Rongta 80mm printer: driver, role-based failover, live status monitoring
Add the rongta PrinterDevice driver (ESC/POS over raw TCP 9100) and the device-agnostic pieces around it: - Roles + failover: each printer declares a role (entry-dispenser/booth- receipt) and failoverRank; printer-routing.ts picks the best healthy printer and falls back outside->booth for entry tickets (never the reverse). - Live status: MonitorableDevice.readStatus()/PrinterStatus capability. The Rongta driver scrapes the device's own /prn_stat.htm (Cover/Cutter/Paper End/Near End/Off-Line) rather than hand-decoding DLE EOT, whose reply bytes on this clone don't match the canonical ESC/POS bit layout (verified on hardware) -- avoids a false-healthy. Maps to ready/degraded/offline, fail safe on an unreachable or unexpected page. - Server PrinterMonitor polls enabled printers (PRINTER_POLL_MS, default 5s), caches latest, emits "printer-status" on change. Exposed via GET /api/printers/status and an SSE stream for the booth UI. Verified against 10.0.10.6: ready when healthy, offline when unreachable (no throw), bus emits on change and suppresses unchanged reads. Wiki: new rongta-printer entity, printer-roles-failover and printer-status-monitoring concepts; BOM/index/log updated.
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type: concept
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tags: [parking, printer, device, reliability]
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sources: []
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updated: 2026-06-14
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# Printer roles & failover
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A lane runs **more than one printer**, and the system knows each one's job so it can fail over
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automatically. This is a reliability decision, not a threat-model one: an entry ticket must
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still print when the outside dispenser jams or drops off the network.
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## Roles
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Each printer instance (a `lane_devices` row, category `printer`) declares a **role** in its
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config:
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- **`entry-dispenser`** — outside, at the lane. Prints the entry ticket the driver takes.
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- **`booth-receipt`** — inside the booth. Prints receipts at exit/payment, AND serves as the
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**backup** for entry tickets.
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It also declares a **`failoverRank`** (higher = preferred within a role) to order multiple
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printers of the same role deterministically (ties broken by id).
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## Failover rule (asymmetric, on purpose)
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For an **entry ticket** (`wantRole = entry-dispenser`): try the entry dispensers (best rank
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first), then fall back to the **booth printer**. So a driver still gets a ticket when the
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outside unit is offline — the operator hands it over from the booth.
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The reverse is **deliberately not** done: a **receipt** never prints on the outside dispenser.
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Receipts are a booth-only job; an entry dispenser falling back to print receipts makes no
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physical sense.
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## Where the logic lives
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- The driver (`rongta`) is **role-agnostic** — role/rank are just config; the transport doesn't
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care. Keeps [[device-adapter-pattern|adapters]] swappable.
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- Selection is pure logic in `packages/devices/printer-routing.ts`: `orderForRole()` ranks
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candidates; `printWithFailover()` attempts the print down the list and throws
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`NoPrinterAvailableError` only when every candidate fails.
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- It **attempts the print directly** rather than racing a `healthCheck` first — the print is
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the real reachability test, and a health probe that passes can still be followed by a failed
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print.
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## Open: the all-printers-down policy
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When `printWithFailover` exhausts every candidate, what should entry do — raise the barrier
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with no paper ticket (the plate/[[lpr-camera]] is the independent record), or hold? That policy
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belongs to the **entry flow** ([[device-input-flow]], [[fail-state-safety]]), not the printer
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layer, and is **not yet decided**. The signed event ([[append-only-event-chain]]) is created
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regardless of whether paper prints.
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type: concept
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tags: [parking, printer, device, monitoring, reliability]
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sources: []
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updated: 2026-06-14
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# Printer status monitoring
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The booth must know a printer is in trouble **before** a driver presses the entry button and no
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ticket comes out. So the system polls each printer's live status (paper out, cover open, cutter
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jam, off-line) and pushes changes to the operator UI. A reliability control, like
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[[printer-roles-failover]] — not a threat-model one.
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## Where the status comes from (the safe-decode decision)
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The raw print socket (TCP 9100) is write-only for us — it returns no paper/cover feedback. ESC/POS
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printers expose status via real-time queries (`DLE EOT n`). On the [[rongta-printer]] clone we
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probed, **`DLE EOT` replies do NOT follow the canonical ESC/POS bit layout** (the spec's fixed
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validation bits were wrong, verified on hardware 2026-06-14). Decoding those bits ourselves risked
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a **false-healthy** — reporting "paper OK" when it's empty — which is the dangerous direction for
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an entry lane.
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Instead we scrape the device's **own status web page** (`http://<host>/prn_stat.htm`). The board
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decodes the bits itself into labelled Yes/No rows (Cover Is Open, Cutter Error, Paper End, Paper
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Near End, Printer Off-Line). We trust the device's decode over hand-decoding an undocumented clone.
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This is captured as a device capability: `MonitorableDevice.readStatus(): PrinterStatus` in
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`packages/devices`. The Rongta driver implements it; the monitor is device-agnostic via
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`isMonitorable()`. A future printer with a different status mechanism just implements the same
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interface.
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## Status mapping (fail safe)
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`readStatus()` maps to `ready | degraded | offline`:
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- status page unreachable / times out → **offline** (same signal as a dead printer; never throws),
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- page reachable but a recognised field is missing → **degraded** ("unexpected status page") —
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we do NOT claim "ready" off a page we didn't fully parse,
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- any fault flag true (paper end, cover open, cutter error, off-line) → **degraded** + a detail
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string ("paper out", …),
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- all five clear → **ready**.
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## The monitor (server)
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`PrinterMonitor` (`apps/server/src/printer-monitor.ts`):
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- reloads the monitored set from `lane_devices` each tick (so a newly-assigned printer is picked
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up without a restart), keeping only enabled, monitorable printers;
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- polls every `PRINTER_POLL_MS` (default 5000ms), never overlapping ticks;
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- caches the latest status per device id;
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- emits a `printer-status` event on the device bus **only when status changes** (deduped).
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## API / live UI
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- `GET /api/printers/status` — cached snapshot of all printers (no device round-trip).
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- `GET /api/printers/status/stream` — **Server-Sent Events**: full snapshot on connect, then one
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event per change. The booth SPA subscribes for real-time paper-out / offline indicators.
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- Any authenticated role may read (operational, not a setup action).
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## Verified on hardware (2026-06-14)
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`readStatus()` against 10.0.10.6 → `ready` (all flags false); against an unreachable host →
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`offline` with "status page timeout" (no throw); bus emits on change and suppresses unchanged
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reads. Full repo typechecks.
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## Open / not yet done
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- **Fault-state capture**: we've only observed the all-clear page. The exact label text for an
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active fault (e.g. does "Paper End" flip to "Yes"?) should be confirmed by physically removing
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paper / opening the cover, to be 100% sure the scrape catches it. The parser is built to match
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Yes/No and degrade on anything unexpected, so this is a confidence check, not a blocker.
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- Tying a `degraded`/`offline` entry-dispenser into [[printer-roles-failover]] failover and the
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(not-yet-built) entry flow's all-printers-down policy ([[device-input-flow]]).
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