Supersedes the segment-header model entirely, including the fixes made
earlier today. Found via multi-agent structural analysis of the 25 files
that stalled the walker, then verified independently.
Records are self-delimiting: off+2 is a uint16 BE length, next_record =
off + 2 + len, and the chain ends on a record whose chan_id is 0x06.
off+8 carries a 3-valued mode enum:
02 00 14-byte header, 2 anchors, then CUMULATIVE delta blocks
01 00 10-byte header, no anchors, blocks are ABSOLUTE values
00 03 10-byte header, NO TAGS AT ALL - raw 12-bit packed absolute
`40 NN` is an ordinary int16 BE data block (2*NN + 2), never a header.
Reading it as a 2*NN + 16 header is what made walks drift — the
"variable-prefix segment descriptors" reported earlier today were not a
format feature, just walker drift of exactly
4 - (old_stop - true_record_start), on all 25 affected files.
Measured on the production snapshot:
all four channels equal length 156/1388 -> 1388/1388
ASCII sample-count exact 72/75 -> 75/75
ASCII fully exact 70/75 -> 73/75
device PPV waveform (live) 1288/1306 -> 1306/1306 (mean err 0.00000)
device PPV histogram (live) 4434/4459 -> 4458/4459
Also eliminates the walker-over-read class: 24 of those 35 files were
histograms that read_blastware_file fed to the waveform codec first; the
old walker accepted them and returned garbage (one yielded 98,923
"intervals"), while the record-chain decoder returns None so they fall
through to histogram_codec.
00 03 records are DECODED, not skipped. Skipping them silently shifts
the time base of everything after them on that channel — BE9558/
K558LOF2.820W had MicL displaced by exactly 512 samples with nothing
marking the gap.
Footer detection now prefers the 0e 08 candidate whose body yields a
chain terminating on 0x06; the signature can occur inside a sample
stream. Blast radius 1 file of 1388.
The superseded model survives as decode_waveform_legacy, pinned by
micromate/idf_file.py: its Thor IDFW body-offset search trial-decodes
candidates and keeps whichever yields the most samples, so the new
decoder returning None where the old returned garbage changes that
heuristic's winner. Deferred until that search uses the record chain.
Tests: 253 passed (+11), failure list unchanged from baseline. The 9
tests pinning the superseded model are retargeted at
decode_waveform_legacy, which still implements it.
NOTE: stored .h5 files need regenerating — nearly all get longer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HgTe8CamXAHcAmaQ6QNcog
IDFH now synthesises a 1-sample-per-interval array from the binary intervals and writes an .h5 so the existing renderer works unchanged. Each "sample" is the per-interval peak ADC count → h5_value = count × geo_fs/32768 yields the right bar height.
Bug shipped in v0.21.0: save_imported_idf called read_idf_file()
with `source_path` (a bare filename like "UM12947_….IDFW") BEFORE
writing the binary to disk. The codec did Path(path).read_bytes()
which resolved relative to /app and hit FileNotFoundError. The
error was caught + logged as a warning, and ingest fell back to
.txt-only — events still landed in the DB but lost the bw_report
block + .h5 waveform that the codec was supposed to produce.
Observed during a full re-forward from thor-watcher on 2026-05-29:
every Thor event logged "binary codec failed for X: [Errno 2] No
such file or directory" and got binary_decoded=False.
Fix:
- read_idf_file() gains a `data: Optional[bytes]` kwarg. When
supplied, skips the disk read and decodes the provided bytes
directly. `path` stays required (used for filename in error
messages + .IDFH vs .IDFW suffix detection); only the read is
conditional. Backward compatible — existing positional callers
(CLI scripts, tests) continue to work unchanged.
- save_imported_idf passes `data=idf_bytes` since the bytes are
already in memory from the multipart upload. Filesystem write
still happens at step 5 of the existing flow; codec just no
longer depends on it.
Verified end-to-end against UM11719_20231219162723.IDFW from the
example-data corpus: ingest endpoint returns inserted=1, log line
shows binary_decoded=True + h5=...IDFW.h5, no warnings.
Re-forward existing Thor events from thor-watcher after deploy to
backfill the bw_report block — UPSERT preserves review state.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tighten the Series III / Series IV boundary so UI and storage dispatch
on a clean signal instead of sniffing filenames or applying magnitude
heuristics.
Phase 1 — events.device_family column ("series3" | "series4"):
self-applying migration with filename-based backfill of existing rows
(1,132 backfilled on prod 2026-05-20); plumbed through every import
path (BW endpoint, IDF endpoint, ACH server, BW CLI, sidecar
backfill); UPSERT preserves via COALESCE; UI dispatches on it.
Phase 2 — extract micromate/ package alongside minimateplus/:
native IdfEvent / IdfReport / IdfPeaks / IdfProjectInfo /
IdfSensorCheck (mic in dB(L), not pseudo-psi); moved
idf_ascii_report.py from sfm/ to micromate/; refactored
save_imported_idf to use IdfEvent and bridge to minimateplus.Event at
the SQL-insert boundary; idf_file.py stub for the future binary codec.
Phase 3 prep — docs/idf_protocol_reference.md captures the two
observed Thor binary header signatures (1,012 newer-firmware files vs
2 old files whose layout is byte-for-byte BW-STRT-compatible), file-size
hints suggesting int8 sample encoding, open questions in dependency
order, and a concrete first-session plan for cracking the codec.
Also rolled in the v0.18.1 hotfixes that motivated this work:
- idf_ascii_report parser now handles "<0.005 in/s" (below-threshold)
and "N/A" markers without leaving raw strings in numeric DB columns.
- sfm_webapp.html: defensive _ppvFmt / mic formatter so future
data-shape drift can't kill the whole events table render.
All 1,014 example-data sidecars round-trip through the new package.
See CHANGELOG.md for full notes.
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