logging: audit log strings for terseness, reclaiming ~6.8 KB of string data (#11374)

* logging: strip redundant punctuation, level prefixes, and 'successfully' from log strings

The logger already appends a newline and prints the level tag, so
trailing '.', '!', '...', literal \n, and 'Error:'/'Warning:' prefixes
inside format strings are wasted flash bytes. Same for 'successfully'
(the affirmative form already implies it).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LBiZc9sfPrH1MZ2L3Fxgt1

* logging: tighten verbose log strings in modules, radio, platform, and system code

Rewrite wordy log messages to terser equivalents - drop filler words
(articles, 'attempting', 'due to', 'please'), use 'Can't X'/'X failed'
phrasing, and abbreviate where the codebase already does (config, init,
msg, BT). Format specifiers and argument lists are unchanged; distinctive
greppable tokens are preserved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LBiZc9sfPrH1MZ2L3Fxgt1

* logging: tighten verbose log strings in telemetry sensors and GPS

Same terseness pass: drop filler, 'Can't X'/'X failed' phrasing, common
abbreviations (temp, msg). Specifiers, arguments, and sensor-name
prefixes unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LBiZc9sfPrH1MZ2L3Fxgt1

* logging: tighten verbose log strings in mesh core

Same terseness pass over NodeDB, Router, MeshService, PhoneAPI,
RadioInterface, NextHopRouter, and PacketHistory: 'X failed'/'Can't X'
phrasing, imperative verbs, dropped filler. Specifiers and arguments
unchanged; duplicate literals kept identical to preserve linker string
dedup.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LBiZc9sfPrH1MZ2L3Fxgt1

* logging: 'Unable to/Could not/Cannot' -> "Can't" in log strings

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LBiZc9sfPrH1MZ2L3Fxgt1

* logging: clang-format rewrap after string shortening

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LBiZc9sfPrH1MZ2L3Fxgt1

* logging: restore boot-logo trailing newline and progress-dot strings

The terseness pass over-trimmed: the Meshtastic ASCII boot logo kept its
blank line via a trailing \n, and three bare "." progress ticks were
reduced to empty strings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LBiZc9sfPrH1MZ2L3Fxgt1

* Update src/mesh/wifi/WiFiAPClient.cpp

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* logging: address review feedback on the terseness audit

- Node/packet IDs use the repo's 0x%08x convention in NextHopRouter,
  NodeDB, AdminModule and CannedMessageModule. The sibling log in each
  if/else pair is converted too, so a pair isn't split across two formats.
  next_hop stays 0x%x - it's the last-byte relay hint, not a NodeNum.
- RTC: the read-path and set-path "not found" warnings were byte-identical,
  so the linker deduped them and the log couldn't say which one fired.
  Split into "RTC read:" / "RTC set:". (The four sites live in mutually
  exclusive #ifdef branches, so the RTC family was never ambiguous.)
- SCD4X getAmbientPressure()/setAmbientPressure() logged "altitude", and
  SCD30 getASC() logged "Can't send command" for a read. Both now name the
  operation they actually perform.
- LOG_ERROR already carries the level: ". Error: %u" -> ", rc=%u" (matching
  the existing rc=%d house style) and "Error executing X()" -> "X() failed".
- Typos and wording: "OTA partiton.  (Reason" -> "OTA partition (reason",
  "CST3530 not response ~" -> "CST3530 no response", "Packet received with
  to: of 0" -> "to=0", HostMetrics "Error decoding" -> "Can't decode", and
  the dangling ": " on the NextHopRouter retransmission line.

Printf specifier sequences are byte-identical on all 37 touched lines apart
from the 6 deliberate %x/%u -> %08x node-ID widenings, all on uint32_t args.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: coderabbitai[bot] <136622811+coderabbitai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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Jonathan Bennett
2026-08-10 01:02:19 +00:00
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@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ void EnvironmentTelemetryModule::i2cScanFinished(ScanI2C *i2cScanner)
if (!moduleConfig.telemetry.environment_measurement_enabled && !ENVIRONMENTAL_TELEMETRY_MODULE_ENABLE) {
return;
}
LOG_INFO("Environment Telemetry adding I2C devices...");
LOG_INFO("Environment Telemetry adding I2C devices");
/*
Uncomment the preferences below if you want to use the module
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ int32_t EnvironmentTelemetryModule::runOnce()
sleepOnNextExecution = false;
uint32_t nightyNightMs = Default::getConfiguredOrDefaultMs(moduleConfig.telemetry.environment_update_interval,
default_telemetry_broadcast_interval_secs);
LOG_DEBUG("Sleep for %ims, then awake to send metrics again", nightyNightMs);
LOG_DEBUG("Sleep %ims until next send", nightyNightMs);
doDeepSleep(nightyNightMs, true, false);
}
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ meshtastic_MeshPacket *EnvironmentTelemetryModule::allocReply()
if (pb_decode_from_bytes(p.payload.bytes, p.payload.size, &meshtastic_Telemetry_msg, &scratch)) {
decoded = &scratch;
} else {
LOG_ERROR("Error decoding EnvironmentTelemetry module!");
LOG_ERROR("Error decoding EnvironmentTelemetry module");
return NULL;
}
// Check for a request for environment metrics
@@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ bool EnvironmentTelemetryModule::sendTelemetry(NodeNum dest, bool phoneOnly)
// otherwise it stays awake until the next telemetry interval and drains its battery
if (!phoneOnly && isPowerSavingSensor()) {
if (!validTelemetry)
LOG_WARN("Environment telemetry unavailable this cycle, sleep without sending");
LOG_WARN("Env telemetry unavailable, sleep without send");
sleepOnNextExecution = true;
preflightSleepDeferrals = 0;
LOG_DEBUG("Start next execution in 5s, then sleep");