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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 Registry (selectable drivers)

How the system goes from "device-agnostic in principle" (device-adapter-pattern) to "admin picks the device at setup" in practice. A registry holds a catalog of supported drivers, grouped by category; the first-run-setup UI reads it so an operator can choose a device and fill in its connection config.

Implementation-derived (from packages/devices), not the source doc.

The four categories

Category Examples (drivers) Interface
access ZKTeco, ESP32 relay (also UHPPOTE) AccessControlDevice — intent-only relay (barrier-not-a-door)
reader Wiegand-into-controller, TCP/IP reader ReaderDevice — RF/optical; two paths (entry-exit-readers)
camera Hikvision, Dahua CameraDevice — entry/exit snapshot-on-event
printer (ticket dispenser / booth printer) PrinterDevice

How a driver is described

Each driver declares: a stable id, its category, a human label/description, the transports it uses (tcp-ip, wiegand, …), a list of configFields (host, port, credentials, selects — what the setup UI renders), and a create(config) factory that validates config and returns a live adapter. Adding hardware support = registering one more driver; no business-logic change — this is the device-adapter-pattern made selectable.

Why a registry (not hard-coded wiring)

  • The admin chooses between multiple devices per category at install time (a controller's relays mix entry/exit; readers bind to them — see entry-exit-points, trust-boundary, entry-exit-readers).
  • Config is validated against the driver's declared fields before persisting.
  • Selections persist in the devices table and drive runtime adapter construction.
  • Drivers may optionally implement device-discovery (discover()), so the admin can scan the LAN instead of typing connection details — no current driver uses it (the UHPPOTE did, before removal; the dingtian-relay uses a fixed IP).

Cameras are modelled as snapshot-on-event: the host requests an image at entry/exit; it's stored and referenced from the signed event as an independent record — a fraud-control input to the append-only-event-chain (cf. lpr-camera as the recognition-based identity source).