The BW filename encodes only the serial NUMBER — `<letter><3 digits>`, so
`L895…` is 10895 and nothing more. The two-letter family prefix is not in it:
"BE" is a MiniMate Plus, "BA" a BlastMate. Both are Series III and their
files are byte-identical in every way that matters — all 1,493 BlastMate
binaries in the DL2 archive decode through the existing codec at 100%, same
four channels — so the serial string was the only thing standing between SFM
and BlastMate support.
Two sites synthesised the prefix and got it wrong:
- waveform_store `_serial_from_bw_filename` returned f"BE{num}" on import, so
a BlastMate event was filed under a unit that does not exist, silently, and
Terra-View read it straight through. Split into
`_serial_number_from_bw_filename` (the number, which the filename really
does carry) and a new `_serial_from_bw_bytes` that reads the serial out of
the body and accepts it only when its numeric part agrees with the
filename. save_imported_bw now prefers hint -> body -> filename guess.
Verified against real archive bytes for BA9229, BA10060, BA10895, BA15957
and BE9558/BE11529/BE18003.
- client `_decode_0a_partial_header` searched for a literal b"BE" in the
monitor-log partial record. On a BlastMate that returns -1 and skips the
whole block, so the geo threshold went missing along with the serial. Now
matches any two-letter prefix, and requires the NUL terminator — stricter
than the bare two-byte search it replaces.
Nothing to migrate: no BlastMate events are in prod. The archive's BA units
last recorded 2018-10 (BA9229, BA15957), 2023-08 (BA10895) and 2023-11
(BA10060), and the prod backfill only reaches back to ~May 2025.
21 tests. Suite: 309 passed, same 16 pre-existing failures as at HEAD
(15 missing ASCII fixtures + one peak_values assertion, all untouched here).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HgTe8CamXAHcAmaQ6QNcog
A reason records *why* an event is a false trigger. It is optional (plain
FT flags still record no reason) and is a subtype of the FT flag: setting a
reason implies false_trigger=1, and the reason is cleared whenever FT ends
up 0 (confirm-real, clear-FT, set_false_trigger(false)). Twin propagation
carries the reason to the histogram/waveform twin alongside the FT flag.
New nullable `false_trigger_reason TEXT` column (schema + _migrate ADD
COLUMN only — not the Migration-1 rebuild). 7 tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDXjZCr4RqT2U3QvMDhgzf
Productionizes the validated scratch/offset_scan3.py: a DC offset (baseline
shifted off zero — sensor bumped/settled/drifted) is |median(pre-trigger)| >= 5
counts (0.025 in/s) AND flat across pre/mid/end thirds (spread <= 0.02); a
transient moves one third and is rejected by the spread test.
- shape_metrics: offset_from_samples / offset_from_h5 (reads .h5 samples +
pretrig_samples attr; range-aware via the .h5's in/s float samples)
- events schema: shape_offset / _axis / _pre / _spread (via _SCHEMA + the
_migrate ADD COLUMN loop only; NOT the Migration-1 rebuild), threaded through
insert + upsert mirroring shape_*
- ingest: computed at all three waveform_store save paths alongside shape
- backfill_event_shape: also computes + stores (and stale-clears) offset
- exposed via /db/events automatically (SELECT *)
Gating to waveforms is done downstream in terra-view ft_suspicion (mirrors how
shape is ignored for histograms), not at the SFM call sites. 13 new tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDXjZCr4RqT2U3QvMDhgzf
terra-view's SFM Admin page (/admin/sfm) displays whatever /health returns for
`version`. That was hardcoded to "0.1.0" and never bumped, so the page showed
0.1.0 while the service was actually 0.26.0. Point both /health and the FastAPI
OpenAPI version at the release-bumped TOOL_VERSION (single source of truth), so
they can't drift again. Adds httpx-free regression tests (call health() directly).
Note: minimateplus.__version__ is separately stale at 0.1.0 — left as-is here
(nothing user-facing reads it; touching the package __init__ risks import order).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDXjZCr4RqT2U3QvMDhgzf
detect_multi_interval_stride() confirmed a candidate stride on a third block
header whenever the body was long enough to contain one. But a body can exceed
two strides and still hold only two real blocks: a partial final block leaves
trailing padding. BE18193 T193L0XM.CI0H — 51 intervals at 2 s, i.e. one full
30-interval block plus a 21-interval remainder in a 2787-byte body — had every
decisive check pass at stride 612 (header at 0, header at 612, block counter
256 -> 257) and was then rejected for the absent third header at 1224. It
decoded to nothing.
A missing third header now means end-of-stream rather than disqualification.
The block-counter check is untouched — that is the test that prevents the
false positives which once handed 9,082 standard-block files to the
multi-interval walker.
Found by running the full DL2 archive against its preserved Blastware ASCII
exports (14,340 paired files, 11x the previous ground-truth corpus).
Measured over 127,035 archive histogram binaries:
recovered 8 files (strides 92, 252, 612; BE18193, BE18191, BE9557, BE9440)
regressed 0 files
Full-corpus verification: 14,337 -> 14,338 exact of 14,338 decodable pairs
(the 2 excluded are series-4 IDF, a different codec).
Also adds scratch/verify_against_ascii.py (per-sample decoder verification
against BW exports, with a saturation carve-out — BW clamps clipped events to
the range max while the decoder reports true counts) and scratch/offset_scan.py.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HgTe8CamXAHcAmaQ6QNcog
A real trigger is recorded twice — as a triggered waveform (stamped at the
trigger instant) and inside the scheduled histogram whose interval contains it
(stamped at the 7am/7pm interval start). The two twins routinely differ by
HOURS, so the old ±5-minute window in find_twins silently missed them — which
broke review propagation (flagging one twin left its twin unflagged).
Twins are now matched by: same serial + identical peak_vector_sum + OPPOSITE
record type + the waveform's timestamp falling within the histogram's interval
(bounded by the next same-serial histogram). Matching keys off record timestamps
(not call-in/received times, which drift with field connectivity). window_seconds
is retained but ignored.
Rewrote test_find_twins + test_twin_propagation for the new contract (incl. the
75-min-apart UM12947 case, cross-type exclusion, containing-interval selection,
open-ended latest interval). Full suite: 264 passed; the 16 failures are
pre-existing (missing gitignored fixtures + a v0.26.0 codec case), unchanged
from baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDXjZCr4RqT2U3QvMDhgzf
Swept every series-3 binary with the live decoder against five
independent checks: decode exceptions, zero samples, unequal geo channel
lengths, peaks above range full scale, decoded peak vs device-reported
PPV, and waveform length vs declared record time.
1. block[22] is NOT a constant and must not be tested. Documented as
always 0x00, it carries data on loud blocks, and rejecting those threw
away the interval holding the event peak. BE18350/T350L7HR.NL0H
block 92 has block[22]=0x26 and a Tran peak of 0x0563 = 1379 counts =
6.895 in/s — exactly the device-reported PPV — while the file decoded
to 0.015 in/s. block[0]==0, block[4]==0x0A and the 4-byte tail are
six bytes of constraint, which is what keeps trailer content out.
2. Block-model dispatch now goes on signature strength rather than on
whichever decoder returns first. A multi-interval body also yields
scattered standard-tail blocks by coincidence, so "first non-empty"
handed 193 BE18193 files to the standard walker and produced peaks of
149 in/s against a 10 in/s full scale.
3. Multi-interval stride detection requires the block counter to
increment by exactly 1. Without it the detector false-positives on
ordinary standard-block bodies: they carry a header every 32 bytes,
and 192 = 12 + 20*9 and 512 = 12 + 20*25 are both multiples of 32, so
a stride "fits" while skipping 6 or 16 real blocks. That misrouted
9,082 files.
Partial-block garbage is trimmed within the final block only, stopping
at the first slot with a non-zero tail word or a geo peak above full
scale (2000 counts in 16-count units). Trimming purely from the end
left garbage stranded behind a slot that happened to have a zero tail
word; trimming on the tail word alone truncated four BE9440 files by up
to 2,800 intervals.
Result: 11,603 / 11,603 series-3 binaries clean on every check.
Ground truth unchanged: 1211/1211 histograms exact per-interval, 75/75
waveform sample counts exact (73/75 fully exact, the 2 differ by 1 LSB
on rail samples), and the multi-interval fixture still matches its BW
ASCII export on all 45,680 values.
Tests: 259 passed, failure list unchanged from baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HgTe8CamXAHcAmaQ6QNcog
Sub-minute histogram intervals are packed several to a block so that
every block still covers exactly one minute of data:
interval intervals/block stride
1 minute 1 32 <- the standard big-endian block
15 s 4 92
2 s 30 612
stride = 12 + n * 20
Block = [00][segment][ctr uint16 LE][0a][00], then n x 20-byte records of
8 x uint16 LITTLE-endian values (T_peak, T_halfp, V_peak, V_halfp,
L_peak, L_halfp, M_peak, M_halfp) plus a 2-word tail whose first word is
0000 on every real interval, then a 6-byte block trailer.
The standard 32-byte block is BIG-endian; this variant is LITTLE-endian.
The tail-word check matters: a session ending mid-block leaves buffer
garbage in the remaining interval slots, which decoded as peaks
thousands of times the real value. Stride detection also requires at
least 2 records, since a 1-record block would have stride 32 and
collide with the standard block.
Recovers 415 files that decoded to nothing: 216 on BE18193 (2 s
intervals) and 199 on BE9440 (15 s). Before decoding to nothing they
were being accepted by the WAVEFORM codec, which returned garbage
peaking up to 400x the device-reported PPV.
Ground truth BE9440/K440L3AQ.T70H (5,710 intervals) matches its
Blastware ASCII export exactly: 17,130/17,130 geo peaks, 22,840/22,840
frequencies, 5,710/5,710 mic dB(L). Across all 455 affected files,
1,354/1,365 channel peaks (99.2%) match the device-reported PPV; the 11
that don't are under-reads on BE9440 where the walk stops early.
Fixture (binary + ASCII) saved under tests/fixtures/, which is
gitignored per repo practice — the ground-truth test skips when absent.
Tests: 258 passed, failure list unchanged from baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HgTe8CamXAHcAmaQ6QNcog
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
Two errors in the series-3 histogram block model, both found by diffing
against the per-interval data table in the preserved Blastware ASCII
exports (1211 files in the prod snapshot — far stronger ground truth
than the header PPV used previously).
1. The block is uniformly BIG-ENDIAN. Peaks and half-periods are uint16
BE (T_peak [5:7], T_halfperiod [7:9], V_peak [9:11], V_halfperiod
[11:13], L_peak [13:15], L_halfperiod [15:17], M_peak [17:19],
M_halfperiod [19:21]); only block_ctr [2:4] is little-endian.
The old uint8-peak model silently CLIPPED any peak above 1.275 in/s:
the final interval of BE18193/T193LQ9K.OE0H reads 8.270 in/s in BW's
export (1654 counts = 0x0676) and decoded as 0x76 = 118 = 0.590.
The byte documented as a per-channel "annotation" was never an
annotation — it is the half-period's high byte, which is exactly why
it was non-zero on the sub-Hz intervals BW renders as "<1.0".
The marker is block[4] alone. Testing [4:6] as a uint16 LE marker
forced block[5] == 0, which is what capped the peak at one byte.
2. The final block of each stream carries tail 9c 06 00 42 instead of
1e 0a 00 00, and holds arbitrary bytes at [21:23]. Rejecting it
dropped the last interval of nearly every histogram — frequently the
interval holding the event peak, so the file's PPV read low.
Verified end to end through the production path: 1211/1211 histograms
decode exactly (interval count + every per-interval peak), plus 842,442
per-interval frequency comparisons with zero mismatches. Previously
1 of 1196 files was fully correct.
decode_histogram_body_full records expose `is_terminal` in place of the
removed `annotations` tuple. +6 tests. No regressions: full-suite
failure list unchanged from baseline.
NOTE: stored histogram .h5 files need regenerating to pick this up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HgTe8CamXAHcAmaQ6QNcog
Two independent bugs, both found by diffing 75 production events against
their preserved Blastware ASCII exports (<store>/<serial>/<file>_ASCII.TXT).
1. Geo full scale was wrong — every geophone reading was 2.34% low.
The codec emits geo samples in 16-count units with a documented LSB of
exactly 0.005 in/s, and decoded_to_adc_counts multiplies by 16, so one
ADC count is 0.005/16 in/s and 10.000 in/s is 10.0/(0.005/16) = 32000
counts. sfm/event_hdf5.py and minimateplus/event_file_io.py both
divided by 32768 (2^15), scaling every sample and derived peak down by
1 - 32000/32768. The error scales with amplitude, so it was invisible
on quiet events and worst on the loud ones that matter for compliance.
Mic is unaffected (it back-solves its scale from the device peak).
216 per-channel comparisons: 32768 -> 151/216 exact, worst error 0.238
in/s on a 10 in/s event; 32000 -> 216/216 exact, worst 0.005 = 1 LSB.
2. walk_body silently truncated channels on four unhandled framing cases.
An unrecognised tag ends the walk and decode_waveform_v2 returns
whatever it got, so this surfaced as short channels, never an error:
- wide-NN RLE `0X NN` (runs longer than 252 samples)
- `30 NN` with NN > 0x10 (the old cap was arbitrary)
- variable-width `40 NN` headers: NN counts previous-channel
continuation deltas, so the header is 2*NN + 16 bytes; `40 01`
and `40 03` occur alongside `40 02`
- tagless segment headers: no `40 NN` tag at all, just the 14-byte
tail [field2:2][len:2][channel_id:4][marker:2][anchors:4]
Also: the header field documented as a "monotonic uint32 LE counter" is
really [channel_id][00][00][segment_index], with 0x46=Tran 0x47=Vert
0x48=Long 0x49=MicL — verified on 1697/1697 segment headers, zero
disagreements. decode_waveform_v2 now takes the channel from that field
instead of rotation position, which was fragile: one missed header
desynced every channel after it.
parse_segment_header now returns n_prev_deltas/prev_deltas/marker/
anchors/channel/segment_index; the old fixed_pattern (02 00 00 01)
conflated the 2-byte marker with the first anchor.
Ground-truth corpus, end to end through the production path:
exact 37 -> 72, truncated 23 -> 3, full-length value errors 15 -> 0.
Store-wide, 729 of 1388 series-3 waveform events decode differently and
728 gain samples; the scale fix changes float values on all of them, so
stored .h5 files need regenerating.
Still open: 3 events truncate at a header variant with a variable-width
prefix (2/4/6 bytes) before the channel id and an `01 00` marker.
Documented in docs/instantel_protocol_reference.md with byte offsets.
+20 tests. No regressions: the byte-exact fixture suite still passes and
the full-suite failure list is unchanged from baseline (16 pre-existing
failures from gitignored fixtures).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HgTe8CamXAHcAmaQ6QNcog
set_false_trigger now clears reviewed_real when flagging false_trigger=True
(mirrors update_event_review's exclusivity), and the quick
PATCH /db/events/{id}/false_trigger endpoint now calls
propagate_review_to_twins after the flag write, matching the sidecar PATCH
path's try/except-with-log.warning pattern. Previously the quick path could
leave both flags set and never touched twins.
Also corrects the v0.25.0 CHANGELOG bullet (exclusivity was not actually
enforced on the quick path until this commit) and adds a caveat comment on
find_twins about rare clamped/saturated-PVS false-positive twin matches.
BW writes ">100 Hz" for ZC Freq when the zero-crossing algorithm sees a
peak too fast to count — the device's reporting ceiling is 100 Hz on
V10.72. Our parser fell back to None via _parse_number (which requires
a leading digit), so the PDF rendered "—" where BW shows ">100".
Mirrors the OORANGE/saturated pattern already used for PPV and PSPL:
parser stores the threshold (100.0) on zc_freq_hz + sets a new
zc_freq_above_range flag. Projection carries the flag through to the
sidecar; PDF renderer prepends ">" when set.
Affects both per-channel stats tables (waveform + histogram variants)
and the mic block's ZC Freq row.
Verified on the real T190LD5Q.LK0W fixture: Tran zc_freq_hz=100.0
above_range=True; Vert/Long (normal values) above_range=False; "N/A"
still produces zc_freq_hz=None which renders as "—" (unchanged).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
BW writes "OORANGE" (truncation of "Out Of Range") when a channel
exceeds its full-scale, and uses a typo'd label "Peak Vector Sum
TimeSum" for the PVS time field. Both confirmed against real ASCII
files pulled from a Windows watcher PC 2026-05-27:
T190LD5Q.LK0W Vert PPV = OORANGE (Normal range, 10 in/s exceeded)
T438L713.RY0W All three PPVs OORANGE (Sensitive range, 1.25 in/s)
K557L3YM.OE0W Tran+Vert PPV OORANGE + MicL PSPL OORANGE
Previously our _parse_number() returned None for OORANGE → DB columns
ended up NULL → events vanished from filters / sorts / dashboards
despite being legitimate high-amplitude events.
New behavior — substitute a conservative bound + set a saturation flag:
- Channel PPV → geo_range_ips + ChannelStats.ppv_saturated
- Peak Vector Sum → sqrt(3) * geo_range_ips + peak_vector_sum_saturated
- MicL PSPL → 140 dB(L) + MicStats.pspl_saturated
Flags propagate to the sidecar's bw_report block so the SFM UI can
render "> 10 in/s" / "> 140 dBL" rather than treating the substituted
value as exact.
Same commit also accepts "Peak Vector Sum TimeSum" as an alias for
"Peak Vector Sum Time" (BW always writes the typo on OORANGE PVS
lines — every example file confirms it).
Tests: new test_oorange_marker_treated_as_saturation (synthetic) +
test_real_oorange_event_t190_parses (skips if real fixture absent).
177/177 tests pass; 16 pre-existing missing-fixture skips unchanged.
Five events on prod (T190, T438, K557, plus 2 others matching the
same fault pattern) will pick up correct peaks + saturation flags
once watchers re-forward.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mirror what the ingest path does: BW's reported peaks (and sample_rate
/ record_time) take precedence over codec output where present.
Without this, --force backfill silently overwrites bw_report-overlaid
DB columns with codec-derived peaks. Wrong for events where the codec
doesn't fully decode (waveform walker edge cases on SP0/SS0/SV0-style
events, histogram byte[5]!=0 sub-format that isn't yet RE'd), producing
PVS=0 on real high-amplitude events. Bit on prod 2026-05-22 with
three top-10 waveform events ending up at PVS=0 (rolled back same day,
this fix is the proper resolution).
New helper minimateplus.event_file_io.apply_bw_report_dict_to_event
operates on the projected sidecar dict shape (the structure
_bw_report_to_dict produces, which is what gets preserved in the
sidecar). Mirrors apply_report_to_event's semantics: only writes
fields where bw_report has a non-None value, no-ops cleanly on
empty / None input.
Dev validation against prod snapshot:
pre : 1839.7315 pvs_sum 356 events with DB PVS ≠ sidecar bw_report
post : 2016.4902 pvs_sum 2 events still mismatched (both have NULL
timestamp + duplicate rows, edge case)
Both edge-case events DO get the correct value written by the new
backfill — their stale rows from prior backfills remain because
UNIQUE(serial, timestamp) doesn't fire on NULL. Separate dedup
cleanup needed for those 2 events (0.014% of corpus); not blocking.
Backfill remains idempotent + bw_report preservation still passes
(0 WIPED, 0 CHANGED on the 3rd consecutive run).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
the BE9558 / BE18003 extension-byte case
The bytes at [7]/[11]/[15]/[19] are an annotation field (purpose still
unclear — empirically non-zero on intervals with sub-Hz or unmeasurable
freq), NOT the high byte of the peak count. The N844 fixture corpus
the original RE was done against had zero values in those bytes for
every block, so uint8 and uint16 LE were equivalent there — but on
real BE9558 Tran-drift events and BE18003 Histogram+Continuous events
the uint16 LE interpretation produced peaks up to 268 in/s and 35×
inflated PVS sums.
Cross-correlated against BW's per-interval ASCII export on:
- K558LKZU/LL1P/LL3K → 100% T/V/L/M peak match (1435 blocks each)
- T003LKZR/LL0O/LL1M → 100% T/V/L, 99.3% M (0.05 dB rounding only)
- N599LKZS/LL0L → 100% all channels
- N844 fixture corpus → 100% all channels (unchanged)
Annotations preserved on every record for future RE; the defensive
_MAX_PEAK_COUNT bound is no longer needed (uint8 maxes at 1.275 in/s,
well below any physical limit).
Synthetic regression test added using the verbatim K558LKZU.RE0H
interval-12 block.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The histogram-mode event body is now byte-exact decodable.
Companion to the waveform body codec — together they cover every
event file the watcher forwards. Cracked in one session via
cross-event correlation against BW's ASCII export.
The §7.6.2 spec in instantel_protocol_reference.md was structurally
correct (32-byte blocks) but the per-sample semantics were
under-documented. Cross-checking block 130 of N844L6Z8.ZR0H
against its TXT row revealed the layout perfectly:
slot[0] = 10 (constant marker)
slot[1] = T_peak_count (× 0.005 → in/s at Normal range)
slot[2] = T_halfperiod (freq_Hz = 512 / halfp)
slot[3] = V_peak_count
slot[4] = V_halfperiod
slot[5] = L_peak_count
slot[6] = L_halfperiod
slot[7] = MicL_peak_count (dB via waveform_codec.mic_count_to_db)
slot[8] = MicL_halfperiod
The `>100 Hz` sentinel is halfperiod ≤ 5 (since 512/5 = 100 Hz).
Mic dB uses the SAME formula as the waveform codec (sign × (81.94
+ 20·log10(|count|))) — they share the mic ADC calibration constant.
Block identification anchor: bytes [22:24] == 0x0000 AND
bytes [28:32] == 1e 0a 00 00. The tail signature is the most
reliable distinguisher from non-block content in the file.
Files:
minimateplus/histogram_codec.py (new) — decoder + public API
matching the waveform codec's shape:
walk_body(body) -> records
decode_histogram_body(body) -> {Tran, Vert, Long, MicL}
decode_histogram_body_full(body) -> [per-interval dicts]
half_period_to_hz, geo_count_to_ins helpers
minimateplus/event_file_io.py (modified) — read_blastware_file
now tries the waveform codec first, falls back to the histogram
codec on failure. Same output shape, same downstream pipeline.
tests/test_histogram_codec.py (new) — 24 regression locks against
the in-repo fixture corpus, byte-exact against BW ASCII export
for peaks (all 4 channels), frequencies (all 4 channels,
including >100 Hz sentinel handling), block framing, and
segment-ID accounting.
scripts/backfill_sidecars.py (modified) — the has_samples
short-circuit added in the histogram-pending era is now a
pure defensive guard. Histograms in prod will regen .h5 files
correctly on the next backfill run.
docs/histogram_codec_re_status.md (updated) — supersedes the
earlier "in progress" version with the verified format and
test-coverage summary. Notes a few non-essential fields still
open (4-byte block metadata, Geo PVS, Mic psi(L) — none of
which are needed for waveform reconstruction).
Total verified coverage: ~3,500 blocks across 5 fixtures, every
field of every block byte-exact against BW.
The watcher-forwarded histogram event corpus on prod (~10,000
events) will now produce correct .h5 sidecars on the next backfill
run. No additional changes needed to the backfill flow — the
existing tool_version-bump cascade picks them up automatically.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes a data-loss bug discovered while dry-running the backfill against
the prod store.
Symptom: every histogram event in the store has its body decoded by
read_blastware_file → codec returns None → samples = empty dict →
``ev.peak_values = _peaks_from_samples(empty)`` returns
``PeakValues(0, 0, 0, 0, 0)`` (NOT None). The backfill script's
existing "seed from DB row when peak_values is None" branch then
correctly *skips* the seeding, and the all-zeros PeakValues flows into
``db.insert_events()``'s UPSERT path, OVERWRITING the existing good DB
peak values for that event (which were populated from the paired BW
ASCII report at ingest).
Net effect: running the backfill on prod would have wiped the PPV /
mic / vector-sum columns for ~10,000 histogram events.
Fix: only compute peaks-from-samples when there are actually samples.
For events the codec couldn't decode (histogram-mode bodies, until
the §7.6.2 histogram codec is wired in), leave peak_values=None as
the "we don't know" signal. Downstream consumers:
- backfill_sidecars.py — its existing ``if ev.peak_values is None:``
branch (line 243) seeds from the DB row, preserving the real
BW-report peaks across the regen.
- WaveformStore.save_imported_bw — apply_report_to_event overlays
peaks from the paired BW ASCII report when one was uploaded.
Histogram imports without a paired report end up with NULL peaks
in the DB, which is correct (better than zeros — clearly says
"no peak data available" rather than "peaks are exactly zero").
Updated the existing synthetic-event round-trip test to expect
peak_values=None for the no-real-body case, which is the truth now.
The 7 fixture-corpus regression tests for real BW waveforms continue
to pass — those have decodable samples, so peak_values is still
populated from the codec output as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`read_blastware_file()` was still calling `_decode_samples_4ch_int16_le`
(the retracted int16-LE-interleaved hypothesis) on the body bytes,
producing ±32K noise on every channel of every BW file read from disk.
This was the path watcher-forwarded events take into the system
(via the import endpoint → save_imported_bw → read_blastware_file,
since the watcher doesn't ship A5 frames), so every .h5 sidecar
generated for a forwarded event has been wrong since the feature
shipped.
The fix is mechanical: pass the body bytes straight to
`waveform_codec.decode_waveform_v2()` and run the result through
`decoded_to_adc_counts()` for the 16x geo scaling. The body already
starts with the codec's exact 7-byte preamble `00 02 00 [Tran[0] BE]
[Tran[1] BE]` — confirmed by `body[:3].hex()` across all 9 fixture
events. No body-slice adjustment needed.
If the codec returns None (truncated/malformed file, synthetic test
input with no real waveform), fall back to empty channels with a log
warning. The rest of the event (timestamp, waveform_key, project
strings, sensor_location, peaks-from-samples=0) is still recoverable.
Verified against the bundled fixture corpus:
V70 Tran/Vert/Long 3328/3328 sample-sets match .TXT ground truth
within the 0.005 in/s display quantum, every row
6S0/RG0/AB0/470 (5-8-26) 3328/2304/1280/1280 samples; Vert PPVs
match BW's own report within 0.02 in/s
JQ0 3328 samples, Vert PPV 3.384 vs BW 3.465
SP0/SS0/SV0 (loud events) 3072–3328 samples; known walker
tail-truncation 1–7 samples per channel, samples reached are
byte-exact
Existing `test_read_blastware_file_round_trip` (synthetic empty event)
continues to pass thanks to the None-fallback. Codec verify scripts
(`analysis/verify_quiet_bundle.py`, `analysis/verify_full_decode.py`)
re-run unchanged.
Added two regression-lock tests in tests/test_event_file_io.py:
- test_read_blastware_file_decodes_via_codec[6 fixtures]
— verifies sample count + Vert PPV per fixture
- test_read_blastware_file_v70_samples_match_txt_truth
— verifies every one of V70's 3328 sample-sets across Tran/Vert/Long
matches the .TXT ground truth row-by-row within 0.003 in/s
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When NN exceeds 0xFC, the codec extends to 12-bit NN by using the
low nibble of the TYPE byte as the high nibble of NN:
1X NN → nibble-delta block, NN = (X << 8) | NN_byte
2X NN → int8-delta block, same NN encoding
Walker and decode_waveform_v2 now handle both narrow (X=0) and wide
(X != 0) forms uniformly.
Discovered while investigating why SP0/SS0/SV0/event-b walkers stopped
mid-event. SP0 segment 12 (V continuation, cycle 3) starts with
"11 90" — high nibble of byte 0 = 1 (= nibble-delta block type), low
nibble = 1 plus byte 1 = 0x90 → NN = 0x190 = 400 nibble deltas in
202 bytes. Walker was rejecting "11" as a non-tag.
Sample count went from 47,364 to 72,972 verified byte-exact:
event-a: 9984 (full) was 9984 (full)
event-b: 6912 (full) was 738
event-c: 3840 (full) was 3840 (full)
event-d: 3840 (full) was 3840 (full)
JQ0: 9984 (full) was 9984 (full)
V70: 9984 (full) was 9984 (full)
SP0: 9984 (full) was 5122
SS0: 9222 (-7 tail) was 1758
SV0: 9222 (-7 tail) was 2114
7 of 9 fixtures now decode end-to-end across all 3 geo channels.
The 2 remaining (SS0, SV0) are missing only 1-7 tail samples per
channel — minor walker edge case at the very end.
74 tests pass (was 71).
Replaces the broken legacy int16 LE decoder in client.py with the
verified multi-channel codec. Three changes:
1. blastware_file.extract_body_bytes(a5_frames) — new helper that
factors out the body-reconstruction logic from write_blastware_file
so both writers (BW binary) and decoders (sample arrays) can use
the same canonical bytes.
2. waveform_codec.decode_a5_frames(a5_frames) — production entry point.
Returns the raw_samples dict consumers expect (Tran/Vert/Long as
int16 ADC counts; MicL as native ADC counts). Internally:
A5 frames → extract_body_bytes → decode_waveform_v2
→ decoded_to_adc_counts (geos ×16; mic pass-through)
3. waveform_codec.mic_count_to_db(count) — MicL ADC → dB(L) per BW's
display formula:
dB = sign(count) × (81.94 + 20 × log10(|count|)) for |count| ≥ 1
Verified against V70 fixture: count=813 → 140.14 dB (BW PSPL 140.1).
client.py:_decode_a5_waveform is reduced to a thin wrapper that calls
decode_a5_frames and populates event.raw_samples. Original implementation
preserved as _decode_a5_waveform_LEGACY (dead code; reference only).
Also fixed a tail-end bug in decode_waveform_v2 where trailer-section
"40 02" markers (containing ASCII serial bytes, NOT real segment headers)
were being mis-interpreted, producing 2 spurious samples per channel at
the end of each event. Added bytes [12:14] == "02 00" validation to
reject non-header markers.
7 new pytest tests cover the new helpers and dB conversion. Total:
71 passing (up from 64).
Known limitation (carried over from before): the walker still stops
mid-event on the loudest fixtures (SP0/SS0/SV0/event-b) at some
mid-segment edge cases not yet characterized. Every sample reached
is decoded correctly; the walker just doesn't reach all of them.
Loud events still yield 5,000–15,000 byte-exact samples each.
User intuition (16-bit) + 12-bit packing hypothesis + the int16 ADC
range constraint led to the final piece.
30 NN block format (CONFIRMED across all 14 blocks in the fixture
bundle):
NN 12-bit signed deltas packed as NN/4 groups of 6 bytes each.
Within each group:
bytes [0:2] = 16 bits = 4 × 4-bit high nibbles (MSB-first)
bytes [2:6] = 4 × int8 low bytes
delta[k] = sign_extend_12((high_nibble[k] << 8) | low_byte[k])
Block length = NN × 1.5 + 2 bytes (tag included). Earlier walker
used NN × 4 which is only correct in the TRAILER section.
Why 12-bit: ±2047 in 16-count units ≈ ±10 in/s = the geophone's
full-scale range at Normal sensitivity. The codec sizes its widest
delta to cover the worst-case sample-to-sample change.
Results: every decoded sample across all fixture events matches truth
byte-exact. ZERO divergences.
event-a: 9984 samples (full event, all 3 geos)
event-c: 3840 (full event)
event-d: 3840 (full event)
JQ0: 9984 (full event)
V70: 9984 (full event)
SP0: 5122 (walker stops early on edge cases)
SS0: 1758
SV0: 2114
event-b: 738
TOTAL: 47,364 ADC samples verified, zero errors.
Three full 3-sec events decode end-to-end across all three geo
channels. The events where fewer samples decode (SP0/SS0/SV0/event-b)
are limited by walker robustness issues past the first few segments,
NOT by decoder correctness.
64 tests pass (up from 55). Files: minimateplus/waveform_codec.py
(new 30 NN decode + corrected walker length), tests/test_waveform_codec.py
(new full-event regression tests), docs/* (updated status everywhere),
analysis/test_30nn_hybrid.py (new — the analysis script that confirmed
the format).
User asked the right question: do events without 30 NN blocks decode
fully? Answer: YES.
event-a: Tran 3328 ✓ Vert 3328 ✓ Long 3328 ✓ (28 segments, 0 '30 NN')
event-c: Tran 1280 ✓ Vert 1280 ✓ Long 1280 ✓ (12 segments, 0 '30 NN')
event-d: Tran 1280 ✓ Vert 1280 ✓ Long 1280 ✓ (12 segments, 0 '30 NN')
17,664 ADC samples decoded byte-exact against BW's ASCII export.
Zero divergences across event-a, event-c, event-d.
This means the codec is FULLY SOLVED for any event without 30 NN
blocks. The remaining gap is the 30 NN block format only — used for
high-amplitude regions where deltas exceed int8 range. For quiet
events (or quiet stretches of loud events), the decoder is complete.
9 new regression tests bring the total to 55, all passing.
Files: tests/test_waveform_codec.py + docs/waveform_codec_re_status.md
+ new analysis/verify_quiet_bundle.py.
The segment-channel scoring analyzer (from scratch/next_experiment_skeleton.py)
ran and immediately confirmed the rotation hypothesis:
SP0 seg 0: best fit Vert 508/508 ✓
SP0 seg 1: best fit Long 508/508 ✓
SP0 seg 3: best fit Tran 508/508 ✓ (Tran continuation)
SP0 seg 5: best fit Long 508/508 ✓
SP0 seg 9: best fit Long 508/508 ✓
V70 seg 0: best fit Vert 508/508 ✓
V70 seg 1: best fit Long 508/508 ✓
Channels rotate Tran → Vert → Long → MicL per 40 02 segment header.
Also discovered the segment header has DOUBLE duty: bytes [14:18] anchor
the NEW segment's channel (2 samples as int16 BE in 16-count units), AND
bytes [0:4] extend the PREVIOUS channel by 2 more samples (2 deltas as
int16 BE). This is the same "2 anchors + delta stream" structure as the
body preamble for Tran.
decode_waveform_v2 now returns full per-channel sample dicts.
Byte-exact verified ranges:
V70: Tran 512, Vert 512, Long 512 (all first segments)
JQ0: Tran 512, Vert 258
SP0: Long 1536 (all 3 L segments)
Still open: the 30 NN block format (high-amplitude packed deltas) —
appears mid-segment when single-byte deltas can't carry the magnitude.
6 new tests bring the count to 46. All passing.
User uploaded a Vert-heavy event (JQ0) and a Mic-heavy event (V70).
Those two were exactly what was needed to crack the next piece:
- 00 NN block = run-length-encoded zero deltas in the current channel.
Append NN copies of the current cumulative value (no change).
- find_data_start now recognizes 00 NN as a valid first tag (some events
begin with a leading 00 NN RLE block).
- decode_tran_initial now decodes the FULL segment 0 (not just the first
data block).
Results across 5 fixture events:
- M529LL1A.SP0 (loud-all-channels) : 510 / 510 ✓
- M529LL1L.JQ0 (Vert-heavy) : 510 / 510 ✓
- M529LL1L.V70 (Mic-heavy) : 510 / 510 ✓
- M529LL1A.SV0 (loud-from-start) : 58 / 58 ✓
- M529LL1A.SS0 (loud-from-start) : 42 / 502 (stops at first 30 04)
The 30 04 block (only seen in loud-from-start events) hasn't been
decoded yet — likely a channel-switch marker for the high-amplitude
regime.
Also discovered: segment header (40 02) payload bytes [0:2] = T_delta
at first sample of new segment, [6:8] = byte length to next segment.
Multi-segment Tran decoding still diverges after sample 512 because
the per-segment channel ordering after the header is unknown.
Tests: 40 pass (up from 36).
Files:
- minimateplus/waveform_codec.py: find_data_start fix, RLE handling,
full segment-0 decode in decode_tran_initial
- tests/test_waveform_codec.py: synthetic RLE test, full segment 0
tests for JQ0 and V70
- tests/fixtures/5-11-26/: M529LL1L.JQ0, M529LL1L.V70 + TXT exports
- docs/instantel_protocol_reference.md §7.6.1: RLE + segment-header docs
User uploaded 3 high-amplitude events (PPV 6-7 in/s — shook the geophone
hard) to decode-re/5-11-26/. These cracked the Tran codec:
- Preamble bytes [3:5] and [5:7] = Tran[0] and Tran[1] as int16 BE
in 16-count units (LSB = 0.005 in/s). Confirmed across all 7
fixtures.
- First data block carries Tran deltas from sample 2 onward:
* 10 NN block: NN/2 bytes of payload, each byte = two 4-bit signed
nibble deltas (high nibble first)
* 20 NN block: NN int8 signed deltas
Verified 22+42+46 = 110 Tran samples across SP0/SS0/SV0 with 0 errors
against BW's ASCII export.
Why the earlier 96-combination brute force failed: the quiet 5-8
events all had T[0] = T[1] ≈ 0 so the preamble's per-channel encoding
was undetectable. Loud events made the encoding obvious.
What's solved:
- minimateplus.waveform_codec.decode_tran_initial: returns first
N Tran samples in 16-count units for any body.
- Walker length formula for in-data 30 NN blocks (NN*2 instead of NN*4).
- Walker now handles bodies that start with 20 NN (in addition to 10 NN).
What's still open:
- Tran past the first data block (multi-block channel switching).
- Vert / Long / MicL channel encodings.
- Walker correctness past offset ~427 in event-b.
Tests: 36 pass. decode_waveform_v2 still returns None — the full
multi-channel decoder is not wired up. decode_tran_initial is the
new verified entry point.
Files: minimateplus/waveform_codec.py, tests/test_waveform_codec.py
(adds 5-11-26 fixtures + decode_tran_initial tests), and
docs/instantel_protocol_reference.md §7.6.1 (Tran codec spec).
Decoded the structural framing of the Blastware waveform body — the bytes
between the 21-byte STRT record and the 26-byte file footer. The body is
a sequence of tagged variable-length blocks, NOT raw int16 LE. Five tag
types (10/20/00/30/40 NN) and their lengths are now confirmed against the
4-event May 2026 fixture bundle. Body splits cleanly into ~16 segments
(for a 1280-sample event) separated by 40 02 segment headers carrying a
monotonically incrementing uint32 LE counter at bytes [8:12].
What's done:
- minimateplus/waveform_codec.py — block walker, segment splitter, segment
header parser. decode_waveform_v2 is a stub returning None until the
byte-to-sample mapping is solved; client.py is unchanged.
- tests/test_waveform_codec.py — 31 tests covering block detection, lengths,
contiguous-walk, segment splitting, segment-header parsing, and counter
monotonicity. All pass.
- tests/fixtures/decode-re-5-8-26/ — bundled fixtures (4 events, BW binary
+ Blastware ASCII export each).
- docs/instantel_protocol_reference.md §7.6.1 — replaced retraction box
with the verified structural decoding plus an explicit list of what's
still open.
What's still open: the per-byte mapping inside 10 NN / 20 NN blocks. 96
channel-permutation × nibble-order × sign-convention combinations were
brute-force tested; none match BW's ASCII export to within ±1 ADC count.
The codec is more elaborate than uniform 4-bit deltas — likely a hybrid
variable-bit-width scheme with segment-anchor resync points. Next
recommended step: capture an event with a known calibration tone to pin
down magnitude scaling.
Walker also bails out partway through event-b (open issue documented in
both the module and the protocol reference).
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