Frequent Wi-Fi and Bluetooth disconnections, accompanied by the annoying ticking sound of USB devices disconnecting and reconnecting, can be incredibly frustrating—especially when the root cause is hard to pinpoint. To address this, I developed and open-sourced a lightweight troubleshooting and real-time tracking tool using Cursor. For more details, check out the GitHub repository.

Features

Module	Description
Hardware monitoring	Real-time USB / Bluetooth disconnect and transient events via WM_DEVICECHANGE (configurable threshold)
Bluetooth diagnostics	WMI polling of bthserv and PnP devices; tray alerts on failure
BSOD tracing	Minidump scan plus Event Log BugCheck analysis
One-click repair	Restarts bthserv / Audiosrv and scans USB selective suspend settings
System tray	Close to tray; icon reflects status (normal / warning / alert)
Notifications	Native Windows toasts when the window is hidden
History	Persistent event log with JSON / CSV export
Port manager	Scan local listeners, flag dev leftovers and reserved ranges, release safe processes
Localization	29 display languages, including tray menu strings

Requirements

• Windows 10 / 11 (x64)
• WebView2 Runtime
• One-click repair works best when run as administrator (right-click → Run as administrator)

Installation

From Releases (recommended)

Download the latest build from Releases:

• ZeroTick_*_x64-setup.exe — NSIS installer
• ZeroTick_*_x64_en-US.msi — MSI package

After installation, ZeroTick stays in the system tray by default.

Pushing to main with a new package.json version triggers GitHub Actions to tag v* and upload installers. See Contributing → Release.

Build from source

Prerequisites: Rust 1.82+ · Node.js 18+

git clone https://github.com/ichenh/zerotick.git
cd zerotick
npm install
npm run tauri build

Installers are written to:

src-tauri\target\release\bundle\nsis\
src-tauri\target\release\bundle\msi\

If icons are missing, generate them from app-icon.png: npm run ensure-icons or npm run tauri icon app-icon.png

Commit app-icon.png or src-tauri/icons/ before publishing — CI requires them to build installers.

Usage

1. Launch — ZeroTick runs in the system tray; the main window starts hidden
2. Open the app — Left-click the tray icon, or right-click → Open Dashboard
3. Overview — Live USB / Bluetooth timeline; transient disconnects are highlighted
4. Diagnostics — Check Bluetooth, scan for BSOD dumps, run one-click repair
5. Ports — Scan local usage and release node / vite dev leftovers
6. Settings — Thresholds, history limits, display language, notifications, start at sign-in
7. Quit — Right-click tray → Quit ZeroTick

Data directory

User data is stored under %APPDATA%\com.zerotick.desktop\:

File	Purpose
settings.json	User preferences
device_history.json	Device event history
zerotick_debug.log	Debug log

Performance

Target idle usage is about 0% CPU:

• Hardware monitoring uses a Win32 message pump (event-driven, no polling loop)
• Bluetooth WMI polls every 60s by default and only notifies on state changes
• BSOD analysis runs once at startup

Adjust the Bluetooth poll interval in Settings (15–300 seconds).

Development

npm install
npm run tauri dev    # dev mode (runs prepare-dev automatically)
npm run build        # frontend only
cargo test --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml

Dev server port: 55555 (see vite.config.js, tauri.conf.json, src-tauri/src/ports.rs).

Project layout

zerotick/
├── index.html
├── src/                    # Vite + Vanilla JS frontend
│   ├── main.js
│   ├── i18n.js
│   ├── locales/
│   └── styles.css
├── src-tauri/              # Rust / Tauri backend
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── monitor.rs
│   │   ├── bluetooth.rs
│   │   ├── bsod.rs
│   │   ├── repair.rs
│   │   ├── ports.rs
│   │   ├── settings.rs
│   │   ├── i18n.rs
│   │   └── tray.rs
│   └── locales/tray.json
├── scripts/
├── CHANGELOG.md
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
└── LICENSE

Agent conventions: AGENTS.md

License

MIT © ZeroTick Contributors

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