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julian 1efa77bf56 devices: pool-of-spaces model — drop lane, per-relay direction

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.

2026-06-16 20:29:38 +02:00

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Device Discovery

An optional driver capability: find devices on the LAN so the admin doesn't have to type connection details by hand during first-run-setup. Modeled generically so any driver can opt in.

Implementation-derived (from @parking/devices + setup API/UI), not the source doc.

The capability

A driver may implement DiscoverableDriver — discover() => DiscoveredDevice[]. Each found device carries an id, a label, a config blob to auto-fill the setup form, and info (firmware, MAC, …). The device-registry's isDiscoverable() guard lets the system treat it as optional; the setup catalog returns a discoverable list of driver ids.

No current driver implements discovery. The dingtian-relay board uses a fixed IP (entered/known at setup). The capability remains for future UDP-discoverable devices (cameras via ONVIF, etc.). The worked example below is the (removed) UHPPOTE driver — kept because the broadcast gotchas are transferable to any UDP discovery we add later.

UHPPOTE discovery (historical example)

The uhppote-controller supported discovery natively: a UDP broadcast (get-devices on port 60000) that every controller on the LAN answers with its serial, IP, netmask, gateway, MAC, firmware version, and date. The uhppoted lib exposed this as getDevices(ctx); the (now-removed) uhppote driver mapped each result into a DiscoveredDevice (serial → id, IP → host). Was verified on real hardware (serial 225088491).

Broadcast gotchas (learned the hard way — see wsl-dev-networking)

These cost real debugging time; the (removed) uhppote driver handled all three, and any future UDP-discovery driver will need to as well:

Broadcast to the subnet-directed address, not the global 255.255.255.255. The uhppoted lib only calls setBroadcast(true) when the target matches a local interface's subnet broadcast (e.g. 10.0.10.255). For the global address it skips it, so the send fails with EACCES. The driver computes the subnet broadcast from os.networkInterfaces().
A host with multiple interfaces must broadcast on all subnets. With several NICs (LAN, VPN/Tailscale, docker bridges) the controller is on only one. Picking the first interface misses it; the driver broadcasts on every subnet and dedupes by serial.
For unicast ops (status / open), the lib's Config broadcast must match the target's subnet — it governs reply routing, so a mismatched broadcast makes getStatus time out even though openDoor "succeeds". The driver sets the broadcast per the target host's subnet. (This was the health-check "offline/timeout" bug: a 5 s timeout dropped to 24 ms once fixed.)

Also: concurrent uhppoted calls collide on the :60001 reply-listener port (EACCES / dropped replies), so the driver serializes all controller I/O. Override the broadcast with UHPPOTE_BROADCAST for unusual setups.

Flow

The setup catalog flags uhppote as discoverable.
Admin clicks Scan → GET /api/setup/discover/:driverId (admin-only).
The server runs discover() and health-checks each found device so the admin sees reachability before assigning.
Selecting a result auto-fills serial + host; the admin then assigns + binds it.

Deployment notes

Discovery is an L2 broadcast: the host and controller must share a layer-2 segment. Works on the isolated device VLAN (network-isolation). A routed/NAT'd network (e.g. WSL2 NAT mode — see wsl-dev-networking) blocks it entirely.
Discovery shares the same unauthenticated UDP exposure as everything else UHPPOTE — another reason the controllers live on an isolated VLAN (uhppote-udp-protocol).
Cameras (Hikvision/Dahua via ONVIF/WS-Discovery) could implement the same interface later.

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