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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
  • docs: update wiki for v3.6.6 + S3 hub + fix broken links

    Ravi Singh committed Jul 19, 2026
  • docs: add TankSync trademark mark across wiki pages

    Ravi Singh committed Jun 4, 2026
  • docs: Wave 2 — fill empty sidebar pages - Manual-Flashing: esptool + IDF build paths - Troubleshooting: hub / TX / multi-hub / cloud symptom→fix lookup - Firmware-Versions: per-binary release history + compatibility matrix - How-TankSync-Works: sleep cycle, LoRa packet protocol, NETID isolation, MQTT topic structure - Self-Host-Guide: HA Mosquitto + standalone Debian + Docker + TLS Plus earlier Wave 2 updates (2-up image layout in PWA-Walkthrough + Local-Web-UI, schematics in Wiring pages) were already pushed in fd21620.

    Ravi Singh committed May 23, 2026