The Influx client was built with no timeout, so every query and write fell
through to influxdb-client's own 10 s default — invisible to a flow and
unchangeable. The param is in seconds like its peers; the client counts in
milliseconds, so the call sites convert.
The publisher backlog was a module constant, read once at import. It is the
depth at which the oldest payload is dropped and the node goes degraded, and
a node that bursts wants more than one that trickles, so it moves to Params
and is read where the queue is built.
Without one, aiomqtt's disconnect acknowledgement has no deadline, so a
subscriber cancelled while its socket is dead never finishes unwinding and
teardown abandons the task. The knob is per node because brokers differ.
A wheel whose top-level module is `app` collides with anything else in a
user's venv, so the package that is about to be published takes the name
it is published under. Only the Python package moves; the repo, the
Docker WORKDIR and the compose project keep theirs.
Two things stopped the engine commanding this house. ConnectorNode hardwired
its node function to a no-op, so an input message reaching a connector was
discarded and Art-Net's packet builder was unreachable; write() now carries
the input ports, which is additive so the contract version holds. And the MQTT
publisher JSON-encoded every payload, so "ON" went on the wire quoted and the
devices on a shared broker, which speak bare values, ignored it.
seed_house_control.py is the rig: a flow that drives the washing machine plug,
a dimmer and a colour fixture over MQTT, carries the same two as DMX on an
Art-Net node with transmit still off, and a dashboard to drive it by hand.
nodes.py had grown to 2k lines holding every integration behind a single
blanket mypy exemption. It is now a package split by the outside world
each node talks to, so the exemption shrinks to the four integration
modules; base and mlp are type-checked, which turned up a dozen missing
annotations.
The senders opened a fresh connection — and, in the MQTT case, a fresh
thread pool and event loop — for every single message. HTTP senders now
share one pooled client, and a publisher holds one broker connection for
its lifetime, fed from a bounded queue that drops the oldest value when
the broker cannot keep up.
An HTTP sender also no longer trips over a JSON reply that is not an
object: outputs are keyed by port, so a bare scalar is a valid reply with
nothing to publish.