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