dashboard: pace a querying chart by its window, and an example to evaluate it

A chart is drawn in buckets, and nothing it can show changes until the
bucket it is drawing closes — so the resolution sets the refresh rather
than a flat five-second floor. A week at quarter-hour buckets now asks
four times an hour instead of sixty, for the same picture. Leaving the
field empty follows the window; a slower rate is still honoured.

`make seed-example` builds the thing to evaluate it with: a flow that
logs a temperature to InfluxDB, a flow that answers a chart's request by
turning the window into Flux and the rows back into a series, and a
dashboard holding the chart. The reading flow declares the request as an
input with a starting value, which is how a flow says a value reaches it
from a panel rather than from a node upstream.

Axis labels keep enough decimals to stay distinct — `si` rounds to three
figures, so every tick of a chart living inside one degree read "19".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 61bfd68f26
commit 1c09b8209d
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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import {
SelectValue,
} from "@/components/ui/select"
import { cn } from "@/lib/utils"
import { MAX_SERIES, MIN_REFRESH_S } from "./ChartWidget"
import { MAX_SERIES, refreshFor } from "./ChartWidget"
import {
CANVAS_PRESETS,
COLUMN_CHOICES,
@@ -184,6 +184,13 @@ export function WidgetPanel({
const series = seriesOf(widget)
const setSeries = (next: Series[]) => set({ series: next })
const querying = cfg.source === "query"
// What this chart would refresh at with nothing configured. The viewer can
// pick another window on the widget, which moves it.
const paced = refreshFor(
RANGES.find((range) => range.hours * 3600 === Number(cfg.range_s)) ??
DEFAULT_RANGE,
0,
)
return (
<SidePanel
@@ -364,15 +371,22 @@ export function WidgetPanel({
<Label className="text-sm font-normal">Refresh, seconds</Label>
<Input
type="number"
min={MIN_REFRESH_S}
value={str(cfg.refresh_s ?? 60)}
min={paced}
placeholder={str(paced)}
value={str(cfg.refresh_s ?? "")}
onChange={(event) =>
set({ refresh_s: Number(event.target.value) || 0 })
set({
refresh_s:
event.target.value === ""
? undefined
: Number(event.target.value),
})
}
/>
<p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">
How often it asks again. {MIN_REFRESH_S} seconds is the floor —
someone has to run the query.
Empty follows the window — {paced} seconds at this range, since
nothing changes until the bucket closes. A slower one is kept, a
faster one only asks for the same picture twice.
</p>
</div>
<div className="grid gap-1.5">