MUI: adapt to device-ui storage (FATFS) and SD bus classes for SD card by mverch67 · Pull Request #12249 · meshtastic/firmware

mverch67 · 2026-10-28T14:01:49Z

This PR replaces SdFat lib by universal esp-idf FATFS lib that works for all esp32 SD cards.
depends on device-ui #446

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Bug Fixes
- Improved SD card compatibility for device UI builds, including support for exFAT-formatted cards on supported devices.
- Updated access to map tiles and key backups stored on an RP2040’s SD card.
- Pico SDK builds now skip the SD card initialization path used by other configurations.
- Standardized SD card support across additional device UI builds.

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The shared device-ui configuration now provides the exFAT build script, and TFT environments inherit that configuration. Runtime changes adjust SD-card initialization and register the indicator remote filesystem through RemoteStorage.

Changes: Device-UI SD Storage Integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared device-ui build settings `platformio.ini`, `extra_scripts/esp32_fatfs_exfat.py`	The shared device-ui dependency revision changes. The exFAT script is configured to run before and after builds. Script comments describe device-ui registration and chip selection.
TFT environment build settings `variants/esp32s3/ELECROW-ThinkNode-M9/platformio.ini`, `variants/esp32s3/.../platformio.ini`	TFT environments inherit device-ui dependencies or extra scripts alongside their board-specific settings.
SD-card setup and remote storage `src/FSCommon.cpp`, `src/graphics/tftSetup.cpp`	SD-card initialization excludes builds with `USE_PICO_SDK`. The indicator remote filesystem is registered through `RemoteStorage` instead of `RemoteSDService`.

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Change: Feature

Possibly related PRs

meshtastic/firmware#11905: Adds the earlier ThinkNode M9 device-ui dependency and explicit exFAT scripts that this PR moves to shared configuration.
meshtastic/firmware#12223: Updates the ThinkNode M9 environment to use the shared device-ui dependency contract also changed here.

Suggested reviewers: thebentern, caveman99

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 82cd5

TFT builds can mount the same SD card twice, and IDE metadata generation can leave shared FatFs headers modified. These issues should be fixed before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: adapting MUI to device-ui FATFS storage and SD bus classes.
Description check		The description summarizes the SdFat-to-ESP-IDF FATFS change, identifies the device-ui dependency, and records testing results. It also identifies the devices that were not tested through unchecked at…
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Major · Skip side effects during PlatformIO integration dumps. · esp32_fatfs_exfat.py:6

extra_scripts/esp32_fatfs_exfat.py:6
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Skip side effects during PlatformIO integration dumps.

PlatformIO re-executes extra scripts during its integration-dump service stage. This script patches shared framework headers before it registers restoration on checkprogsize. An IDE metadata request can therefore leave framework-espidf patched for a later non-device-ui build, causing a header and libfatfs.a layout mismatch. Add the guard immediately after Import("env"). (docs.platformio.org)
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 Import("env")
+if env.IsIntegrationDump():
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Review comments at @platformio.ini:
- Line 142: Update the device-ui archive pin in platformio.ini to a commit on
master that includes the required changes, rather than the head commit of the
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- Line 427: Update the preprocessor guard around setupSDCard’s legacy SD.begin
mount to exclude builds using device-ui SD storage, without using USE_PICO_SDK
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FLASH: .text +16 B (+0.0%, 731,592 B / 802,816 B, total: 91% used)
RAM: .bss -8 B (-0.0%, 95,952 B / 245,760 B, total: 39% used)

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iram0_2_seg: .flash.text +47,692 B (+2.0%, 2,416,776 B / 8,388,576 B, total: 29% used)

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a5b80d4 is the current device-ui master head and already contains the storage refactor (device-ui #446) this PR adapts to, so this PR now supersedes the Renovate bump in #12058. Re-wrap the chip lookup in esp32_fatfs_exfat.py as black expects, which was failing Trunk Check. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011C7D9dVfgrXSj2xHzyerZi

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Refactor chip variable assignment in ffconf_paths

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Refactor chip variable assignment to improve clarity.

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