The Pager's File Manager only drew an SD row when the card mounted. A card the board can see but cannot read -- exFAT out of the box, or a damaged FAT -- produced no row at all, so the user could not tell "no card" from "card the firmware refuses", and had no way to retry short of a reboot. The Pager is the board that can actually tell those apart: it has a card-detect line on the expander (XL9555 ch10), which the T-Deck does not. So a detected but unmounted card now draws greyed as "SD card (unreadable - tap to retry)", and tapping it clears the mount backoff and retries. An absent card still draws nothing, which is the existing deliberate behaviour. The retry is the same single 4 MHz attempt fmSdTryMount() already makes. No retry ladder, no teardown of the live shared display/radio bus -- both of which that function's comment forbids on this board, and both of which were learned the hard way in M7. In-app formatting stays off for the Pager. That was already true but read as an oversight, so the reasoning now sits on the format-helper guard: f_mkfs needs an SD.end() + sdcard_init/uninit lifecycle teardown on that shared bus; with no touchscreen the T-Deck's hold-to-format gesture maps to holding ENTER, which is an undiscoverable way to erase a card on a device where ENTER is how you move; and it has never been run on Pager hardware. Formatting on a computer costs 30 seconds and carries none of that. The Arduino SD library never calls spi->begin()/end(), so it is probably safe -- "probably" is not enough for a one-way whole-card erase. Two new strings, added to all 13 .lang files with English on both sides. i18n-audit: 954 keys, nothing missing. Pager and T-Deck build. 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) → 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/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 ✅ at
flasher.wadamesh.com—deploy/flasher/(esp-web-tools / Web Serial, board picker, manifests pointing at the rolling/latest/merged bins;release.shrefreshes/latest/each publish). - Apex
wadamesh.com301-redirects to the flasher — activate by pointing thewadamesh.comA 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
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.