puts two spellings of the same mesh on different frequencies. radioDiffers compares the resolved region too, or a target that named a sibling arms a switch onto the region the node is already on. A target naming a channel that cannot be transmitted on is skipped, not redirected to the primary - that put the beacon on the home channel rather than the one named. Retiring a channel deletes the targets naming it: clearing only the index would redirect them, and keeping it would let an unrelated channel provisioned there later inherit a beacon nobody asked for. The offer keeps its other fields and loses the index, since an announcement still says something without a channel attached. The validation is one function with three callers, because a config can arrive without an admin write: set_module_config, boot over whatever userPrefs installed, and any set_config(lora) moving region, preset or use_preset. LoRa changes apply live, so nothing else would re-check the beacon against the radio it just inherited.
sanitiseConfig() was still described as clamping a preset its region cannot run and swapping the EU sibling that owns it, in both the header and the definition. It does neither: it rejects only what can never become valid and leaves the rest for sendBeacon() to resolve. A reader would have taken the old text as the contract. recheckBeaconAfterChannelEdit() still said the beacon's channel references are deliberately kept. They are deleted, so that an unrelated channel provisioned at the same index later cannot inherit a beacon. The rest is length: nine blocks over the two-line rule, trimmed to what is not already said by the code or a neighbouring declaration. The ordering note above resolvedRegion keeps its reason - the band sets the slot count - since nothing else in the function says why the region must be settled first.
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds explicit frequency-slot pinning for beacon targets and offers, but current validation can accept a final slot that extends beyond the regional band, risking invalid RF configuration. The pinned slot is also lost from cached received offers, and the protobuf dependency URL must be restored before merge, so the PR is not merge-ready until these issues are addressed. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AdminModule
participant MeshBeaconModule
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AdminModule->>MeshBeaconModule: sanitiseConfig(beaconConfig)
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MeshBeaconBroadcastModule->>MeshPacket: set p->channel to target channel index
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src/mesh/RadioInterface.cpp#L1333-L1335: condense the function comment.test/test_radio/test_main.cpp#L187-L190: remove the separator block or condense it.test/test_radio/test_main.cpp#L346-L350: move detailed rationale into the test name and keep the comment brief.As per coding guidelines: “Keep code comments minimal - one or two lines, max.”
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MeshBeaconModule.This local test is
role == DISABLED || (blank name && empty PSK), which is exactly!channelSlotUsable()insrc/modules/MeshBeaconModule.cpp. Two copies of the same rule can drift, and the beacon code states that admin validation and the TX path must not disagree about which channel a target can run on.Expose the predicate from
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In @.gitmodules:
- Around line 3-4: Restore the protobuf submodule’s URL in the .gitmodules
configuration to the upstream repository expected by update_protobufs.yml, while
preserving the existing submodule path and branch settings.
In `@src/mesh/RadioInterface.cpp`:
- Line 1293: Replace round-based slot-count calculation with floor semantics in
frequencySlotCount(), checkOrClampConfigLora(), and applyModemConfig(), ensuring
all validation, UI selection, and RF tuning paths use the same count that
excludes any partial slot beyond the band edge.
- Around line 1251-1253: In the usesCustomChannelName fallback branch, update
the channel configuration logic to set defaultSlot to true when assigning
channel_num from channelNameHashSlot + 1, so the slot is re-derived after later
channel-name changes.
In `@src/modules/MeshBeaconModule.cpp`:
- Around line 327-330: Update BeaconOffer handling so has_offer_frequency_slot
and offer_frequency_slot are included in hasOfferContent and copied into
lastReceivedOffer by MeshBeaconListenerModule::handleReceivedProtobuf,
preserving the pinned slot populated by MeshBeaconModule::fillOffer.
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- Around line 1333-1335: Condense the function comment near the RadioInterface
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than two lines. In test/test_radio/test_main.cpp lines 187-190, remove or
condense the separator block; at lines 346-350, move the detailed rationale into
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In `@src/modules/AdminModule.cpp`:
- Around line 1397-1398: Expose MeshBeaconModule’s existing channelSlotUsable
predicate for reuse, then replace the local retired expression in the
AdminModule validation with that shared predicate. Preserve the current
disabled-role, blank-name, and empty-PSK semantics so admin validation and
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Restore the upstream protobuf submodule URL before merge.
Release workflows use the recorded gitlink and do not update submodules remotely, so beacon-frequency-slot does not affect releases. However, update_protobufs.yml fetches master or develop from the .gitmodules remote, which currently points to NomDeTom/Meshtasticprotobufs.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Mark the channel-name fallback as a default slot.
When an invalid slot is clamped to channelNameHashSlot + 1, defaultSlot remains false. The running radio then treats that derived value as pinned. A later channel-name change will not re-derive the slot.
Set defaultSlot = true in this branch.
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if (usesCustomChannelName) {
loraConfig.channel_num = channelNameHashSlot + 1;
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| if (usesCustomChannelName) { // clamp to channel name hash | |
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| if (usesCustomChannelName) { // clamp to channel name hash | |
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set defaultSlot to true when assigning channel_num from channelNameHashSlot + 1,
so the slot is re-derived after later channel-name changes.
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| const float freqSlotWidth = region->profile->spacing + (region->profile->padding * 2) + (bw / 1000); // in MHz | ||
| return round((region->freqEnd - region->freqStart + region->profile->spacing) / freqSlotWidth); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Use floor semantics for the slot count.
round() can include a partial final slot. For example, US with a custom 190 kHz bandwidth yields round(26 / 0.19) == 137; slot 137 has an upper edge of 928.030 MHz, outside the 928 MHz band edge. The picker can offer this slot and validation accepts it.
Use floor semantics in frequencySlotCount(), checkOrClampConfigLora(), and applyModemConfig() so validation, UI, and RF tuning use the same bounded count.
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In `@src/mesh/RadioInterface.cpp` at line 1293, Replace round-based slot-count
calculation with floor semantics in frequencySlotCount(),
checkOrClampConfigLora(), and applyModemConfig(), ensuring all validation, UI
selection, and RF tuning paths use the same count that excludes any partial slot
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I'm not going to do that because it changes the frequency slot calculation and strands existing users.
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@NomDeTom, understood. Preserving the existing frequency-slot mapping is a valid compatibility requirement.
The boundary condition remains present, but changing it in this PR would alter established slot assignments. I will leave the finding open without requesting that change here.
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Store offer_frequency_slot in lastReceivedOffer.
MeshBeaconModule::fillOffer writes the pinned slot, but MeshBeaconListenerModule::handleReceivedProtobuf excludes has_offer_frequency_slot from hasOfferContent and does not copy the slot into lastReceivedOffer. The original beacon still reaches the client, but the listener cache loses this value. Add the slot and its presence flag to BeaconOffer and populate them in the listener.
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Queued stale packets can lose their drop metadata, valid channels can be rejected, and some frequency-slot configurations are silently discarded.
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Pull request overview
Adds channel-indexed and frequency-slot-pinned mesh beacon targets and offers while avoiding primary-channel mutation.
Changes:
- Adds slot resolution, validation, and temporary radio switching.
- Updates beacon configuration, generated protobuf bindings, and user preferences.
- Expands radio and beacon tests.
File summaries
| File | Description |
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.gitmodules |
Temporarily points protobufs to a feature fork. |
src/graphics/draw/MenuHandler.cpp |
Reuses centralized slot counting. |
src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp |
Installs and sanitizes new beacon settings. |
src/mesh/PhoneAPI.cpp |
Updates access-control commentary. |
src/mesh/RadioInterface.cpp |
Adds side-effect-free validation and slot helpers. |
src/mesh/RadioInterface.h |
Exposes slot resolution and validation APIs. |
src/mesh/generated/meshtastic/localonly.pb.h |
Updates generated message sizes. |
src/mesh/generated/meshtastic/mesh_beacon.pb.h |
Adds advertised frequency slots. |
src/mesh/generated/meshtastic/module_config.pb.h |
Adds target and offer slot fields. |
src/modules/AdminModule.cpp |
Revalidates beacons after configuration edits. |
src/modules/MeshBeaconModule.cpp |
Implements target resolution and TX sidecars. |
src/modules/MeshBeaconModule.h |
Defines expanded beacon APIs and state. |
test/support/AdminModuleTestShim.h |
Exposes channel edits to tests. |
test/test_radio/test_main.cpp |
Adds slot-boundary and validation tests. |
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src/modules/MeshBeaconModule.cpp:580
- A frequency-slot-only offer is treated as empty here, so
sendBeacon()returns without transmitting the new field. Includehas_broadcast_offer_frequency_slotin the radio-content gate;fillOffer()can then omit it naturally when the configured pin is derivable.
const bool hasRadioContent = bcfg.has_broadcast_offer_preset || offerChannelSettings(bcfg) != nullptr ||
(bcfg.broadcast_offer_region != meshtastic_Config_LoRaConfig_RegionCode_UNSET);
src/modules/MeshBeaconModule.cpp:110
- This clears the only metadata that marks an already-queued packet as stale, but it does not remove that packet from the radio queue. When the old packet later reaches
beforeTransmit(), both the stale check and radio switch are bypassed and it can transmit on the home RF config. Reclaim the entry only after the queued packet is canceled/released, or retain enough tombstone state for the pre-TX hook to drop it.
for (auto &entry : targetRadioSettings) {
if (targetRadioSettingsStale(entry)) {
LOG_WARN("Beacon: target entry for 0x%08x expired unsent, freeing its slot", entry.ids[0]);
entry.idCount = 0;
}
src/modules/MeshBeaconModule.cpp:342
- The wire contract says an absent
offer_presetmeans the offered region's default preset, but this derives the slot using the node's running preset. If the running preset differs from that default, the code can conclude a pin is derivable and omit it even though a receiver derives another slot. Resolve the effective offer region first and use its default preset here; apply the same effective value in the offer-redundancy comparison.
const meshtastic_ChannelSettings *offerCh = offerChannelSettings(bcfg);
const auto preset = bcfg.has_broadcast_offer_preset ? bcfg.broadcast_offer_preset : config.lora.modem_preset;
meshtastic_Config_LoRaConfig probe = config.lora;
probe.use_preset = true;
probe.modem_preset = preset;
if (bcfg.broadcast_offer_region != meshtastic_Config_LoRaConfig_RegionCode_UNSET)
probe.region = bcfg.broadcast_offer_region;
src/modules/MeshBeaconModule.cpp:44
- The expiry is always one hour, not the configured broadcast interval. With
broadcast_interval_secs = 14400, for example, a packet queued for just over one hour is dropped even though the next cycle is not due for another three hours. Base this timeout on the effective configured interval (ideally captured when the entry is armed) so it matches the documented “full broadcast interval” behavior.
static bool targetRadioSettingsStale(const MeshBeaconModule_TargetRadioSettings &entry)
{
return entry.idCount && Throttle::hasElapsed(entry.armedAtMs, default_mesh_beacon_min_broadcast_interval_secs * 1000UL);
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| static bool channelSlotUsable(const meshtastic_Channel &slot) | ||
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| return slot.role != meshtastic_Channel_Role_DISABLED && channelSlotPopulated(slot); | ||
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| slot.role == meshtastic_Channel_Role_DISABLED || (slot.settings.name[0] == '\0' && slot.settings.psk.size == 0); |
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| if (bcfg.broadcast_offer_region != meshtastic_Config_LoRaConfig_RegionCode_UNSET) | ||
| probe.region = bcfg.broadcast_offer_region; | ||
| const uint32_t slots = RadioInterface::frequencySlotCount(probe); | ||
| if (bcfg.broadcast_offer_frequency_slot == 0 || bcfg.broadcast_offer_frequency_slot > slots) { | ||
| LOG_WARN("Beacon: broadcast_offer_frequency_slot %u outside 1..%u, clearing", bcfg.broadcast_offer_frequency_slot, | ||
| slots); | ||
| bcfg.has_broadcast_offer_frequency_slot = false; |
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| if (t.region != meshtastic_Config_LoRaConfig_RegionCode_UNSET) | ||
| probe.region = t.region; | ||
| const uint32_t slots = RadioInterface::frequencySlotCount(probe); | ||
| if (t.frequency_slot == 0 || t.frequency_slot > slots) { | ||
| LOG_WARN("Beacon: broadcast_targets[%u] frequency_slot %u outside 1..%u, clearing", i, t.frequency_slot, slots); | ||
| t.has_frequency_slot = false; |
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Two predicates asked "is this slot populated?" as `name non-empty || psk non-empty`. That is not how the firmware decides a channel can be used. Channels::getKey() treats an empty PSK as either the primary's key borrowed by a secondary or deliberate cleartext, and a blank name resolves to the preset's display name - which is what the stock primary ships with. The firmware's own idiom is `role != DISABLED && has_settings`, four places. Reachable and damaging: editing the primary to unnamed cleartext made recheckBeaconAfterChannelEdit() read it as retired, so it deleted every broadcast target naming that index and cleared the offer index. An ordinary edit silently destroyed the operator's beacon config. The same predicate also skipped a target naming a blank enabled secondary, which advertised nothing. The clause was there to catch a client that retires a channel by blanking it rather than setting DISABLED. That false negative costs nothing - a blank enabled channel transmits correctly - and the false positive costs config. BeaconChannel.retired went with it: it existed only to tell "held settings but disabled" from "never provisioned", which the new predicate cannot draw and which drove nothing but a log line. Reported by CodeRabbit on meshtastic#11662.
sanitiseConfig() bounds-checked frequency_slot against the region the node is running right now, even for a target whose region is UNSET. A target pinned to slot 48 with an inherited region, written on an EU_868 node, was cleared on write - and cleared again on every set_config(lora) that moved region or preset, so changing region actively destroyed valid pins. That is meshtastic#11516's own case (NYMesh, MediumSlow, slot 48), and the same silent config loss the previous commit fixed for channels. Region and preset already record the request and resolve it at send; the slot was the odd one out. Bounds-check only when region and preset are both explicit - that pair fixes the bandwidth, so the slot count cannot move under the pin and a rejection is permanent truth. Otherwise reject only slot 0, which the proto reserves as unset. Same rule for the offer's pin. At send time a pin the resolved region cannot hold now skips the target instead of falling through to hash(name) % N. Skip-rather-than-substitute is what this branch already does for an unusable channel and an unrunnable preset, and an operator who pinned a frequency is worse served by a beacon on a different one than by no beacon at all. Reported by CodeRabbit on meshtastic#11662.
fillOffer() ran a pinned offer slot through resolveFrequencySlot(), which ignores a pin the region cannot hold and returns the derived slot instead. The offer then advertised hash(name) % N - a different mesh from the one the operator described, and a receiver had no way to tell. Since the previous commit keeps a pin whose region is inherited, that substitution became reachable wherever the node is not yet on the region the pin belongs to. Check for what is impossible instead of clamping what is unusual. Impossible is one thing: a pinned slot the offered region does not hold. A preset this node cannot run, a region it is not on, a pin that deviates from the name hash - all of those describe a mesh elsewhere, which is what an offer is for, and all are advertised verbatim. When it is impossible the whole invitation is withheld rather than re-pointed, and it stands again on a region move. An unplaceable offer no longer counts as radio content, so the broadcast message still goes out as a plain text beacon; with no text there is nothing to send. This is the last place a pin was quietly ignored, so the skip-rather-than- substitute rule now holds for the offer as it does for a target.
Two ..._ExplicitPair_isCleared tests named EU_868 while the node was already on EU_868, so a probe built from the target's own region and preset and one built from the running config were identical - a regression back to checking the running region would have passed. Run the node on US, name EU_868, and pin a slot US holds and EU_868 does not, so only a check against the named pair can reject it. Asserted up front that the running region holds the slot, or the test proves nothing. test_offer_cleartextUnnamedChannel_isAdvertised claimed the blank name "resolves to the preset's". It does not: fillOffer() advertises slot.settings verbatim and the listener caches offer_channel verbatim - beaconChannelSettings() resolves a name only for the slot hash. Assert the name goes out as stored.
A target that leaves frequency_slot unset is asking for the slot its own region derives: the region's override slot, the preset-name hash, or the hash of the target's channel name, whichever that region uses. It got none of them. A target riding the primary was seeded with config.lora.channel_num, and by the time resolveFrequencySlot() saw it, it was just a non-zero channel_num - indistinguishable from a number the operator pinned for that region. So "an explicit slot wins" fired on a number that was never explicit for the region it was being applied to. channel_num is derived from the region, the bandwidth, and the name being hashed. Override any of those and the node's own slot no longer names the same frequency, so it must not be carried across - the same rule that already sent a target on its own channel to a fresh derivation, just never extended to region and bandwidth. That unifies the three branches rather than adding a case. A target that overrides nothing is the same radio, so it still inherits the home slot, explicit pin included; re-deriving there would beacon on a frequency the node itself is not using. An explicit frequency_slot is untouched and still outranks a region's override slot, which is what a pin is for. The number need not be one the operator typed: checkOrClampConfigLora() writes a concrete channel_num back whenever it clamps an out-of-range slot, so a node that once held a bad slot carried a baked-in number into every target region.
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…live radio config.lora, myRegion and uses_default_frequency_slot describe the transceiver as it is running. Code that programs the radio wants exactly that. Code deciding whether a module may run, may transmit, or how often does not: those are questions about the mesh this node is configured to be on, and they must keep the same answer while the radio is momentarily somewhere else. Nothing on develop moves the radio behind a module's back today, so this is not a bug report - it is closing the seam before a feature opens it. The beacon work in meshtastic#11662 is the first caller that will, and any later one - a scanner, a join attempt, a repeater hop - lands on the same rake. Capture config.lora and its slot verdict at settings time, in reloadConfig(), which only runs for a config committed through service->configChanged. A caller that programs the radio without coming through there leaves the snapshot alone. init() captures once so boot has an answer, and until the first capture the accessors read the live config, so early boot and native tests that never drive the settings path behave exactly as before. Repointed: - Channels::isDefaultChannel() resolves the name against the configured preset on both sides. This one already misbehaves in a way worth naming: a blank channel name moved with the live preset on both sides and survived by accident, while an explicitly-named "LongFast" flipped to false. Two nodes an operator would call identically configured behaved differently, and which one you had depended on whether the provisioning client wrote the name out. Fixes DetectionSensor, StoreForward, MQTT, NodeDB's boot paths and the InkHUD applet in one edit, since they all ask through it. - Channels::hasDefaultChannel() and NeighborInfoModule's LoRa gate. - AudioModule's three audioPermitted gates read the configured region. - Default::getConfiguredOrDefaultMsScaled(TrafficType) - the throttle every telemetry and position module calls - reads the configured region's multipliers. EU_866 carries PROFILE_LITE at x10 against PROFILE_STD's x1, so a transient move would have retuned every module's spacing by an order of magnitude while the radio was away. uses_default_frequency_slot stays and is still published: applyModemConfig() uses it to pick the frequency the radio is actually programmed to. It is not dead, it is now correctly scoped to the live hardware. getName() likewise keeps live semantics for display; gating callers use the new getNameForPreset(). The old !myRegion guard in the throttle is gone with it - getRegion() always answers, so an unset region reaches the neutral multiplier on PROFILE_UNDEF instead. Same outcome, different route, and the test says so. Tests: test_radio 29/29, test_default 20/20, test_channel_keys 25/25. Seven new, each pinning that a live move does not change the answer while a commit does. AudioModule is ESP32/SX1280-only and is not exercised natively.
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What this adds
A broadcast target names the channel it transmits on by channel-table index, and both a target and the advertised offer can pin the frequency slot they use instead of only deriving one from a channel name hash.
That closes #11516: a mesh that pins a slot — NYMesh runs MediumSlow on slot 48 — could not describe itself, because
channel_num == 0means "derive fromhash(channel_name)" and a mesh advertising a name whose hash resolves elsewhere is advertising the wrong frequency. The transmit side already modelled a slot while the offer could not describe one; this closes that asymmetry with one proto change rather than two.It also replaces a mechanism #11646 left behind. That PR deleted
broadcast_on_channel, whose inlineChannelSettings.channel_numwas the only beacon-specific way to pin a target's slot. What remains istgt.slot = cs.channel_num, read from the named channel's table entry — a deprecatedChannelSettingsfield that firmware never writes, so in practice it is 0 and the slot is derived from the channel name hash. A target naming no channel still inheritsconfig.lora.channel_num, the node's own slot.Two things follow. There is no supported way to pin a per-target slot, which is what
frequency_slotadds. And the deprecated field is still settable overset_channelwith nothing rejecting it, so a client that writes it today makes the beacon transmit on a slot nobody derived; reading an explicit field instead closes that.Proto changes
MeshBeaconConfig.BroadcastTargetoptional uint32 frequency_slot = 5;reserved 3for the old embeddedChannelSettingsMeshBeaconConfigbroadcast_offer_channel(inlineChannelSettings, tag 5) →broadcast_offer_channel_index(optional uint32, tag 12);reserved 5;optional uint32 broadcast_offer_frequency_slot = 14MeshBeaconoptional uint32 offer_frequency_slot = 5— the on-air fieldSlots are 1-based, matching
Config.LoRaConfig.channel_num. Unset means derive; 0 must not be sent and is treated as unset.offer_frequency_slotis populated only when a receiver could not derive the same slot itself from the offered region, channel name and preset. A mesh on a derivable slot spends no bytes on it; a mesh that deliberately deviates advertises it. Moving the offer channel from an inlineChannelSettingsto an index also frees ~57 bytes in the admin message, which is what makes the whole thing fit.How a target is validated: the request is recorded, not the result
A broadcast target and the offer store what the operator asked for. Validation on write only rejects what can never become valid — a value that is no preset at all, a channel index past the table, a pinned slot of 0. A pinned slot is range-checked only when the entry names both a region and a preset: that pair fixes the bandwidth and so fixes the slot count, which makes a rejection permanent truth. With either one inherited the count is not knowable until send, so the pin is recorded as written. It does not rewrite a preset the current region cannot run, and it does not write a resolved region back.
Resolution happens where the settings in force are known:
sendBeacon()picks the region (applying the EU sibling swap), then derives the frequency slot from that resolved region, and skips a target it cannot resolve rather than substituting something else — an unusable channel, a preset no region here can run, or a pinned slot the resolved region does not hold. The offer follows the same rule: a pin the offered region cannot hold withholds the whole invitation rather than re-pointing it at the derived slot. A request that is unusable today becomes usable again by itself after the node moves region — no client round-trip, and nothing the operator wrote is lost in the meantime.The same validation runs at three points, because a config can arrive without an admin write: on
set_module_config, at boot over whatever userPrefs installed, and on anyset_config(lora)that moves region, preset oruse_preset. That last one matters because LoRa changes apply live now —requiresReboot = false— so nothing else would re-check the beacon against the radio it just inherited.Behaviour changes worth reviewing
A target aimed at a channel that cannot be transmitted on goes quiet. Previously it fell back to the primary, which put the beacon on the home channel rather than the one the operator named. Disabling a channel now silences its targets instead of redirecting them. "Cannot be transmitted on" means exactly
role == DISABLED, or an index past the table — a blank channel is not one of these, see below.Retiring a channel deletes the targets naming it, rather than clearing their index. Retiring means
role = DISABLEDand nothing else — blanking a channel's name and PSK does not retire it. Clearing would redirect them onto the primary; keeping the reference would let an unrelated channel later provisioned at that index inherit a beacon nobody configured. The offer is treated differently on purpose: it keeps its other fields and loses only the channel index, degrading to a preset/region announcement. A target points somewhere, so a target that can no longer point there has nothing left to be; an announcement still says something without a channel attached.A
Role_DISABLEDchannel slot can no longer be used as a target or an offer. A disabled slot retains the name and PSK of the deleted channel, so the previous behaviour could advertise or transmit on a PSK the operator believed they had removed.A blank channel is a valid channel. Neither an empty name nor an empty PSK marks a slot unusable.
Channels::getKey()reads an empty PSK on a secondary as "borrow the primary's key" and anywhere else as deliberate cleartext; an empty name resolves to the preset's display name, which is what the stock primary ships with. The test isrole != DISABLED && has_settings, the same one the firmware already uses in four other places.A PSK caveat for anyone provisioning an offer. That inheritance is a local, relative reference, and it does not travel. A target is fine — it transmits from the sender's own channel table, so
getKey()hands it the primary's key andgenerateHash()stamps the resolved name and key. An offer is not:fillOffer()advertises the storedChannelSettingsverbatim, so an empty PSK goes out empty. A node that imports it re-resolves that blank against its own table — the primary's key if it lands as a secondary, cleartext if it lands as the primary — and either way that is not the key the offering node transmits with, with nothing on either side reporting the mismatch. If you want receivers to land on a particular key, give the offered channel an explicit PSK, including the one-byte default forms:AQ==ispsk = {0x01}, the default key, which is a real key and does travel — it is not the same thing as blank. A blank offered channel remains meaningful as an invitation to a cleartext mesh.A pinned frequency slot survives a region change. It was range-checked against the region the node happened to be running when the write landed, so a slot pinned for the region a target will be advertised in was cleared on write — and cleared again on every
set_config(lora)that moved region or preset. That is [Feature Request]: Support non-preset offers via Mesh Beacons #11516's own case: NYMesh on slot 48, configured from a node not yet on US. The pin is now kept unless it is provably impossible, and resolved at send alongside the region and the preset.An offer whose pinned slot the offered region cannot hold advertises nothing at all — no channel, no preset, no region. It previously fell through to the derived slot, inviting receivers onto
hash(name) % N: a different mesh from the one described, and indistinguishable from the real thing at the receiving end. The broadcast message still goes out as a plain text beacon, and the invitation stands again on a region move.USERPREFS_MESH_BEACON_OFFER_CHANNEL_NAME/_PSKare removed and now#errorat build time. Integrators provision the channel and point at it withUSERPREFS_MESH_BEACON_OFFER_CHANNEL_INDEX.A target with
region = UNSETfollows the node's region at key-up, not at the moment the beacon was queued. A region changed while a beacon sits in the TX queue must not put that beacon on the region the node has left.A beacon still queued a full broadcast interval later is dropped, rather than transmitting an hour-old description of a mesh that has moved on. That also bounds the sidecar table: no entry can outlive one cycle, so a cycle can never find a previous one still holding a slot.
Invalid presets are no longer clamped on write. A preset the region cannot run is kept as written and skipped at send. Only a value no region offers at all is cleared.
Fixes riding along
These are defects in code the feature touches, not new surface:
perhapsEncode()key off that. The old*primaryCh = targetChannelswap meant that during a beacon a node on the public default channel hadisDefaultChannel()read false, swinging NeighborInfo's TX gate open — and any packet enqueued in that window could go out on the beacon's RF config.RECORD_CRITICALERRORand rewriteuses_default_frequency_slot, whichChannels::hasDefaultChannel()andNeighborInfoModuleread as the state of the running radio. Validation is now silent, andapplyModemConfig()is the sole publisher of that state.targetRadioSettingsentries are released on every send path, including the duty-cycle path where the router frees the packet itself. Completes fix(radio): MeshBeacon heap leak and runtime packet payload size check #11573: no heap leak, but the pool entry leaked, and one duty-cycle-limited cycle could leak all entries, after which beacons silently transmitted on the home config until reboot.Future work, deferred for now
clamped_fieldsbitmask built for it was an anti-pattern (unsettable state inside a settable message, breaks idempotency, persists and goes stale) and was stripped.ClientNotificationis the right channel; the open question is whether it reaches a remote admin over LoRa at all. Recording the request rather than the result narrows this considerably — there is much less for a client to be surprised by — but it does not close it.LoRaConfig, so bandwidth, spread factor and coding rate need no new plumbing when someone wants them. They are not installed by the switch today —reconfigureForBeaconTXapplies only region, preset,use_presetandchannel_num— so the fields ride along inert. Marked with a TODO at the point they would be applied.uses_default_frequency_slot, and NeighborInfo reads it without knowing a switch is in flight. Pinning a slot makes that path reachable wheretgt.slotwas previously always 0. It is a change to how the rest of the firmware asks about the radio, and belongs in its own PR.Testing
Native suites, single-suite runs each — an unfiltered run executes only the last-built binary once per suite and reads green regardless:
test_mesh_beacontest_admin_radiotest_radiotest_mesh_moduletest_admin_session_reprotest_optin_migrationtest_nodedb_boot_recoverytest_phone_api_config_dumptest_module_configtest_admin_radiois the one that matters most for the validator change: it pins that validation keeps returning false for a sibling-swappable EU preset so callers route into the clamp.Each of the four CodeRabbit findings acted on is pinned by a test verified to fail against the commit before its fix and pass after: an unnamed cleartext primary edit that must not delete the targets naming it, a blank enabled secondary that must still transmit, a slot pinned for a region the node is not on that must survive the write and be honoured once the node moves, and an unplaceable offer that must advertise nothing while its text still goes out.
Coverage added for the target shapes (home channel, another channel on the same slot, a different slot, a different region and preset and slot — all in one config), the four offer-vs-setting cases across every spelling of "the node's region", the legacy split pair sharing one sidecar entry and surviving a drop of either half, an inherited region following a live region change, and three spellings of one EU mesh collapsing to a single transmission both through admin and installed directly as userPrefs would.
Hardware: not tested.
nrf52_promicro_diy_tcxobuilds with 20,952 bytes clear of the warm-store guard and RAM at 39.6%, but nothing has been flashed.Summary by CodeRabbit
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