The one-hue ramp told lines apart by lightness alone. --chart-1 is now
--primary and slots 2-8 are distinct hues (orange, violet, green, orchid,
ochre, teal, magenta) that clear 3:1 on --card and stay apart under
protanopia and deuteranopia; red and sage are left out as the status
colours. A chart takes the slots in order instead of spreading a ramp,
and a dashboard's own palette continues after its primary and listed
colours with slots 2-8 rather than tints of its scheme. Line charts stay
at five series. Tokens mirror index's, as design-check requires.
A dashboard is a wall panel somebody hangs in their own hallway, so it
now wears what they choose: a look, and a palette of their own colours.
Two complete component sets live under `Dashboard/ui/` — `glass`
(translucent panes over a slowly moving ground) and `material` (Material
3 tonal cards) — behind one prop contract. Every control's state,
keyboard and `aria-` live in `ui/core` and are shared, so the two sets
are the same dashboard drawn twice rather than two products: a set only
decides what a control looks like while doing it.
Four settings join the channel, each drivable by a flow like any other:
`look`, `palette`, `background` and `touch`. A palette is an ordered list
of hex colours — background, surface, primary, accent, text, then more
chart colours — pasted from a coolors.co link or typed, written onto the
canvas as the token variables everything already reads. Trailing roles
are derived, so three colours are a whole dashboard, and derived text is
held to AA rather than trusted (`theme.check.ts` measures it). A palette
also decides light or dark, since its first colour is the ground.
Widgets are measured against their own tile with container queries rather
than against the viewport, animate through `motion`, and can be drawn
without their title. The three reworks:
- a bar draws a row per reading, up to eight, each in the dashboard's own
data colours and each able to carry its own scale — replacing readings
nested in one fill, which could only ever share one colour and stop at
three. Documents written the old way are read as rows.
- a chart's range picker moved to a column down its right-hand edge, which
gives the plot back a whole row of a short tile.
- the colour wheel became a disc: hue is the angle and saturation the
distance from the middle, so a colour is one gesture rather than three,
with brightness on a slider beside it.
`index.css` and `lib/motion.ts` are untouched — the dashboard overrides
token *values* on its canvas, never the blocks the two repos share.
A dashboard names the data colours its charts draw with: an ordered, distinct
subset of the `--chart-1…5` ramp, stored on the settings channel that already
carries `theme` and `locked`. No backend or client change — `SettingDef.value`
is free-form and a name this build does not wire up is left alone rather than
refused.
Naming none is the whole ramp, which resolves to the identical token per
series as the `--chart-${(index % 5) + 1}` charts drew with before, so every
existing dashboard is unaffected. `palette.check.ts` asserts that equivalence
rather than trusting it.
Distinct slots, not free assignment with repeats: only slot 1 against slot 5
clears 3:1 within the ramp, so two traces on one slot could not be told apart.
Status colour is deliberately outside the palette — a fault is `--destructive`
because of what it means, not because of where it sits.
The provider is mounted by the editor as well as the view, so picking a
palette repaints the charts beside the panel instead of describing them.
A dashboard canvas is CSS-scaled to fit its panel while uPlot maps the
pointer against its own unscaled plot width, so the cursor drifted further
right the further into a chart it went. A `cursor.move` refiner divides the
visual offset back into layout pixels; unscaled hosts get a no-op.
A querying chart's range picker moves onto the frame's title line through a
new `useHeaderSlot`, giving the plot back the row it spent. The editor's drag
handle is the header, so the picker is exempted from it.
Charts can be drawn as a monotone cubic spline — uPlot's own path builder,
monotone so a smoothed line never invents a reading between two real ones.
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".
A chart can now ask for what it draws instead of reading the ring the
engine keeps. It publishes a request — the window and the resolution —
exactly as a slider publishes a value, and draws the series a flow
answers with. What serves the request is the flow's business, so the
widget never learns which database was behind it.
The answer says what it was computed for and one computed for another
window is ignored, so two charts on one node cost a duplicate query
rather than overwriting each other's picture. Identical requests still
in flight are asked once per tab, and the refresh has a floor under it.
The panel gains the presentation the document could already hold: the
per-series label, a unit, and a y axis that can be pinned.
A second bus subscriber folds executions, errors, timings and queue lag
into per-minute rollups, keeps failures with their traceback and an audit
trail of who published what, and records one row per cascade — manual runs
and previews included, under an id of their own that writes no idempotency
markers. Read back through /observability/*, which always answers 200 so a
degraded engine still renders its own health screen.
Also fixes two things found on the way: node-health alerts read `status`
where the engine publishes `health`, so a device dropping never alerted
anyone, and the Redis queue reported `parked: 0` whatever was held.
One shell for both editors. Flows and dashboards each get a searchable
overview under the padded shell, their editors move to the full-bleed
canvas, and the floating chrome is shared: a title bar that only says
what you are looking at, and a bottom dock carrying everything else —
the flow bar's status, settings and Publish moved down there, the
add-flow button moved to the overview.
Dashboards gain the rest of M4's visualization work:
- widgets are picked by clicking them, with the header as the drag
handle so a slider still slides and a switch still flips while
editing; settings moved into the flows' SidePanel
- react-grid-layout for drag and edge-resize, so the stored x/y finally
mean something; a dashboard nobody arranged is shelf-packed once
- a per-dashboard grid size, so a panel can be matched to its screen
- the chart widget, drawn with uPlot: several messages on one axis, fed
from the stored history plus the live socket tail, coloured from the
new --chart-1..5 ramp
- /view/{name}: the URL a wall panel is pointed at — no sidebar, no
footer, no editing, and no editor code, since routes are split
- a widget wired to a payload type it cannot carry, or wired to nothing
at all, carries the same red dot a failing node does; the picker
records the type it bound and WidgetDef refuses a mismatch on save
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