Field report (park-buzi): a BLINKING entry button still printed — the lamp
encoded blink-vs-solid (radar-only vs radar+camera) but #suppressReason only
checked the radar, so a radar false-positive (rain, pedestrian) minted a real
signed ticket. Three layered fixes:
1. CAMERA gate on the physical press: with an entry camera configured, a press
is live only in the lamp's SOLID state (LaneStatus.entry busy, mirrored into
EntryFlow via onLaneStatus). Suppress-only — the camera stays advisory (never
opens, never traps). Camera-less sites keep the radar-only gate; a faulty
camera is dropped via the existing bypassPresenceCamera admin toggle.
2. Cooldown as a REAL backstop behind presence: the presence branch returned
early, so entryCooldownSec was dead wherever a loop was wired. Now it bounds
the stationary-car double-ticket (a motion radar drops a motionless car →
spurious loop-clear re-arms one-car-one-ticket → same car reprints).
3. Post-hoc duplicate-plate anomaly (entry-side twin of plateSwapSuspected):
when entry ANPR recognizes a plate already OPEN under another session entered
within ENTRY_DUP_PLATE_WINDOW_MIN (default 15 min), sign ONE
entry.duplicatePlate anomaly naming both tickets for the operator to void.
ANPR stays non-blocking (rides the post-open snapshot as before).
REJECTED: camera-vetoed re-arm (defer re-arm until the lane flips free). The
camera has no leave events — "free" is a ~30s silence timeout that never lapses
inside a queue, so every queued car after the first would be suppressed until
an operator intervened. Blocking legit entry at peak beats nothing; the proper
preventive fix is a pass-through sensor (passedInput) — recorded as open in
wiki/concepts/entry-double-press.md.
Also: setup.relayTest reason was missing from both web catalogs (parity is only
enforced sq<->en, so the build passed) — added.
Tests: entry-press-gate.test.ts (blink suppresses / solid prints / camera-less
unaffected / bypass honored / cooldown catches the dropout re-press / residual
risk documented / still-present re-press stays suppressed) +
entry-duplicate-plate.test.ts (flags open dup, ignores closed/stale/self/other
plates). Suite 258 green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xcm6ikLgGoCxxHrxtjkk5V
Cameras (Hikvision) return `Content-Type: image/jpeg; charset="UTF-8"` — a
charset param on a binary body is malformed, and browsers refuse to decode an
<img> declared that way. Old capture code persisted that raw header into
snapshots.content_type (100/101 dev-DB rows); GET /api/snapshots/:id re-emitted
it verbatim, so every legacy snapshot rendered blank in the booth modal.
Capture was already hardened (encodeForStorage re-encodes to a clean
image/jpeg, fail-soft via cleanType), but the serve route trusted the stored
value. Export cleanType and apply it when setting the response header, so a
bare image/jpeg is sent regardless of what was stored — un-breaks all legacy
rows with no data migration. A stored value from an untrusted device is itself
input; normalize on capture AND on serve. Adds cleanType unit tests.
Verified: a previously-unrenderable 2560x1440 row now decodes in-browser.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xcm6ikLgGoCxxHrxtjkk5V
Camera snapshots were stored RAW — the camera's full-res JPEG straight into
the BLOB, no resize/recompress. Measured on the dev DB: 300 snapshots = 81.7 MB
= ~72% of the 114 MB SQLite file (the big ones 2688×1520 / ~600 KB, Hikvision
main stream). They dominated the appliance's single backed-up DB file.
Re-encode on capture (snapshot.ts):
- Downscale each frame to SNAPSHOT_MAX_EDGE (1280px long edge) + recompress at
SNAPSHOT_JPEG_QUALITY (80) via sharp (libvips, Apache-2.0) before storage —
~6-10× smaller (verified 2688×1520 → 1280×724, ~8×), plate still readable,
clean image/jpeg (drops the camera's charset cruft). STORAGE-ONLY: recognition
keeps the ORIGINAL full-res bytes (downscaling hurts OCR). Fail-soft — a
re-encode error stores the original, never drops the snapshot or blocks the
(already-open) path. sharp lives in apps/server (owns the capture path), where
bcrypt already establishes the native-dep pattern.
Disk-pressure retention (snapshot-retention.ts) — a SAFETY VALVE, not the daily
mechanism (the re-encode does that). Daily check reads the DB filesystem used%
(statfs on db.$client.name); no-op unless ≥ SNAPSHOT_DISK_HIGH_PCT (70). Over the
mark: delete the OLDEST until an estimated SNAPSHOT_DISK_FREE_TARGET_PCT (10%) of
disk is freed — never below SNAPSHOT_MIN_KEEP (500) — then VACUUM once to return
space to the OS. A DELETE only frees SQLite pages (disk doesn't drop until VACUUM),
so the loop is driven by estimated freed bytes (SUM(length(bytes))), not a live
disk re-read; the prune owns the DB-locking VACUUM, run daily off-peak. diskUsage
is injectable for tests. None of this touches the signed ledger — snapshots are
unsigned/advisory, referenced only by id.
Tests: encodeForStorage (downscale / clean-type / no-enlarge / fail-soft) +
pruneSnapshots (no-op below mark / delete-oldest-to-target + VACUUM / MIN_KEEP
floor / skip-VACUUM-when-empty). All four snapshot env knobs documented in the
komodo env reference. Full workspace build/lint/test green; the prune smoke-verified
on a scratch DB copy (file shrank after VACUUM).
Existing ~81.7 MB of raw snapshots are unchanged (a one-off re-encode backfill is
a separate optional follow-up). Updated entry-exit-points + technology-stack wiki.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xcm6ikLgGoCxxHrxtjkk5V
Two booth feed fixes:
- Plate not showing until refresh. Plate recognition is async/advisory
(snapshot.ts recognizePlate → a kind:"read" device_event keyed by the session
identity), so it lands AFTER the entry/exit event already shipped over the WS
without a plate; a refresh re-fetched via the bulk enrich path and showed it.
Added a `plate-recognized` bus event (device-events.ts) emitted when the read
is written; ws.ts forwards it; the client patchPlate(identity, plate)
(live-store) backfills the already-rendered feed row in place and invalidates
the Query-owned active-sessions list. No refresh.
- Plate search didn't filter. Both the live-feed (BoothScreen) and active-sessions
(ActiveSessions) search haystacks matched the wrong field — the displayed plate
is the ENRICHED top-level e.plate/s.plate (set by enrichEvent), not payload.plate
(the plate is unsigned, never in the signed payload). Switched the haystacks to
the displayed field.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xcm6ikLgGoCxxHrxtjkk5V
On a vehicle entry, two paths captured the SAME Hikvision camera within ~1s —
the ANPR bridge (barrier-driving) and the advisory snapshotAsync (evidence/
telemetry) — each from a separate adapter instance. Hikvision serves snapshots
single-threaded, so the second concurrent GET returned HTTP 503; the bridge
then fail-softed and burned its 12s debounce, producing a ~74s "slow" subscriber
entry (observed 2026-06-25, Qazim Mulleti / AB816NN — plate read was instant at
conf 1.000; the delay was the 503/debounce churn, not recognition).
Add captureSnapshotShared() in snapshot.ts: a module-level, deviceId-keyed cache
that both paths call. It coalesces in-flight captures (the 2nd caller awaits the
1st's pull → no concurrent 503), serves a brief freshness window (1500ms) so the
bridge→advisory sequence for one vehicle reuses one frame, never caches a failure
(next caller retries), and keys by deviceId (no cross-camera/stale-vehicle reuse).
Wired into anpr-entry.ts (bridge) and snapshot.ts (advisory).
Tests: snapshot.test.ts (concurrent coalescing, TTL reuse, TTL-lapse re-pull,
failure-not-cached, per-camera keying); anpr-entry.test.ts mock updated. 168
server tests green.
NOTE: this removes the latency (the 503 collision). The separate double-entry
(two signed vehicle_entry for one car) — debounce-too-short / stamp-before-
success — is still open; less likely now but not eliminated.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xcm6ikLgGoCxxHrxtjkk5V
Wire the lane camera's vehicle event into the gated subscription flow: on a
vehicle/active push from an opt-in (config.anpr) camera, AnprBridge pulls a fresh
snapshot, runs ANPR, applies a stricter entry confidence floor, debounces, and —
matching the plate to a subscription BEFORE emitting — emits a kind:"plate" read.
The existing ReadDispatcher -> SubscriptionFlow then signs the entry/exit and opens
the barrier. A plate is never the sole authority: it routes through the same gate
(active/window/blocklist/car-count) as any credential. Fail-soft, fire-and-forget,
subscriber-only by construction. Field-verified end to end (plate AA504LX opened the
entry barrier and appended a signed vehicle_entry).
Add an admin master switch (site_config.anpr_entry_enabled, default ON) in Site
Settings that disables ONLY the barrier-driving bridge; advisory snapshot-ANPR and
lane busy/free are unaffected. Read live per event, so toggling takes effect with no
restart. Migration 0013 (additive ALTER ADD COLUMN, default 1).
- New: apps/server/src/anpr-entry.ts (AnprBridge) + tests (9)
- hikvision-alarm.ts hands vehicle detections to the bridge (fire-and-forget) + wiring tests (3)
- server.ts reorders the read flows above the hik-alarm registration
- snapshot.ts exports buildCamera for reuse
- env: VISION_ENTRY_MIN_CONFIDENCE (0.85), ANPR_DEBOUNCE_MS (12000)
- site route + SiteSettings checkbox + i18n (sq/en parity)
- wiki: lane-presence-and-anpr-entry / lpr-camera / index / log -> BUILT
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xcm6ikLgGoCxxHrxtjkk5V
Rework the ANPR trigger to the real design: when a transient presses the button or a
subscriber passes QR/RFID, the entry/exit fires and takes its evidence snapshot — that
is the moment to recognize. snapshotAsync now takes the VisionClient and, after storing
each snapshot from an opt-in (config.anpr) camera, runs ANPR on the SAME image and
records the plate against the SAME session identity (device_events kind:"read" with
plate/confidence/region/snapshotId/source:"entry-exit-snapshot"). One image serves both
evidence and plate extraction; recognition fires only on a real entry/exit — no polling.
The entry/exit/subscription flows take an optional VisionClient and pass it through;
server.ts wires it. Removed the polling VisionReader and VISION_POLL_MS/VISION_DEDUPE_MS.
Advisory + fire-and-forget: a low-confidence/no-plate result records nothing, a vision
failure never delays or changes the open, and the plate does not feed the access
decision. Verified e2e: a simulated entry snapshot on an anpr camera (live fast_alpr)
stored the snapshot for the session and recorded {identity, plate:AA558EE, 0.999,
region:Albania, snapshotId}. Build + lint green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xcm6ikLgGoCxxHrxtjkk5V
The "permit/lejet" feature is really a subscription. Full rename of the
mutable master data, plus a recurring monthly price.
- DB (migration 0004, data-preserving ALTER RENAME): permits→subscriptions,
permit_credentials/_plates→subscription_*, sessions.permit_id→subscription_id.
- Pricing: per-subscription priceMinor + period(monthly) + currency, with a
site default (site_config.subscription_monthly_price_minor) pre-filling the form.
- Server: subscription-flow.ts (SubscriptionFlow), routes/subscriptions.ts
(/api/subscriptions). Web: SubscriptionManager, route, i18n (sq Abonimet/en).
- The signed ledger `permitId` payload is intentionally kept — immutable
hash-chained history; renaming it would break verification of past events.
Deferred (wiki notes): fee collection into the ledger/shift (a shift-attributed
payment), LPR/ANPR plate source, time-of-day access windows (overnight subscriber).
Also carries the device-footer UI surface (api DeviceStatus, router mount,
i18n devices) due to shared-file overlap with the preceding footer commit.
Verified end-to-end on a fresh DB and migration on a live-DB copy (sessions
preserved). Live DB migrated. Full monorepo builds clean.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xcm6ikLgGoCxxHrxtjkk5V
A parking lot is one pool of spaces with a flexible set of entry/exit
points — no "lane". Direction is a property of each RELAY inside an access
controller; readers/cameras bind to a controller relay and inherit it.
Schema:
- drop `lane` from ledger_events, device_events, sessions
- rename lane_devices -> devices (no lane/direction columns)
- access config.relays=[{relay,direction,button?}]; reader/camera
config.controllerId+relay binding
- fresh 0000_baseline migration (history reset; dev data was throwaway)
Signed ledger:
- remove `lane` from canonicalize(); bump signer keyId sw-hmac-v1 -> v2
(v1 events won't verify under v2 — intentional, gated per-event by keyId)
Server:
- new device-resolve.ts (replaces lane-map.ts): relayForButton,
relayForDevice, firstRelayByDirection, devicesByDirection
- entry-flow: button terminal -> its relay; exit/permit: reader's bound
relay; dispatcher resolves the bound relay + inherited direction
- camera snapshots fire by direction site-wide, async, never block open
- DeviceConfig widened to nested JSON for relays[]
Web:
- wizard: no lane selector; add controllers (relay map + entry-button
terminal) first, then bind readers/cameras/printers to a controller relay
Wiki: new entry-exit-points.md (replaces lane-direction); reworked
entry-exit-readers, parking-session, first-run-setup, device-registry,
append-only-event-chain, device-events; removed stale lane/LaneMap mentions.
julian