@AetherClaude your thoughts?

Reviewed the diff against HGauge.h, TunerApplet.{h,cpp}, and the existing PGXL/Aurora scale switching. Overall this is a clean, well-targeted change — happy to see the SmartSDR-parity layout land.

A few notes:

Strong choices

• Synchronous updateValueLabels() from updateMeters() instead of a polling timer is exactly right for the TGXL's irregular cadence. Anchoring the hold to the last "above-threshold" event eliminates the polling race entirely.
• HGauge::setBallistics() is a nice minimal addition. The existing setReversed() at HGauge.h:90-102 already round-trips through m_smooth.{ballistics,setBallistics}, so exposing it publicly is consistent — no subclassing tax, no surprises.
• 5 W threshold + 800 ms release on the fwd gauge (30 ms attack) gives the bar a believable PEP-style decay without painting noise into the label.

Worth verifying

1. 72 px label width at PGXL full-scale. With setPowerScale(maxWatts, true) the gauge goes to 0–2000 W, so the label can read PWR 2000 — 9 chars at 10 px bold. Should fit, but worth eyeballing once on the PGXL path so a four-digit reading doesn't get elided to PWR 200…. If it's tight, bumping to 80 px (or using setMinimumWidth instead of setFixedWidth) costs nothing.
2. m_labelClearTimer re-entrancy on TUNE. During the 400 ms m_postTuneTimer capture window, fwd power is typically very low — make sure the label hold doesn't cause stale PWR <last> to overlap with the TUNE button's SWR x.xx confirmation in a confusing way. Probably a non-issue since the readouts live in different widgets, but worth a quick visual check during the test plan's BYPASS→TUNE→OPERATE cycle.
3. Threshold below 5 W on the 200 W gauge: at idle key-up some radios can leak a watt or two of carrier hangover. Threshold of 5 W is conservative enough that this shouldn't matter, but if you ever see the label briefly flash during PTT release on a barefoot rig, the cause is here.

Nit

• TunerApplet.cpp:12-14 lost the blank line between #include "core/ThemeManager.h" and namespace AetherSDR {. Easy to fold back in.

Re: the deferred items — agreed on punting TGXL temp (the protocol genuinely doesn't carry it) and on holding PGXL tempb/compound temp until pcap confirms the key name. Better to land this parity work first than to guess at field names.

LGTM pending the 72 px sanity check on PGXL.

73, Jeremy KK7GWY & Claude (AI dev partner)

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@AetherClaude

Screenshot looks right — the left-anchored PWR <int> / SWR <x.x>:1 row labels with the bars to their right is exactly the SmartSDR layout, and the proportions match the PGXL applet. A few specific things I can read off the visual against the diff:

What checks out

• m_pwrLabel/m_swrLabel at setFixedWidth(72) lines up cleanly with the bar left edges in the shot — no visible truncation on the displayed value, and the bar widths look consistent between the PWR and SWR rows. Good.
• Internal gauge labels are empty (HGauge(..., "", "", ...) at both call sites) and the bar interior is unobstructed in the screenshot — matches the PGXL applet convention.
• The setBallistics({0.030f, 0.800f}) slow-release behavior isn't visible in a still frame, but the 30 ms attack / 800 ms release ratio is consistent with SmartSDR's PEP-style fwd decay. That'll be visible in motion during the test plan's TX cycle.

Still worth eyeballing in motion (no change requested, just things the screenshot can't show):

1. PGXL 0–2000 W path. The barefoot screenshot doesn't exercise the four-digit case. PWR 2000 is 10 chars × 10 px bold ≈ 60–62 px including the double-space — fits 72 px, but only just. If you ever see clipping during PGXL TX, this is the spot.
2. m_labelClearTimer vs. TUNE capture. During the 400 ms m_postTuneTimer window the m_tuneBtn text gets set to SWR x.xx (TunerApplet.cpp:35 and the post-tune capture branch). That readout lives in a different widget than m_swrLabel, so the 800 ms hold on the row label and the TUNE-button confirmation should coexist fine — but the BYPASS→TUNE→OPERATE cycle in the test plan is the right place to confirm no visually-confusing overlap.

One small nit still present in the diff (TunerApplet.cpp:12-13):

 #include "core/ThemeManager.h"
-
 namespace AetherSDR {

The blank line between the last include and the namespace got eaten. Trivial to restore — purely a style consistency thing with the rest of the file. Not blocking.

Overall LGTM. The HGauge::setBallistics() API is clean (parallel to how setReversed() round-trips through m_smooth.ballistics()), the synchronous-update + hold-window design avoids the polling/blink trap, and the layout matches SmartSDR. Ready to land once the test plan checkboxes are exercised on a real radio.

A maintainer can authorize the orchestrator to land the blank-line nit by adding the aetherclaude-eligible label, but honestly it's small enough to fold into the next change in this file rather than spinning a separate PR.

73, Jeremy KK7GWY & Claude (AI dev partner)

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Superseded by #3277 which consolidates PGXL and TGXL applet metering into one PR.