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glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 fdaf3fb54f UX-02: the validator's refusals, next to the field, before the save
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The Configuration tab can only render types and ranges. `validate.py`'s most
useful refusals are CROSS-FIELD - two inverters naming one `setpoint_entity`, a
`maintenance_charge_w` above `max_w`, a flat `setpoint_entity` left set beside a
declared roster - and the Supervisor's UI has no way to express a rule spanning
two keys. Today the operator meets those as exit 78 in a log, after saving and
restarting. This puts them on the screen beside the field they name, before
anything is written.

WHAT IT ADDS
  app/configui.py     the field model, built from `GET /addons/self/info`'s own
                      `schema` + `translations`. No option key, no label, no
                      rule of its own. UX-01's `Group · ` label prefix becomes a
                      real section heading, in whichever language resolved.
  app/selfconfig.py   the Supervisor conversation and the write gate.
  app/config_page.py  the page. Its longest function decides which HTML input a
                      type deserves; it contains no rule.
  app/web.py          five routes. Still the only file a reviewer has to read to
                      answer "does anything here reach the inverter".

THE FOUR THINGS THAT COULD HURT SOMEBODY, AND HOW EACH IS HELD
  1. A blob the SHIPPED validator refuses is never written - not warned about,
     not written. An invalid blob plus a restart is exit 78, and the panel is
     gone with the add-on that serves it.
  2. A blob that moved underneath is refused, not clobbered. Read hands out a
     sha256 of the canonical blob, save hands it back, and the stored blob is
     re-read IMMEDIATELY BEFORE the write. This is SAFETY-28's discipline
     applied to configuration - "a blob reaches the Supervisor only if it was
     derived from the blob stored right now" - with the honest weakening stated
     in the decision record: a second writer is DETECTED, not made
     inexpressible.
  3. Every message is the validator's own, byte for byte. test_selfconfig.py
     part 6 inserts ONE new rule into a COPY of validate.py, hashes every file
     under app/ to show validate.py is the only one that differs, and serves the
     real /config/validate route out of that copy in a subprocess. The new
     sentence arrives, filed under the key it names.
  4. Nothing on the surface commands an inverter or clears a latch. Saving does
     not restart: applying costs a control interruption - the wind-down commands
     0 W on every inverter - so that is a separate, confirmed button that says
     so first.

MEASURED, NOT CITED (tools/supervisor_selfapi_probe.py, run against
Supervisor 2026.08.0's own code; it contacts nothing)
  - the three self-paths are permitted, and `/addons/self/info` is admitted by
    the `default` role too while `options` and `restart` rest on the bypass
    ALONE. The probe's first draft claimed the role admitted none of the three
    and went red.
  - `/addons/self/options/validate` is NOT reachable from inside an add-on, so
    the only validator this panel can call is ours - which is the one with the
    cross-field rules.
  - a POST that omits a key does not preserve it: the key reverts to
    config.yaml's default. Hence whole-blob read-modify-write.
  - the Configuration tab CAN be removed, and doing so drops 0-of-71 options
    through and takes the add-on down. The card said it could not be; it stays
    by decision, which is a better reason.

DOES NOT TOUCH config.yaml, main.py or any control path. UX-01 is a dependency,
not something this supersedes: its translations are where every label,
description and section heading on this page comes from, and the Configuration
tab is still the recovery surface. DECISIONS/UX-02-two-config-surfaces.md
records which surface is authoritative (neither: the stored blob is) and what
the second surface costs.

Also corrects a stale "70 options" in three prose spots to the 71 the probe
counts - config.yaml grew a key in SAFETY-42 and the sentences did not follow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BwRLw7eKYj2byVdwB6kbjU

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⚠️ REBASED ONTO release/1.0 @ 3368231, AND HISTORY DELIBERATELY FLATTENED.
The original branch carried `653874d` - an ORPHANED first attempt at PKG-07
whose commit message justified the version bump with a claim that was FALSE
(that `slew_w: 0` used to mean "no limit"; the schema was `int(50,5000)` from
the repo's first commit, so 0 was never legal). That commit's CONTENT was
superseded when release/1.0 was merged in, and the merge resolved correctly -
one 0.8.0 section, no fabricated text. But the retracted claim would have
entered release/1.0's history as a commit message with no retraction attached
to it, where PKG-07's own merged commit is the thing that retracts it.

So the branch is replayed as a single commit on top of the corrected PKG-07
rather than merged with the bad one trailing behind. The tree is byte-identical
to the reviewed branch tip; only the ancestry changed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BwRLw7eKYj2byVdwB6kbjU
2026-09-06 21:38:31 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5 0a1e61dbc9 Packaged as a Home Assistant add-on, with a field guide
Turns the reference RS485 controller into something a technician can install
at a client site: a typed config form instead of YAML, an ingress UI that
names misconfiguration in words, and persistent state that cannot be broken by
a timezone.

Why an add-on rather than YAML packages or blueprints:

- Blueprints cannot create helpers, and the maintenance cycle is a state
  machine whose phase and completion date must survive restarts.
- YAML packages need filesystem access, a configuration.yaml edit and a
  restart - none of which belong in a client install.
- Add-ons authenticate with SUPERVISOR_TOKEN, so there is no long-lived token
  to generate, store or leak on someone else's machine.
- Requires HA OS/Supervised. Container and Core installs cannot run add-ons at
  all, which is a market decision, not an oversight.

The control law and the maintenance machine are pure functions with no Home
Assistant imports, and both ship with runnable checks (22 and 22 assertions).
Every assertion corresponds to a rule whose absence caused an observed failure
on hardware - the saturation duration term, the clamp-before-slew ordering, the
deadband, the sign convention.

One behaviour deliberately differs from the implementation it replaces: when
its inputs go missing this commands 0 W rather than replaying the last
setpoint. The reference version kept replaying, which the hardware watchdog
cannot catch - from the ESP32's side, Home Assistant is still talking to it.

Includes the ESPHome firmware (now parameterised: node name, inverter rating,
watchdog timeout) and the optional RS485 e-stop. FIELD-GUIDE.md carries the
commissioning gates, all judged on the wire rather than on how Home Assistant
looks, plus the written statement a site without an e-stop needs signed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016NckgXecasQb2eSsPYNSW6
2026-08-23 01:15:25 +02:00