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[Bug]: store and forward chronology #4166

Open jranma opened 1 month ago

jranma commented 1 month ago

Category

Other

Hardware

T-Beam S3

Firmware Version

2.3.12

Description

when one retrieves store and forward messages using "SF", all messages will arrive at the same time. Above all, they will all be displayed with the time they were retrieved, not the time they were received on the relay. It is therefore difficult, if not impossible, to understand the thread of the conversation because the chronologies are wrong.

Relevant log output

No response

garthvh commented 3 weeks ago

Where are you seeing the messages with the same time?

jranma commented 3 weeks ago

each time I request messages with a "SF" command, I get all the messages with the same time, which is the time at wich I requested them. Using Android APP.

GUVWAF commented 3 weeks ago

Yes, that sounds correct. Currently the timestamp when the packet was actually received is not stored and send with the packet upon request.

jranma commented 3 weeks ago

OK, not sure the messages come in the right order. Last time I received many messages and as the timestamp are all the same, I had a hard time understanding the logic of the conversation. Having the message sorted by their "real" timestamp would be a nice emprovement.

GUVWAF commented 2 weeks ago

I think we can make this work. Currently we do store a relative time in the StoreForward history, but we can change it to an absolute time if we have one, and then not updating the rx_time for StoreForward packets when requesting them.