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A row read "22 kB · full" directly beneath "uploaded to fmr", while the status
line above said the upload went as BALANCED. Both were true and they described
different documents: the row showed ArchivedRun.anonymization, which describes
the *archived* copy - deliberately unredacted, so always "full" - and the status
line described the *uploaded* copy.
Read together, that says the complete data was uploaded when a redacted copy was
sent. A privacy display that overstates what left the device is worse than none,
and telling the user what left the device is the one thing this screen is for.
The level a run was uploaded at is now recorded separately (uploaded_as) and the
row says "kept complete on this device" / "uploaded to fmr as balanced" - each
label naming the copy it belongs to.
Two more from the same screenshot:
- Every row showed no verdict. The archive read summary.verdict; the schema
calls it summary.overall. Silently null on every run, so the list's most
prominent element was blank while everything else looked fine. The test
fixture had the same wrong field name, which is why it passed.
- The status line rendered the server's raw JSON index entry into the UI.
Verified on device: a fresh run archives with verdict "yellow" and
uploaded_as "balanced" beside anonymization "full".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Echolot
Free software for detecting and debugging local network issues from an Android phone — built for people who actually know what a neighbor table is.
Most "wifi analyzer" apps show you signal bars. Echolot aims at the layer where home and office networks actually break: duplicate DHCP servers, broken IPv6 RAs, MTU black holes, NAT64 weirdness, multicast that dies at the AP, DNS that answers differently than it should. It records what it observed, separates observation from interpretation, and exports the whole run so you can argue with it later.
Status: pre-release. The capability prober runs on real hardware; the production app and the probe server are not built yet.
Repository layout
docs/ design docs — the contract for everything below
echolot-prober/ capability prober: validates the no-root feasibility matrix on real devices
The Go probe server and the production app land here as siblings.
Design docs
The three specs are draft-complete and reviewed; treat them as the contract.
| Doc | What it defines |
|---|---|
| docs/feature-catalog-and-feasibility.md | Full feature list + the no-root feasibility matrix |
| docs/measurement-schema.md | Archived/exportable measurement JSON (observation vs finding, two-clock rule, anonymization) |
| docs/probe-protocol.md | Client↔server wire protocol (pinned TLS control plane, binary UDP data plane, STUN, canary DNS) |
| docs/build-status.md | Running log of decisions and next steps |
Privilege tiers
Every result records which tier produced it:
app— no root, no special setup. The bulk of the functionality.shizuku— ADB-shell privileges via wireless pairing, no root. Shipped in v1.root— future optional module.
Licensing
| Part | License | Why |
|---|---|---|
| All code (app, prober, server) | GPL-3.0-or-later | The value here is the platform-API research; copyleft keeps derivative apps free |
docs/ (the specs) |
CC-BY-4.0 | A wire protocol and a measurement format should be implementable by anyone, without license anxiety |
Full texts: LICENSE (GPLv3) and docs/LICENSE (CC BY 4.0).
Sources carry SPDX-License-Identifier headers.
If you want to build a compatible server or client, the protocol and schema docs are deliberately permissive — go ahead.
Building
See echolot-prober/README.md. Short version, from echolot-prober/:
echo "sdk.dir=/path/to/Android/sdk" > local.properties
./gradlew :app:assembleDebug