Joining a hashtag channel is hard

[Peetz0r]

Hey, I wanted to join a hashtag channel. So I looked at the commands. At first I couldn't find a join_channel or add_channel command, or something that mentions joining or adding in the help text.

After a while I figured out that I needed to look at my "channel slots", and set the fields for an onused one of those to the values for the nel channel with set_channel:

    set_channel n nm k     : set channel info (nb, name, key)

Which implies that I need to find and add the key myself. I actually figured out how to do that, to then be confronted with an error like this:

Peetz0r|*> set_channel 3 #example 8e224e0c4eec7863aac7eaa6c69db105
ERROR:meshcore:Unknown command : 8e224e0c4eec7863aac7eaa6c69db105, ['8e224e0c4eec7863aac7eaa6c69db105'] not executed ...

Only after trying some more stuff, I figured out that I could just do set_channel 3 #example.

So that too me a while, and leaves me with 2 suggestions:

1. Change the text for help so that it becomes obvious that you should not provide a key for hashtag channels
2. Add a command add_channel or join_channel that automatically takes the first unused slot if any

[fdlamotte]

I agree, will implement help for all channel commands (with the ? prefix) and implement add_channel

[fdlamotte]

Interestingly enough, calling set_channel "" "#tag" is doing the work, so implementing add_channel was easy ;)

[fdlamotte]

pushed to git