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adminandClaude Opus 5 e102cde841 TARIFF-02 review: close the three other doors to the markup, and stop overclaiming
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Review of PR #16 wrote a double-counting plugin four ways. PluginOptions
blocked one. The one that decided it touched nothing but
PRICE_OPTION_DEFAULTS - a public dict in the module every plugin must
already import for register() - so "the number is not in scope" was
simply false, and an absolute guarantee a reviewer trusts is worse than
a stated limit, because they stop checking.

register() now refuses, AT IMPORT, any plugin whose own code mentions a
framework-owned name: FRAMEWORK_KEYS plus PRICE_OPTION_DEFAULTS,
price_option and _o. code_leaks() parses the class and drops every
docstring node before searching, because every plugin is REQUIRED to
name its sourced components in prose - engie_dynamic says "markup" in
its docstring and a raw text scan false-positives on the documentation
the same file mandates. A check that fires on required documentation is
a check somebody deletes. test_price.py asserts that a raw scan really
would have false-positived, so the strip is proven load-bearing rather
than asserted.

It fails OPEN if inspect.getsource() cannot find the .py, which the
add-on image always can. Refusing to start a battery controller because
a static analysis could not run would trade a real outage for a
hypothetical accounting error - so instead the checks assert source was
found for all five shipped plugins, and a build that lost it is a red
check rather than a quietly disarmed guard.

All three reachable attacks are written out as plugins in the suite and
each must be refused at registration. The cost is measured, not
asserted: honest wholesale 0.188, every attack 0.219 - one markup high,
every hour, invisible in every log this add-on writes.

The guarantee is now stated at its true size everywhere it appears: the
framework adds the complement exactly once, GIVEN A CORRECT sources
DECLARATION. A plugin that declares {ENERGY} while its feed is all-in
still doubles while touching no framework name, and no code can catch
that - the declaration is an unverifiable claim about somebody else's
tariff. Measured in the suite (0.276) so the limit is a number rather
than a caveat. The docstring/declaration check verifies that a plugin's
two claims AGREE, not that either is true; that now says so.

The three surviving mutations:

M3 - _NoData's reason taking a default. This is the identical survivor
left open on RIG-01's _Unread.cause: the shape was borrowed from
sim/riglock.py including its blind spot, which is what borrowing a shape
does if nobody re-runs the mutations against the copy. Closed by
SIGNATURE - no constructor or handler of an outcome type may carry a
default - so the next one is red without anyone writing a new case.

M5 - the ENERGY-required guard was untested. Its consequence is that
adds becomes {ENERGY, TAXES} and the emitted price silently omits the
energy it is pricing.

M7 - deleting the TLS refusal went green AND the check named for it
still passed, because the old parser stripped a fixed len("https://")
and mangled http://api.energy-charts.info/p into the host
pi.energy-charts.info, which then failed the ALLOW-LIST. An assertion
that does not test what it names, inside a security check. Fixed on both
sides: the scheme is parsed as a scheme, so an http URL now resolves to
its real and declared host and only the TLS rule can refuse it; and the
check asserts the REASON. Fixing it surfaced M7b - the no-scheme guard
was survivable the same way - found by mutating my own fix, and closed
the same way.

Also carried forward: rule 7's refusal is correct forever but its stated
reason ("the provider decides nothing") expires the moment TARIFF-03 or
OPT-04 lands. test_price.py section 12 now greps app/ by AST for a
load_prices consumer and goes red when one appears, telling whoever
lands it to update the message in the same commit. The first draft of
that tripwire used a substring and matched the comment in validate.py
explaining the tripwire - the same false-positive class as the plugin
docstrings, hit twice in one ticket, and fixed the same way.

Documented rather than coded around: vars(read).get("points", []) and
bool(read) both still get past the absence type, and neither is worth
code - defining __bool__ would turn a line that reads like a guard into
one that IS a guard by accident, which is how .get(k, default) got here
in the first place.

Stated plainly in DOCS/CHANGELOG/PR: every fixture is synthetic, so the
five feed URLs and JSON shapes are verified against a belief about what
those suppliers publish rather than against the feeds. A wrong shape
degrades to no-price-data, not to a wrong price.

Review's own DST verification recorded: 149,040 hourly instants,
2020-2036, zero mismatches against zoneinfo. The residual is political,
not arithmetic, and the docstring now says so.

24 mutations driven through the suite, 0 survivors. Whole add-on suite
green. No deleted lines outside this ticket's own files; main.py still
untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015VXjA3LWccN1rJsk3okyPC
2026-08-30 19:35:36 +02:00
adminandClaude Opus 5 852fc7ced6 TARIFF-02: one canonical price format, and a seam that keeps supplier names out of the optimiser
checks / unit (pull_request) Successful in 2m33s
Five provider plugins - generic_dayahead, engie_dynamic,
totalenergies_dynamic, eneco_eddy, manual_csv - all emitting exactly
{"prices": [{"start", "eur_per_kwh", "provisional"}]}, tz-aware at the
Brussels offset, EUR/kWh, all-in. Nothing consumes it yet; the seam
lands first, per the PM's ordering.

It is built in goodwe_controller/app/ rather than at specs.md 2.2's
ems/ingest/prices/, per the product owner's decision of 2026-08-30. The
behaviour 9.3 / 8.3 / 11.4 specifies is unchanged.

Three things shape the design, and each is the mechanism rather than a
comment saying to be careful:

Double-counting the markup is unreachable. A plugin does not return a
price - it returns the figure its source published and declares which of
{energy, markup, taxes} that figure already contains. assemble() adds
the complement, once, in the framework. A plugin is never handed
price_markup_eur_kwh: PluginOptions raises FrameworkOption on it, so the
line that adds the margin a second time cannot be written. Engie and
TotalEnergies publish a retail figure with their margin inside; adding
the configured 3 c/kWh on top would have made every arbitrage decision
wrong by that amount with nothing reporting it.

The product type is declared, not inferred from the plugin's name.
eneco_eddy is real-time/imbalance and gets 8.3's widened thresholds
through capabilities().product and volatility_regime(), never through a
name comparison - which is AC2. test_price.py asserts mechanically that
no plugin id appears anywhere in the framework's code, and drives a
sixth provider defined inside the test file to the right regime with
price.py untouched.

"No price data" is a type, not an empty list - the same rework
sim/riglock.py took under TEST-04. A fetch returns PriceRead.series(...)
or PriceRead.no_data(reason), and only the first carries fields. An
empty series is not constructible; no_data has no .points, no .at(), and
.get("points", []) raises rather than returning the default. A day of
free electricity and a day with no prices are different instructions -
arbitrage is pointless under one and forbidden under the other - and an
implementation returning [] cannot tell them apart. Every site-level
failure returns no_data; nothing raises into the control tick.

Also: injection stays a separate scalar (export_price_eur_kwh, AC4),
negative prices survive the boundary validator (17's regression case),
egress is allow-listed against each plugin's own declaration (16), and
no tzdata is used - the shipped Alpine image has none, so Brussels
offsets come from the EU rule and instants are carried as UTC.

validate.py grows rule 7: an unknown provider id, manual_csv with no
path, and - the HA overlap the PM told us to decide about -
price_provider set alongside price_now_entity/price_avg_entity, which is
two price sources where the HA pair silently wins. The HA sensors are
kept and still work alone; TARIFF-03 and OPT-04 are what replace them.

CFG-03 is not widened: the price defaults have ONE in-code mirror,
PRICE_OPTION_DEFAULTS, which validate.py imports rather than restating
and which test_price.py pins to config.yaml by reading the file.

test_price.py is runnable, assert-free in the house style, and every
verdict it prints is derived. It grades the markup arithmetic with
0.031/0.057 rather than the shipped 0.03/0.06, because 0.06 is exactly
twice 0.03 and a degenerate pair would make double-counting
indistinguishable from correct addition - and it asserts that
non-degeneracy as its first section. The DST checks run on the 23-hour
and 25-hour days, not on a normal day where a fixed 24-slot
implementation and a correct one agree. Thirteen mutations were driven
through it; all thirteen go red.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015VXjA3LWccN1rJsk3okyPC
2026-08-30 19:05:12 +02:00
glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 c040aac4b8 SAFETY-03: alarm when a computed setpoint exceeds the rating, do not just clip it
The clamp was never the missing half. specs.md 10.3 records an unclamped
integrator climbing ~130 W per 4 s past 10 kW and reporting 14 768 W pinned at
the 5 kW rail; clipped silently that is a flat, legal-looking 5000 W hold and
nothing says the loop asked for three times it.

write_setpoint() - the one path every write takes - now clamps to the VALIDATED
max_w and reports whether the raw value differed; check_output_clamp() raises
OUTPUT_CLAMP as a notification, an ERROR, an event row and a red status banner.
Not a trip: the clamped value is written and the loop keeps running.

The rating is max_w and nothing is min()ed at runtime - CFG-01 already refuses a
max_w outside the device range at startup. The device range is applied second as
defence in depth; it cannot bite after a successful validation, so if it ever
does it alarms too and names the bound. No new config key.

Decision grew i_clamped / clamped booleans, and that is the load-bearing part:
`reason` is one string that slew-limiting and the saturation freeze overwrite,
so an alarm keyed on it is silent on exactly the cycles a winding loop produces.
Mutating main.py back onto the string drops the 10.3 replay from 2 engagements
to 0.

Distinct from saturation by construction - no shared reason code, notification
id, status row or counter - and checked in the negative, after first asserting
the saturation freeze really did engage.

Two things found by running it rather than by reading it: a row per engagement
flushed the 40-row event log and evicted SAFETY-18's own METER FROZEN? row (now
coalesced per episode with an exact count), and a naive clamp turns a nan into a
command at the full rating because every comparison against nan is False.

test_clamp.py is new: assert-based, no framework. Six author mutations
reproduced red, including "clamp kept, alarm deleted". Two of the check's own
hypotheses about the freeze/clamp interaction were refused by its sweep and
rewritten to what it measured.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015VXjA3LWccN1rJsk3okyPC
2026-08-30 15:22:22 +02:00
glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 7cde5d862a Merge release/1.0 into SAFETY-18 - CHANGELOG only
MAINT-04 (#10) landed on release/1.0 mid-review, so both branches had
prepended a stanza. config.yaml and DOCS.md auto-merged clean; only the
CHANGELOG needed a hand. Both stanzas are kept verbatim, MAINT-04's
Unreleased above the new 0.5.2 - no text from either author edited.
MAINT-04 is unreleased and 0.5.2 is being cut here, so a release manager
may want to fold the two; that is an editorial call, not a reviewer's.

Full suite green on the merged tree: arbiter, control, loop, maintenance,
p1, validate, watchdog, freeze.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015VXjA3LWccN1rJsk3okyPC
2026-08-30 03:20:26 +02:00
glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 7aa1bd052e SAFETY-18: a meter frozen at a wrong-but-fresh value now raises an alarm
A meter that answers 200 OK with a stale document forever is ARRIVING on every
poll, so every freshness mechanism in the stack reads it as healthy while the
loop integrates a constant error and rails: 360/135/75 s at the live install's
max_w: 5000 for a meter frozen at 350/1000/>=3000 W. Fifteen minutes of a 5 kW
unattended import sets the month's billed capaciteitstarief peak.

The detector is a conjunction, not the bare unchanged_s threshold TEL-05
measured and rejected:

    unchanged_s >= meter_freeze_s   AND   |command| within 5 % of max_w

Both terms already existed and were already on the status page, and they fail
for independent reasons: at the converged point the command is nowhere near the
rail, and at the rail against a real load the kWh registers move in seconds. At
the shipped 300 s the relation is structural rather than a margin - the slowest
a healthy 1 Wh register can tick and still look unchanged is 12 W, which is
inside the 15 W deadband, so the command there is parked at 0 W.

Notification only, deliberately: an HA persistent notification with a fixed
notification_id, an ERROR log line, a UI event and a red status row. No claim,
no latch, no 0 W. A false trip parks the battery; a false notification costs an
alert. Only meter_source: homewizard_local is covered - the status page says
NOT COVERED elsewhere rather than pretending the guard is armed.

DOCS.md states the capacity-tariff exposure this does NOT close: peak_cap_w caps
maintenance charging and nothing caps the loop. That cap is SAFETY-07.

test_freeze.py grades both directions and was verified by breaking what it
watches (six mutations, all red): silent over the committed 40-minute converged
capture, silent over an hour of TEL-05's low-power case where the rejected bare
threshold is shown to fire, alarming on a genuinely frozen meter driven over
real HTTP through the real HomeWizardLocalSource (the rig's own hwsim freeze
fault when reachable), silent on the same railed command against a meter that is
still moving, and asserting on the service call that leaves Controller.cycle()
rather than on the watchdog's own flag.

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2026-08-30 02:39:54 +02:00
glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 878a6ce452 MAINT-04: refuse a maintenance charge the ceiling cannot deliver
config.yaml shipped max_w 2000 against maintenance_charge_w 2500. The
cheap-window shaping files Claim.limit(hi = -maintenance_charge_w) against
the supervised SAFETY limit's lo = -max_w, so lo > hi - the arbiter's
clause 3, correctly resolved to 0 W and logged as a CONTRADICTION.
Maintenance silently never charged in a cheap window on a default install,
and the only evidence read like a bug in the arbiter rather than like the
two numbers the operator set.

validate_startup_config() now refuses maintenance_charge_w > max_w, the
same shape as CFG-01's sign_disagree_w >= max_w. Equality is reachable
(-max_w is a single valid point) and is not refused. Demonstrated by
starting the add-on on the pre-fix pair: exit 78 and the refusal banner.

maintenance_discharge_w was checked rather than assumed and is NOT the same
case: the drain phase OWNS the actuator (Claim.set at P_MAINTENANCE), so
the ceiling clamps it to +2000 W and the arbiter's explain() names the
clamp every cycle. Loud, and it still moves energy - warned, not refused.

The shipped maintenance rates drop to 2000 so the defaults pass the rule;
max_w was deliberately not raised, because it is the supervised safety
ceiling. test_validate.py now reads config.yaml itself, so a default the
validator refuses cannot ship again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-08-30 02:28:09 +02:00
glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 cc4e88490b SAFETY-02 review: a latch that a restart clears is not a latch
BLOCKER. `auto` was persisted and `sign_wd.tripped` was not, so reconstructing
the Controller against the same store - which is what a container restart does -
brought it back ARMED, into the same fault, unattended: tripped=False, banner
back to NOT READY, and it resumed commanding -1000 then -2000 W before
re-tripping 180 s later. "Restart the add-on" is the first thing an operator
looking at a FAILSAFE banner and a 0 W inverter will try, and under a supervisor
that restarts a crashed add-on it is a loop of three-minute wrong-direction
bursts. DOCS.md's "it does not clear itself" was false across a restart.

`sign_tripped` and `sign_reason` are Store keys now, beside the maintenance
state and for the reason store.py's own docstring gives. Written the moment the
trip happens - reason first, flag second, so a crash between the two can never
persist a latch with no explanation - restored in Controller.__init__, cleared
only by the operator's start. The regression is covered: reverting the restore
fails seven checks in test_watchdog.py.

Review follow-ups, no behaviour change:

- The arming gate is tested against the REAL arbiter. It is the decision the
  ticket turns on and it was asserted in three comment blocks and verified by
  nothing - every case passed `following` in as a literal. Twelve claim
  configurations now derive it from resolve(), including the redirect case
  `winner == "loop"` alone would have got wrong and the `lo` limit that raises
  magnitude without flipping sign.
- The MQTT `status: "failsafe"` value is tested. The check that claimed to cover
  it restated the line above it and never touched the payload.
- The worked example described a config that does not ship: at the defaults
  maintenance_charge_w 2500 against max_w 2000 is an arbiter contradiction and
  0 W, not a -2500 W charge. Rewritten at 1500 W. The contradiction is a real
  pre-existing bug - a default cheap-window maintenance charge silently never
  happens - filed separately and deliberately not fixed here.
- Forward hazard recorded at the gate: `winner == "loop"` disarms the watchdog
  under any higher-priority SET, and a peak-shaving strategy at P_PEAK IS
  grid-following in sign, so it would blind this for every peak event.
- disagrees() is public so the replay harness stops carrying its own copy of the
  predicate it grades.
- held_s takes the clock instead of reading one.
- The two limits are now each stated in both places rather than one each.
- The no-false-positive argument is tied to control.py's freeze permitting the
  command to cross zero; under the shrink-only encoding control.py records as
  rejected, this would false-trip on a load step.
- Measured figures corrected: 93.4 % / 4212 of 17280, per-cluster
  0.3/0.9/10.5/0.0, and the near-circularity of those figures is now stated
  rather than leaned on.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Du77usMj8XNKNFZGmUiWDa
2026-08-28 22:33:15 +02:00
glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 9aed43990b SAFETY-02: a loop can be fresh, tracking and inside its rating and still push the wrong way
The stale-input watchdog asks whether the meter is still talking. The saturation
freeze asks whether the inverter can follow. The output clamp asks whether the
number is too big. A loop can pass all three while charging the battery out of
the grid, because the only thing wrong is the sign.

On 2026-08-20 a commercial controller did exactly that four times in one day,
for up to 77 minutes at a stretch, reaching a commanded -14 768 W against a
±5000 W inverter. app/watchdog.py compares the emitted setpoint against the
authoritative P1 figure and, when they oppose each other with both over 300 W
for 180 s continuously, files a failsafe SET claim at P_SAFETY, commands 0 W and
latches there until an operator starts control again.

Validated against that day rather than against an argument: sim/replay_sign.py
in the infra repo drives this module over the committed captures of both
2026-08-20 and the healthy 2026-08-23 and reaches 18 trips on the fault day -
every one inside a window NOTES.md §4.7 accounts for - and 0 on the healthy day.
The four episodes do share one signature: 0.3 / 0.9 / 10.5 / 0.0 % sign
agreement inside them against 92.9 % healthy.

Three decisions the ticket could not make:

- It is DISARMED whenever the grid-following loop is not what is driving. Sign
  agreement is a property of a loop that follows the meter, and a maintenance
  grid charge opposes the meter by design - 2500 W of charge into a house
  drawing 500 W is +3000 W on the meter against a -2500 W command, for hours.
  The gate tests the emitted number, not the winning claim's name, because a
  limit claim can let the loop "win" and still replace its value.
- The trip LATCHES. Commanding 0 W removes the command side of the comparison,
  so the disagreement always clears the moment the trip works.
- sign_disagree_w at or above max_w is refused at startup. The arbiter never
  lets a command exceed max_w, so such a threshold leaves the watchdog incapable
  of firing while the status page still reports it armed.

What it does not catch, said out loud: an inverter that ACTS opposite to its
command moves the meter further the same way, leaving command and meter in
agreement. That is the saturation freeze's job.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Du77usMj8XNKNFZGmUiWDa
2026-08-28 21:51:35 +02:00
glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 88cd97cc7a SAFETY-12: the loop thinks on a clock, not only when the number moves
run_control() ran cycle() only when the meter value differed from the previous
poll. A meter that repeats a value therefore ran no control cycles at all -
while the heartbeat kept re-emitting the last command and the firmware kept
putting it on the wire every 2 s. Layer 1 stayed fed and every indicator read
healthy, so a command computed from an old reading went on being executed
through whatever the load did next. TEL-05 measured it: 70 s at a literally
constant 350.0 W, 14 arrivals, zero cycles.

cycle_floor_s (default 15 s) is a deadline on the GAP between cycles, reset by
every cycle whichever trigger fired - not a second scheduler. On a healthy meter
it never elapses, so the cycle rate and the commanded sequence are unchanged;
test_loop.py asserts that by driving the real loop twice on one binary (a huge
cycle_floor_s reproduces the old behaviour) and diffing the writes.

15 s is bracketed: above the ~11 s worst gap on a merely-unlucky healthy meter
(~5 s arrivals, 1 s detection, one dropped poll retried on the next tick), below
meter_max_age_s and the firmware's 30 s ingest veto, and equal to stale_input_s.

A floor cycle runs the full law. Freshness is already decided upstream - past
meter_max_age_s the reading is None, which is a P_SAFETY 0 W claim - and the
integrator advances per cycle, not per second, so bounding the gap bounds the
accumulation.

Not a freeze detector: nothing here decides whether a repeated reading is true.
DOCS.md's "accepted deviation" passage is qualified rather than deleted - the
window is now bounded at 3 x cycle_floor_s instead of open-ended, and its
"nothing accumulates while it is stalled" argument is called out as having
covered windup and not staleness. Same correction in control.py's comment.

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2026-08-28 20:29:16 +02:00
glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 4d41b0a79e TEL-05 review follow-ups: show unchanged_s, name a timeout, keep the poll task alive
Four follow-ups on the reviewed and approved TEL-05 work. Additive; no shipped
behaviour changes except the two failure paths below.

1. unchanged_s had no operator surface. DOCS.md told a reader "the transport
   tracks it as unchanged_s" and there was nowhere to look: main.py built the
   transport, scheduled run(), and never read the object again. The status page
   now shows it on the healthy P1 line. Still NOT thresholded and NOT folded
   into the age - that refusal was reviewed and upheld, because at the converged
   -10 W this controller aims for a 1 Wh register needs ~6 minutes to move, so
   any limit false-trips at the target operating point. The whole argument for
   leaving it to a human requires the human being able to see it.

2. The "equivalent mutant" note on the content_type guard was wrong, and the
   comment is downgraded to say so. web.Response(text=...) defaults to
   text/plain, so the fake meter CAN serve valid JSON under the wrong mimetype.
   Test added; shipped behaviour was already correct.

3. A timed-out poll logged an empty reason: str(asyncio.TimeoutError()) is "",
   so the status page read "last error:" and then nothing, on a hung meter, at
   the moment the battery had just gone to 0 W. Falls back to the class name.
   Note str(err), not `err or ...` - an exception object is always truthy.

4. submit() sat outside the try in poll_once() and run() had no except, so a
   raise would kill the poll task permanently and SILENTLY - safe (the age
   climbs, the controller commands 0 W) but indistinguishable from a dead meter.
   Both wrapped; poll_s is already the retry cadence, so no backoff.

Also a comment at the parse_homewizard range(phases) slice: a 3-phase meter
configured as 1-phase understates the capacity-tariff figure. Filed separately,
not fixed here.

242 checks in test_p1.py (236 before, 6 new). test_control 55, test_arbiter 18,
test_maintenance 21, all untouched and green. Each new check proved non-vacuous:
six mutations, six named reds, no suite aborts, sources restored byte-identical.

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2026-08-25 21:17:36 +02:00
glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 98109a9b91 TEL-05: read the meter, not Home Assistant's opinion of the meter
A fourth meter_source, `homewizard_local`, polling a HomeWizard P1's own
local API (GET /api/v1/data) instead of watching an HA entity.

The point is the age sensor. sensor.p1_sample_age_s is FW-01's watchdog
input, and on every transport we had it measured "time since the value
CHANGED", not "time since the meter REPORTED". Home Assistant offers
nothing better: a repeated reading emits no state_changed, advances
last_reported on neither serialiser, and state_reported cannot be
subscribed to at all. Measured twice - 70 s of a frozen meter on the
ENV-01 rig, and ten repeated readings against the live house. Our own
capture of this house's meter goes 42.2 s and 97.0 s between changes,
both past the default meter_max_age_s of 30, so the age sensor would
have commanded 0 W on a perfectly healthy meter.

Here every HTTP response is an arrival. The meter answered, now, with
its current reading; whether the number moved is not consulted. Five
identical readings are five arrivals.

Reuses TEL-01's pipeline rather than restructuring it: same split_signed
sign convention as ha_signed, same make_sample, same ingest stamping,
meter_max_age_s, clock-recomputed age, plausibility bounds and the §20
unsigned-decode rejection. A failed or timed-out poll submits nothing,
so it is a missing reading - never 0 W - and does not reset the age.
meter_poll_s (default 5 s, the meter's own rate) is checked against
meter_max_age_s once at startup, like the ha_signed entity ids.

⚠️ An arrival stamp cannot see a FROZEN meter, and no arrival detector
can - one answering 200 OK with a stale number is arriving. The local
API does expose what HA never had (the total_power_*_kwh registers stop
advancing) and the transport tracks it as `unchanged_s`, but it is
deliberately not folded into the age and not thresholded: this
controller regulates grid toward ~0 W, and at a converged -10 W the
export register needs six minutes to move by its 1 Wh resolution while
the power figure legitimately repeats. Thresholding that would rebuild
the false-trip limit cycle at the exact operating point we aim for.

test_p1.py 179 -> 236 checks. Still defaults to off.

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glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 1b343da8e3 DOCS: say plainly that ha_dsmr and mqtt_p1 have never seen real hardware
No meter in this installation uses either transport. Both were written to
specs.md 5.2's assumption that a Belgian P1 exposes two unsigned registers,
which the meter actually fitted here does not - it is the HomeWizard P1 that
ha_signed reads. Their only coverage is test_p1.py and an end-to-end test
against a fake Home Assistant.

Deliberately not called "experimental". That word says the design is
unfinished, which is not the defect and is vaguer than the truth; these are
complete and reviewed, they have simply never had a real telegram through
them. The failure this note is guarding against is a future session debugging
a meter problem, treating those two paths as proven, and looking elsewhere.

Placed where the mode is chosen rather than in a footnote, because the choice
is the decision it should inform.

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glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 e663e10245 TEL-04 review: unshadow the helper, validate config at startup, and record
what the rig proved about the age sensor

Review findings 1, 3, 5 and 6. Finding 2 is deliberately untouched - it is
its own ticket.

3. `built` was rebound at test_p1.py:816 by `built = build_source(...)`,
   silently disarming the build() wrapper for anything appended below it.
   Renamed to `sel`. Reproduced the reviewer's failure before fixing:
   appending a check that calls built() after that line gives
   `TypeError: 'HaSignedSource' object is not callable` and aborts at 163 of
   180; with the rename the same probe reaches 180 and passes.

5. DOCS.md now states the "length must equal meter_phases" constraint that
   config.yaml already carried, plus what leaving the list empty actually
   costs: on the surveyed reading the phases carry 2769 W of import while the
   connection nets 187 W, so the tariff quantity is understated ~15x.

6. build_source now checks the ha_signed wiring once at startup instead of
   once per telegram: a blank p1_net_entity, or a phase list whose length
   disagrees with meter_phases, logs an error and disables ingestion. Both
   otherwise fail in the single way indistinguishable from a healthy source
   nobody has fed yet - no samples, a climbing age, the watchdog holding the
   battery at 0 W, and nothing in the log.

1. THE AGE SENSOR. Measured on the ENV-01 rig against the real HomeWizard
   integration, meter frozen via hwsim's `?fault=freeze` seam (cleared in a
   finally:, rig verified restored):

     - websocket state_changed for the meter over 70 s : 0
     - last_reported advanced (REST serialiser)        : no
     - last_reported advanced (websocket serialiser)   : no
     - subscribe_events(state_reported)                : rejected,
       "Event filter is required for event state_reported"

   So Home Assistant exposes NO arrival signal for a repeated reading, and
   the proposed fix - stamp from last_reported via subscribe_entities - is
   not available. subscribe_entities listens only to EVENT_STATE_CHANGED, and
   as_compressed_state carries no last_reported at all.

   The age is therefore "time since the value changed", which on ha_dsmr is
   mostly harmless (a telegram moves several entities) and on ha_signed is
   not: one entity means a healthy meter under a flat load is
   indistinguishable from a dead one. Recorded loudly in DOCS.md, in the
   HaSignedSource docstring and in the CHANGELOG, with the measured 42.2 s
   and 97.0 s gaps from our own capture.

   meter_max_age_s is deliberately NOT widened. The two conditions produce an
   identical signal, so a larger number does not separate them - it only
   chooses which of the two errors you get, and it would disarm the watchdog
   for a genuinely dead meter as well. The honest fix is an arrival stamp the
   meter itself provides.

test_p1.py: 174 -> 179 checks, all green. Other three suites unchanged.

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glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 8b51a51e20 TEL-04: a third meter_source for a single signed entity
TEL-01 shipped ha_dsmr and mqtt_p1, and neither can read the meter that is
actually fitted here. The house has a HomeWizard P1 exposing ONE signed
entity, sensor.p1_meter_active_power (+ import, - export); ha_dsmr wants two
unsigned registers and refuses a negative one outright, which is every
exporting telegram. So sensor.p1_sample_age_s could not be produced at this
site, and FW-01's watchdog needs it - measured, not theoretical: the house P1
went 51.1 s and 36.2 s without a state change overnight, both past
meter_max_age_s 30, so without the age sensor the watchdog would false-trip
the battery to 0 W.

Adds meter_source: ha_signed, reading p1_net_entity (and optionally
p1_phase_net_entities in L1..L3 order for the capacity-tariff peak). The
derivation is split_signed(), sitting next to make_sample's subtraction for
the same reason it does - the moment a user is asked to write two template
sensors that split a signed value, the sign convention is back in unreviewed
YAML underneath a safety input, which is exactly what TEL-01 removed.

The transport is a subclass of HaDsmrSource overriding only _wanted() and
build(), so every rule TEL-01 established is inherited rather than
re-implemented: ingest timestamping, meter_max_age_s, the clock-recomputed
sensor.p1_sample_age_s republished ~1 Hz, the plausibility ceiling, the
"prime the cache from get_states but never build a sample out of it" rule,
"a reconnect emits nothing", and unavailable/unknown treated as a MISSING
reading and never as 0 W.

Defaults to off. An existing install is unaffected until it opts in.

test_p1.py: 122 -> 174 checks. Includes an end-to-end run of the new
transport against a fake Home Assistant websocket, and the sign convention
asserted against real captured readings from
sim/scenarios/ha-p1_meter_active_power-2026-08-{20,23}.json (-5710 W at
13:46 local under full sun is export; +775 W at midnight is import).

Non-vacuity: ten mutations of the new rules, each applied alone and reverted
byte-identical. Nine turn the suite red. The tenth - splitting the per-phase
signed values rather than passing them through - is an equivalent mutant,
because make_sample subtracts the two lists again and does not sign-check
per-phase figures. That is recorded in a ponytail: comment at the site rather
than left for the next reviewer to rediscover.

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glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 4bd659c499 TEL-01 review fixes: stop the age sensor tripping installs that have no meter
T-1, and it was a fleet-wide trip to zero. publish() emitted p1_age
unconditionally, and published_age_s counts from P1Ingest.__init__ when no
sample has ever arrived. With meter_source defaulting to off, every existing
install would have published sensor.p1_sample_age_s climbing without bound; the
ESP32 does `has_state() && state >= max_age_s` and forces the layer-1 failsafe,
so each of them would have pinned its inverter at 0 W within 30 s. Exactly the
opposite of the zero-regression the off default was for. The key is now omitted
from the payload AND from MQTT discovery when P1 is off, so the entity does not
exist at all - which is the status quo, and what has_state() is testing for.
The predicate is one function, is_enabled(), because the grid reading, the task
start and the discovery announcement have to agree or this comes back.

T-2, connect no longer manufactures a sample. get_states returns whatever HA
currently holds, which after a Core restart is a RestoreEntity value of unknown
age; stamping it with ingest_ts=now reset the age and reported a fresh meter
that could have been dead for an hour. run()'s own docstring already said a
reconnect must emit nothing - the code disagreed with it, and a test asserted
the violation. The cache is still primed, so the first real state_changed
builds a complete sample; the age just stays honest until one arrives.

T-3, gaps are no longer filled with the last held value. The averager held a
sample forward across any interval, so a meter dying at 5 kW and returning ten
minutes later credited 5 kW x 600 s to the capacity-tariff accumulator - a
fabricated peak on a permanent record. The hold is capped at max_age_s: past
that the stretch is walked so block boundaries still land correctly, but
nothing accumulates and elapsed does not grow, which is what finally makes the
comment about a gap dragging the billed average down true. Same threshold for
control and billing: a reading too old to steer by is too old to bill by.

T-4, the out-of-order/duplicate guard is covered. It was untested, and the
reason is worth recording: the obvious assertion passes without the guard,
because the negative interval is separately refused by the covered > 0 test.
What the guard prevents is the timestamp REWIND, which only shows up one sample
later as a re-integrated window. The test now goes one sample later.

T-6, DOCS was wrong about latency. meter_max_age_s and stale_input_s stack, so
meter death to 0 W is 45 s and not 30. Documented as a table with both clocks.

Also documented the T-5 asymmetry rather than papering over it: the age
measures arrival, not change, so a stuck MQTT bridge republishing its last
telegram still looks fresh. Correct on ha_dsmr, not detectable on mqtt_p1
without a change-detector. Written up as a known limit.

Writing the T-1 test caught a second defect in the test itself: it recorded
only MQTT topics, and object_id lives in the payload, so "the age sensor is not
announced" had been passing for the wrong reason.

test_p1.py: 99 -> 122 checks. 14 mutations run, all 14 red, files restored
byte-identical - including one per fix above.

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glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 f47f1f0129 TEL-01: P1 ingestion, with the derivation and the age the EMS owns
A Belgian P1 meter publishes two UNSIGNED registers, not one signed figure.
Until now the add-on asked the installer to bridge that gap with a template
sensor, which put the sign convention of the whole control loop in a text box.
This moves it into the EMS: net = import - export, derived once, in one place,
with a test that fails if anyone inverts it.

Two transports behind one contract, chosen by `meter_source`: the HA WebSocket
subscribing to the DSMR integration's entities, and MQTT on a configurable
topic. Everything downstream reads P1Ingest, so switching is a config edit.
`meter_source: off` is the default and keeps the existing meter_entity path,
so no installed system changes until it opts in.

The other half is the timestamp. Every accepted sample is stamped at ingest
with a monotonic clock, `meter_max_age_s` is applied to it, and the age is
published as sensor.p1_sample_age_s for the ESP32's stale-input watchdog. That
entity is recomputed against the clock every second rather than only when a
telegram lands, because HA pushes state only on change: a meter frozen at a
constant reading emits nothing and looks, to anything watching the value,
exactly like a meter that has died. The age tells them apart.

Deliberately absent: any fallback to an inverter-side power figure. The
inverter's own AC power correlates 0.998 with battery power and 0.09 with the
real meter, so failing over to it means regulating against your own output.
A gap stays a gap - a reconnect emits no synthetic sample, and a rejected
telegram never resolves to 0 W or refreshes the timestamp.

Quarter-hour averages are time-weighted over clock-aligned blocks rather than
a mean of samples, so a cadence change cannot bias the capacity-tariff figure,
and only offtake is accumulated so a quarter of pure export averages to 0 kW.
Per-phase import is kept separately: on an unbalanced three-phase load the
phase sum and the connection net are different numbers, and only one of them
is billed.

test_p1.py: 99 checks, runnable with a bare interpreter and no meter. Includes
an end-to-end run of the HA transport against a fake Home Assistant websocket.

Stacked on SAFETY-04; nothing here touches control.py.

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glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 53d301b920 SAFETY-04: exactly zero is its own case in the freeze tie-break
`min(moved, i_w) if i_w > 0 else max(moved, i_w)` files i_w == 0.0 under
rising-only, so the first push toward charging from exactly zero was blocked
permanently - the S-1 deadlock again, mirrored in sign. main.py resets i_w to
exactly 0.0 on every stop and every reseed, so it is a normal state.

Zero is now handled explicitly and both directions are allowed: nothing is
wound, so "may not wind further" has no referent, and a first step from zero is
bounded by the gain, the output clamp and the slew limit like any other.

Measured before the fix, at i_w == 0.0 and frozen: 12 800 of 25 920 ticks held
the integrator and 8 304 of those changed the emitted command, worst case
abandoning a 2 kW charge into a 4 kW export. Note this is NOT the same as the
reported symptom: at prev_w == 0 the command holds at 0 W either way, because
the output freeze forbids starting a charge while saturated, and that rule is
release/1.0's and unchanged. There is now a test asserting it deliberately.

Tests. The durable part is a property rather than more points: over 13 041
frozen states the integrator may be held ONLY by a correction pushing it
further from zero on the side it already sits, and any other hold fails. Both
signs at exactly 0.0. Mirrors added everywhere the suite tested one direction
of two - freeze wind/unwind while charging, i_w=-100, the export-direction
runaway, the negative clamp and slew.

DOCS: the cycles-vs-seconds deviation is now written down as a deviation - the
"> 10 s" criterion is not met as literally written, a cycle is one CHANGED
meter reading, and there is no guaranteed wall-clock window.

test_control.py: 43 -> 55 checks, all passing.

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glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 e46175559b SAFETY-04 review fixes: the freeze deadlocked, the bound was too loose
S-1. The frozen branch admitted a correction only if it shrank |i_w|. That is
unsatisfiable for BOTH signs of error whenever |correction| > 2*|i_w|, i.e.
whenever the integrator is near zero, so the loop stopped moving and the freeze
could never clear - it clears when the inverter tracks, and not tracking is
what saturation means. Measured: 0 W held into a 2 kW import indefinitely,
where release/1.0 recovers on the next cycle. Re-encoded as the same asymmetric
rule the output freeze has always used: may not wind further in the direction
it is already pushing, may fall, cross zero or reverse. Same interpretation,
an encoding that cannot deadlock.

S-2. integrator_max_w defaulted to 1.5x max_w, which ADDED windup: in
release/1.0 the accumulator was the post-clamp command and could never pass the
rail. Default is now "follow max_w" (config 0 = unset). Measured on the 4000 W
load-drop sim, first cycle after the drop: 1000 W at the new default, 1800 W at
3000. DOCS row inverted - the useful direction is below max_w, and the 14 768 W
anecdote is a vendor controller, not evidence about this code.

S-3. The claim that i_w=None preserved release/1.0 exactly was false, because
the S-1 gate ran regardless of seeding. It is true again, and now asserted
rather than asserted-about: 3024-case exhaustive comparison against a
transcription of the old law, over both freeze states, both signs and either
side of the deadband. Added the carried-i_w convergence/overshoot sim that the
shipped configuration was missing.

S-4. Cycles are distinct meter values, not seconds: cycle() runs only when the
meter reading changes, so the window has no wall-clock bound. Comment and DOCS
corrected; the stall is detection latency, not a windup hazard, because the
same condition stalls the whole loop.

test_control.py: 33 -> 41 checks, all passing.

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glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 37bac79ad8 SAFETY-04: clamp the integrator, not only the output
The loop was in velocity form: the accumulator WAS the commanded power, so
"clamp the integrator" and "clamp the output" were the same line of code and
could not be set apart. This makes the accumulator an explicit carried value
(`i_w`), bounds it with its own `integrator_max_w`, and keeps the output clamp
where it was. Killing either mechanism now still leaves the other holding -
which is the point of the ticket, and what the new regression test asserts.

Freeze semantics: while saturated the integrator may unwind but not wind
further. A strict freeze would strand the command at whatever it reached,
because the condition that releases it is the inverter tracking again, and not
tracking is exactly what saturation means.

The integrator is re-seeded from the arbiter's actual output whenever the loop
did not get what it asked for, so entering any failsafe (all of which resolve
to 0 W) zeroes it, and the first cycle after release does not dump the stale
period as power.

test_control.py: 24 -> 33 checks, all passing.

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glenn schrooyenandClaude Opus 5 5184a2cfc2 Rest the meter just below zero, not at zero
The deadband is a one-way ratchet: any resting point inside it holds
indefinitely. Import and export are separate registers on the meter, so a
loop resting at +14 W bills 0.34 kWh/day while behaving perfectly.

target_grid_w (default -10 W) moves that residue onto the export register.
Worst billed rest point drops from 15 W to under 5 W. Behaviour is unchanged
at target_grid_w: 0.

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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.

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