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2GT-RichandClaude Opus 5 273a0da737 fix(deploy): restore NetFlow to the published compose file, and generate it (v0.23.34-beta)
Closes #121.

The Quick Deploy file was missing NETFLOW_BIND_PORT and the 2055/udp mapping, so
the collector bound inside the container and nothing reached it. NetFlow did
nothing, silently, with an empty traffic page and no error — for everyone
following the path the README tells new users to take.

The report was accurate and understated. docker-compose.ghcr.yml had drifted for
seven weeks, and three closed issues had never reached it:

  * NETFLOW_BIND_PORT and the UDP port — as reported
  * all five POLLER_* tunables — #114, whose fix was "pass the tunables through"
  * the Redis memory ceiling and eviction policy — #116
  * TZ on the postgres service, which nobody had noticed at all

The middle one is the uncomfortable part. Four days ago #114 was closed by
forwarding poller settings that were documented but inert, with a comment saying
setting them "did precisely nothing". On Quick Deploy that remained true, because
one compose file was fixed and the other was not — including the advice given to
that reporter about which knob to turn.

So patching the four gaps would have been treating the symptom. The two files
describe the same system and differ only in where images come from; maintaining
both by hand meant remembering every change twice, and the one forgotten was
always the file no maintainer runs.

docker-compose.ghcr.yml is now generated from docker-compose.yml by
scripts/generate-ghcr-compose.mjs, which performs the two build-to-image swaps
and nothing else. Substitution is textual rather than parse-and-reserialise so
comments survive — the reasoning about Redis eviction is worth more than the two
lines it explains. The file stays committed and browsable, because the README
tells people to curl it directly.

A --check mode runs as the first preflight gate and as its own CI job, both of
which fail when the committed file does not match what the generator produces.
Verified by deleting the NetFlow line and watching the guard reject it, with the
reason and the fix in the failure message.

Reported by @mamb1329, on their first issue.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 13:08:56 -07:00
2GT-RichandClaude Opus 5 6c5b8ac21a feat(lte): time-on-band and time-on-cell statistics (v0.23.33-beta)
Closes #120.

The Tower and band changes panel listed every handover, newest first, growing
without bound. On a link that hands over several times a day it reads as a wall
of near-identical rows — it answers what happened, but not what the pattern is,
which is the question an operator actually has.

Dwell totals now sit above it: how long the modem has spent on each band and on
each cell, over 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days, ordered by time spent so the answer
is the first row rather than something to be worked out. Visit counts sit
alongside, because six brief stays and one long one are different situations
that share a total.

No new collection. History is already written on every change, so dwell is the
interval between consecutive events — the same reconstruction used for WiFi
roaming sessions.

Three decisions worth recording.

**The state in force when the window opened is included.** Without it, a link
that changed once yesterday would report a few minutes of dwell across seven
days, having silently dropped everything before the first change in range. The
last event *before* the window is fetched specifically to anchor that first
stretch.

**Aggregated carriers each count for the whole stretch.** A period on B1 and B3
together credits both with the full duration, so band shares describe how much of
the window each band was in use rather than dividing it between them. Totals can
exceed 100%, which is the honest description of carrier aggregation rather than a
rounding artefact.

**Absence is reported as absence.** A segment whose cell was never reported is
excluded rather than attributed to "unknown", a device with no history reads as
"no changes recorded" rather than an empty panel, and a window longer than our
records says so instead of implying the quiet period was real.

Logic lives in utils/lteDwell.ts with 17 tests. Verified end to end against
seeded history matching the reporter's own pattern: a 24-hour window covered
exactly 24 hours, B3 correctly showed 19 of them against a five-hour stretch
without it, cell totals summed to the window, and a 30-day request over 9 days of
records reported itself truncated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 09:30:07 -07:00
2GT-RichandClaude Opus 5 98a72e1f7a docs: versioned documentation site, and the four pages that were missing (v0.23.28-beta)
Closes #112.

Source stays `docs/*.md`, rendered by MkDocs-Material and published to GitHub
Pages by Actions. Same repository on purpose: documentation drifts, and
co-location is the only thing that reliably prevents it — the pull request that
changes behaviour changes the description, and review sees both. A separate repo
would double the ceremony and guarantee divergence.

The markdown remains readable when browsing the repository, so the site renders
those files rather than replacing them.

**Versioned from the start**, using mike. Images are published to GHCR and this
project ships betas most days, so readers are routinely running something other
than the newest build; a single "latest" would confidently describe a release
they do not have. Versions follow the product rather than the docs, so the site
and the running image carry the same number.

**Content came first, and it had to.** The docs were eleven days and sixteen
releases stale — SSH keys, bulk commands, the data-cap SMS, poller health and the
timezone setting appeared in exactly zero files between them. Publishing that
would have given documentation missing five of the most consequential features a
polished, authoritative home, and a well-presented wrong answer is worse than an
obviously rough one. Four pages now cover them:

  - cellular.md — signal grading, carrier aggregation, the uplink anchor,
    observed bands, and the data-cap SMS including why it fires early and how to
    calibrate the margin
  - ssh-keys.md — leading with what installing a key costs, because RouterOS
    disables password SSH for that user and the database becomes load-bearing
  - commands.md — why waves exist, and why reading output matters when RouterOS
    reports failure in text rather than an exit code
  - scaling.md — headroom, why it is insufficient on its own, and every tunable

Pull requests build the site with `--strict`, which turns warnings into errors.
That is the point of running it there at all, and it earned itself immediately:
the first build failed on two links to the project README, which sits outside the
docs tree. They are absolute now, so they resolve both in the rendered site and
when reading the markdown on GitHub.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 18:42:40 -07:00
2GT-RichandClaude Opus 5 57d650c159 feat(wireless): reconstruct per-client roaming history from AP logs (v0.23.11-beta)
Closes #105.

RouterOS narrates the whole life of an association in its log — association, every
band or AP change, and the disconnect — each line carrying the signal at that
moment. Nothing else in the platform can see any of it: roaming happens between
polls, so a poll only ever observes where a client ended up, never that it moved.

Sessions are now rebuilt from those lines and shown on the client detail page: the
path across radios, signal at each step, duration, and RouterOS's own disconnect
reason. Sessions averaging six or more roams an hour are flagged, since a client
bouncing between radios is usually a roaming-threshold problem rather than a faulty
client.

No new collection and no new storage. It reads the events already gathered, so it
works retroactively over whatever log history exists.

Two things came out of testing against real logs rather than the samples in the
issue, and both were wrong in ways the samples could not have shown:

  Ordering. RouterOS log timestamps are second-granular, so a reassociation emits
  its disconnect and reconnect inside the same logged second, and collection
  assigns sub-second values in whichever order they were read — observed on a live
  AP as both `.849/.849` and `.096/.097` for the same kind of pair. Sorting on the
  raw timestamp attached the disconnect to the session the connect had just opened,
  so every reassociation reconstructed as a 0-second session while the real one
  disappeared. On one IoT client that was 255 phantom sessions out of 422. Events
  are now ordered by whole second and ties broken by meaning: a disconnect closes
  what came before, a connect opens what comes after. The same client now shows its
  real behaviour — 900s, 840s and 930s sessions, reassociating every 15 minutes.

  Signal sanity. Real logs contain `signal strength 91`. dBm is negative, so a
  positive reading is not a measurement; recording it would draw a client with an
  impossibly perfect signal. Treated as unknown.

21 tests, including the full ping-pong trace quoted in the issue — which the
reconstruction correctly identifies as flapping — plus both timestamp-collision
shapes seen in production.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 21:27:14 -07:00
2GT-RichandClaude Opus 5 5071e1f512 chore(dev): seedable CAPsMAN fixture so managed-wireless paths can be tested (v0.23.8-beta)
Two bugs shipped in the last three releases because CAPsMAN code was written and
"verified" against a fleet that contains no CAPsMAN. Neither was reachable by unit
tests, because both lived in SQL: a join that could never match, and a WHERE clause
that filtered out every managed radio before the analysis ran. Both were found by
the reporter, in production, after release.

The fix is not another test of the pure functions — those were already right. It is
to stop the local environment from being unrepresentative.

scripts/seed-capsman-fixture.sql builds a deployment shaped like a real one:

  - the controller is a ROUTER with no radios of its own, so anything keyed on
    device_type = 'wireless_ap' misses it
  - CAP interfaces carry NULL frequency, SSID and band, because the controller owns
    the configuration — the exact condition that removed them from Channel Usage
  - the controller mirrors every CAP interface locally, so a CAP's radio MAC
    legitimately appears on two devices — the condition behind the misattribution
  - channels exist only as "<freq>/<phy>/<control-positions>", never a plain number
  - the radios are arranged to produce one partial overlap and one co-channel pair,
    so interference classification has something real to get wrong

Running it against v0.23.7 confirms the fix shipped blind two commits ago actually
works: six managed radios now group under the controller, the controller appears in
the location selector, the standalone group holds only the genuinely standalone AP,
5680/ax/eCee/D resolves to 80 MHz, client counts come from the controller where the
CAP rows read zero, and the controller's mirror interfaces do not double-count.

Documented in docs/architecture.md, including the point that when a report arrives
with device output attached, that output is the most valuable thing in it and
belongs in the fixture.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 20:21:19 -07:00
2GT-RichandClaude Opus 5 e10f7ba568 docs: split reference material into docs/, keeping the README a shop window (v0.23.4-beta)
Documentation only — no functional change.

The README was carrying two jobs for two different readers. Its Reference section was
the single largest block at 154 lines, and nobody deciding whether to try the project
reads an InfluxDB environment variable table — while the people who need it were
scrolling past the pitch to reach it.

Split along that seam: anything you would read before installing stays in the README,
anything you would read after installing moves to docs/.

  README.md              430 lines   sell, prove, install, feature overview
  docs/change-guard.md   193         safety system, settings, guard states
  docs/architecture.md   116         data stores, polling model, module layout
  docs/capsman.md         84         role model, radio matching, current limits
  docs/alerting.md        81         rules, channels, webhooks, maintenance windows
  docs/api.md             77         scoped tokens, preflight, scripting
  docs/configuration.md   76         environment, secrets, rotation, TLS
  docs/sso-oidc.md        71         identity provider setup and behaviour
  docs/README.md          20         index

In-repo rather than a documentation site, deliberately. A change to Change Guard's
semantics can edit its documentation in the same commit as the code — which, given how
often that behaviour has been refined recently, is the property that actually matters.
A static site generator can point at docs/ later without moving a file.

The Change Guard pitch stays on the front page: the problem framing, the verified
recovery timeline and the quoted prediction warning are what make someone care, and a
reference page is the wrong home for them.

Three sections are new rather than relocated, written because the split exposed the gaps:

  - architecture.md did not exist. It now records why there are three data stores, the
    polling cadences, and which modules are pure functions over a snapshot and why.
  - Scoped API tokens shipped without usage documentation. api.md shows preflighting a
    change from a script and reading the guard block afterwards.
  - change-guard.md records why ip-on-bridge-port is informational rather than critical
    on RouterOS 7 — reasoning that previously existed only in a commit message.

Every internal anchor and cross-file link verified to resolve, including anchors into
other documents. No content dropped, checked by keyword comparison against the previous
single file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 12:26:18 -07:00