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Motivation: ESPresense/ESPresense#2497 shipped Improv frames through a CRLF-translating stdout (any 0x0A byte became 0x0D 0x0A) and the HIL passed anyway — the harness never checked a checksum and only read a bare state packet.

  • parse_improv_packet raises on a checksum mismatch; the run fails instead of passing by luck
  • request device info (RPC 0x03) before provisioning: its free-text reply exercises far more byte values than a state packet
  • README

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  • New Features

    • Added documentation for the firmware testing project, including setup, available tools, manual runs, and release workflows.
    • Added device information requests before Wi-Fi provisioning.
    • Added support for constructing generic device command packets.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Added checksum validation for device communication.
    • Wi-Fi provisioning now stops gracefully when device information or provisioning responses time out or contain invalid checksums.

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The ESP-IDF port shipped Improv frames through a CRLF-translating stdout and the harness
passed anyway, because it never checked a checksum and only ever read a state packet.

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The PR adds Improv packet checksum validation, device information requests before WiFi provisioning, controlled checksum-error handling, and documentation for the firmware-tester harness and release workflow.

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Improv WiFi provisioning

Layer / File(s) Summary
Packet validation and device information flow
scripts/improv_wifi.py
The script builds Improv RPC packets, validates completed packet checksums, requests device information before provisioning, and exits on timeouts or checksum errors.
Harness and release documentation
README.md
The README documents the harness scripts, Docker image, manual commands, and image release workflow.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ecdaf

The PR adds checksum enforcement and a device-information preflight, but the current request frame is malformed for the protocol, so compatible devices may fail or time out before provisioning. The preflight also accepts insufficiently validated responses and ignores the configured timeout, creating bounded compatibility and credential-gating risks; merge should wait for these fixes.

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Pull request overview

This PR hardens the Improv Serial Wi-Fi provisioning harness by validating frame checksums (so serial-byte mangling can’t “pass by luck”) and by issuing a device-info RPC before provisioning to exercise a broader byte range. It also adds a top-level README explaining how to run and release the harness.

Changes:

  • Add checksum validation to Improv frame parsing and fail on checksum mismatch.
  • Add an initial “request device info” (RPC 0x03) step before sending Wi-Fi credentials.
  • Add a README documenting the repo’s purpose, manual usage, and image release flow.

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scripts/improv_wifi.py Adds checksum enforcement, introduces generic RPC packet builder, and requests device info prior to provisioning.
README.md Documents repository purpose, key scripts, manual run steps, and release workflow.

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In `@scripts/improv_wifi.py`:
- Around line 40-42: Update build_rpc_packet() to include a data-length byte
between command and data, using len(data), and adjust the payload length byte to
account for command, length, and data. Preserve checksum calculation over the
corrected payload so no-data requests encode command 0x03 followed by length
0x00.
- Line 93: Update the device-information handling around the frame parsing to
interpret the RPC payload as length-prefixed strings: skip the command and
data-length bytes, read each string-length byte, decode exactly that many
following bytes, and collect the decoded strings. Print the resulting list
instead of decoding frame[11:-1] as one string.
- Line 118: Update the request_info call in the surrounding flow to pass the
configured args.timeout value, ensuring the command-line timeout controls this
request instead of request_info’s default. Preserve the existing failure
handling when the request still fails.
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@coderabbitai review — all three findings addressed in 1a0b2c8+: RPC data-length byte, length-prefixed info strings, --timeout honored.

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  • build_rpc_packet() writes the RPC data-length byte.
  • decode_strings() parses length-prefixed information strings.
  • --timeout controls both the information request and provisioning-response deadlines.

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