Device node: a device's ports are wired in flows
- flow/nodes/device.py: `device` node with params `device` and `config`;
provides the device's `in` ports, requires its `out` ports without
waking anything, never run (Node.passive), down "Offline" from presence
- DeviceDef.io and DevicePort go; GET /devices/{id} computes `io` and
`bindings` from the device nodes of published flows, in a fixed order,
cached by FlowStore.revision; the credential's scope comes from them
- issues `unknown_device` and `device_port` (wired twice; against a report
the wrong direction or dtype, or unlisted as advisory), rechecked when a
device is created or deleted; ValidationIssue.advisory is a field
- a device publishing on a bound port is credited to its node by the
server; the panel endpoint kind is gone from `_endpoints` and the canvas
- a rebuild that moves a device's bindings sends `dashboard_changed` with
an empty name, which the firmware refetches on
- startup moves each device's `io` rows into device nodes in the flows
declaring their messages, draft and published, one commit; rows no
flow declares are logged and left out
- frontend: Device node settings (device, Publishes, Follows, a port
picker from a report), palette shortcuts per reported port, DeviceDetail
lists bindings with "Use in flow" in place of the I/O editor
- docs: devices, flow editor, node types, issues, API
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A device credential reads its assigned dashboards, their bound messages and the
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artifacts they show. It writes only the targets of their controls and query
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charts, and the `in` ports of its own [I/O](#the-devices-own-io). A message its
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tiles only draw, or a dashboard setting is bound to, stays read only. On a
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locked dashboard only the query charts may still publish.
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charts, and the messages of its own `in` [ports](#the-devices-own-ports). A
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message its tiles only draw, or a dashboard setting is bound to, stays read
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only. On a locked dashboard only the query charts may still publish.
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**Unpair screen** revokes a locally paired credential and keeps the device and
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its dashboards. Deleting the device removes the assignment and its access, and
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play MJPEG streams, pushed frames, images, and H.264 Baseline or MJPEG clips up
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to 640×360. Re-encode other clips with the [clip recipe](../code/nodes.md#making-clips-playable-on-an-lvgl-panel).
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The device decides what its [I/O](#the-devices-own-io) port names
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The device decides what its [port](#the-devices-own-ports) names
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mean. openpanel serves `gpio.<n>`, `backlight`, `touch`, `mic` and `speaker`,
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lists each one's `config` in its README and ignores any other name. A browser
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screen serves none of them. The [speech recipe](../code/nodes.md#speech-to-and-from-a-panel)
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turns `mic` into text and text into `speaker`.
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### The device's own I/O
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### The device's own ports
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A device can also act as a node. Under **I/O**, wire a port on the device to a
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message. A new port saves once it has a port name and a message:
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A device can also act as a node, with a button on its GPIO, its backlight or
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its microphone. Its ports are wired in a flow with a **Device** node: pick the
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device, then add each port under **Publishes** (`in`, the device sends to the
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message) or **Follows** (`out`, the device reads it). **Use in flow** on the
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device's page puts its node in a flow you pick, and **Ports** lists what the
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published flows wire, each linked to its node.
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| Field | Meaning |
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|---|---|
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| `port` | The device's name for it, such as `gpio.4`, `backlight`, `touch`, `mic` or `speaker`. Lowercase letters, digits, `_` and `.` |
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| `direction` | `in`: the device publishes to the message. `out`: the device follows it |
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| `message` | A qualified `flow.name`, a lowercase flow name, a dot, then letters, digits and underscores. A flow must declare it, as for a control |
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| `config` | A JSON object passed to the device unread, such as `{"pull": "up", "debounce_ms": 50}` |
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| port | The device's name for it, such as `gpio.4`, `backlight`, `touch`, `mic` or `speaker`. Lowercase letters, digits, `_` and `.` |
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| message | The message the port publishes or follows, named like any port's |
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| type | The payload type, checked like any message's |
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| config | A JSON object passed to the device unread, such as `{"pull": "up", "debounce_ms": 50}` |
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Only published flows count. A port wired in two of them, or a device node
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naming a device that does not exist, is an error on the canvas. Until a device
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reports what it has, a port name is free text; once it has, a port it does not
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list is a warning and one wired the wrong way round an error.
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The device reads its ports as `io` on `GET /devices/{id}`, in a fixed order,
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and is told to read them again when publishing or deleting a flow changes them.
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The credential may publish to its `in` messages even when a dashboard is
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locked, and may upload an artifact named after one
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(`PUT /artifacts?name=<message>`), which is how a microphone sends a recording.
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`out` messages are read only. The flow canvas draws each port as an endpoint,
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an `in` port feeding the nodes that consume its message and an `out` port fed
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by the nodes that produce it.
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A value it publishes there is credited to its device node, so the node's edge
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lights up on the canvas. `out` messages are read only. The node is shown down,
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*Offline*, while the device is not connected.
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Before device nodes a device carried its ports itself. On its first start an
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instance moves each one into the flow that declares its message, one device
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node per device and flow, in the published flow and its draft. A port whose
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message no flow declares is left out and named in the startup log, so wire it
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again by hand.
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!!! note "If the local link is wrong"
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- **Edges** are routed around the nodes, a loop back to an earlier node
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included, and pulse when values pass through. Click one to inspect its
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payload.
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- **Endpoints** show flow inputs, dashboard widgets, device I/O ports and nodes
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in other flows that exchange messages with this flow. A value passing lights
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- **Endpoints** show flow inputs, dashboard widgets and nodes in other flows
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that exchange messages with this flow. A value passing lights
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one up in a sweep: left to right when it sends into the flow, right to left
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when it reads out of it.
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- **Clicking an endpoint** shows a flow input's type, starting value and
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current value, with a pencil that opens the flow settings to edit it. A device
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port opens the device in the Devices tab. A node in another flow opens that
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flow on the label leading back here, with its edges highlighted.
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current value, with a pencil that opens the flow settings to edit it. A node
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in another flow opens that flow on the label leading back here, with its
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edges highlighted.
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Values update over a websocket. A connection banner tells you when the editor
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cannot reach the engine.
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payload type, bound message and delivery interval. Outputs also have a
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streaming toggle.
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A **Device** node stands for a paired device instead: pick the device, then
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its ports under **Publishes** and **Follows** (see
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[the device's own ports](dashboards.md#the-devices-own-ports)). A device that
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reports its ports offers them in a list with their type filled in, and the
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command palette offers each one as a shortcut, such as *Hallway camera*.
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Message fields suggest existing names. Matching an output's message is how
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you connect an input.
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