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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011LF61rxW1FG5YCD2J9YqjY
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