Halt and unload the service on cleanup

Adds "Install Path 3: Arch Linux (AUR)" section covering both AUR
helper and manual makepkg installation, linking to the published
remoteterm-meshcore AUR package.

Closes #171

.github/workflows/publish-aur.yml

@@ -56,10 +56,8 @@ jobs:
           assets: |
             pkg/aur/remoteterm-meshcore.install
             pkg/aur/remoteterm-meshcore.service
-            pkg/aur/remoteterm-meshcore.sysusers
-            pkg/aur/remoteterm-meshcore.tmpfiles
             pkg/aur/remoteterm.env
-          commit_username: jackkingsman
+          commit_username: jkingsman
           commit_email: ${{ secrets.AUR_COMMIT_EMAIL }}
           ssh_private_key: ${{ secrets.AUR_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}
           commit_message: "Update to ${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}"

AGENTS.md

@@ -209,7 +209,6 @@ This message-layer echo/path handling is independent of raw-packet storage dedup
 │   │       ├── MapView.tsx       # Leaflet map showing node locations
 │   │       └── ...
 │   └── vite.config.ts
-├── pkg/aur/                # AUR package files (PKGBUILD, systemd service, env, install hooks)
 ├── scripts/                # Quality / release helpers (listing below is representative, not exhaustive)
 │   ├── build/
 │   │   ├── collect_licenses.sh # Gather third-party license attributions
@@ -217,8 +216,7 @@ This message-layer echo/path handling is independent of raw-packet storage dedup
 │   ├── quality/
 │   │   ├── all_quality.sh      # Repo-standard autofix + validate gate
 │   │   ├── e2e.sh              # End-to-end test runner
-│   │   ├── extended_quality.sh # Quality gate plus e2e and Docker matrix
-│   │   └── test_aur_package.sh # Build + install AUR package in Arch Docker containers
+│   │   └── extended_quality.sh # Quality gate plus e2e and Docker matrix
 │   └── setup/
 │       ├── fetch_prebuilt_frontend.py # Download release frontend fallback
 │       └── install_service.sh         # Install/configure Linux systemd service

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-## [3.10.0] - 2026-04-10
-
-* Feature: Add Arch AUR package
-* Feature: 72hr packet density view in statistics
-* Feature: Add warnings for event loop selection for MQTT on Windows startup
-* Bufix: Bump Apprise to 1.9.9 to fix Matrix bug
-* Misc: More memory-conscious on recent contact fetch
-* Misc: Fix statistics pane e2e test
-
 ## [3.9.0] - 2026-04-06
 
 * Feature: Add hop counts to hop-width selection options

LICENSES.md

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ SOFTWARE.
 
 </details>
 
-### apprise (1.9.9) — BSD-2-Clause
+### apprise (1.9.7) — BSD-2-Clause
 
 <details>
 <summary>Full license text</summary>
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ SOFTWARE.
 ```
 BSD 2-Clause License
 
-Copyright (c) 2026, Chris Caron <lead2gold@gmail.com>
+Copyright (c) 2025, Chris Caron <lead2gold@gmail.com>
 All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

docker-compose.example.yml

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ services:
 
       # TCP
       # MESHCORE_TCP_HOST: 192.168.1.100
-      # MESHCORE_TCP_PORT: 5000
+      # MESHCORE_TCP_PORT: 4000
 
       # BLE
       # BLE in Docker usually needs additional manual compose changes such as

frontend/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "remoteterm-meshcore-frontend",
   "private": true,
-  "version": "3.10.0",
+  "version": "3.9.0",
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "vite",

frontend/src/components/CommandPalette.tsx

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import {
   Radio,
   Route,
   Search,
-  Star,
+  Sparkles,
   User,
   Waypoints,
 } from 'lucide-react';
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ export function CommandPalette({
                   >
                     <Hash className="text-muted-foreground" />
                     <span>{ch.name}</span>
-                    <Star className="ml-auto h-3 w-3 text-favorite" />
+                    <Sparkles className="ml-auto h-3 w-3 text-yellow-500" />
                   </CommandItem>
                 ))}
               </CommandGroup>
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ function ContactGroup({
         >
           <Icon className="text-muted-foreground" />
           <span>{displayName}</span>
-          {showStar && <Star className="ml-auto h-3 w-3 text-favorite" />}
+          {showStar && <Sparkles className="ml-auto h-3 w-3 text-yellow-500" />}
         </CommandItem>
       ))}
     </CommandGroup>
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ function RepeaterGroup({
         >
           <Waypoints className="text-muted-foreground" />
           <span>{displayName}</span>
-          {showStar && <Star className="ml-auto h-3 w-3 text-favorite" />}
+          {showStar && <Sparkles className="ml-auto h-3 w-3 text-yellow-500" />}
         </CommandItem>,
         <CommandItem
           key={`${c.public_key}-acl`}

pkg/aur/PKGBUILD

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Maintainer: Jack Kingsman <jack@jackkingsman.me>
+# Maintainer: Jack Kingsman <jack.kingsman@gmail.com>
 
 pkgname=remoteterm-meshcore
 # pkgver is rewritten by .github/workflows/publish-aur.yml on each release.
@@ -23,15 +23,11 @@ source=(
   "$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/jkingsman/Remote-Terminal-for-MeshCore/archive/refs/tags/$pkgver.tar.gz"
   "remoteterm-meshcore.service"
   "remoteterm.env"
-  "remoteterm-meshcore.sysusers"
-  "remoteterm-meshcore.tmpfiles"
 )
 # sha256sums are recomputed by `updpkgsums` in the publish workflow before
 # the PKGBUILD is pushed to AUR. The committed values are intentionally SKIP
 # so the file is honest about not tracking real hashes in this repo.
 sha256sums=('SKIP'
-            'SKIP'
-            'SKIP'
             'SKIP'
             'SKIP')
 
@@ -115,12 +111,6 @@ package() {
   install -Dm640 "$srcdir/remoteterm.env" \
     "$pkgdir/etc/remoteterm-meshcore/remoteterm.env"
 
-  # System user and data directory
-  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/remoteterm-meshcore.sysusers" \
-    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sysusers.d/remoteterm-meshcore.conf"
-  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/remoteterm-meshcore.tmpfiles" \
-    "$pkgdir/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/remoteterm-meshcore.conf"
-
   # License
   install -Dm644 LICENSE.md \
     "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"

pkg/aur/remoteterm-meshcore.install

@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+pre_install() {
+  getent group  remoteterm > /dev/null || groupadd -r remoteterm
+  getent passwd remoteterm > /dev/null || \
+    useradd -r -g remoteterm -d /var/lib/remoteterm-meshcore -s /sbin/nologin \
+      -c "RemoteTerm for MeshCore" remoteterm
+}
+
+pre_upgrade() {
+  pre_install
+}
+
 post_install() {
   echo "==> Set your radio connection (serial, TCP, or BLE) in"
   echo "==>   /etc/remoteterm-meshcore/remoteterm.env"
@@ -9,24 +20,22 @@ post_upgrade() {
   # Clean orphaned __pycache__ dirs left by the previous Python version
   find /opt/remoteterm-meshcore -type d -name __pycache__ -exec rm -rf {} + 2>/dev/null || true
 
-  # Skip systemd operations in chroots/containers where the binary may exist
-  # but PID 1 is not systemd.
-  if [ -d /run/systemd/system ] && command -v systemctl &>/dev/null; then
-    systemctl daemon-reload || true
+  if command -v systemctl &>/dev/null && systemctl --version &>/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    systemctl daemon-reload
     if systemctl is-active --quiet remoteterm-meshcore; then
-      systemctl restart remoteterm-meshcore || true
+      systemctl restart remoteterm-meshcore
     fi
   fi
 }
 
 pre_remove() {
-  if [ -d /run/systemd/system ] && command -v systemctl &>/dev/null; then
+  if command -v systemctl &>/dev/null && systemctl --version &>/dev/null 2>&1; then
     systemctl disable --now remoteterm-meshcore 2>/dev/null || true
   fi
 }
 
 post_remove() {
-  if [ -d /run/systemd/system ] && command -v systemctl &>/dev/null; then
+  if command -v systemctl &>/dev/null && systemctl --version &>/dev/null 2>&1; then
     systemctl daemon-reload
   fi
 

pkg/aur/remoteterm-meshcore.sysusers

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-u remoteterm - "RemoteTerm for MeshCore" /var/lib/remoteterm-meshcore

pkg/aur/remoteterm-meshcore.tmpfiles

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-d /var/lib/remoteterm-meshcore 0750 remoteterm remoteterm

pkg/aur/remoteterm.env

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 # TCP
 #MESHCORE_TCP_HOST=192.168.1.100
-#MESHCORE_TCP_PORT=5000
+#MESHCORE_TCP_PORT=4000
 
 # BLE (also requires the optional `bluez` package)
 #MESHCORE_BLE_ADDRESS=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "remoteterm-meshcore"
-version = "3.10.0"
+version = "3.9.0"
 description = "RemoteTerm - Web interface for MeshCore radio mesh networks"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"

scripts/quality/test_aur_package.sh

@@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ echo "builder ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
 BUILD_DIR=/home/builder/build
 mkdir -p "$BUILD_DIR"
 cp /pkg/PKGBUILD /pkg/remoteterm-meshcore.install \
-   /pkg/remoteterm-meshcore.service /pkg/remoteterm-meshcore.sysusers \
-   /pkg/remoteterm-meshcore.tmpfiles /pkg/remoteterm.env "$BUILD_DIR/"
+   /pkg/remoteterm-meshcore.service /pkg/remoteterm.env "$BUILD_DIR/"
 chown -R builder:builder "$BUILD_DIR"
 
 echo "Building package..."
@@ -85,14 +84,13 @@ docker run -d \
     archlinux:latest bash -c '
 set -euo pipefail
 
-# Install the package (sysusers.d creates the remoteterm user, tmpfiles.d creates the data dir)
+# Install the package (triggers pre_install which creates the remoteterm user)
 pacman -Syu --noconfirm >/dev/null 2>&1
 pacman -U --noconfirm /pkg/*.pkg.tar.zst
 
-# In a container there is no systemd to trigger sysusers/tmpfiles automatically,
-# so run them manually.
-systemd-sysusers
-systemd-tmpfiles --create
+# Create the state directory (systemd StateDirectory= would do this on a real host)
+mkdir -p /var/lib/remoteterm-meshcore
+chown remoteterm:remoteterm /var/lib/remoteterm-meshcore
 
 echo "============================================"
 echo " RemoteTerm installed — starting server"

scripts/setup/install_docker.sh

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ SERIAL_HOST_PATH="/dev/ttyACM0"
 SERIAL_COMPOSE_HOST_PATH="/dev/ttyACM0"
 SERIAL_CONTAINER_PATH="/dev/meshcore-radio"
 TCP_HOST=""
-TCP_PORT="5000"
+TCP_PORT="4000"
 BLE_ADDRESS=""
 BLE_PIN=""
 ENABLE_BOTS="N"
@@ -311,8 +311,8 @@ case "$TRANSPORT_CHOICE" in
             echo -e "${RED}TCP host is required.${NC}"
             read -r -p "TCP host: " TCP_HOST
         done
-        read -r -p "TCP port (default: 5000): " TCP_PORT
-        TCP_PORT="${TCP_PORT:-5000}"
+        read -r -p "TCP port (default: 4000): " TCP_PORT
+        TCP_PORT="${TCP_PORT:-4000}"
         echo -e "${GREEN}TCP: ${TCP_HOST}:${TCP_PORT}${NC}"
         ;;
     3)

scripts/setup/install_service.sh

@@ -114,8 +114,8 @@ case "$TRANSPORT_CHOICE" in
             echo -e "${RED}TCP host is required.${NC}"
             read -rp "TCP host: " TCP_HOST
         done
-        read -rp "TCP port (default: 5000): " TCP_PORT
-        TCP_PORT="${TCP_PORT:-5000}"
+        read -rp "TCP port (default: 4000): " TCP_PORT
+        TCP_PORT="${TCP_PORT:-4000}"
         echo -e "${GREEN}TCP: ${TCP_HOST}:${TCP_PORT}${NC}"
         ;;
     4)

tests/e2e/specs/statistics.spec.ts

@@ -15,6 +15,6 @@ test.describe('Statistics page', () => {
     await expect(page.locator('h4').getByText('Network')).toBeVisible({ timeout: 10_000 });
     await expect(page.getByText('Contacts', { exact: true }).first()).toBeVisible();
     await expect(page.getByText('Channels', { exact: true }).first()).toBeVisible();
-    await expect(page.locator('h4').getByText('Packets', { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.locator('h4').getByText('Packets')).toBeVisible();
   });
 });

uv.lock

@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "remoteterm-meshcore"
-version = "3.10.0"
+version = "3.9.0"
 source = { virtual = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "aiomqtt" },