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  • wiki: hub ships with a USB-to-DC-jack cable, not USB-C The kit includes a USB-to-DC-jack cable and the shipping receiver takes power through a DC barrel jack. The setup pages said USB-C, which would have someone hunting the box for a cable that isn't in it. Self-built DevKit hubs genuinely are USB-C powered, so First Boot now says which is which. The DIY build pages are unchanged - they document the open hardware, not what ships in the box.

    Ravi Singh committed Jul 28, 2026
  • wiki: correct TX pairing gesture and setup AP, add buyer setup track The pairing instructions contradicted the firmware in ways that make setup fail. The BOOT button is only read during the 10s window that opens on reset or power-on, which we never mentioned, so the steps couldn't work on an already-running transmitter. Pairing fires on RELEASE between 2-5s; holding past 5s auto-triggers Wi-Fi update mode and past 15s wipes NVS, both previously undocumented. And we described pairing as "LED pulses cyan" when cyan is the update-mode colour — pairing blinks blue, then green. The setup AP was wrong too: it broadcasts as TankSync-XXXX, not TankSync-Setup-XXXX, and it's an open network. We told people to find a password on the OLED that was never printed there because it doesn't exist. Also corrected First Boot, which claimed an unpaired transmitter pulses cyan every 5s and stays awake. It doesn't - an unpaired unit runs the normal sleep cycle and gives no such signal. New pages for people who bought an assembled kit rather than building one. The wiki only ever documented the DIY path, and Home sent buyers to the shop page, which is a sales page, not instructions: Setup - Start Here, Install the Transmitter, Tank Calibration, Pairing a Transmitter, Connect to Cloud, App Overview, App Settings, Updating Firmware Sidebar regrouped into "I bought a kit" / "Daily use" / "Build it yourself" / "Reference" so the two audiences stop colliding.

    Ravi Singh committed Jul 28, 2026
  • docs: TX pairing ~3s + document TX Wi-Fi AP gesture, reconcile TX OTA paths, unified tag scheme

    Ravi Singh committed Jul 19, 2026
  • Document v3.6.2 hub LED status-ring animations - First-Boot: fix stale "setup pulses orange" (now blue breathing) + add a hub LED ring colour legend (setup/pairing/hub-update/TX-update) - Quick-Start: note the cyan pairing comet at the pair step - Firmware-Versions: unified v<x.y.z> tag scheme, v3.x section + v3.6.2 highlights

    Ravi Singh committed Jul 8, 2026
  • docs(wiki): Wave 1 — Home, Quick Start, First Boot, Hardware Build, BOM, Wiring (Hub + TX), HACS, FAQ + Sidebar Wave 1 covers the contributor + builder onramp: - Home: landing + documentation map - Quick Start: browser-flasher path, 5 steps to working hub - First Boot: what every OLED screen + LED color means - Hardware Build: full assembly walkthrough - Bill of Materials: sourcing + Indian rupee costs + counterfeit warnings - Wiring (Hub) + Wiring (TX): per-pin map + wire list per board - HACS Integration: entities, automations, troubleshooting - FAQ: common questions, grouped - _Sidebar: nav across all pages Wave 2 backlog (PWA walkthrough, Local Web UI, Troubleshooting, Self-Host) tracked in cloud/wiki-drafts/README.md (private).

    Ravi Singh committed May 23, 2026