Add additional interfaces and interface options #60

RFnexus · 2025-02-01T06:16:05Z

This PR adds additional interfaces and interface options to MeshChat:

Add shared interface settings:
- mode - select input
  - Only displayed when Transport mode is enabled
  - Options:
    - full
    - gateway
    - access_point
    - roaming
    - boundary
- bitrate - inferred bitrate, numeric input
- network name - text input
- passphrase - text input
- ifac_size - numeric input from 8 to 512
Additions to RNode interface UI:
- Added noise floor reported from RNode to Interface component under stats
- Separated frequency into GHz, MHz, and kHz for easier input
- Added dropdown for on-air bitrate, link budget, and rx sensitivity calculations - https://unsigned.io/understanding-lora-parameters/
- Additional options dropdown for airtime limit and callsign ID
Added additional options to AutoInterface, TCPClient, TCPServer, and UDP interfce
Added additional interface types:
- RNodeMultiInterface
  - Add sub-interfaces from dropdown
- I2P interface
  - I2P Peers can be added from dropdown
- Serial interface
- KISS Interface
  - AX.25 KISS Interface - checkbox will determine whether to use KISSInterface or AX25KISSInterface - "Use AX.25"
- Pipe interface

This PR also contains a small fix for text not wrapping in the Micron .nodeContent container in components/nomadnetwork/NomadNetworkPage.vue

liamcottle · 2025-02-01T10:23:32Z

src/frontend/components/nomadnetwork/NomadNetworkPage.vue

Yeah, I fought with this one for a while when I originally made the change to text-wrap.

It does fix the text wrapping, but now it's not possible to have the full width background colours. I spent too long on it when I last looked, but it's not something I really care for ;) It makes more sense for the text to wrap like you have it.

With text-wrap:

With break-words whitespace-pre-wrap:

Theoretically, whitespace-pre-wrap should preserve whitespace and only create new lines "at newline characters, at <br>, and as necessary to fill line boxes."

Shouldn't the full-width background colors be preserved?
If not maybe look into using these block characters ███ somehow...

whitespace-pre-wrap might, however, also fix the long standing issue of centered elements not being properly centered, i.e. on this node: da305c3ead2bb7ae38cf8e97afadbd1c:/page/index.mu

MeshChat right now:

vs NomadNet:

Yeah, the centering is a pretty important one to get fixed.

This is an issue with the JavaScript Micron parser that I need to fix. I also noticed that the links up at the top seem to be a bit broken. It just has to do with how it is expecting the positions of the tag which may not always be how they are written. That node looks great for testing though. I'll try and get this done by tomorrow.

Awesome stuff @RFnexus! Your work on this has really moved things forward!

markqvist · 2025-02-01T11:29:24Z

I'd like to suggest not having the shared interface configurable, that should be handled by Reticulum itself. Or am I misunderstanding, and what you are calling "shared interface" here, is actually AutoInterface?

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liamcottle · 2025-02-01T12:01:31Z

I'd like to suggest not having the shared interface configurable, that should be handled by Reticulum itself. Or am I misunderstanding, and what you are calling "shared interface" here, is actually AutoInterface?

@markqvist I'll end up renaming this section. It's meant for settings that are shared across all interfaces (more namely common settings), not actually the SharedInterface :)

In the process of refactoring and clean up, so will make sure it's not confused with the internal SharedInterface when it gets merged in!

Btw, thank you very much for your work on this @RFnexus !!!

markqvist · 2025-02-01T13:07:21Z

Ah, thank @liamcottle, that makes sense! I was the first test subject, apparently, and failed the test ;)

RFnexus · 2025-02-01T18:53:32Z

I'd like to suggest not having the shared interface configurable, that should be handled by Reticulum itself. Or am I misunderstanding, and what you are calling "shared interface" here, is actually AutoInterface?

@markqvist I'll end up renaming this section. It's meant for settings that are shared across all interfaces (more namely common settings), not actually the SharedInterface :)

In the process of refactoring and clean up, so will make sure it's not confused with the internal SharedInterface when it gets merged in!

Btw, thank you very much for your work on this @RFnexus !!!

Yeah I was trying to find the right verbiage for that. "Shared" definitely can get confused with the actual RNS instance settings, but "Common" sounds like they are "common" options used for the interface, (like commonly used) - I tried to address that by putting the "these are optional" label under it. "Common" is definitely better suited though. It's also how they are referenced in the manual.

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skyguy · 2025-02-02T18:49:15Z

Can I be cheeky and ask you to add support for the SOCKSClientInterface I wrote? [1]

It takes the same settings as TCPClientInterface, but also 'proxy_host' and 'proxy_port'.
proxy_host has a default value of '127.0.0.1' and proxy_port has a default value of 9150.

Thanks!
-Kevin

[1] https://codeberg.org/SkyGuy/reti_socks_client

markqvist · 2025-02-02T20:05:27Z

@skyguy it will need to be merged into Reticulum as well first, so before that has happened, it won't work here.

skyguy · 2025-02-02T20:14:15Z

MeshChat doesn't need the module to edit the config file, and it works if the user adds the module to their .reticulum/interfaces/ folder.

markqvist · 2025-02-02T20:17:09Z

Ah yes, you're right of course @skyguy. But it will probably need additional logic to check if the module is actually loaded, so users are not presented with an interface type as configurable, but the it actually can't start because the module is not loaded.

RFnexus · 2025-02-02T20:41:49Z

Can I be cheeky and ask you to add support for the SOCKSClientInterface I wrote? [1]

It takes the same settings as TCPClientInterface, but also 'proxy_host' and 'proxy_port'. proxy_host has a default value of '127.0.0.1' and proxy_port has a default value of 9150.

Thanks! -Kevin

[1] https://codeberg.org/SkyGuy/reti_socks_client

@skyguy CustomInterfaces can definitely be added. My idea for that was just a input field for the interface name and a dropdown for adding key value pairs for whatever that interface expects.

Nice work on that feature btw. I tested it and it worked great

skyguy · 2025-02-02T22:33:40Z

Nice work on that feature btw. I tested it and it worked great

Thanks! I had help from the Chaosnet node's struggles - flushed out some bugs in my error handling!

markqvist · 2025-02-02T22:58:06Z

What problems did you see on the node @skyguy? Sorry for hijacking this thread for random chatter, though, maybe should move it to another discussion. Just curious, though.

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