TOUCH CRASH (the blue screen): app_on_touch ran a blocking WebSocket
send (up to 5s) directly in the LVGL touch callback, stalling the
MIPI-DSI flush into a garbage/blue frame + task-watchdog reboot on
every tap. Now touch_cb only gives a semaphore; a dedicated app_task
does the blocking sends, audio, and face changes off the render
thread. WS send timeout cut 5s to 1.5s as belt-and-braces.
RAIN = REACHABILITY (user request): rain now falls only while the
gateway WebSocket is live (gated on gw_connected in rain_tick). It
drains gracefully on disconnect, resumes on reconnect, a genuine
glanceable reachable signal. Idle density bumped 2 to 4 so
connected-idle reads distinctly from disconnected-black.
CALM THE WEDGE CHURN (user request): transient wifi/WS drops no longer
slam to the x_x error face or a CONNECTING banner. Boot goes straight
to the calm idle face (dry until connected). Only a sustained 30s+
outage escalates to x_x (clock_cb); the ~15s wedge-recovery just shows
a brief rain pause.
Two fixes from adversarial concurrency review before flashing:
- persistent single capture task (was xTaskCreate per utterance; a
rapid re-tap or WS-stop-vs-app-start race could put two readers on
one mic/I2S handle and corrupt the codec)
- reset s_talking on disconnect (app_on_disconnect) so the first tap
after a mid-utterance drop starts fresh, not the stop branch
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Root cause of the dead data path (assoc/scan/RPC fine, zero data
frames): esp-hosted 1.4.x is formally incompatible with IDF 5.5
(esp-hosted-mcu#47) and the factory C6 slave firmware was ancient
(couldn't even answer a version RPC). Waveshare's examples pin 1.4.* —
do not follow them.
Fix:
- host: espressif/esp_hosted ^2.12 (+ esp_wifi_remote 1.6)
- slave: 2.12.11 network_adapter.bin embedded in the app (c6_ota.c
streams it to the C6 over the SDIO RPC channel at boot when the
reported version is < 2.x; ~10s, no wires, idempotent)
- RAM diet for hosted 2.x's footprint (MEMPOOL_PREFER_SPIRAM,
reduced WIFI_RMT buffers) — without it internal SRAM famine
boot-loops in xTaskCreateStaticPinnedToCore before app_main
- conservative 20MHz SDIO clock for first verified data path
Verified on hardware: DHCP lease (even that healed), 8/8 pings to
router and tower-of-joy at 1-5ms, WebSocket to the gateway connected,
device registered at /devices as desklock-p4 with fw version.
Also: wifi_diag.c L1 SoftAP diagnostic mode (DESKLOCK-DIAG) with
review fixes, boot ping ladder in net.c, static-IP fallback,
face_status() line, docs for the whole failure taxonomy.
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The device now runs the complete face contract on glass: seven states
with glyph expressions (custom 140px face font), matrix rain as pooled
label streams (22px DejaVu+Noto katakana font), rage kaomoji frames
(64px), orbit arc + elapsed counter wait cues, blink/talk/thought
animations, idle clock (SNTP, Europe/Amsterdam), and the power ladder
(active/ambient 35%/dormant 5% with rain parked).
Voice path: ES7210 mic capture task streams 16k PCM over
esp_websocket_client to the gateway; reply PCM buffers to PSRAM and
plays via the audio task; touch-to-talk (tap to speak, tap to send).
Protocol mapping per docs: thinking->effort, audio->speaking,
error event->rage (auto-composes after 2 loops), WS loss->error face.
Bring-up fixes: 8MB factory partition (fonts overflowed 1.5M),
bsp_display_lock(0) is try-lock in this adapter (use UINT32_MAX),
gong synth yields to feed IDLE0, wifi scan diagnostics (found SSID
case mismatch), esp_websocket_client pinned ~1.3 (1.4 needs IDF>5.5).
Verified on hardware: boots, connects to Wi-Fi and holds an open
WebSocket to the gateway. Sauron (iMac TTY endpoint + ops console)
planned in architecture.md.
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