add sanity prerelease tests

meshtastic/__init__.py

@@ -575,7 +575,8 @@ class StreamInterface(MeshInterface):
         self._rxBuf = bytes()  # empty
         self._wantExit = False
 
-        self._rxThread = threading.Thread(target=self.__reader, args=(), daemon=True)
+        # FIXME, figure out why daemon=True causes reader thread to exit too early
+        self._rxThread = threading.Thread(target=self.__reader, args=())
 
         MeshInterface.__init__(self, debugOut=debugOut, noProto=noProto)
 
@@ -595,6 +596,7 @@ class StreamInterface(MeshInterface):
         time.sleep(0.1)  # wait 100ms to give device time to start running
 
         self._rxThread.start()
+        self._waitConnected()
 
     def _disconnected(self):
         """We override the superclass implementation to close our port"""

meshtastic/__main__.py

@@ -129,15 +129,18 @@ def onConnected(interface):
     closeNow = False  # Should we drop the connection after we finish?
     try:
         if args.settime:
+            closeNow = True
             print("Setting device RTC time")
             # can include lat/long/alt etc: latitude = 37.5, longitude = -122.1
             interface.sendPosition()
 
         if args.setowner:
+            closeNow = True
             print(f"Setting device owner to {args.setowner}")
             interface.setOwner(args.setowner)
 
         if args.sendtext:
+            closeNow = True
             print(f"Sending text message {args.sendtext} to {args.destOrAll}")
             interface.sendText(args.sendtext, args.destOrAll,
                                wantAck=True, wantResponse=True)