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Fifth and last of the TAK messaging PRs. Builds on #1283 (which builds on #1282 and #1280), so until those merge this PR also shows their commits; review the top commit only.

What it does

Reticulum joins MeshCore and Meshtastic for direct messages with ATAK. It has its own Reticulum messaging in ATAK section in the TAK panel, holding only a Direct messages switch (off by default), since Reticulum has no channels to serve. With it on:

  • Peers with a position. An LXMF peer whose delivery destination is known under its own node id gets a chat endpoint on its RN- marker, so ATAK can message it.
    • A peer whose LXMF address belongs to another destination (a telephony or bare identity hash that remaps) stays a plain marker, because its replies would arrive from a different contact.
    • RMAP interfaces stay plain markers.
  • Peers with no position. These appear at 0, 0 only once mesh-client has a conversation with them: a DM sent or received, before or since TAK was running. So ATAK's contact list doesn't fill with every peer heard.
    • The renderer sends main up to 64 such peers, most recent first, over the new tak:setDirectPeers IPC.
    • Main announces their contacts along with the channel contacts, and removes a contact when its peer drops off the list.
  • ATAK → Reticulum. A message goes out as an LXMF DM through the Chat send path, with Chat's automatic resends. Its delivery proof sets the message to acked, which gives the device PR 4's receipt; with no proof after the resends, the device gets the "Not confirmed" note.
  • Reticulum → ATAK. ingestReticulumLxmfPayload hands each newly stored inbound LXMF message on to ATAK. Status updates, our own sends and reactions are left out. As with the other radios, a reply goes to the device that last wrote, or to every device when none has.
  • Nothing about direct messages goes to the remote TAK server.

Changes

  • shared. TAK_DM_PROTOCOLS gains reticulum, plus TakDirectPeer and TAK_DIRECT_PEERS_MAX.
  • main.
    • parseTakDirectPeers validates the peer list.
    • TakServerManager.setDirectPeers stores conversation peers. They are messageable, announced at 0, 0 while they have no marker, and added or removed when the Reticulum switch changes.
    • New tak:setDirectPeers handler, limited to 60 a minute.
  • renderer.
    • canTakDirectMessage handles Reticulum.
    • listTakConversationPeers builds the peer list from the message store, named from the node store.
    • useTakInboundChat records the Reticulum radio and keeps main told which peers have conversations. It only builds the list while TAK is up and the switch is on.
    • The Reticulum ingest relays new DMs.
    • TakDirectMessagesSection and its wiring in TakServerPanel and App; strings, settings search and the README.

Checks

  • 2,539 tests pass across TAK, ingest, Reticulum send, auto-resend, settings search and the send hook.
  • ESLint and Prettier are clean on the changed files, and both typechecks pass.
  • check:i18n, check:ipc-contract, check:console-log and check:log-injection pass.
  • The main bundle grows 667,331 → 669,365 bytes (+2,034), about 18.8 KB under the 672 KiB budget.

Still to try on a device

  • Start an LXMF conversation in mesh-client with a peer that has no position, then carry it on from ATAK. The peer appears at 0, 0, the message arrives, the reply lands on the device that wrote, and ATAK marks it delivered.
  • A peer with a position can be messaged from its marker.

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  • New Features
    • Reticulum LXMF conversation peers with known delivery addresses can be contacted through TAK direct messaging. Configure Reticulum direct messaging from TAK settings.
    • Positionless Reticulum peers appear in TAK at coordinates 0, 0 after a conversation is established.
  • Improvements
    • TAK provides delivery acknowledgements and notices for unconfirmed or unsent direct messages, including resend failures. MeshCore failure notices include a flood-advert hint.

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RobertMTalbot force-pushed the feat/tak-lxmf-peers branch 2 times, most recently from 45dff6e to 6f7b92e Compare October 16, 2026 21:18
RobertMTalbot and others added 5 commits October 16, 2026 15:59
Each radio's "Messaging in ATAK" section gains a "Direct messages" switch.
With it on:

- Companions this radio can message (a MeshCore companion whose key it
  holds, any Meshtastic node) get a chat endpoint on their marker, so ATAK
  offers to message them. Repeaters, room servers and sensors do not.
- A message to a companion's contact goes out from this radio through the
  Chat send path as a direct message, prefixed [CALLSIGN], and shows in Chat.
- A DM heard from a companion goes to the ATAK device that last wrote to it,
  or to every connected device when none has; it is held (with channel
  messages, 50 max, 24 h) while the device it is for is away. Retried copies
  are relayed once. Command replies from repeaters and room servers are not
  relayed.
- A companion with no marker on the map gets a contact at 0, 0 for a day
  after the last message, under its marker's uid, so a later marker replaces
  it.
- A message ATAK cannot deliver (DMs off for the radio, or not a node this
  radio can reach) gets a note in its conversation saying why.
- DMs and chat endpoints are never sent to the remote TAK server.

New IPC: tak:pushDirectMessage and tak:setDirectMessaging. TakInboundChat
now carries a target (channel or direct) in place of channelKey.

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Reticulum joins MeshCore and Meshtastic for direct messages with ATAK,
behind its own switch in a new "Reticulum messaging in ATAK" section.
With it on:

- An LXMF peer with a position whose delivery destination is known under
  its own node id gets a chat endpoint on its RN- marker. A peer whose
  LXMF address belongs to another destination (a telephony or bare
  identity hash remapped) stays a plain marker, since its replies would
  come from a different contact. RMAP interfaces stay plain markers.
- A peer with no position appears at 0, 0 only once mesh-client has a
  conversation with it (a DM sent or received, before or since TAK was
  running), so ATAK's contact list does not fill with every peer heard.
  The renderer lists up to 64 such peers, most recent first, over the
  new tak:setDirectPeers IPC; main announces their contacts with the
  channel contacts and removes one dropped from the list.
- A message from ATAK goes out as an LXMF DM through the Chat send path,
  with its resends; its delivery proof feeds the PR 4 receipt.
- A newly stored inbound LXMF message from a peer is relayed to ATAK
  from ingestReticulumLxmfPayload; status updates, our own sends and
  reactions are left out.

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A direct message sent from ATAK now tells the device that wrote it how it
went, once mesh-client's automatic resends settle:

- Acknowledged by the companion: a b-t-f-d delivery receipt naming the
  device's message id, so ATAK marks it delivered.
- Still unacknowledged after the last resend (4 tries): a "Not confirmed"
  note in the conversation, quoting the message. For MeshCore it adds that
  a flood advert from each radio usually fixes a DM that keeps failing.
- Never sent (no radio could take it): a "Not sent to the mesh" note.

A note for a device that is away waits with the held messages; a receipt
is dropped. Main waits up to 30 minutes for an outcome.

The resend controller reports how each send's lineage ends (acked or
gave up), keyed by the first send's store id through re-keys and resends,
via subscribeAutoResendOutcomes. takDmStatus.ts watches DMs sent from TAK
and reports their outcome over the new tak:dmStatus IPC, keyed by a dmRef
main attaches to each inbound DM.

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RobertMTalbot and others added 3 commits October 16, 2026 17:20
The radio TAK uses per protocol is recorded in an effect, so for a moment
after a switch to another radio of the same protocol it can still name the
old one, whose transport may still be open. findTakSendTargets now drops a
direct target whose recorded radio is not the protocol's current identity.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Failed direct sends reach the originating client: valid for this PR on its own, and handled in the next PR of the stack, Colorado-Mesh#1283 (delivery receipts). There, main attaches a dmRef to each direct message. When relayTakChatToMesh fails to send, or finds no radio that can send, it reports not-sent over the new tak:dmStatus IPC. TakServerManager.reportDmOutcome then writes "mesh-client: Not sent to the mesh: …" into that conversation, on the device that wrote, holding it if that device is away. The same channel carries "delivered" and "Not confirmed", so I've kept it in Colorado-Mesh#1283 rather than add a separate IPC here.
Stale protocol radio: valid, and fixed in this PR. findTakSendTargets now drops a direct target whose recorded radio isn't the protocol's current identity (getIdentityIdForProtocol, the resolver App uses). A test covers the switch window.
Failed direct sends reach the originating client: valid for this PR on its own, and handled in the next PR of the stack, Colorado-Mesh#1283 (delivery receipts). There, main attaches a dmRef to each direct message. When relayTakChatToMesh fails to send, or finds no radio that can send, it reports not-sent over the new tak:dmStatus IPC. TakServerManager.reportDmOutcome then writes "mesh-client: Not sent to the mesh: …" into that conversation, on the device that wrote, holding it if that device is away. The same channel carries "delivered" and "Not confirmed", so I've kept it in Colorado-Mesh#1283 rather than add a separate IPC here.
Stale protocol radio: valid, and fixed in this PR. findTakSendTargets now drops a direct target whose recorded radio isn't the protocol's current identity (getIdentityIdForProtocol, the resolver App uses). A test covers the switch window.
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rinchen marked this pull request as ready for review October 16, 2026 23:34
Merge main into feat/tak-dm-receipts after Colorado-Mesh#1282 merged

branch, so this merge keeps the branch's files as they are (-s ours).
The PR diff now shows only the delivery receipt changes.

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535-554: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject remapped Reticulum targets before ATAK send.

A retained directContacts entry can admit a stale Reticulum target. findTakSendTargets returns its node ID without a Reticulum-specific target guard. When that ID resolves to another LXMF destination, sendReticulumChatMessage accepts the replacement hash and can send the message to the wrong recipient.

A node with no destination does not transmit. reticulumHashForNodeId returns null, and the sender returns before calling the sidecar send function. Keep this issue limited to remapped destinations.

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+import { reticulumHashForNodeId } from '@/renderer/stores/reticulumPeerStore';
+import { resolveReticulumChatLxmfDestination } from '../reticulum/resolveReticulumChatLxmfDest';
 import { listTakServedChannels } from './takServedChannels';
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     if (identityId !== getIdentityIdForProtocol(target.protocol)) return [];
+    if (target.protocol === 'reticulum') {
+      const hash = reticulumHashForNodeId(target.nodeId);
+      const resolved = hash ? resolveReticulumChatLxmfDestination(hash) : undefined;
+      if (!resolved || resolved.status !== 'ok' || resolved.remapped) return [];
+    }
     return [{ identityId, protocol: target.protocol, channelIndex: 0, destination: target.nodeId }];
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Update findTakSendTargets to reject Reticulum targets whose node ID resolves to
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rinchen and others added 7 commits October 16, 2026 18:05
A peer ATAK may still message, from an earlier direct message or as a
conversation peer, can have its LXMF address remap to another destination
after it was listed. findTakSendTargets now applies the same own-destination
rule used for chat endpoints and drops the target, so the message never goes
to a different destination whose replies would arrive under another contact.

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rinchen merged commit 97eca0c into Colorado-Mesh:main Oct 17, 2026
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