Both boilers on the house had been unable to switch on since the Node-RED
transition, and the reason was here rather than in their logic: the command
reached `boiler.water_boiler` and stopped, because `dmx.switches` never ran.
A wave orders nodes by a dependency count, and two things decremented that
count only on success:
- a node that published nothing — rate limited, unchanged, or failed — never
freed its consumers. `dmx.switches` reads both boilers through `rbe` nodes,
so the kitchen one being unchanged, which it is nearly always, held the main
one's command back. The encoder ran about four times an hour, and only when
the lights happened to change in the same wave.
- a node that could not run at all never freed them either, permanently.
`plugs.pump_run` waits on a watering pulse that only exists at 02:00, so
every wave it appeared in took its consumers out with it.
Freeing a consumer is not the same as running it: `untouched` already refuses
to run anything whose inputs nothing refreshed, and that is the accurate test.
The dependency count is ordering, not permission.
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