UX-08 2d: plain log lines, the rest of the status page, and DOCS
Every WARNING and ERROR line is one plain line of at most 25 words, with no card ids, capitals or semicolons; the reasoning of the ten longest is on a DEBUG line. The ux08 allowlist is empty and its cap is 0 (43 -> 0). The status page: the month-peak and peak-guard rows, the stale-reading row, the top table (Why, Tariff, Arbitrage, Shadow mode, labels), the Stopped banner and the line under the buttons, which now shows the plain hint of each event instead of the raw action log. The Supervisor question at start logs one line with a real reason. Refusals are counted as shown (labels expanded, long cases driven), seven were shortened, the card and parse errors lost their internals, a blank value reads "empty", and the panel no longer files inverters.max_w under the flat max_w. Option names lose "(JSON)", the NL texts are checked too. DOCS gets a glossary (control board, isolator, Developer Tools) and card ids move from headings to a "For installers" line. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LyR88rXETvwhTgx6yHE39p
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# STYLE.md - how user-facing text is written (UX-08)
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This applies to everything a home owner or installer reads: notifications, phone pushes, the add-on page, refusals, add-on log lines at WARNING and above, and the names and descriptions of options. It is enforced by `goodwe_controller/test_messages.py`. Kinds that have not been rewritten yet are on its allowlist, and that allowlist only shrinks.
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This applies to everything a home owner or installer reads: notifications, phone pushes, the add-on page, refusals, add-on log lines at WARNING and above, and the names and descriptions of options. It is enforced by `goodwe_controller/test_messages.py`. Its allowlist is empty since phase 2d and its cap is 0: a new string that breaks the rule fails the test.
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## 1. Shape
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- **Title**: at most 5 everyday words. It says what is wrong ("Meter reading may be stuck"). No "GoodWe:" prefix, no full stop.
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- **Body**: **one sentence** of at most 25 words, saying what happened and what to do. A **red alarm** may use up to **3 sentences** (70 words, each sentence at most 30 words), so that no action a person must take is lost.
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- **Details**: the last line links to the add-on documentation and names the section with the rest: `Details: add-on documentation, section "<title>" under Notifications.` Background, figures, reason codes and history go there or into the log, never into the body.
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- **Status row**: one sentence of at most 15 words. A **red** row may use up to 3 sentences (30 words), like a red alarm. It shows the live numbers the reader acts on and never an HA entity id. **Banner**: at most 12 words. **Refusal**: at most 30 words, naming the setting by its label and then its key, as `messages.setting()` writes it: “Inverter rating” (max_w), or “Inverter rating” for inverter-b (inverters.max_w) for one inverter in the list. **Option name**: at most 6 words, not counting the group prefix. **Option description**: at most 30 words. Where a value comes from belongs in DOCS.md.
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- **Log line** (WARNING/ERROR): one line, at most 25 words. The reasoning goes on a DEBUG line. Log lines stay in English and are not translated.
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- **Log line** (WARNING/ERROR): one line, at most 25 words, with the numbers that matter. The reasoning goes on a DEBUG line. Log lines stay in English and are not translated. A reason text a line quotes (`%s`) keeps its own codes, because that is the evidence an installer searches for.
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- **Refusal length is counted as shown**: a setting placeholder counts as its label and key, and the long cases are driven through the validator (`test_messages.py` part 3).
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- **Event line** under the buttons: the plain words of `messages.hint()`, like a green row. The add-on's own action log stays technical and is not shown.
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- **Sentences**: one idea each, active voice, present tense, with nothing nested in brackets and no semicolons (a semicolon is a second sentence in disguise). These translate well into Dutch and French.
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## 2. Numbers
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| safety stop (a stop that only starting control clears) | failsafe latch |
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| software fault | BUG SIGNAL |
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| control board | master, ESP32 |
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| power request, what the add-on asks | command, setpoint (on the page) |
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| the power went the wrong way | sign disagreement, command and meter point opposite ways |
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| check for inverters working against each other | circulating power check |
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| month peak, 15-minute periods measured | billed quarter, banked, soft limit, open block |
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| shadow mode | a mode that makes every decision but commands 0 W. The name is kept. In shadow mode a text says what the add-on **would** send, never that it sent it. |
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**Banned in titles and bodies** (the test fails on them): SAFETY-/TARIFF-/TEL-/CFG-/FW-/HW-nn and other card ids, integrator, anti-windup, windup, clamp, clamped, saturated, BUG SIGNAL, latch, latched, arbiter, allocator, register, `0x…`, layer 1/2/3, heartbeat, watchdog, telegram, ACK, CRC, OTA, Modbus, planner, `§n`, file names, IP addresses, option keys in snake_case, **HA entity ids**, and runs of 2 or more CAPITALISED words.
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HA entity ids are allowed only in refusals and validator messages, where the installer has to find that entity. They are never allowed in alarms or status rows.
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**Glossary.** DOCS.md "Words used on this page" explains, once, the words a home owner meets without context: control board, isolator, Developer Tools, shadow mode, safety stop, peak limit, peak guard, peak reserve and cut-out level. A home-owner text may use them without explaining them again. Card ids stay out of DOCS.md headings: they go on a *For installers* line under the heading.
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