Sideband β 0.8.4

This maintenance release includes bugfixes, and adds a few usability and convenience improvements. Thanks to @mindstorms6 who contributed to this release!

Changes

• Added desktop and application launcher integration on Linux
• Added ability to focus message input field by pressing tab
• Added network stats to object details
• Improved example plugins
• Linux GPSd plugin now retains location even when some fields are occassionally missing
• Fixed bugs that caused routing and path request issues over shared radio mediums

Please note: A build for macOS for this version will come at a later date. I currently don't have access to any computer running macOS, but as soon as I do, I will create a build for you all :)

Sideband β 0.8.3

This maintenance release fixes a few bugs, and add the option to specify custom configuration directories with the --config command line parameter.

Changes

• Added config path argument
• Fixed info telemetry field not updating immediately after settings change
• Fixed radio horizon calculation failing with altitudes below mean sea level
• Fixed missing check on light and pressure sensors

Sideband β 0.8.2

This maintenance release fixes several bugs on Windows, and improves the plugin settings screen. Thanks to @faragher, who contributed to this release!

Changes

• Improved the plugins screen, added display of active plugins
• Fixed startup errors on Windows after adding geoid height compensation
• Fixed telemetry display failing on Windows
• Disabled unnecessary attempts to post notifications when running in daemon mode

Sideband β 0.8.1

This release adds the ability to extend Sideband with user- and community-created plugins and services. It also fixes a number of bugs, and adds world altitude correction to geospatial calculations.

Changes

• Added ability to use plugins for commands, telemetry and services
• Added plugin examples to docs/example_plugins folder and repository
• Added EGM2008 world altitude correction
• Added support for location telemetry on Linux, via the GPSd plugin
• Fixed a bug in large message texture size logic
• Fixed Sideband crashing at startup on some macOS versions
• Fixed webp images not displaying on macOS
• Fixed interface mode settings not working properly with Transport enabled

Sideband β 0.8.0

This release brings sending and receiving of images and file attachments to Sideband, along with a number of other improvements and a few bug fixes.

Changes

• Added ability to send and receive images
• Added ability to send and receive file attachments
• Improved transfer progress feedback on outgoing messages
• Various user interface improvements and tweaks
• Improved handling of very large messages
• Added option to allow receiving messages larger than 1 megabyte
• Updated Reticulum to version 0.7.3
• Updated LXMF to version 0.4.2
• Updated Kivy to version 2.3.0
• Fixed a bug that caused automated telemetry requests to not trigger
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash on startup, when Android WifiManager was not available

Sideband β 0.7.9

This release adds support for new RNode types.

Changes

• Added support for RNodes based on SX1262, SX1268 and SX1280 modem chips
• Fixed a few typos

Sideband β 0.7.8

This release adds support for multilingual text rendering for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Devanagari in messages and other relevant fields. Text input in the above scripts are now also supported, and can be selected in Preferences.

Changes

• Added multilingual text rendering
• Added multilingual text input
• Added own location button to map
• Fixed missing check when own location was not yet determined
• Fixed stale time updates on fixed location sensors

Sideband β 0.7.7

This release adds telemetry and location updating in the background on Android. Please note, for this capability to enable, you must manually allow Sideband to access location in the background, in the Android permission settings.

Changes

• Added background telemetry updating on Android
• Fixed missing auto-announce on fast WiFi roaming
• Fixed mismatch of IFAC sizes on some interfaces after increase in the default sizes in RNS
• Fixed ambient light sensor reporting None instead of 0 lux when no ambient light is present
• Improved error logging

Sideband β 0.7.6

This release updates the included RNS package to 0.6.8.

Changes

• Updated the RNS dependency to version 0.6.8

Sideband β 0.7.5

This version fixes a few typos in the program.

Changes

• Fixed some typos in the program and included libraries.