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Terminology

Term Meaning
Kaonic 1S The product / board family
r24 PCBA revision using removable SD (machine stm32mp1-kaonic1s-r24)
r30 PCBA revision using eMMC (machine stm32mp1-kaonic1s-r30)
BOOT SEL Two-position switch block sampled only at power-on
kaonic-commd Radio daemon
kaonic-ctrl UDP control protocol used by gateway, GUI, iperf, MAVLink, PTT
Module 0 / 1 The two RF215 instances (rfa / rfb)
Reticulum / RNS Cryptographic mesh stack
Destination hash 16-byte identity address used for routing and VPN peers
LDPC Forward error correction on radio frames
Gateway Dashboard + VPN + plugin host
Plugin Packaged binary + kaonic-plugin.toml installed under /etc/kaonic/plugins/
br0 Bridge of Wi-Fi AP and USB gadget; 192.168.10.1/24
Dropbear SSH server on the image
DFU STM32 USB device firmware upgrade (ROM boot)
OTP One-time programmable fuses on the STM32 (identity / boot source)
EIRP Effective isotropic radiated power
SRD Short-range device spectrum rules (e.g. EU 863–870 MHz)
MCS OFDM modulation and coding scheme (0–6 on RF215)
CCA / LBT Clear channel assessment / listen before talk
AFA Adaptive frequency agility

Longer glossary: reference.