diff --git a/work/dashboard-frontend/src/App.tsx b/work/dashboard-frontend/src/App.tsx
index 2fbde71..a0a8785 100644
--- a/work/dashboard-frontend/src/App.tsx
+++ b/work/dashboard-frontend/src/App.tsx
@@ -1,20 +1,14 @@
 import { Routes, Route, Navigate } from 'react-router-dom'
 import Layout from './components/Layout'
 import Dashboard from './pages/Dashboard'
-import Mesh from './pages/Mesh'
 import Environment from './pages/Environment'
 import Config from './pages/Config'
 import ActivityLog from './pages/ActivityLog'
 import Notifications from './pages/Notifications'
 import Reference from './pages/Reference'
-import AdapterConfig from './pages/AdapterConfig'
-import GaugeSites from './pages/GaugeSites'
-import TownAnchors from './pages/TownAnchors'
 import MeshCoreRouting from './pages/MeshCoreRouting'
 import MeshCoreConnection from './pages/MeshCoreConnection'
-import MeshCoreCompanion from './pages/MeshCoreCompanion'
 import MeshtasticConnection from './pages/MeshtasticConnection'
-import MeshtasticSources from './pages/MeshtasticSources'
 import Places from './pages/Places'
 import MeshtasticNodes from './pages/MeshtasticNodes'
 import MeshCoreContactsCompanion from './pages/MeshCoreContactsCompanion'
@@ -41,7 +35,6 @@ function App() {
           {/* Legacy /notifications -> Meshtastic Routing */}
           <Route path="/notifications" element={<Navigate to="/meshtastic/routing" replace />} />
           <Route path="/reference" element={<Reference />} />
-          <Route path="/adapter-config" element={<AdapterConfig />} />
 
           {/* New aggregated pages */}
           <Route path="/places" element={<Places />} />
@@ -49,14 +42,17 @@ function App() {
           {/* Custom sources folded into Data Feeds; keep old bookmark working */}
           <Route path="/data-sources" element={<Navigate to="/environment" replace />} />
 
-          {/* De-navved routes still work */}
-          <Route path="/gauge-sites" element={<GaugeSites />} />
-          <Route path="/town-anchors" element={<TownAnchors />} />
-          <Route path="/mesh" element={<Mesh />} />
+          {/* Legacy /gauge-sites -> Places (Gauge Sites tab) */}
+          <Route path="/gauge-sites" element={<Navigate to="/places" replace />} />
+          {/* Legacy /town-anchors -> Places (lands on first tab, no ?tab= deep-link) */}
+          <Route path="/town-anchors" element={<Navigate to="/places" replace />} />
+          {/* Legacy /mesh -> Meshtastic Nodes & Health (Nodes tab) */}
+          <Route path="/mesh" element={<Navigate to="/meshtastic/nodes" replace />} />
 
           {/* Meshtastic routes */}
           <Route path="/meshtastic/connection" element={<MeshtasticConnection />} />
-          <Route path="/meshtastic/sources" element={<MeshtasticSources />} />
+          {/* Legacy /meshtastic/sources -> Nodes & Health (lands on first tab, no ?tab= deep-link) */}
+          <Route path="/meshtastic/sources" element={<Navigate to="/meshtastic/nodes" replace />} />
           <Route path="/meshtastic/scheduled" element={<ScheduledBroadcasts family="meshtastic" />} />
           <Route path="/meshtastic/nodes" element={<MeshtasticNodes />} />
           <Route path="/meshtastic/danger-zones" element={<MeshtasticDangerZones />} />
@@ -66,7 +62,8 @@ function App() {
           <Route path="/meshcore/routing" element={<MeshCoreRouting />} />
           <Route path="/meshcore/scheduled" element={<ScheduledBroadcasts family="meshcore" />} />
           <Route path="/meshcore/contacts" element={<MeshCoreContactsCompanion />} />
-          <Route path="/meshcore/companion" element={<MeshCoreCompanion />} />
+          {/* Legacy /meshcore/companion -> Contacts & Companion (lands on first tab, no ?tab= deep-link) */}
+          <Route path="/meshcore/companion" element={<Navigate to="/meshcore/contacts" replace />} />
           <Route path="/meshcore/danger-zones" element={<MeshCoreDangerZones />} />
         </Routes>
       </Layout>
diff --git a/work/dashboard-frontend/src/components/Layout.tsx b/work/dashboard-frontend/src/components/Layout.tsx
index 626e896..8a55d4e 100644
--- a/work/dashboard-frontend/src/components/Layout.tsx
+++ b/work/dashboard-frontend/src/components/Layout.tsx
@@ -3,19 +3,14 @@ import { Link, useLocation, useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom'
 import { useDirty } from '@/context/DirtyContext'
 import {
   LayoutDashboard,
-  Radio,
   Cloud,
   BellRing,
   BookOpen,
-  Sliders,
-  Droplets,
   MapPin,
   Map,
   Wifi,
-  Layers,
   Network,
   Users,
-  Bot,
   Settings,
   Calendar,
   Activity,
@@ -85,14 +80,7 @@ const navGroups: NavGroup[] = [
 
 // Flattened view of every nav item for title lookup.
 // Also include de-navved routes so they still resolve a title.
-const extraTitleItems: NavItem[] = [
-  { path: '/adapter-config', label: 'Adapter Config', icon: Sliders },
-  { path: '/gauge-sites', label: 'Gauge Sites', icon: Droplets },
-  { path: '/town-anchors', label: 'Town Anchors', icon: MapPin },
-  { path: '/mesh', label: 'Mesh', icon: Radio },
-  { path: '/meshtastic/sources', label: 'Sources', icon: Layers },
-  { path: '/meshcore/companion', label: 'Companion', icon: Bot },
-]
+const extraTitleItems: NavItem[] = []
 
 const allNavItems: NavItem[] = [
   ...navGroups.flatMap((g) => g.items),
@@ -108,7 +96,6 @@ const pathTitles: Record<string, string> = {
   '/meshtastic/danger-zones': 'Danger Zones',
   '/meshcore/danger-zones': 'Danger Zones',
   '/meshcore/contacts': 'Contacts & Companion',
-  '/meshcore/companion': 'Contacts & Companion',
 }
 
 function formatUptime(seconds: number): string {
diff --git a/work/meshai/dashboard/api/config_routes.py b/work/meshai/dashboard/api/config_routes.py
index 5a28311..104de0f 100644
--- a/work/meshai/dashboard/api/config_routes.py
+++ b/work/meshai/dashboard/api/config_routes.py
@@ -411,8 +411,10 @@ def _refresh_mesh_context(app, new_ctx_cfg) -> bool:
 
 @router.post("/notifications/refresh-toggles")
 async def refresh_toggles(request: Request):
-    """Explicit refresh endpoint (kept for backwards-compat with the
-    dashboard's manual ping path)."""
+    """Explicit refresh endpoint. Not called by the dashboard frontend --
+    the _auto_refresh_toggle_filter middleware below already refreshes the
+    ToggleFilter automatically on every successful notifications config PUT.
+    Kept for ops/debug use (manually forcing a refresh outside that path)."""
     bus = getattr(request.app.state, "bus", None)
     config = getattr(request.app.state, "config", None)
     if bus is None or config is None: