codec: crack wide-NN blocks (1X NN / 2X NN); loud events now fully decode

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).

.dockerignore

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+.git
+.gitignore
+
+.venv
+venv
+env
+__pycache__
+*.pyc
+*.pyo
+*.pyd
+.pytest_cache
+.mypy_cache
+.ruff_cache
+
+*.db
+*.db-wal
+*.db-shm
+*.sqlite
+*.sqlite3
+
+sfm/data
+bridges/captures
+example-events
+captures
+logs
+
+.DS_Store
+Thumbs.db

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,125 @@ All notable changes to seismo-relay are documented here.
 
 ---
 
+## v0.18.0 — 2026-05-19
+
+The "Thor / Series IV ingest adapter" release.  Seismo-relay can now accept event files from Instantel Micromate Series IV (Thor) units alongside the existing MiniMate Plus (Series III) Blastware pipeline.
+
+### Added — Thor (Series IV) IDF ingest
+
+- **`POST /db/import/idf_file`** (`sfm/server.py`) — multipart upload endpoint for `.IDFH` (histogram) and `.IDFW` (waveform) event files plus their `.IDFH.txt` / `.IDFW.txt` ASCII sidecars.  Mirrors the shape of `/db/import/blastware_file`: pairing by filename, optional `serial` query hint, per-file outcome reporting.
+- **`sfm/idf_ascii_report.py`** — parser for Thor's TXT sidecars (verified against 1,014 real-world samples).  Extracts device-authoritative PPV, ZC Freq, Peak Vector Sum, Mic PSPL, calibration date, firmware version, sensor self-check results, and project/client/operator strings.
+- **`WaveformStore.save_imported_idf()`** (`sfm/waveform_store.py`) — stores Thor binaries verbatim in `<root>/<serial>/<filename>`, writes a `.sfm.json` sidecar with `source.kind = "idf-import"` and the full parsed report under `extensions.idf_report`.  Reuses the existing `events` table — Thor events dedupe on (serial, timestamp) and surface in `/db/events` alongside BW events.
+- **`tests/test_idf_ascii_report.py`** — parser tests against the `thor-watcher/example-data/` corpus.
+
+### Changed
+
+- `event_to_sidecar_dict()` (`minimateplus/event_file_io.py`) allow-list for `source_kind` now includes `"idf-import"` so the existing sidecar machinery can carry Thor imports.
+- Bumped `pyproject.toml` version to `0.18.0`.
+
+### Companion release
+
+This release ships alongside **thor-watcher v0.3.0**, which adds the SFM forwarder that targets the new `/db/import/idf_file` endpoint.  Operators flip the switch in thor-watcher's new "SFM Forward" Settings tab; events POST to seismo-relay just like the series3-watcher BW forwarder does today.
+
+---
+
+## v0.17.0 — 2026-05-17
+
+The "field rescue + DB management" release.  Hardened against units that are stuck in a runaway call-home loop, and added an operator-facing path for purging bogus events that those same units dump into the DB before recovery.  All work in this release was driven by the BE9558H incident (full incident log + recovery procedure at `docs/runbooks/wedged_unit_recovery.md`).
+
+### Added — wedged-unit recovery toolkit
+
+A toolkit for breaking the call-home loop on a misbehaving unit whose firmware is too busy to keep up with normal request/response handshakes.  Tested in production against BE9558H (16 May 2026) — a unit with a stuck-triggered Long-axis geophone that had been call-homing the office BW ACH server every 30 seconds for hours.  Endpoints layered from "single attempt" to "siege mode" to suit different contention levels:
+
+- **`GET /device/events/storage_range`** — SUB 0x06 probe.  POLL + one read; ~2s.  Returns first/last event keys and an `is_empty` flag.  Use to triage whether a unit has stored events without invoking the slow `count_events()` 1E/1F chain (which choked on BE9558H's corrupted event chain).
+- **`GET /device/events/index`** — SUB 0x08 probe.  POLL + one read; ~2s.  Returns the lifetime event counter (does NOT decrement on erase — use `storage_range` for "right now" state).
+- **`POST /device/events/erase`** — full erase sequence `0xA3 → 0x1C → 0x06 → 0xA2` (confirmed 2026-04-11, see the protocol reference).  Resets event keys to `0x01110000`.  Caller's responsibility to disable ACH first if the underlying trigger condition will re-fill the buffer.
+- **`POST /device/rescue`** — one TCP session, short connect+recv timeouts: POLL → disable ACH (compliance config write) → erase events → close.  Designed for race-loop usage when the device is busy in another session.  503 on connect-refused, 502 on protocol failure, 200 on full sequence success.
+- **`POST /device/stop_monitoring_blind`** — fire-and-forget Stop Monitoring (SUB 0x97), TCP-only.  Dumps `SESSION_RESET + POLL_PROBE + SESSION_RESET + POLL_DATA + 0x97 × repeat` and closes without reading any S3 response.  The full POLL preamble is required — write commands without it are silently ignored by the device's protocol parser (false-positive surface area that bit the first version of this endpoint).  Use when the device's firmware can't keep up with full request/response but might process inbound bytes at its own pace.
+- **`POST /device/stop_monitoring_spam`** — server-side hammer loop, duration-bounded.  Open TCP → write the same blind payload → close → repeat as fast as possible until `duration_s` elapses.  Configurable `connect_timeout` (default 500ms) and `repeat` (frames per session).  Reports `sent_ok`, `connect_failed`, `write_failed`, `rate_attempts_per_s`.  Clamped to 5min duration.
+- **`POST /device/stop_monitoring_slow_drip`** — opposite of spam.  Open ONE TCP session, drip the wake handshake + stop frames at `interval_s` (default 3s) for `duration_s` (default 120s, max 10min).  Each drip is ~23 bytes — well under any UART FIFO size.  Opportunistically drains any inbound bytes the device sends back; `bytes_received > 0` in the response strongly suggests the device has started talking and the session is healthy.  **This is the endpoint that saved BE9558H.** Spam mode had been overrunning the device's UART FIFO; slow drip stayed under it.
+- **Six rescue scripts** under `scripts/` — thin bash wrappers around the endpoints, default `SFM_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8200` (direct, not via Terra-View proxy whose 60s timeout would cut off the longer endpoints):
+    - `rescue_device.sh` — race-loop wrapper for `/device/rescue`
+    - `blind_stop.sh` — race-loop wrapper for `/device/stop_monitoring_blind`
+    - `spam_stop.sh` — single-call burst hammer
+    - `slow_drip.sh` — single-call held-session drip
+    - `watch_unit.sh` — passive periodic reachability check (every N min, logs to file), useful for unattended overnight monitoring of a wedged unit
+- **`docs/runbooks/wedged_unit_recovery.md`** — symptoms, quick-reference recovery procedure, the modem-layer mechanism (Sierra Wireless serial-port mode-flipping is the real failure mode — not the device firmware), and a table of "why simpler approaches don't work" so the next incident skips the dead ends.
+
+### Added — operator event DB management
+
+Endpoints powering Terra-View's new `/admin/events` page (v0.12.0).  Designed for purging bogus events from a unit that's been forwarding them in bulk (e.g. a stuck-triggered seismograph dumping hundreds of junk events before it's recovered).
+
+- **`DELETE /db/events/{event_id}`** — hard-delete one event row.  Also unlinks the associated blastware binary (`.AB0*`), `.a5.pkl`, `.sfm.json` sidecar, and `.h5` clean-waveform files via the WaveformStore.  Returns the per-file removal status.  404 if the event doesn't exist.
+- **`POST /db/events/delete_bulk`** — filter-based or id-list-based bulk delete with safety rails:
+    - Filters (`serial`, `from_dt`, `to_dt`, `false_trigger`) combine with AND; same semantics as `GET /db/events`.  `ids` is an additional inclusion list.  Refuses to run with no filters (would wipe the whole table — raises 422).
+    - `confirm` must be `true` to actually delete.  Otherwise returns a dry-run summary (`status: "dry_run"`, `matched: N`, `sample_serials: [...]`).
+    - `max_rows` (default 10,000) caps how many rows can be deleted by-filter in one call.  If exceeded, returns `status: "too_many"` with a hint to narrow or raise the cap.  Bypassed when only `ids` is supplied.
+- **`_cleanup_event_files(row)`** helper in `sfm/server.py` — best-effort `unlink()` of all four sidecar paths derived from the row's `blastware_filename`.  Logged at WARN if a path exists but unlink fails; the DB row deletion still proceeds.
+- **`SeismoDb.delete_event(id)` and `SeismoDb.delete_events_bulk(...)`** in `sfm/database.py` — both return the deleted row dict(s) so callers can do file cleanup.  `delete_events_bulk` raises `ValueError` if no filters are supplied.
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Default protocol recv timeout dropped from 30s → 10s** in `_build_client()`.  The unit usually responds in well under a second over cellular; 10s leaves comfortable headroom for retransmits while failing reasonably fast when a unit is wedged.  The two endpoints that perform full 5A waveform downloads still pass `timeout=120.0` explicitly so multi-minute event transfers are unaffected.
+- **`_build_client()` now accepts an optional `connect_timeout`** (TCP-only) so rescue / race-loop endpoints can fail fast on busy modems without affecting the protocol-level recv timeout.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **`GET /device/monitor/status` returned HTTP 500 + uncaught traceback when the device was unresponsive**.  The retry-on-`Exception` inner block let the second `client.poll()`'s `ProtocolError` propagate out of the handler.  Now wrapped in proper try/except — returns 502 with `{"detail": "Protocol error: No S3 frame received within 10.0s ..."}` on timeout, 502 on connection errors, 500 only for genuinely unexpected exceptions.
+
+### Migration
+
+No schema changes.  No data migration required.
+
+If you've been running a previous version against a wedged unit and accumulated bogus events, the new `/admin/events` page in Terra-View v0.12.0 (or direct `POST /db/events/delete_bulk` with `confirm: true`) is the cleanup tool.  Watcher state on the upstream DL2 PC does NOT need separate cleaning — the watcher's `sfm_forwarded.json` keys on file sha256 and won't re-forward the same files.
+
+### Pairing
+
+This release pairs with **Terra-View v0.12.0**, which adds the `/admin/events` UI that consumes the new bulk-delete endpoints, the bulk false-trigger flagging on `/unit/{id}`, and the field-deployment workflow that uses the same `series3-watcher` → SFM ingest path as before.
+
+---
+
+## v0.16.1 — 2026-05-14
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **`record_type` always "Waveform" for forwarded events.**  `read_blastware_file()` hardcoded `ev.record_type = "Waveform"` regardless of the file's actual type.  The watcher-forward pipeline (the main BW ACH ingest path) compounds this by parsing files from a tmp path with a `.bw` suffix, so even a filename-based fallback inside the parser still wouldn't see the original extension.  Now:
+
+  1. New `derive_record_type_from_filename(filename)` helper in `minimateplus/event_file_io.py` derives the type from the LAST character of the filename's extension (V10.72+ AB0T scheme: `H`=Histogram, `W`=Waveform, `M`=Manual, `E`=Event, `C`=Combo).  Falls back to `"Waveform"` for old S338 firmware (3-char extensions ending in `0`) and any unrecognized suffix.
+  2. `read_blastware_file()` now calls the helper with its `path.name` so direct callers (the `--dry-run` path in `scripts/import_bw.py`, tests, ad-hoc scripts) get the right value automatically.
+  3. `WaveformStore.save_imported_bw()` overrides `ev.record_type` with the **original** filename's derived type after parsing (the tmp file inside the parser doesn't carry the original extension).  This is the path the live watcher-forwarder hits, so the DB column now reflects the actual event type going forward.
+
+  Events ingested before this fix are stuck with `record_type="Waveform"` in the DB; a one-off backfill (`UPDATE events SET record_type = ... WHERE blastware_filename LIKE '%H'`) would fix them retroactively if desired.  Terra-view's event modal also derives client-side from the filename, so the UI already shows the correct type for old events even without the backfill.
+
+---
+
+## v0.16.0 — 2026-05-11
+
+The "BW ACH ingestion" release.  When paired with **series3-watcher v1.5.0**, every Blastware ACH event (binary + `_ASCII.TXT` report) lands in SeismoDb with device-authoritative peaks, project metadata, sensor self-check, and ZC/Time-of-Peak data — without depending on the still-undecoded waveform body codec.  This is the end-to-end product win discussed in v0.15.0's "out of scope" notes: sortable / filterable monthly-summary review of historical events, populated from the BW ASCII export rather than re-decoded samples.
+
+### Added — `/db/import/blastware_file` rich-metadata ingestion
+
+- **Paired BW ASCII reports.**  The endpoint now accepts the `<binary>_<ext>_ASCII.TXT` partner BW writes alongside each event.  Pairing handles both filename conventions: ACH (`M529LK44_AB0_ASCII.TXT`) and manual-export (`M529LK44.AB0.TXT`).  When both present, ACH wins.
+- **`minimateplus/bw_ascii_report.py`** (new) — parser + `BwAsciiReport` dataclass for BW's per-event ASCII export.  Handles every field BW writes: identity, trigger config, per-channel PPV / ZC Freq / Time of Peak / Peak Acceleration / Peak Displacement, Peak Vector Sum + time, MicL PSPL / Time of Peak / ZC Freq, sensor self-check (Test Freq / Test Ratio / Test Amplitude / Pass-Fail per channel), monitor log, PC SW version.
+- **Position-based user-notes parsing.**  BW's Compliance Setup → Notes tab labels (Project / Client / User Name / Seis Loc) are *operator-editable* — an operator can rename them to "Building:", "Site Address:", etc.  Rather than maintain a label-spelling map, the parser uses positional matching between the `Units :` and `Geo Range :` anchors in the ASCII output.  The four canonical slots (project / client / operator / sensor_location) populate by position regardless of label; the original labels BW wrote are preserved in `report.user_note_labels` for downstream UIs (terra-view) to display verbatim.
+- **`bw_report` sidecar block.**  New top-level block in `.sfm.json` carrying the parsed BW report (trigger config, peaks with per-channel stats, mic block, sensor_check, monitor_log, PC SW version, operator-label labels).
+- **`apply_report_to_event(event, report)` helper.**  Overlays the report's device-authoritative fields onto an in-memory `Event` so `SeismoDb.insert_events()` writes correct DB columns instead of the broken-codec values from `_peaks_from_samples()`.
+
+### Fixed — three compounding bugs that left forwarded events with garbage data
+
+- **Import endpoint inserted under `serial="UNKNOWN"`.**  `_serial_from_event(ev)` was a stub that always returned `None`; the BW-filename-decoded serial that `WaveformStore` had already resolved was never surfaced to `db.insert_events`.  Now uses `rec["serial"]` as the authoritative source.  `scripts/repair_unknown_serials.py` repairs existing DB rows.
+- **`/db/units` ignored events from non-ACH ingest paths.**  `query_units()` only aggregated from `ach_sessions` — events that arrived via `save_imported_bw()` were never visible in the fleet overview even though they populated `events` correctly.  Now unions both tables.
+- **Re-imports left stale DB rows.**  The `IntegrityError` handler in `insert_events()` only refreshed filename / sidecar columns when a duplicate `(serial, timestamp)` arrived.  Peak values, project info, sample_rate, record_type stayed locked at whatever the first (often broken-codec) insert wrote.  Now the upsert path refreshes every device-authoritative column from the new data while preserving `false_trigger` and immutable fields (`id`, `created_at`).
+- **Server-side TXT pairing only knew the legacy convention.**  The endpoint stripped `.TXT` and looked up `<binary>` — which works for manual exports (`<binary>.TXT`) but not BW ACH (`<stem>_<ext>_ASCII.TXT`).  Reports were arriving in the multipart but silently dropped.  Now recognises both conventions and registers each report under all matching binary names.
+
+### Migration
+
+For existing deployments where events were forwarded by an older watcher (broken pairing) or imported during the UNKNOWN-bucketing window:
+
+1. `python -m scripts.repair_unknown_serials --db <path> --apply` to re-attribute `serial="UNKNOWN"` rows.
+2. Delete the watcher's `sfm_forwarded.json` state file and let it re-forward.  The server's upsert path will refresh the existing DB rows with the report's authoritative values.
+3. Operator review state (`false_trigger`, sidecar `review` block) is preserved across the re-import.
+
 ## v0.15.0 — 2026-05-07
 
 ### Added

CLAUDE.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Ground-up Python replacement for **Blastware**, Instantel's Windows-only software for
 managing MiniMate Plus seismographs. Connects over direct RS-232 or cellular modem
-(Sierra Wireless RV50 / RV55). Current version: **v0.14.3**.
+(Sierra Wireless RV50 / RV55). Current version: **v0.17.0**.
 
 When new information about the protocol is discovered, please update the instantel_protocol_reference.md with the findings in addition to this document
 
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ minimateplus/         ← Python client library (primary focus)
   protocol.py         ←   MiniMateProtocol — wire-level read/write methods
   client.py           ←   MiniMateClient — high-level API (connect, get_events, …)
   models.py           ←   DeviceInfo, EventRecord, ComplianceConfig, …
+  waveform_codec.py   ←   Body-codec block walker + decode_tran_initial (partial
+                          per-sample decoder — see "Waveform body codec" section below)
 
 sfm/server.py         ← FastAPI REST server exposing device data over HTTP
 seismo_lab.py         ← Tkinter GUI (Bridge + Analyzer + Console tabs)
@@ -57,6 +59,133 @@ Full read pipeline + write pipeline + erase pipeline + monitor log + call home c
 
 ---
 
+## Waveform body codec — FULLY DECODED (2026-05-11 late)
+
+> ### ✅ The codec is fully cracked
+>
+> Every block type, every channel, every fixture event decodes byte-exact
+> against BW's ASCII export.  **47,364 ADC samples verified, zero errors.**
+> The previous int16 LE interpretation was wrong — see the retraction
+> trail in `docs/instantel_protocol_reference.md §7.6.1`.
+>
+> Authoritative implementation: `minimateplus/waveform_codec.py`
+> (`decode_waveform_v2()`).  Clean working notes:
+> `docs/waveform_codec_re_status.md`.
+>
+> **NOTE:** `client.py:_decode_a5_waveform` still uses the broken
+> legacy int16 LE decoder.  Wiring `decode_waveform_v2` into the
+> `.h5` sidecar path is the obvious next follow-up.  Until that lands,
+> `.h5` samples remain wrong — but the codec itself is fully solved.
+
+The Blastware waveform-file body (between the 21-byte STRT record and
+the 26-byte footer) is a tagged variable-length block stream with a
+custom delta + RLE + variable-width codec.
+
+### What's solved (2026-05-11)
+
+- **Block framing** — 5 tag types (`10 NN`, `20 NN`, `00 NN`, `30 NN`,
+  `40 02`) with confirmed lengths.  Implementation: `walk_body()` in
+  `minimateplus/waveform_codec.py`.
+- **Per-channel codec** — preamble bytes [3:7] = `Tran[0]`, `Tran[1]`
+  as int16 BE in **16-count units** (LSB = 0.005 in/s).  Then `10 NN`
+  (4-bit nibble deltas), `20 NN` (int8 deltas), and `00 NN` (RLE zero
+  deltas) carry per-channel deltas from sample 2 onward.
+- **Channel rotation** — segments cycle **Tran → Vert → Long → MicL**
+  per `40 02` segment header.  Each segment carries ~512 sample-sets of
+  ONE channel.  The initial body (before the first `40 02`) is the
+  implicit Tran segment.
+- **Segment header layout (20 bytes)** —
+  bytes [0:2] = previous-channel continuation delta #1 (int16 BE);
+  bytes [2:4] = previous-channel continuation delta #2;
+  bytes [6:8] = byte length to next header − 2;
+  bytes [8:12] = monotonic uint32 LE counter;
+  bytes [12:14] = constant `02 00`;
+  bytes [14:16] = THIS segment's channel sample 0 anchor (int16 BE);
+  bytes [16:18] = THIS segment's channel sample 1 anchor.
+- **`decode_waveform_v2()`** returns full per-channel sample dicts.
+  Byte-exact against BW ASCII export for V70 (all 3 channels × 1 seg
+  each), JQ0 (T/V), and SP0 Long (all 3 segments = 1536 samples).
+
+- **`30 NN` block** — carries NN 12-bit signed deltas packed as NN/4
+  groups of 6 bytes each.  Within each group, bytes [0:2] hold 4 ×
+  4-bit high nibbles (MSB first), bytes [2:6] hold 4 × int8 low bytes.
+  Each delta = `sign_extend_12((high_nibble << 8) | low_byte)`.  Block
+  length = `NN × 1.5 + 2` bytes.  ✅ confirmed against all 14 `30 NN`
+  blocks in the fixture bundle.  12-bit was chosen because ±2047 in
+  16-count units ≈ ±10 in/s = the geophone's full-scale range at
+  Normal sensitivity.
+- **Wide-NN blocks (`1X NN`, `2X NN`)** — when a `10 NN` or `20 NN`
+  block's NN would exceed 0xFC, the codec uses a 12-bit NN encoding:
+  the low nibble of the type byte holds the high nibble of NN (so the
+  type byte appears as e.g. `0x11` instead of `0x10`).  Effective
+  NN = `((type_byte & 0x0F) << 8) | nn_byte`.  Block length follows
+  the same formula as the narrow form (`NN/2 + 2` for nibble blocks,
+  `NN + 2` for int8 blocks).  Confirmed 2026-05-11 against SP0 cycle
+  3 V continuation (`11 90` = NN=400 nibble deltas in 202 bytes).
+
+### What's NOT solved
+
+- **MicL channel conversion to dB(L)** — the codec emits MicL as
+  raw ADC counts (same format as geo channels), but BW's ASCII export
+  shows mic in dB(L) with ~6 dB quantization steps.  Need to map
+  ADC counts → dB(L) for direct comparison; likely
+  `dB = 20*log10(|counts|) + offset` or similar.
+- **Walker edge cases** — SP0/SS0/SV0 don't walk the full event due
+  to block-length quirks past the first few segments.  Every sample
+  reached is correct; the walker just needs robustness improvements.
+
+### Decoded sample counts (across the fixture bundle)
+
+| Event | Tran | Vert | Long | Total |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| event-a | 3328 | 3328 | 3328 | **9984** ← full event |
+| event-b | 2304 | 2304 | 2304 | **6912** ← full event |
+| event-c | 1280 | 1280 | 1280 | 3840 ← full event |
+| event-d | 1280 | 1280 | 1280 | 3840 ← full event |
+| JQ0 | 3328 | 3328 | 3328 | **9984** ← full event |
+| V70 | 3328 | 3328 | 3328 | **9984** ← full event |
+| SP0 | 3328 | 3328 | 3328 | **9984** ← full event |
+| SS0 | 3078 | 3072 | 3072 | 9222 (1–7 tail samples missing) |
+| SV0 | 3078 | 3072 | 3072 | 9222 (1–7 tail samples missing) |
+
+**Total: 72,972 ADC samples verified byte-exact, zero errors.**
+
+7 of 9 fixture events decode end-to-end across all three geo channels.
+The remaining two (SS0 / SV0) decode all but the last 1–7 samples per
+channel — a minor walker edge case.
+
+### Production-code status (updated 2026-05-11 late)
+
+`client.py:_decode_a5_waveform` now uses the verified codec via
+`waveform_codec.decode_a5_frames()` — which calls
+`blastware_file.extract_body_bytes()` to reconstruct the BW-binary
+body from A5 frames, then `decode_waveform_v2()` to decode samples,
+then `decoded_to_adc_counts()` to scale to int16 ADC counts (geos × 16;
+mic pass-through).  The `.h5` sidecars SFM produces now contain
+correct samples for any event without walker edge cases.
+
+The original int16 LE decoder is preserved as
+`_decode_a5_waveform_LEGACY` for reference but is not called.
+
+MicL → dB(L) conversion utility:
+`waveform_codec.mic_count_to_db(count)` — `count=±1 → ±81.94 dB`;
+`count=813 → 140.14 dB` (matches BW display).
+
+### Test fixtures
+
+`tests/fixtures/decode-re-5-8-26/` and `tests/fixtures/5-11-26/` —
+nine BW binary + ASCII pairs captured from a live BE11529.  The
+5-11-26 high-amplitude bundle (PPV 6–7 in/s) is what cracked the Tran
+codec; the V70 (mic-heavy) + JQ0 (Vert-heavy) pair cracked the `00 NN`
+RLE rule.
+
+If the user uploads new events for codec RE, they go directly into a
+dated subdirectory under `tests/fixtures/` (e.g. `tests/fixtures/5-18-26/`).
+There used to be a separate `decode-re/` upload mirror but it was
+removed once the fixtures directory became the canonical location.
+
+---
+
 ## Protocol fundamentals
 
 ### DLE framing
@@ -1353,6 +1482,8 @@ body) because writing a dial string may require DLE escaping for embedded contro
 
 ## What's next
 
+**See [README.md → Roadmap (Future)](README.md#roadmap-future) for the canonical deferred-work list.** This section is kept as a status log of in-progress / recently-shipped technical details (encoding schemes, byte layouts, etc.) that are too low-level for the README's roadmap.
+
 - **Database** — SQLite store for events + monitor log entries; dedup by key; queryable
 - **Histograms** — decode histogram-mode A5 data (noise floor tracking)
 - **Blastware-compatible file output** — `write_blastware_file()` and `write_mlg()` implemented. `blastware_filename()` generates correct Blastware filenames (AB0 for direct, AB0W/AB0H for ACH). **Confirmed BYTE-PERFECT against BW reference (v0.14.3, 2026-05-05):** when fed the BW 5-1-26 3-sec capture's A5 frames, the SFM-built file matches BW's saved `M529LKIQ.G10` byte-for-byte (8708 bytes, 0 differences).  Live SFM downloads of event 0 (3-sec) and event 1 (3-sec continuation) both open cleanly in Blastware with full Event Reports, frequency analysis, and waveform plots.  Body assembly is just contiguous concatenation of frame contributions in stream order (probe → meta@0x1002 → meta@0x1004 → samples → TERM); no stripping, no overlay, no special handling.  Histogram+Continuous mode deferred (5A stream for those events embeds histogram interval records that may need different handling — untested under v0.14.x). Extension mapping: extensions encode timestamp (AB0T for ACH, AB0 for direct), NOT recording mode. Filename format: `<prefix_letter><serial3><4-char-base36-stem><ext>`

Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+FROM python:3.11-slim
+
+WORKDIR /app
+
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends curl && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+COPY pyproject.toml requirements.txt ./
+COPY minimateplus ./minimateplus
+COPY sfm ./sfm
+COPY bridges ./bridges
+
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -e .
+
+EXPOSE 8200
+
+CMD ["python", "-m", "uvicorn", "sfm.server:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "8200"]

README.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# seismo-relay  `v0.15.0`
+# seismo-relay  `v0.17.0`
 
 A ground-up replacement for **Blastware** — Instantel's aging Windows-only
 software for managing MiniMate Plus seismographs.
@@ -14,11 +14,12 @@ over direct RS-232 or cellular modem (Sierra Wireless RV50 / RV55).
 > byte-perfect against Blastware captures across 2-sec, 3-sec, and 10-sec
 > events.** Generated `.G10` / `.AB0` files open cleanly in Blastware with
 > full Event Reports, frequency analysis, and waveform plots.
-> **v0.15.0 (2026-05-07)** adds layered per-event storage (BW binary +
-> raw 5A pickle + HDF5 + `.sfm.json` sidecar), a plot-ready
-> `sfm.plot.v1` JSON shape with server-side ADC-to-physical-units
-> conversion, and a BW-file importer for ingesting externally-produced
-> events.  See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for full version history.
+> **v0.16.0 (2026-05-11)** adds BW ASCII report ingestion to
+> `/db/import/blastware_file` — paired with **series3-watcher v1.5.0**,
+> every Blastware ACH event lands in SeismoDb with device-authoritative
+> peaks, project metadata, sensor self-check, and ZC/Time-of-Peak data,
+> without depending on the still-undecoded waveform body codec.
+> See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) for full version history.
 
 ---
 
@@ -356,10 +357,40 @@ Use **com0com** or **VSPD** to create the virtual COM pair on Windows.
 
 ## Roadmap (Future)
 
-- [ ] Verify 30-sec event download — body may exceed `0xFFFF` and force the device into a different `end_key` encoding (none of 2/3/10-sec test cases hit this boundary)
-- [ ] Terra-view integration — seismo-relay router, unit detail page, VISON-style event listing
-- [ ] Vibration summary reports — highest legit PPV per project → Word doc (false trigger filtering first)
-- [ ] Compliance config encoder — build raw write payloads from a `ComplianceConfig` object
-- [ ] Modem manager — push RV50/RV55 configs via Sierra Wireless API
-- [ ] Histogram mode recording support (5A stream analysis for mode 0x03)
-- [ ] Call Home dial_string write support (requires DLE escaping for embedded control characters)
+### High-impact (unblocks product features)
+
+- [ ] **Waveform body codec reverse-engineering.**  The 5A bulk-stream body is some kind of compressed/encoded format (not raw int16 LE as previously assumed — see §7.6.1 retraction in `docs/instantel_protocol_reference.md`).  Structural framing is ~50% decoded on branch `claude/codec-re-cBGNe` (tagged-block walker, segment counters); per-byte sample mapping is still open.  Until this lands, the in-app waveform viewer renders garbage and BW-import peak values fall back to `_peaks_from_samples()` saturation noise.  Workaround: pair every BW-imported event with its `_ASCII.TXT` so the device-authoritative peaks land in the DB regardless of codec.
+- [ ] **In-app waveform viewer accuracy.**  Depends on codec decode.  Plot.v1 JSON pipeline + viewer skeleton already exist; will start showing real waveforms automatically once `_decode_a5_waveform` produces correct samples.
+- [ ] **Terra-view integration** — seismo-relay router, unit detail page, VISON-style event listing.
+- [ ] **Vibration summary reports** — highest legit PPV per project → Word doc (false-trigger filtering first).
+
+### BW ASCII report parser enhancements (built in v0.16.0)
+
+- [ ] **Histogram-specific structural fields.**  Current parser handles the shared fields (PPV, ZC Freq, sensor self-check, project) but silently drops histogram-only fields: `Histogram Start/Stop Time`, `Histogram Start/Stop Date`, `Number of Intervals`, `Interval Size`, per-channel `Peak Time` + `Peak Date` (absolute timestamps rather than the waveform's `Time of Peak` relative seconds).
+- [ ] **Histogram interval bin-table parsing.**  Trailing 792-row table (per-interval Peak/Freq per channel + MicL) in histogram TXTs is unparsed.  Probably too big for the sidecar JSON; may want a separate `.histogram.h5` companion file.
+- [ ] **`>100 Hz` value parsing.**  Histogram TXTs use `>100 Hz` for out-of-range ZC freq; current `_parse_number()` returns `None` for these (loses information).
+
+### Ingestion gaps
+
+- [ ] **MLG forwarding.**  `series3-watcher` forwards event binaries + their `_ASCII.TXT` reports, but skips `.MLG` per-unit monitor log files entirely.  Adding an `POST /db/import/mlg_file` endpoint + watcher scan path would populate `monitor_log` for non-ACH-routed units (coverage queries, "was this unit monitoring on date X" lookups).
+- [ ] **0C-record raw bytes persistence in the sidecar.**  Currently on branch `claude/codec-re-cBGNe` as commit `a187124`; cherry-pick if useful as a standalone fix.  Preserves the 210-byte 0C record under `extensions.raw_records.waveform_record_b64` so future field-offset analysis (Peak Acceleration / Time of Peak / etc. — the fields BW computes client-side from samples) can run offline.
+
+### Operational
+
+- [ ] **`series3-watcher` file archive manager** — 90-day-old events moved to `<watch_folder>_archive/<year>/<month>/` subfolders.  Plan drafted in `claude/codec-re-cBGNe`'s plan-mode session; awaiting a 5-minute test on whether Blastware UI walks subfolders before any code lands (determines layout: in-place subfolders vs sibling archive).
+- [ ] **Compliance config encoder** — build raw write payloads from a `ComplianceConfig` object.
+- [ ] **Modem manager** — push RV50/RV55 configs via Sierra Wireless API.
+- [ ] **Call Home dial_string write support** (requires DLE escaping for embedded control characters).
+- [ ] **Histogram mode recording support** (5A stream analysis for mode 0x03 — separate from histogram ASCII parsing above).
+
+### Test coverage
+
+- [ ] Verify 30-sec event download — body may exceed `0xFFFF` and force the device into a different `end_key` encoding (none of the 2/3/10-sec test cases hit this boundary).
+- [ ] Histogram mode (0x03) write via SFM — confirmed working for Single Shot / Continuous / Histogram+Continuous; Histogram (0x03) needs a live test from a non-Histogram starting state.
+
+### Lower-priority cleanups
+
+- [ ] Compliance write anchor-9 cleanup — when changing recording_mode via SFM, a spurious `0x10` may persist after Histogram→other mode transitions.  Doesn't affect device operation but differs from BW's byte-perfect output.
+- [ ] Locate "Sensor Check" byte in compliance config (need capture with Disabled vs Before-monitoring).
+- [ ] Call Home — map time slots 3/4 offsets; confirm `modem_power_relay_enabled`.
+- [ ] RV55 DCD/DTR — newer RV55 firmware doesn't assert DCD by default; units don't resume monitoring after call-home disconnect (`--restart-monitoring` flag deferred).

analysis/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# analysis/ — exploratory scripts for waveform-body RE
+
+**These are scratch.** Run them, read them, copy them, but don't trust
+them as documentation.  When a finding is verified it gets promoted
+to `minimateplus/waveform_codec.py` and `tests/test_waveform_codec.py`;
+when it's wrong it stays here as a fossil.
+
+Authoritative status lives in:
+
+- `docs/waveform_codec_re_status.md` (current truth, working note)
+- `minimateplus/waveform_codec.py` (verified implementation + docstring)
+- `tests/test_waveform_codec.py` (regression locks against fixtures)
+
+---
+
+## Still useful
+
+| File | What it does |
+|---|---|
+| `load_bundle.py` | Fixture loader.  Parses BW binary + ASCII TXT into a `Bundle` dataclass with samples, metadata, body bytes.  Used by most other scripts here. |
+| `verify_tran.py` | Verifies `decode_tran_initial` against fixture ground truth across all events.  Useful when you change the decoder and want a quick sanity check. |
+| `inspect_5_11.py` | Inspects the 5-11-26 high-amplitude bundle's body structure, prints metadata, peaks, and block counts. |
+| `walk_5_11.py` | Walks blocks for the 5-11-26 bundle and prints offset/tag/length/data. |
+| `seg1_blocks.py` | Dumps all blocks in segment 1 of each event.  The starting point for cracking multi-segment Tran continuation. |
+| `full_tran.py` | Multi-segment Tran decoder attempt (broken — diverges at sample ~512).  Useful as a starting scaffold for the next experiment. |
+| `multi_segment.py` | Earlier multi-segment attempt with different segment-header consumption strategies.  Records what didn't work. |
+| `test_rle.py` | Tests `00 NN` interpretation as zero-RLE with different divisor values.  Documents how the RLE rule was confirmed. |
+
+## Superseded — keep for archaeology
+
+| File | Superseded by |
+|---|---|
+| `walk_v2.py` … `walk_v5.py` | `walk_v6.py` and ultimately `minimateplus/waveform_codec.walk_body`.  Each version represents one round of refinement.  Don't read in isolation — read the diff between them to see what was learned. |
+| `walk_chunks.py` | `walk_v6.py` / production walker |
+| `decode_v1.py` | First naive decoder attempt.  Wrong but readable. |
+
+## Pure exploration — read if curious
+
+| File | What it explored |
+|---|---|
+| `inspect_body.py` | Byte-frequency stats per event.  Established that bytes 0x00 / 0x10 dominate. |
+| `find_blocks.py` | Searched for repeating 2-byte tag patterns. |
+| `find_signal_runs.py` | Searched for stretches of bytes that "look like a smooth signal" (small inter-byte deltas).  Found the `20 NN` literal blocks. |
+| `dump_head.py`, `dump_trailer.py`, `dump_around.py` | Hex dumpers at various body positions. |
+| `compare_cd.py` | Byte-diff between event-c and event-d (same length, similar signal).  Used to identify structural vs data bytes. |
+| `brute_force.py` | Tested 96 combinations of channel-permutation × nibble-order × sign-convention × init-from-header on the quiet bundle.  All failed because the quiet bundle had T[0]=T[1]=0, making the preamble undetectable. |
+| `try_nibbles.py`, `try_layouts.py` | Earlier channel-interleaving hypotheses.  All wrong. |
+| `test_tran_continue.py` | Test of "Tran continues uninterrupted across `30 04` blocks" hypothesis.  Disproven. |
+
+---
+
+## Adding new scripts
+
+If you're picking up the codec work, feel free to add new scripts here.
+Suggested conventions:
+
+- Start the filename with what you're testing: `test_<hypothesis>.py`,
+  `verify_<piece>.py`, `inspect_<region>.py`.
+- Print enough output that the reader can see exactly which events
+  match / diverge and where.
+- When a finding is solid, move the verified logic to
+  `minimateplus/waveform_codec.py` and add a regression test in
+  `tests/test_waveform_codec.py` — don't leave the truth only in
+  this directory.
+- If a script is fully superseded, leave it in place (don't delete) —
+  the fossil record is useful when re-evaluating hypotheses later.

analysis/brute_force.py

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+"""Brute-force test channel permutations / nibble orders on event-d (simplest signal)."""
+import sys
+import itertools
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import walk_body
+
+
+def s4(n):
+    return n if n < 8 else n - 16
+
+
+def decode(body, channel_perm, nibble_order, sign_mode, init_from_header):
+    """Try one decoder configuration on event-d. Returns first 8 cumulative samples per channel."""
+    blocks = walk_body(body)
+    # Initial values from bytes [4:7] if init_from_header else 0
+    if init_from_header:
+        init = [body[4] if body[4] < 128 else body[4] - 256,
+                body[5] if body[5] < 128 else body[5] - 256,
+                body[6] if body[6] < 128 else body[6] - 256,
+                0]
+    else:
+        init = [0, 0, 0, 0]
+    cur = list(init)
+    out = [[init[0]], [init[1]], [init[2]], [init[3]]]  # sample 0 = init
+    nibble_idx = 0  # within delta stream; channel = channel_perm[nibble_idx % 4]
+
+    # Walk only the 10 NN data blocks
+    for blk in blocks:
+        if blk.tag_hi != 0x10:
+            continue
+        for byte in blk.data:
+            if nibble_order == 'high_first':
+                nib1, nib2 = (byte >> 4) & 0xF, byte & 0xF
+            else:
+                nib1, nib2 = byte & 0xF, (byte >> 4) & 0xF
+            for nib in (nib1, nib2):
+                if sign_mode == 'signed':
+                    delta = s4(nib)
+                else:
+                    delta = nib
+                ch = channel_perm[nibble_idx % 4]
+                cur[ch] += delta
+                if (nibble_idx + 1) % 4 == 0:
+                    out[0].append(cur[0])
+                    out[1].append(cur[1])
+                    out[2].append(cur[2])
+                    out[3].append(cur[3])
+                nibble_idx += 1
+                if len(out[0]) >= 16:
+                    return out
+    return out
+
+
+def best_match(pred, truth, n=10):
+    """Sum of squared differences in first n samples."""
+    n = min(n, len(pred), len(truth))
+    return sum((pred[i] - truth[i])**2 for i in range(n))
+
+
+def main():
+    b = load_bundle("event-d")
+    # truth in 16-count units
+    tr = {ch: [round(v * 200) for v in b.samples[ch]] for ch in ("Tran", "Vert", "Long")}
+
+    print("Truth event-d first 10 samples:")
+    for ch in ("Tran", "Vert", "Long"):
+        print(f"  {ch}: {tr[ch][:10]}")
+
+    # Test 96 combinations
+    best = []
+    for perm in itertools.permutations([0, 1, 2, 3]):
+        for nibble_order in ('high_first', 'low_first'):
+            for sign in ('signed', 'unsigned'):
+                for init_h in (False, True):
+                    decoded = decode(b.body, perm, nibble_order, sign, init_h)
+                    # Score as TVL channel-sum
+                    score = sum(
+                        best_match(decoded[i], tr[ch], n=10)
+                        for i, ch in enumerate(("Tran", "Vert", "Long"))
+                        if i < 3
+                    )
+                    label = f"perm={perm} nib={nibble_order[:1]} sign={sign[:3]} init={init_h}"
+                    best.append((score, label, decoded))
+
+    best.sort(key=lambda x: x[0])
+    print(f"\nTop 10 configurations:")
+    for s, lbl, dec in best[:10]:
+        print(f"  score={s:>5}  {lbl}  T={dec[0][:8]}  V={dec[1][:8]}  L={dec[2][:8]}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/compare_cd.py

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+"""Compare event-c and event-d (same N_samples) to find header vs data bytes."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+
+
+def main():
+    bc = load_bundle("event-c")
+    bd = load_bundle("event-d")
+
+    # Compare prefixes
+    nc, nd = len(bc.body), len(bd.body)
+    n = min(nc, nd)
+    diffs = []
+    for i in range(n):
+        if bc.body[i] != bd.body[i]:
+            diffs.append(i)
+    print(f"event-c body={nc}, event-d body={nd}")
+    print(f"Total diffs (first {n}): {len(diffs)}")
+
+    # Show common prefix
+    same_prefix = 0
+    for i in range(n):
+        if bc.body[i] == bd.body[i]:
+            same_prefix += 1
+        else:
+            break
+    print(f"Common prefix length: {same_prefix}")
+    print(f"event-c prefix: {bc.body[:same_prefix].hex(' ')}")
+
+    # Look for runs of common bytes
+    print(f"\nFirst 32 diff positions: {diffs[:32]}")
+
+    # Show the "diff fingerprint" of the first 100 bytes
+    print(f"\n  pos    c     d")
+    for i in range(0, 100):
+        marker = " " if bc.body[i] == bd.body[i] else "*"
+        bd_b = bd.body[i] if i < nd else None
+        print(f"  {i:>3}  {bc.body[i]:02x}{marker}  {bd_b:02x}" if bd_b is not None else f"  {i:>3}  {bc.body[i]:02x}{marker}")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/decode_v1.py

@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+"""
+Decoder v1: nibble-pair signed deltas in 10 NN blocks, 4-channel round-robin.
+"""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+
+
+def s4(n):
+    return n if n < 8 else n - 16
+
+
+def walk_blocks(body, start):
+    i = start
+    blocks = []
+    while i + 1 < len(body):
+        t0, t1 = body[i], body[i + 1]
+        if t0 == 0x10 and t1 % 4 == 0 and 0 < t1 <= 0xFC:
+            length = t1 // 2 + 2
+            data = bytes(body[i + 2 : i + length])
+            blocks.append(("10", t1, data))
+            i += length
+        elif t0 == 0x20 and t1 % 4 == 0 and 0 < t1 <= 0xFC:
+            length = t1 + 2
+            data = bytes(body[i + 2 : i + length])
+            blocks.append(("20", t1, data))
+            i += length
+        elif t0 == 0x00 and t1 % 4 == 0:
+            blocks.append(("00", t1, b""))
+            i += 2
+        elif t0 == 0x30 and t1 % 4 == 0 and 0 < t1 <= 0x10:
+            length = t1 * 4
+            data = bytes(body[i + 2 : i + length])
+            blocks.append(("30", t1, data))
+            i += length
+        elif t0 == 0x40 and t1 == 0x02:
+            length = 20
+            data = bytes(body[i + 2 : i + length])
+            blocks.append(("40", t1, data))
+            i += length
+        else:
+            blocks.append(("??", t0, bytes(body[i:i+8])))
+            break
+    return blocks
+
+
+def decode_v1(body, start, n_samples):
+    """Decode by accumulating nibble-pair deltas from all 10 NN blocks."""
+    blocks = walk_blocks(body, start)
+    # 4 channels: T, V, L, M
+    cur = [0, 0, 0, 0]
+    out = [[], [], [], []]
+    sample_index = 0  # how many sample-sets emitted
+
+    for typ, NN, data in blocks:
+        if typ == "10":
+            # 2 nibbles per byte, round-robin TVLM
+            for byte in data:
+                for nib in ((byte >> 4) & 0xF, byte & 0xF):
+                    ch = sample_index % 4
+                    cur[ch] += s4(nib)
+                    out[ch].append(cur[ch])
+                    sample_index = (sample_index + 1) // 4 * 4 + (sample_index + 1) % 4  # ?
+                    sample_index += 1
+                    # We emit per-nibble, but the structure is unclear
+        elif typ == "20":
+            # int8 absolute or delta?
+            for byte in data:
+                v = byte if byte < 128 else byte - 256
+                ch = sample_index % 4
+                cur[ch] = v  # treat as absolute
+                out[ch].append(cur[ch])
+                sample_index += 1
+    return out
+
+
+def main():
+    b = load_bundle("event-c")
+    body = b.body
+    truth_T = [round(v * 200) for v in b.samples["Tran"]]
+    truth_V = [round(v * 200) for v in b.samples["Vert"]]
+    truth_L = [round(v * 200) for v in b.samples["Long"]]
+
+    # Find start
+    for s in range(15):
+        if body[s] == 0x10 and body[s+1] % 4 == 0 and 0 < body[s+1] <= 0xFC:
+            start = s
+            break
+
+    blocks = walk_blocks(body, start)
+    # Print block-by-block what's in each
+    print(f"Total blocks: {len(blocks)}")
+    bytes_processed = 0
+    for typ, NN, data in blocks[:30]:
+        print(f"  type={typ} NN=0x{NN:02x} data_len={len(data)} data_hex={data[:32].hex(' ')}{'...' if len(data) > 32 else ''}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/dump_around.py

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+"""Dump body bytes around a specific offset."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+
+
+def dump_around(name: str, center: int, radius: int = 96):
+    b = load_bundle(name)
+    body = b.body
+    start = max(0, center - radius)
+    end = min(len(body), center + radius)
+    print(f"\n=== {name} body[{start}:{end}] (full body={len(body)}) ===")
+    for i in range(start, end, 32):
+        row = body[i:i+32]
+        marker = "  <-- center" if i <= center < i+32 else ""
+        print(f"  +{i:>5}  {row.hex(' ')}{marker}")
+
+
+def main():
+    # Look at the trailer transitions
+    trailer_starts = {"event-a": 7047, "event-b": 6475, "event-c": 4043, "event-d": 3941}
+    for name, off in trailer_starts.items():
+        dump_around(name, off, 96)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/dump_head.py

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+"""Dump the START of each body in 32-byte rows."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+
+
+def main():
+    for name in ("event-a", "event-c"):
+        b = load_bundle(name)
+        body = b.body
+        print(f"\n=== {name} body[0:512] (full body={len(body)}, samples={len(b.samples['Tran'])}) ===")
+        for i in range(0, min(512, len(body)), 32):
+            row = body[i:i+32]
+            print(f"  +{i:>5}  {row.hex(' ')}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/dump_trailer.py

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+"""Dump body bytes split into 32-byte rows starting from `start_offset`."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+
+
+def dump(body: bytes, name: str, start: int, n_rows: int = 30):
+    print(f"\n=== {name} body[{start}:] (full body={len(body)}) ===")
+    end = min(start + 32 * n_rows, len(body))
+    for i in range(start, end, 32):
+        row = body[i:i+32]
+        print(f"  +{i:>5}  {row.hex(' ')}")
+
+
+def main():
+    for name in ("event-a", "event-b", "event-c", "event-d"):
+        b = load_bundle(name)
+        # Print the LAST ~600 bytes of the body to see the tail structure
+        start = max(0, len(b.body) - 32 * 12)
+        dump(b.body, name, start, 12)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/find_blocks.py

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+"""Search for structural repetition in the body bytes."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+
+
+def find_pattern_offsets(body: bytes, pattern: bytes, max_count=20):
+    out = []
+    i = 0
+    while True:
+        i = body.find(pattern, i)
+        if i < 0:
+            break
+        out.append(i)
+        i += 1
+        if len(out) >= max_count:
+            break
+    return out
+
+
+def main():
+    for name in ("event-a", "event-b", "event-c", "event-d"):
+        b = load_bundle(name)
+        body = b.body
+        print(f"\n=== {name} (body={len(body)}, N_samples={len(b.samples['Tran'])}) ===")
+
+        # Try to find repeating substructures (look for 4-byte 0x10-prefixed markers)
+        for prefix in [b"\x10\x10", b"\x10\x04", b"\x10\x08", b"\x10\x0c", b"\x10\x18",
+                       b"\x10\x14", b"\x10\x20", b"\x10\x40", b"\x10\x80", b"\x10\x00",
+                       b"\x10\x01", b"\x10\x03", b"\x10\xf0", b"\xf1\x10", b"\x00\x10",
+                       b"\x40\x02", b"\x20\x04", b"\x30\x04", b"\x30\x08", b"\x00\x1a"]:
+            offs = find_pattern_offsets(body, prefix, max_count=200)
+            if 1 <= len(offs) <= 1000:
+                # Print first 10 offsets
+                first = offs[:6]
+                last = offs[-3:]
+                print(f"  '{prefix.hex()}' x{len(offs):>4}  first={first} last={last}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/find_signal_runs.py

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+"""Find body byte ranges that look like absolute int8 sample data (smooth waveform)."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+
+
+def looks_like_smooth_int8(buf):
+    """Convert bytes to int8 and check if successive deltas are small (waveform-like)."""
+    if len(buf) < 8:
+        return 0.0
+    vals = [b if b < 128 else b - 256 for b in buf]
+    diffs = [abs(vals[i+1] - vals[i]) for i in range(len(vals)-1)]
+    avg_diff = sum(diffs) / len(diffs)
+    return avg_diff
+
+
+def main():
+    for name in ("event-a", "event-c"):
+        b = load_bundle(name)
+        body = b.body
+        # Scan with sliding window of 64 bytes; find segments where the bytes look like a smooth wave
+        win = 64
+        scores = []
+        for i in range(len(body) - win):
+            scores.append((i, looks_like_smooth_int8(body[i:i+win])))
+        # Lowest avg_diff means smoothest
+        scores.sort(key=lambda x: x[1])
+        print(f"\n=== {name} (body={len(body)}) — smoothest 10 windows ===")
+        for off, s in scores[:10]:
+            print(f"  +{off:>5}  avg_diff={s:.2f}  bytes={body[off:off+24].hex(' ')}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/full_tran.py

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+"""Full Tran decoder: continues across segment headers using T_delta from header bytes [0:2]."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import _parse_txt
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import walk_body, find_data_start
+
+
+def s4(n):
+    return n if n < 8 else n - 16
+
+
+def i8(b):
+    return b if b < 128 else b - 256
+
+
+def decode_full_tran(body):
+    if len(body) < 7 or body[0:3] != b"\x00\x02\x00":
+        return None
+    T0 = int.from_bytes(body[3:5], "big", signed=True)
+    T1 = int.from_bytes(body[5:7], "big", signed=True)
+
+    i = 7
+    while i + 1 < len(body) and body[i] not in (0x00, 0x10, 0x20, 0x30, 0x40):
+        i += 1
+
+    blocks = walk_body(body, i)
+    T = [T0, T1]
+    cur = T1
+    for blk in blocks:
+        if blk.tag_hi == 0x40:
+            # Segment header carries 2 T deltas (int16 BE each) at bytes [0:2] and [2:4]
+            if len(blk.data) >= 4:
+                delta1 = int.from_bytes(blk.data[0:2], "big", signed=True)
+                cur += delta1
+                T.append(cur)
+                delta2 = int.from_bytes(blk.data[2:4], "big", signed=True)
+                cur += delta2
+                T.append(cur)
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x10:
+            for byte in blk.data:
+                for nib in ((byte >> 4) & 0xF, byte & 0xF):
+                    cur += s4(nib)
+                    T.append(cur)
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x20:
+            for byte in blk.data:
+                cur += i8(byte)
+                T.append(cur)
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x00:
+            for _ in range(blk.tag_lo):
+                T.append(cur)
+        # 30 NN: skip for now
+    return T
+
+
+def main():
+    for stem in ("M529LL1L.V70", "M529LL1L.JQ0", "M529LL1A.SP0", "M529LL1A.SS0", "M529LL1A.SV0"):
+        path = f"tests/fixtures/5-11-26/{stem}"
+        with open(path, "rb") as f:
+            body = f.read()[43:-26]
+        _, samples = _parse_txt(path + ".TXT")
+        truth_T = [round(v*200) for v in samples["Tran"]]
+        n_truth = len(truth_T)
+
+        decoded = decode_full_tran(body)
+        n = min(len(decoded), n_truth)
+        matches = sum(1 for i in range(n) if decoded[i] == truth_T[i])
+        div_at = -1
+        for i in range(n):
+            if decoded[i] != truth_T[i]:
+                div_at = i
+                break
+        print(f"{stem}: decoded={len(decoded)}, truth={n_truth}, matches={matches}/{n}, first div={div_at}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/inspect_5_11.py

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+"""Quick inspection of the new high-amplitude events."""
+import os, re, sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import _parse_txt
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import walk_body, find_data_start
+
+ROOT = "tests/fixtures/5-11-26"
+
+
+def main():
+    for stem in ("M529LL1A.SP0", "M529LL1A.SS0", "M529LL1A.SV0"):
+        bin_path = os.path.join(ROOT, stem)
+        txt_path = bin_path + ".TXT"
+        with open(bin_path, "rb") as f:
+            raw = f.read()
+        body = raw[43:-26]
+        meta, samples = _parse_txt(txt_path)
+        n = len(samples["Tran"])
+
+        print(f"\n=== {stem} ===")
+        print(f"  file={len(raw)}, body={len(body)}, N_samples={n}")
+        print(f"  rectime={meta.get('Record Time')} pretrig={meta.get('Pre-trigger Length')}")
+        print(f"  PPV(T,V,L)={meta.get('Tran PPV')} / {meta.get('Vert PPV')} / {meta.get('Long PPV')}")
+        # Show first few non-trivial samples
+        print(f"  First 5 truth samples (in/s):")
+        for i in range(5):
+            print(f"    T={samples['Tran'][i]:8.3f}  V={samples['Vert'][i]:8.3f}  "
+                  f"L={samples['Long'][i]:8.3f}  M={samples['MicL'][i]:8.3f}")
+        # Peak sample positions
+        for ch in ("Tran", "Vert", "Long"):
+            vals = samples[ch]
+            peak_i = max(range(n), key=lambda i: abs(vals[i]))
+            print(f"  {ch}: peak {vals[peak_i]:.3f} at sample {peak_i} (t={peak_i/1024:.3f}s)")
+        # Body structure
+        start = find_data_start(body)
+        blocks = walk_body(body, start)
+        types = {}
+        for b in blocks:
+            types[b.tag_hi] = types.get(b.tag_hi, 0) + 1
+        print(f"  body start={start}, total blocks walked: {len(blocks)}")
+        print(f"  block tag counts: {types}")
+        # How far the walker got
+        if blocks:
+            last = blocks[-1]
+            walked = last.offset + last.length
+            print(f"  walker stopped at offset {walked}/{len(body)} ({100*walked/len(body):.0f}%)")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/inspect_body.py

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+"""Print raw body hex + byte-distribution stats for one event."""
+from collections import Counter
+import sys
+
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+
+
+def main():
+    for name in ("event-a", "event-b", "event-c", "event-d"):
+        b = load_bundle(name)
+        body = b.body
+        print(f"\n=== {name} ({len(body)} body bytes) ===")
+        print(f"  STRT: {b.strt.hex()}")
+        print(f"  body[0:64]:   {body[:64].hex()}")
+        print(f"  body[64:128]: {body[64:128].hex()}")
+        print(f"  body[-32:]:   {body[-32:].hex()}")
+        cnt = Counter(body)
+        print(f"  top 16 bytes: {[(f'0x{k:02x}', f'{v/len(body):.2%}') for k,v in cnt.most_common(16)]}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/load_bundle.py

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+"""
+load_bundle.py — extract body bytes from BW binary + parse sample columns from TXT.
+
+Used by the codec reverse-engineering scripts in this directory.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+import re
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+
+BUNDLE_ROOT = os.path.join(
+    os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "tests", "fixtures", "decode-re-5-8-26"
+)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Bundle:
+    name: str
+    bin_path: str
+    txt_path: str
+    bin: bytes
+    body: bytes  # bytes between STRT (43) and footer (last 26)
+    strt: bytes  # 21-byte STRT record
+    samples: dict  # {"Tran": [...], "Vert": [...], "Long": [...], "MicL": [...]}
+    sample_rate: int
+    rectime_sec: float
+    pretrig_sec: float
+    geo_range_ips: float
+    ppv: dict  # {"Tran": float, "Vert": float, "Long": float}
+    mic_pspl: float
+    serial: str
+
+
+def _parse_txt(path: str) -> dict:
+    with open(path, "r", encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") as f:
+        text = f.read()
+
+    meta = {}
+    samples = {"Tran": [], "Vert": [], "Long": [], "MicL": []}
+
+    # Find header line that starts the columns ("Tran   Vert   Long   MicL").
+    # Then every line after is sample data (4 tab-separated floats).
+    lines = text.splitlines()
+    header_idx = None
+    for i, line in enumerate(lines):
+        if "Tran" in line and "Vert" in line and "Long" in line and "MicL" in line:
+            # The columns header.  Sample lines start a few lines later.
+            header_idx = i
+            break
+    if header_idx is None:
+        raise ValueError(f"no Tran/Vert/Long/MicL header in {path}")
+
+    # Parse meta — quoted lines with "Field : value"
+    for line in lines[:header_idx]:
+        m = re.match(r'^"([^"]+)\s*:\s*([^"]*)"', line.strip())
+        if m:
+            k, v = m.group(1).strip(), m.group(2).strip()
+            meta[k] = v
+
+    # Parse samples
+    for line in lines[header_idx + 1 :]:
+        line = line.strip()
+        if not line:
+            continue
+        parts = re.split(r"\s+", line)
+        if len(parts) < 4:
+            continue
+        try:
+            t = float(parts[0])
+            v = float(parts[1])
+            l = float(parts[2])
+            m = float(parts[3])
+        except ValueError:
+            continue
+        samples["Tran"].append(t)
+        samples["Vert"].append(v)
+        samples["Long"].append(l)
+        samples["MicL"].append(m)
+
+    return meta, samples
+
+
+def load_bundle(name: str) -> Bundle:
+    folder = os.path.join(BUNDLE_ROOT, name)
+    files = os.listdir(folder)
+    bin_name = next(f for f in files if not f.endswith(".TXT"))
+    txt_name = next(f for f in files if f.endswith(".TXT"))
+
+    bin_path = os.path.join(folder, bin_name)
+    txt_path = os.path.join(folder, txt_name)
+
+    with open(bin_path, "rb") as f:
+        binary = f.read()
+
+    # Header is 22 bytes; STRT at [22:43]; footer at last 26 bytes.
+    strt = binary[22:43]
+    body = binary[43:-26]
+
+    meta, samples = _parse_txt(txt_path)
+
+    sample_rate = int(re.search(r"(\d+)", meta.get("Sample Rate", "1024")).group(1))
+    rectime_sec = float(re.search(r"([\d.]+)", meta.get("Record Time", "3.0")).group(1))
+    pretrig_sec = float(re.search(r"-?[\d.]+", meta.get("Pre-trigger Length", "0")).group(0))
+    geo_range_ips = float(re.search(r"([\d.]+)", meta.get("Geo Range", "10.0")).group(1))
+    serial = meta.get("Serial Number", "").strip()
+
+    def _f(s):
+        return float(re.search(r"-?[\d.]+", s).group(0))
+
+    ppv = {
+        "Tran": _f(meta.get("Tran PPV", "0")),
+        "Vert": _f(meta.get("Vert PPV", "0")),
+        "Long": _f(meta.get("Long PPV", "0")),
+    }
+    mic_pspl = _f(meta.get("MicL PSPL", "0"))
+
+    return Bundle(
+        name=name,
+        bin_path=bin_path,
+        txt_path=txt_path,
+        bin=binary,
+        body=body,
+        strt=strt,
+        samples=samples,
+        sample_rate=sample_rate,
+        rectime_sec=rectime_sec,
+        pretrig_sec=pretrig_sec,
+        geo_range_ips=geo_range_ips,
+        ppv=ppv,
+        mic_pspl=mic_pspl,
+        serial=serial,
+    )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    for name in ("event-a", "event-b", "event-c", "event-d"):
+        b = load_bundle(name)
+        n = len(b.samples["Tran"])
+        print(f"{name}: body={len(b.body):>6}  N_samples={n}  rate={b.sample_rate}  "
+              f"rectime={b.rectime_sec}  pretrig={b.pretrig_sec}  range={b.geo_range_ips}  "
+              f"PPV(T,V,L)={b.ppv['Tran']:.3f},{b.ppv['Vert']:.3f},{b.ppv['Long']:.3f}  "
+              f"MicL={b.mic_pspl}")

analysis/multi_segment.py

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+"""Decode Tran across multiple segments by resetting at 40 02 headers."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import _parse_txt
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import walk_body, find_data_start
+
+
+def s4(n):
+    return n if n < 8 else n - 16
+
+
+def i8(b):
+    return b if b < 128 else b - 256
+
+
+def decode_full_tran(body):
+    """Decode all Tran samples in the body, walking through segments."""
+    if len(body) < 7 or body[0:3] != b"\x00\x02\x00":
+        return None
+    T0 = int.from_bytes(body[3:5], "big", signed=True)
+    T1 = int.from_bytes(body[5:7], "big", signed=True)
+
+    # Locate first tag
+    i = 7
+    while i + 1 < len(body) and body[i] not in (0x00, 0x10, 0x20, 0x30, 0x40):
+        i += 1
+
+    blocks = walk_body(body, i)
+    T = [T0, T1]
+    cur = T1
+    for bi, blk in enumerate(blocks):
+        if blk.tag_hi == 0x40:
+            # Segment header — try interpreting bytes [0:2] as new T anchor
+            if len(blk.data) >= 2:
+                new_anchor = int.from_bytes(blk.data[0:2], "big", signed=True)
+                # The next sample IS this anchor value, NOT a delta from cur.
+                T.append(new_anchor)
+                cur = new_anchor
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x10:
+            for byte in blk.data:
+                for nib in ((byte >> 4) & 0xF, byte & 0xF):
+                    cur += s4(nib)
+                    T.append(cur)
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x20:
+            for byte in blk.data:
+                cur += i8(byte)
+                T.append(cur)
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x00:
+            # RLE: append NN zero deltas
+            for _ in range(blk.tag_lo):
+                T.append(cur)
+        # 30 NN: skip
+    return T
+
+
+def main():
+    for stem in ("M529LL1L.V70", "M529LL1L.JQ0", "M529LL1A.SP0", "M529LL1A.SS0", "M529LL1A.SV0"):
+        path = f"tests/fixtures/5-11-26/{stem}"
+        with open(path, "rb") as f:
+            body = f.read()[43:-26]
+        _, samples = _parse_txt(path + ".TXT")
+        truth_T = [round(v*200) for v in samples["Tran"]]
+        n_truth = len(truth_T)
+
+        decoded = decode_full_tran(body)
+        n = min(len(decoded), n_truth)
+        matches = sum(1 for i in range(n) if decoded[i] == truth_T[i])
+        # Find first divergence
+        div_at = -1
+        for i in range(n):
+            if decoded[i] != truth_T[i]:
+                div_at = i
+                break
+        print(f"{stem}: decoded={len(decoded)}, truth={n_truth}, matches={matches}/{n}, first div={div_at}")
+        if div_at >= 0 and div_at < 30:
+            print(f"  truth around div [{max(0,div_at-3)}:{div_at+8}]: {truth_T[max(0,div_at-3):div_at+8]}")
+            print(f"  pred  around div [{max(0,div_at-3)}:{div_at+8}]: {decoded[max(0,div_at-3):div_at+8]}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/seg1_blocks.py

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+"""Dump all blocks in segment 1 of each event with their data."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import walk_body, find_data_start
+
+
+def main():
+    for stem in ("M529LL1A.SP0", "M529LL1L.JQ0", "M529LL1L.V70"):
+        path = f"tests/fixtures/5-11-26/{stem}"
+        with open(path, "rb") as f:
+            body = f.read()[43:-26]
+        blocks = walk_body(body, find_data_start(body))
+
+        # Find segment 1 (between first and second 40 02)
+        seg40_indices = [i for i, b in enumerate(blocks) if b.tag_hi == 0x40]
+        if len(seg40_indices) < 2:
+            print(f"\n{stem}: only {len(seg40_indices)} segment headers found")
+            seg1_blocks = blocks[seg40_indices[0]:] if seg40_indices else []
+        else:
+            seg1_blocks = blocks[seg40_indices[0]:seg40_indices[1]+1]
+        print(f"\n=== {stem} segment 1 ({len(seg1_blocks)} blocks) ===")
+        for b in seg1_blocks[:25]:
+            tag = f"{b.tag_hi:02x}{b.tag_lo:02x}"
+            print(f"  off={b.offset:>5} {tag} NN=0x{b.tag_lo:02x}({b.tag_lo:>3}) len={b.length:>3}  data={b.data[:16].hex(' ')}{'...' if len(b.data)>16 else ''}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/test_30nn_12bit.py

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+"""Test 12-bit signed packed deltas hypothesis for 30 NN blocks across all loud events.
+
+For each 30 NN block in each event, identify what samples it should cover
+(based on the cumulative delta count up to that point) and compare the
+truth deltas against various 12-bit packing schemes.
+"""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import _parse_txt
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import walk_body, find_data_start
+
+
+CHANNEL_ORDER = ["Vert", "Long", "MicL", "Tran"]  # rotation after initial T
+
+
+def s12(v):
+    """Sign-extend a 12-bit unsigned value to signed int."""
+    return v if v < 0x800 else v - 0x1000
+
+
+def unpack_12bit_be(data):
+    """4 deltas in 6 bytes, BE order: byte[0:1.5], byte[1.5:3], byte[3:4.5], byte[4.5:6]."""
+    # bits 0..47 (MSB-first), split into 4 × 12-bit
+    val = int.from_bytes(data, "big")
+    out = []
+    for i in range(4):
+        d = (val >> (12 * (3 - i))) & 0xFFF
+        out.append(s12(d))
+    return out
+
+
+def unpack_12bit_le(data):
+    """4 deltas in 6 bytes, LE order: bytes packed as 2 × 24-bit groups."""
+    out = []
+    # First 3 bytes contain 2 deltas
+    b0, b1, b2 = data[0], data[1], data[2]
+    d0 = b0 | ((b1 & 0x0F) << 8)
+    d1 = (b1 >> 4) | (b2 << 4)
+    out.append(s12(d0))
+    out.append(s12(d1))
+    # Next 3 bytes contain 2 more deltas
+    b3, b4, b5 = data[3], data[4], data[5]
+    d2 = b3 | ((b4 & 0x0F) << 8)
+    d3 = (b4 >> 4) | (b5 << 4)
+    out.append(s12(d2))
+    out.append(s12(d3))
+    return out
+
+
+def unpack_12bit_be_per_triplet(data):
+    """4 deltas as 2 triplets of (high4, low8) BE within each 3-byte group."""
+    out = []
+    b0, b1, b2 = data[0], data[1], data[2]
+    d0 = (b0 << 4) | (b1 >> 4)
+    d1 = ((b1 & 0x0F) << 8) | b2
+    out.append(s12(d0))
+    out.append(s12(d1))
+    b3, b4, b5 = data[3], data[4], data[5]
+    d2 = (b3 << 4) | (b4 >> 4)
+    d3 = ((b4 & 0x0F) << 8) | b5
+    out.append(s12(d2))
+    out.append(s12(d3))
+    return out
+
+
+def truth_deltas_for_block(blocks, block_idx, event_truth, channel):
+    """For a 30 NN block at block_idx, determine which samples it covers and
+    return the truth deltas for those samples.
+
+    Walks through all blocks before block_idx (within the same segment) and
+    counts how many deltas have been emitted for *channel*, starting from the
+    segment's anchor pair.
+    """
+    # Find the segment header that contains this block.
+    seg_header_idx = None
+    for j in range(block_idx, -1, -1):
+        if blocks[j].tag_hi == 0x40:
+            seg_header_idx = j
+            break
+    if seg_header_idx is None:
+        # block is in the initial T segment; samples count from sample 2.
+        first_sample_in_segment = 2
+    else:
+        # Anchor pair covers samples [N, N+1] for some N.  Subsequent deltas
+        # are samples [N+2, N+2+1, ...].  We don't actually need to know N
+        # for this test — just the relative position within the segment.
+        first_sample_in_segment = 2  # anchor=0,1; deltas start at 2
+
+    # Count deltas from segment-data start to block_idx.
+    delta_count = 0
+    start_block = seg_header_idx + 1 if seg_header_idx is not None else 0
+    for j in range(start_block, block_idx):
+        blk = blocks[j]
+        if blk.tag_hi == 0x10:
+            delta_count += blk.tag_lo  # NN nibbles = NN deltas
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x20:
+            delta_count += blk.tag_lo  # NN int8 deltas
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x00:
+            delta_count += blk.tag_lo  # RLE zero deltas
+    # Now the 30 NN block carries NN deltas.
+    nn = blocks[block_idx].tag_lo
+    # First sample affected: segment first_sample + delta_count.
+    # But we ALSO need to know which segment this is, since the segment maps
+    # to a specific channel and a specific starting absolute sample index.
+    return first_sample_in_segment + delta_count, nn
+
+
+def main():
+    for stem in ("M529LL1A.SP0", "M529LL1L.JQ0", "M529LL1L.V70",
+                 "M529LL1A.SS0", "M529LL1A.SV0"):
+        path = f"tests/fixtures/5-11-26/{stem}"
+        with open(path, "rb") as f:
+            body = f.read()[43:-26]
+        _, samples = _parse_txt(path + ".TXT")
+        blocks = walk_body(body, find_data_start(body))
+        seg_idx = [i for i, b in enumerate(blocks) if b.tag_hi == 0x40]
+
+        # Find all 30 NN blocks in DATA section (not trailer).
+        thirty_blocks = []
+        for bi, b in enumerate(blocks):
+            if b.tag_hi != 0x30:
+                continue
+            # Determine which segment this is in
+            seg_num = None
+            for k, hi in enumerate(seg_idx):
+                next_hi = seg_idx[k + 1] if k + 1 < len(seg_idx) else len(blocks)
+                if hi < bi < next_hi:
+                    seg_num = k
+                    break
+            if seg_num is None and seg_idx and bi < seg_idx[0]:
+                seg_num = -1  # initial T segment
+            thirty_blocks.append((bi, b, seg_num))
+
+        if not thirty_blocks:
+            continue
+
+        print(f"\n=== {stem} ===")
+        for bi, b, seg_num in thirty_blocks:
+            # Channel for this segment
+            if seg_num == -1:
+                channel = "Tran"
+                seg_label = "initial T"
+            else:
+                channel = CHANNEL_ORDER[seg_num % 4]
+                seg_label = f"seg {seg_num}"
+
+            # Count deltas before this block within the same segment.
+            seg_header_idx = seg_idx[seg_num] if seg_num >= 0 else -1
+            start_block = seg_header_idx + 1 if seg_header_idx >= 0 else 0
+            delta_count = 0
+            for j in range(start_block, bi):
+                blk = blocks[j]
+                if blk.tag_hi in (0x10, 0x20, 0x00):
+                    delta_count += blk.tag_lo
+
+            # First sample this 30 NN block affects (within the segment)
+            # = anchor positions + delta_count + 2 (since anchor pair was samples 0,1)
+            # But the segment's first absolute sample index in the channel is
+            # (seg_num // 4) * 512 (approximately) if segment 0 is the first V seg.
+            cycle = (seg_num // 4) if seg_num >= 0 else 0
+            base = cycle * 512 + 2  # +2 for anchor pair
+            sample_idx = base + delta_count
+            truth_ch = [round(v * 200) for v in samples[channel]]
+            nn = b.tag_lo
+
+            if sample_idx + nn >= len(truth_ch):
+                print(f"  block @ {b.offset} ({seg_label} {channel}): out of truth range")
+                continue
+
+            # Get the previous sample so we can compute truth deltas
+            if sample_idx == 0:
+                prev = 0
+            else:
+                prev = truth_ch[sample_idx - 1]
+            truth_deltas = []
+            for k in range(nn):
+                truth_deltas.append(truth_ch[sample_idx + k] - (prev if k == 0 else truth_ch[sample_idx + k - 1]))
+
+            # Try each packing
+            schemes = [
+                ("12-bit BE contiguous", unpack_12bit_be(b.data)),
+                ("12-bit LE per-triplet", unpack_12bit_le(b.data)),
+                ("12-bit BE per-triplet", unpack_12bit_be_per_triplet(b.data)),
+            ]
+            print(f"  block @ {b.offset:>5} ({seg_label} {channel}, samples {sample_idx}..{sample_idx+nn-1}):")
+            print(f"    data:  {b.data.hex(' ')}")
+            print(f"    truth: {truth_deltas}")
+            for name, pred in schemes:
+                match = "✓" if pred == truth_deltas else " "
+                n_match = sum(1 for x, y in zip(pred, truth_deltas) if x == y)
+                print(f"    {match}{n_match}/4  {name}: {pred}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/test_30nn_hybrid.py

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+"""Test the '30 NN data = high-nibbles + int8 low-bytes' hypothesis.
+
+Layout for `30 04` (6 data bytes, 4 deltas):
+  bytes [0:2] = 16 bits = 4 × 4-bit high-nibbles (MSB first)
+  bytes [2:6] = 4 × int8 low bytes
+  Each delta = 12-bit signed = sign-extend((high_nibble << 8) | low_byte)
+"""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import _parse_txt
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import walk_body, find_data_start
+
+
+def s4(n):
+    return n if n < 8 else n - 16
+
+
+def i8(b):
+    return b if b < 128 else b - 256
+
+
+def sign_extend_12(v):
+    return v if v < 0x800 else v - 0x1000
+
+
+def decode_30nn(data):
+    """4 × 12-bit signed deltas (high nibble + low byte).
+    bytes[0:2] hold the 4 high nibbles (MSB first); bytes[2:6] hold the low bytes.
+    """
+    if len(data) < 6:
+        return []
+    # Read high nibbles from bytes 0-1 (4 nibbles MSB-first)
+    high_word = (data[0] << 8) | data[1]
+    high_nibbles = [
+        (high_word >> 12) & 0xF,
+        (high_word >> 8) & 0xF,
+        (high_word >> 4) & 0xF,
+        high_word & 0xF,
+    ]
+    out = []
+    for i in range(4):
+        v = (high_nibbles[i] << 8) | data[2 + i]
+        out.append(sign_extend_12(v))
+    return out
+
+
+def simulate_up_to(blocks, target_block_idx, t_preamble):
+    """Run decoder up to block_idx; return per-channel sample lists.
+    NOW with 30 NN decoded too."""
+    out = {"Tran": [], "Vert": [], "Long": [], "MicL": []}
+    out["Tran"].extend(t_preamble)
+    cur = {"Tran": t_preamble[-1], "Vert": None, "Long": None, "MicL": None}
+    rotation = ["Vert", "Long", "MicL", "Tran"]
+    current_channel = "Tran"
+    seg_counter = -1
+    for j in range(target_block_idx):
+        blk = blocks[j]
+        if blk.tag_hi == 0x40:
+            seg_counter += 1
+            prev = "Tran" if seg_counter == 0 else rotation[(seg_counter - 1) % 4]
+            new_ch = rotation[seg_counter % 4]
+            if cur[prev] is not None:
+                d0 = int.from_bytes(blk.data[0:2], "big", signed=True)
+                d1 = int.from_bytes(blk.data[2:4], "big", signed=True)
+                cur[prev] += d0; out[prev].append(cur[prev])
+                cur[prev] += d1; out[prev].append(cur[prev])
+            c0 = int.from_bytes(blk.data[14:16], "big", signed=True)
+            c1 = int.from_bytes(blk.data[16:18], "big", signed=True)
+            out[new_ch].extend([c0, c1])
+            cur[new_ch] = c1
+            current_channel = new_ch
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x10:
+            for byte in blk.data:
+                for nib in ((byte >> 4) & 0xF, byte & 0xF):
+                    cur[current_channel] += s4(nib)
+                    out[current_channel].append(cur[current_channel])
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x20:
+            for byte in blk.data:
+                cur[current_channel] += i8(byte)
+                out[current_channel].append(cur[current_channel])
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x00:
+            for _ in range(blk.tag_lo):
+                out[current_channel].append(cur[current_channel])
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x30:
+            # NEW: decode 30 NN
+            deltas = decode_30nn(blk.data)
+            for d in deltas:
+                cur[current_channel] += d
+                out[current_channel].append(cur[current_channel])
+    return out, current_channel
+
+
+def main():
+    for stem in ("M529LL1A.SP0", "M529LL1L.JQ0", "M529LL1L.V70",
+                 "M529LL1A.SS0", "M529LL1A.SV0"):
+        path = f"tests/fixtures/5-11-26/{stem}"
+        with open(path, "rb") as f:
+            body = f.read()[43:-26]
+        _, samples = _parse_txt(path + ".TXT")
+        blocks = walk_body(body, find_data_start(body))
+        t0 = int.from_bytes(body[3:5], "big", signed=True)
+        t1 = int.from_bytes(body[5:7], "big", signed=True)
+        thirty_blocks = [(j, b) for j, b in enumerate(blocks) if b.tag_hi == 0x30]
+        if not thirty_blocks:
+            continue
+        print(f"\n=== {stem} ===")
+        for j, blk in thirty_blocks:
+            pred, ch = simulate_up_to(blocks, j, [t0, t1])
+            cur_before = pred[ch][-1]
+            truth = [round(v * 200) for v in samples[ch]]
+            n_pred = len(pred[ch])
+            nn = blk.tag_lo
+            if n_pred + nn > len(truth):
+                continue
+            # Decode this 30 NN block with hypothesis
+            pred_deltas = decode_30nn(blk.data)
+            # Compute truth deltas relative to cur_before
+            truth_deltas = []
+            prev = cur_before
+            for k in range(nn):
+                truth_deltas.append(truth[n_pred + k] - prev)
+                prev = truth[n_pred + k]
+            n_match = sum(1 for a, b in zip(pred_deltas, truth_deltas) if a == b)
+            tag = "✓" if pred_deltas == truth_deltas else " "
+            print(f"  block @ {blk.offset:>5} (chan={ch}, NN={nn}):")
+            print(f"    data:  {blk.data.hex(' ')}")
+            print(f"    truth: {truth_deltas}")
+            print(f"    pred:  {pred_deltas}  {tag}{n_match}/{nn}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/test_30nn_v2.py

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+"""Test 30 NN packing by running the real decoder up to each 30 NN block,
+recording how many samples have been produced for each channel at that point,
+then checking truth deltas immediately after."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import _parse_txt
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import walk_body, find_data_start
+
+
+def s4(n):
+    return n if n < 8 else n - 16
+
+
+def i8(b):
+    return b if b < 128 else b - 256
+
+
+def s12(v):
+    return v if v < 0x800 else v - 0x1000
+
+
+def unpack_12bit_be_contiguous(data):
+    out = []
+    val = int.from_bytes(data, "big")
+    n = len(data) * 8 // 12
+    for i in range(n):
+        d = (val >> (12 * (n - 1 - i))) & 0xFFF
+        out.append(s12(d))
+    return out
+
+
+def unpack_12bit_per_triplet_be(data):
+    out = []
+    for i in range(0, len(data), 3):
+        if i + 2 >= len(data):
+            break
+        b0, b1, b2 = data[i], data[i + 1], data[i + 2]
+        d0 = (b0 << 4) | (b1 >> 4)
+        d1 = ((b1 & 0x0F) << 8) | b2
+        out.append(s12(d0))
+        out.append(s12(d1))
+    return out
+
+
+def simulate_up_to(blocks, target_block_idx, t_preamble):
+    """Run the decoder up to block_idx; return per-channel sample lists."""
+    out = {"Tran": [], "Vert": [], "Long": [], "MicL": []}
+    out["Tran"].extend(t_preamble)
+    cur = {"Tran": t_preamble[-1], "Vert": None, "Long": None, "MicL": None}
+    rotation = ["Vert", "Long", "MicL", "Tran"]
+    seg_idx = [j for j, b in enumerate(blocks) if b.tag_hi == 0x40]
+
+    # Determine which channel we're CURRENTLY decoding into
+    current_channel = "Tran"
+    seg_counter = -1  # incremented at each 40 02
+
+    for j in range(target_block_idx):
+        blk = blocks[j]
+        if blk.tag_hi == 0x40:
+            # Switch: extend prev channel, set up new channel
+            seg_counter += 1
+            prev = "Tran" if seg_counter == 0 else rotation[(seg_counter - 1) % 4]
+            new_ch = rotation[seg_counter % 4]
+            if cur[prev] is not None:
+                d0 = int.from_bytes(blk.data[0:2], "big", signed=True)
+                d1 = int.from_bytes(blk.data[2:4], "big", signed=True)
+                cur[prev] += d0; out[prev].append(cur[prev])
+                cur[prev] += d1; out[prev].append(cur[prev])
+            c0 = int.from_bytes(blk.data[14:16], "big", signed=True)
+            c1 = int.from_bytes(blk.data[16:18], "big", signed=True)
+            out[new_ch].extend([c0, c1])
+            cur[new_ch] = c1
+            current_channel = new_ch
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x10:
+            for byte in blk.data:
+                for nib in ((byte >> 4) & 0xF, byte & 0xF):
+                    cur[current_channel] += s4(nib)
+                    out[current_channel].append(cur[current_channel])
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x20:
+            for byte in blk.data:
+                cur[current_channel] += i8(byte)
+                out[current_channel].append(cur[current_channel])
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x00:
+            for _ in range(blk.tag_lo):
+                out[current_channel].append(cur[current_channel])
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x30:
+            # Skip for now — we want to know what comes next
+            pass
+
+    return out, current_channel
+
+
+def main():
+    for stem in ("M529LL1A.SP0", "M529LL1L.JQ0", "M529LL1L.V70",
+                 "M529LL1A.SS0", "M529LL1A.SV0"):
+        path = f"tests/fixtures/5-11-26/{stem}"
+        with open(path, "rb") as f:
+            body = f.read()[43:-26]
+        _, samples = _parse_txt(path + ".TXT")
+        blocks = walk_body(body, find_data_start(body))
+        t0 = int.from_bytes(body[3:5], "big", signed=True)
+        t1 = int.from_bytes(body[5:7], "big", signed=True)
+
+        # Find all 30 NN blocks in data section
+        thirty_blocks = [(j, b) for j, b in enumerate(blocks) if b.tag_hi == 0x30]
+        if not thirty_blocks:
+            continue
+
+        print(f"\n=== {stem} ===")
+        for j, blk in thirty_blocks:
+            pred, ch = simulate_up_to(blocks, j, [t0, t1])
+            n_pred = len(pred[ch])
+            # The 30 NN block carries NN deltas for channel `ch` starting at sample n_pred
+            truth = [round(v * 200) for v in samples[ch]]
+            if n_pred >= len(truth):
+                continue
+            # Truth deltas: truth[n_pred] - cur, truth[n_pred+1] - truth[n_pred], ...
+            cur_val = pred[ch][-1]
+            nn = blk.tag_lo
+            truth_deltas = []
+            prev = cur_val
+            for k in range(min(nn, len(truth) - n_pred)):
+                truth_deltas.append(truth[n_pred + k] - prev)
+                prev = truth[n_pred + k]
+
+            print(f"  block @ {blk.offset:>5} (chan={ch}, after sample {n_pred-1}, "
+                  f"NN={nn}, last_val={cur_val}):")
+            print(f"    data:  {blk.data.hex(' ')}")
+            print(f"    truth: {truth_deltas}")
+            schemes = [
+                ("12-bit BE contiguous", unpack_12bit_be_contiguous(blk.data)),
+                ("12-bit per-triplet BE", unpack_12bit_per_triplet_be(blk.data)),
+            ]
+            for name, pred_deltas in schemes:
+                n_match = sum(1 for a, b in zip(pred_deltas, truth_deltas) if a == b)
+                tag = "✓" if pred_deltas == truth_deltas else " "
+                print(f"    {tag}{n_match}/{nn}  {name}: {pred_deltas[:nn]}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/test_rle.py

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+"""Test: 00 NN markers might be RLE for zero-deltas in current channel."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import _parse_txt
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import walk_body, find_data_start
+
+
+def s4(n):
+    return n if n < 8 else n - 16
+
+
+def i8(b):
+    return b if b < 128 else b - 256
+
+
+def decode_with_rle(body):
+    """Decode Tran assuming:
+    - preamble[3:5], [5:7] = T[0], T[1]
+    - All 10 NN / 20 NN blocks until segment_header (40 02) are Tran deltas
+    - 00 NN markers are RLE: NN/4 zero T deltas (or NN, or NN/2 — try them)
+    """
+    if len(body) < 9 or body[0:3] != b"\x00\x02\x00":
+        return None, None, None
+    T0 = int.from_bytes(body[3:5], "big", signed=True)
+    T1 = int.from_bytes(body[5:7], "big", signed=True)
+
+    # Find first tag (might be 00 NN, 10 NN, or 20 NN)
+    i = 7
+    while i + 1 < len(body):
+        if body[i] in (0x00, 0x10, 0x20):
+            break
+        i += 1
+    start = i
+
+    blocks = walk_body(body, start)
+
+    results = {}
+    for rle_div in (4, 2, 1):  # try different RLE interpretations
+        T = [T0, T1]
+        cur = T1
+        for blk in blocks:
+            if blk.tag_hi == 0x40:
+                break
+            if blk.tag_hi == 0x10:
+                for byte in blk.data:
+                    for nib in ((byte >> 4) & 0xF, byte & 0xF):
+                        cur += s4(nib)
+                        T.append(cur)
+            elif blk.tag_hi == 0x20:
+                for byte in blk.data:
+                    cur += i8(byte)
+                    T.append(cur)
+            elif blk.tag_hi == 0x00:
+                # RLE of zero deltas
+                n_zeros = blk.tag_lo // rle_div
+                for _ in range(n_zeros):
+                    T.append(cur)
+            # 30 NN: skip for now
+        results[rle_div] = T
+    return results, T0, T1
+
+
+def main():
+    for stem in ("M529LL1L.V70", "M529LL1L.JQ0", "M529LL1A.SP0", "M529LL1A.SS0", "M529LL1A.SV0"):
+        path = f"tests/fixtures/5-11-26/{stem}"
+        with open(path, "rb") as f:
+            body = f.read()[43:-26]
+        _, samples = _parse_txt(path + ".TXT")
+        truth_T = [round(v*200) for v in samples["Tran"]]
+
+        results, T0, T1 = decode_with_rle(body)
+        print(f"\n=== {stem} (T[0]={T0}, T[1]={T1}) ===")
+        for rle_div, T in results.items():
+            n = min(len(T), len(truth_T))
+            matches = sum(1 for i in range(n) if T[i] == truth_T[i])
+            # Find first divergence
+            div_at = -1
+            for i in range(n):
+                if T[i] != truth_T[i]:
+                    div_at = i
+                    break
+            print(f"  rle_div={rle_div}: decoded {len(T)}, matches {matches}/{n}, first div at sample {div_at}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/test_tran_continue.py

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+"""Test: does the second '20 NN' block in SS0 continue Tran samples?"""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import _parse_txt
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import walk_body, find_data_start
+
+
+def s4(n):
+    return n if n < 8 else n - 16
+
+
+def i8(b):
+    return b if b < 128 else b - 256
+
+
+def main():
+    stem = "M529LL1A.SS0"
+    path = f"tests/fixtures/5-11-26/{stem}"
+    with open(path, "rb") as f:
+        body = f.read()[43:-26]
+    _, samples = _parse_txt(path + ".TXT")
+    truth_T_16 = [round(v * 200) for v in samples["Tran"]]
+
+    # Preamble
+    T0 = int.from_bytes(body[3:5], "big", signed=True)
+    T1 = int.from_bytes(body[5:7], "big", signed=True)
+
+    # Walk blocks
+    start = find_data_start(body)
+    blocks = walk_body(body, start)
+
+    print(f"=== {stem} ===  T[0]={T0} T[1]={T1}")
+
+    # Hypothesis: Tran continues through ALL 10 NN and 20 NN blocks
+    # in order, until the next 40 02 segment header (which resets).
+    T = [T0, T1]
+    cur = T1
+    decoded_count = 2  # T[0], T[1] from preamble
+    for bi, blk in enumerate(blocks):
+        if blk.tag_hi == 0x10:
+            for byte in blk.data:
+                for nib in ((byte >> 4) & 0xF, byte & 0xF):
+                    cur += s4(nib)
+                    T.append(cur)
+                    decoded_count += 1
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x20:
+            for byte in blk.data:
+                cur += i8(byte)
+                T.append(cur)
+                decoded_count += 1
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x40:
+            # Segment header — stop here for this test
+            break
+        # 00 and 30 NN don't contribute to Tran (in this hypothesis)
+
+    # Compare to truth
+    print(f"  Decoded {len(T)} T samples up to first 40 02")
+    matches = sum(1 for i in range(min(len(T), len(truth_T_16))) if T[i] == truth_T_16[i])
+    print(f"  Matches in first {min(len(T), len(truth_T_16))}: {matches}")
+    # Print first divergence
+    for i in range(min(len(T), len(truth_T_16))):
+        if T[i] != truth_T_16[i]:
+            print(f"  First divergence: sample {i}: pred={T[i]}, truth={truth_T_16[i]}")
+            # Show context
+            print(f"    pred  [{i-3}:{i+5}]: {T[max(0,i-3):i+5]}")
+            print(f"    truth [{i-3}:{i+5}]: {truth_T_16[max(0,i-3):i+5]}")
+            break
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/try_layouts.py

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+"""Try various nibble-level channel interleavings to find which one matches truth."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+
+
+def s4(n):
+    return n if n < 8 else n - 16
+
+
+def run_decoder(body, layout, skip, n_channels=4):
+    """layout: function nibble_index -> channel_index. Returns list-of-lists per channel."""
+    out = [[] for _ in range(n_channels)]
+    cur = [0] * n_channels
+    nibbles = []
+    for byte in body[skip:]:
+        nibbles.append((byte >> 4) & 0xF)
+        nibbles.append(byte & 0xF)
+    for i, n in enumerate(nibbles):
+        ch = layout(i)
+        cur[ch] += s4(n)
+        out[ch].append(cur[ch])
+    return out
+
+
+def cmp(pred, truth, n=24):
+    n = min(n, len(pred), len(truth))
+    return [(pred[i], truth[i]) for i in range(n)]
+
+
+def main():
+    b = load_bundle("event-c")
+    truth_T = [round(v * 200) for v in b.samples["Tran"]]
+    truth_V = [round(v * 200) for v in b.samples["Vert"]]
+    truth_L = [round(v * 200) for v in b.samples["Long"]]
+    print(f"T truth[0:10]: {truth_T[:10]}")
+    print(f"V truth[0:10]: {truth_V[:10]}")
+    print(f"L truth[0:10]: {truth_L[:10]}")
+
+    # Try several nibble->channel layouts (4 channels)
+    layouts = {
+        "interleaved TVLM (0,1,2,3,0,1,2,3,...)": lambda i: i % 4,
+        "interleaved VLMT": lambda i: (i + 3) % 4,
+        "interleaved LMTV": lambda i: (i + 2) % 4,
+        "interleaved MTVL": lambda i: (i + 1) % 4,
+        "byte-based TV LM TV LM (high T low V byte0; high L low M byte1)": lambda i: i % 4,
+        # "chunks of 8 nibbles per channel": each channel gets 8 nibbles in a row
+        "chunks-8 TVLM": lambda i: (i // 8) % 4,
+        "chunks-16 TVLM": lambda i: (i // 16) % 4,
+        # planar (full channel sequential)
+        "planar T(0..N) V(N..2N) L(2N..3N) M(3N..4N)": None,  # special
+    }
+
+    for label, layout_fn in layouts.items():
+        if layout_fn is None:
+            continue
+        for skip in (0, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14):
+            out = run_decoder(b.body, layout_fn, skip)
+            # Check first 8 cumulative on each channel
+            print(f"  skip={skip:2}  {label}")
+            print(f"    T_cum[0:10]: {out[0][:10]}")
+            print(f"    V_cum[0:10]: {out[1][:10]}")
+            print(f"    L_cum[0:10]: {out[2][:10]}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/try_nibbles.py

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+"""Try decoding body as 4-bit signed nibble deltas, 4-channel round-robin."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+
+
+CHANNELS = ("Tran", "Vert", "Long", "MicL")
+
+
+def s4(n):
+    """Sign-extend a 4-bit unsigned to int (0..7 → 0..7, 8..F → -8..-1)."""
+    return n if n < 8 else n - 16
+
+
+def decode_nibbles(body: bytes, skip_bytes: int = 7, n_channels: int = 4):
+    """Read body as 2 nibbles per byte; accumulate as deltas for n_channels round-robin."""
+    out = [[] for _ in range(n_channels)]
+    cur = [0] * n_channels
+    ch = 0
+    nibbles = []
+    for byte in body[skip_bytes:]:
+        nibbles.append((byte >> 4) & 0xF)
+        nibbles.append(byte & 0xF)
+    for n in nibbles:
+        cur[ch] += s4(n)
+        out[ch].append(cur[ch])
+        ch = (ch + 1) % n_channels
+    return out
+
+
+def cmp_to_truth(pred, truth, scale=16):
+    """Compare predicted ints (in 16-count units) to truth (in 16-count units = txt * 200).
+    Return (max_abs_err, mean_abs_err, n_compared).
+    """
+    n = min(len(pred), len(truth))
+    errs = []
+    for i in range(n):
+        p = pred[i]
+        t = truth[i]
+        errs.append(abs(p - t))
+    if not errs:
+        return None
+    return (max(errs), sum(errs) / len(errs), n)
+
+
+def main():
+    for name in ("event-a", "event-c"):
+        b = load_bundle(name)
+        # Convert TXT samples (in/s) to 16-count units (multiply by 200, since 0.005 in/s = 1)
+        # WAIT: 0.005 in/s = 16 ADC counts. 1 count = 0.000305 in/s.
+        # So in 1-count units: count = txt * (1/0.0003052) ≈ txt * 3276.7
+        # But TXT only has 0.005 resolution so equivalent to 16-count units = txt * 200.
+        truth_in_16 = {ch: [round(v * 200) for v in b.samples[ch]] for ch in CHANNELS[:3]}
+        # MicL is in dB, skip for now
+
+        # Try decoder with skip_bytes = 7
+        decoded = decode_nibbles(b.body, skip_bytes=7, n_channels=4)
+        print(f"\n=== {name} ===")
+        print(f"  body={len(b.body)}, nibbles={2*(len(b.body)-7)}, samples_per_ch={len(decoded[0])}")
+        print(f"  truth samples per ch: {len(truth_in_16['Tran'])}")
+        # Print first 24 of each
+        for i, chan in enumerate(CHANNELS):
+            pred_first = decoded[i][:24]
+            if chan in truth_in_16:
+                truth_first = truth_in_16[chan][:24]
+                print(f"  {chan} pred: {pred_first}")
+                print(f"  {chan} truth: {truth_first}")
+            else:
+                print(f"  {chan} pred: {pred_first}  (truth in dB, skipped)")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/verify_full_decode.py

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+"""Verify decode_waveform_v2 against BW ASCII truth for all fixtures."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import _parse_txt
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import decode_waveform_v2
+
+
+def main():
+    for stem in ("M529LL1A.SP0", "M529LL1A.SS0", "M529LL1A.SV0",
+                 "M529LL1L.JQ0", "M529LL1L.V70"):
+        path = f"tests/fixtures/5-11-26/{stem}"
+        with open(path, "rb") as f:
+            body = f.read()[43:-26]
+        _, samples = _parse_txt(path + ".TXT")
+        decoded = decode_waveform_v2(body)
+        if decoded is None:
+            print(f"{stem}: decoder returned None")
+            continue
+
+        print(f"\n=== {stem} ===")
+        for ch in ("Tran", "Vert", "Long"):
+            truth = [round(v * 200) for v in samples[ch]]
+            pred = decoded[ch]
+            n = min(len(pred), len(truth))
+            matches = sum(1 for i in range(n) if pred[i] == truth[i])
+            div = next((i for i in range(n) if pred[i] != truth[i]), -1)
+            print(f"  {ch}: decoded={len(pred):>5}  truth={len(truth):>5}  "
+                  f"matches={matches:>5}/{n:<5}  first div={div}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/verify_quiet_bundle.py

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+"""Run decode_waveform_v2 against the 5-8-26 quiet bundle to test the
+'quiet events should decode fully' hypothesis."""
+import os, sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import decode_waveform_v2, walk_body, find_data_start
+from analysis.load_bundle import _parse_txt
+
+
+def main():
+    base = "tests/fixtures/decode-re-5-8-26"
+    for evt in sorted(os.listdir(base)):
+        folder = os.path.join(base, evt)
+        if not os.path.isdir(folder):
+            continue
+        # Find the binary (not .TXT)
+        bin_name = next(
+            (f for f in os.listdir(folder) if not f.endswith(".TXT")),
+            None,
+        )
+        if not bin_name:
+            continue
+        bin_path = os.path.join(folder, bin_name)
+        txt_path = bin_path + ".TXT"
+        if not os.path.exists(txt_path):
+            # Sometimes the TXT name differs slightly
+            for f in os.listdir(folder):
+                if f.endswith(".TXT"):
+                    txt_path = os.path.join(folder, f)
+                    break
+        with open(bin_path, "rb") as f:
+            body = f.read()[43:-26]
+        decoded = decode_waveform_v2(body)
+        _, samples = _parse_txt(txt_path)
+
+        # Count 30 NN blocks
+        blocks = walk_body(body, find_data_start(body))
+        n_30 = sum(1 for b in blocks if b.tag_hi == 0x30)
+        n_40 = sum(1 for b in blocks if b.tag_hi == 0x40)
+
+        print(f"\n=== {evt} === body={len(body)}  segments={n_40}  '30 NN' blocks={n_30}")
+        if decoded is None:
+            print("  decoder returned None")
+            continue
+        for ch in ("Tran", "Vert", "Long"):
+            truth = [round(v * 200) for v in samples[ch]]
+            pred = decoded[ch]
+            n = min(len(pred), len(truth))
+            matches = sum(1 for i in range(n) if pred[i] == truth[i])
+            div = next((i for i in range(n) if pred[i] != truth[i]), -1)
+            print(f"  {ch}: decoded={len(pred):>5}  truth={len(truth):>5}  "
+                  f"matches={matches:>5}/{n:<5}  first div={div}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/verify_tran.py

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+"""Verify: preamble[3:7] = Tran[0], Tran[1] as int16 BE in 16-count units.
+And first 20/10 NN block = Tran deltas starting at sample 2.
+"""
+import os, sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import _parse_txt
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import walk_body, find_data_start
+
+
+def s4(n):
+    return n if n < 8 else n - 16
+
+
+def i8(b):
+    return b if b < 128 else b - 256
+
+
+def main():
+    for stem in ("M529LL1A.SP0", "M529LL1A.SS0", "M529LL1A.SV0"):
+        path = f"tests/fixtures/5-11-26/{stem}"
+        with open(path, "rb") as f:
+            raw = f.read()
+        body = raw[43:-26]
+        _, samples = _parse_txt(path + ".TXT")
+        truth_T_16 = [round(v * 200) for v in samples["Tran"]]
+
+        # Preamble parse
+        T0_pre = int.from_bytes(body[3:5], "big", signed=True)
+        T1_pre = int.from_bytes(body[5:7], "big", signed=True)
+        print(f"\n=== {stem} ===")
+        print(f"  Preamble T[0]={T0_pre} (truth {truth_T_16[0]})  T[1]={T1_pre} (truth {truth_T_16[1]})  match={T0_pre==truth_T_16[0] and T1_pre==truth_T_16[1]}")
+
+        # First block
+        start = find_data_start(body)
+        blocks = walk_body(body, start)
+        if not blocks:
+            print(f"  no blocks found")
+            continue
+
+        # Assume first block = Tran deltas from sample 2
+        first = blocks[0]
+        T = [T0_pre, T1_pre]
+        cur_T = T1_pre
+        if first.tag_hi == 0x10:
+            # Nibble pairs
+            for byte in first.data:
+                for nib in ((byte >> 4) & 0xF, byte & 0xF):
+                    cur_T += s4(nib)
+                    T.append(cur_T)
+        elif first.tag_hi == 0x20:
+            # int8 per byte
+            for byte in first.data:
+                cur_T += i8(byte)
+                T.append(cur_T)
+
+        # Compare against truth
+        n_check = min(len(T), len(truth_T_16))
+        match_count = sum(1 for i in range(n_check) if T[i] == truth_T_16[i])
+        print(f"  First block type=0x{first.tag_hi:02x} NN=0x{first.tag_lo:02x} len={len(first.data)} → {len(T)} T samples decoded")
+        print(f"  Tran predicted[0:10]: {T[:10]}")
+        print(f"  Tran truth    [0:10]: {truth_T_16[:10]}")
+        print(f"  Matches in first {n_check}: {match_count} / {n_check}")
+        # Show where it diverges
+        for i in range(n_check):
+            if T[i] != truth_T_16[i]:
+                print(f"  First divergence: sample {i}: pred={T[i]}, truth={truth_T_16[i]}")
+                break
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/walk_5_11.py

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+"""Walk blocks of the new 5-11-26 events and look at what comes after Tran block."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import walk_body, find_data_start
+
+
+def main():
+    for stem in ("M529LL1A.SP0", "M529LL1A.SS0", "M529LL1A.SV0"):
+        with open(f"tests/fixtures/5-11-26/{stem}", "rb") as f:
+            raw = f.read()
+        body = raw[43:-26]
+        start = find_data_start(body)
+        blocks = walk_body(body, start)
+        print(f"\n=== {stem} === body={len(body)} start={start} blocks walked={len(blocks)}")
+        for i, b in enumerate(blocks[:20]):
+            print(f"  block[{i:>2}] @ {b.offset:>5} tag={b.tag_hi:02x} NN=0x{b.tag_lo:02x}({b.tag_lo}) len={b.length} data[:24]={b.data[:24].hex(' ')}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/walk_chunks.py

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+"""Walk the body assuming chunks delimited by 0x10 NN tags. Print each chunk's structure."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+
+
+def walk(body: bytes, start_offset: int = 7, max_chunks: int = 30):
+    """Find all positions where byte = 0x10 followed by a multiple-of-4 byte. Print chunks."""
+    chunks = []
+    i = start_offset
+    while i < len(body) - 1:
+        # Find next `10 NN` where NN is multiple of 4 (and not preceded by another 0x10 immediately, which would be data).
+        if body[i] == 0x10 and (body[i+1] % 4 == 0):
+            chunks.append(i)
+        i += 1
+    return chunks
+
+
+def main():
+    for name in ("event-c", "event-d"):
+        b = load_bundle(name)
+        body = b.body
+        positions = []
+        i = 7  # skip 7-byte preamble
+        while i < len(body) - 1:
+            if body[i] == 0x10 and body[i+1] % 4 == 0 and body[i+1] > 0:
+                positions.append(i)
+                i += 2  # skip past tag
+            else:
+                i += 1
+        print(f"\n=== {name} ===  body={len(body)}, total `10 NN` (NN%4==0, NN>0) tags: {len(positions)}")
+        # Print first 20 chunks: show position, NN, gap to next tag
+        for k in range(min(30, len(positions))):
+            pos = positions[k]
+            NN = body[pos + 1]
+            next_pos = positions[k+1] if k+1 < len(positions) else len(body)
+            gap = next_pos - pos
+            data_bytes = body[pos+2 : next_pos]
+            print(f"  chunk[{k:>3}] @ {pos:>5}  NN=0x{NN:02x} ({NN:>3}, NN/2={NN//2})  gap={gap:>3}  "
+                  f"data={data_bytes[:24].hex(' ')}{'...' if len(data_bytes) > 24 else ''}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/walk_v2.py

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+"""Deterministic chunk walker: each chunk = [10 NN][NN/2 bytes data][2 bytes trailer]."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+
+
+def walk_chunks(body: bytes, start: int = 7):
+    """Yield (offset, NN, data_bytes, trailer_bytes) tuples."""
+    i = start
+    while i + 1 < len(body):
+        if body[i] != 0x10:
+            break
+        NN = body[i + 1]
+        if NN == 0 or NN > 0x80 or NN % 4 != 0:
+            break
+        chunk_len = NN // 2 + 4
+        if i + chunk_len > len(body):
+            break
+        data = bytes(body[i + 2 : i + 2 + NN // 2])
+        trailer = bytes(body[i + 2 + NN // 2 : i + chunk_len])
+        yield (i, NN, data, trailer)
+        i += chunk_len
+
+
+def main():
+    for name in ("event-c", "event-d", "event-a", "event-b"):
+        b = load_bundle(name)
+        body = b.body
+        chunks = list(walk_chunks(body))
+        print(f"\n=== {name} ===  body={len(body)}  N_samples={len(b.samples['Tran'])}")
+        print(f"  chunks parsed: {len(chunks)}")
+        if chunks:
+            last = chunks[-1]
+            end_of_walk = last[0] + last[1] // 2 + 4
+            print(f"  walk ended at offset {end_of_walk} (= {len(body) - end_of_walk} bytes from end)")
+            # Stats
+            total_data_bytes = sum(len(c[2]) for c in chunks)
+            print(f"  total data bytes: {total_data_bytes}, total nibbles: {2*total_data_bytes}")
+            if name in ("event-c", "event-d"):
+                ratio = (2 * total_data_bytes) / (len(b.samples['Tran']) * 4)
+                print(f"  nibbles per (sample × channel): {ratio:.3f}")
+            # Sum of trailer second-byte
+            trailer_sums = [c[3][-1] if c[3] else None for c in chunks]
+            print(f"  first 10 chunks: {[(c[0], c[1], c[3].hex()) for c in chunks[:10]]}")
+            # Print last 10 chunks (likely transition to trailer)
+            print(f"  last 10 chunks: {[(c[0], c[1], c[3].hex()) for c in chunks[-10:]]}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/walk_v3.py

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+"""Walk chunks; auto-detect preamble length by finding first 10 NN."""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+
+
+def walk_chunks(body, start, max_NN=0x80):
+    chunks = []
+    i = start
+    while i + 1 < len(body):
+        if body[i] != 0x10:
+            break
+        NN = body[i + 1]
+        if NN == 0 or NN > max_NN or NN % 4 != 0:
+            break
+        chunk_len = NN // 2 + 4
+        if i + chunk_len > len(body):
+            break
+        data = bytes(body[i + 2 : i + 2 + NN // 2])
+        trailer = bytes(body[i + 2 + NN // 2 : i + chunk_len])
+        chunks.append((i, NN, data, trailer))
+        i += chunk_len
+    return chunks, i
+
+
+def find_first_chunk_start(body):
+    """Locate first byte that begins a `10 NN` chunk (NN ∈ multiples of 4, 4..0x7C)."""
+    for i in range(20):
+        if body[i] == 0x10 and body[i + 1] % 4 == 0 and 0 < body[i + 1] <= 0x7C:
+            return i
+    return -1
+
+
+def main():
+    for name in ("event-c", "event-d", "event-a", "event-b"):
+        b = load_bundle(name)
+        body = b.body
+        start = find_first_chunk_start(body)
+        chunks, end = walk_chunks(body, start)
+        print(f"\n=== {name} ===  body={len(body)}  N_samples={len(b.samples['Tran'])}  start={start}")
+        print(f"  chunks parsed: {len(chunks)}, walk ended at {end}")
+        if chunks:
+            print(f"  first 5 chunks: {[(c[0], c[1], c[3].hex()) for c in chunks[:5]]}")
+            print(f"  last 5 chunks: {[(c[0], c[1], c[3].hex()) for c in chunks[-5:]]}")
+            print(f"  bytes around end of walk: {body[end-4:end+12].hex(' ')}")
+        else:
+            print(f"  bytes at start: {body[start:start+16].hex(' ')}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/walk_v4.py

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+"""
+Walker v4: alternate [10 NN] data chunks and [00 NN] (or other) marker tags.
+
+Hypothesis:
+- [10 NN]: data block, length NN/2 + 2 bytes (2-byte tag + NN/2 bytes data)
+- [00 NN]: 2-byte marker block (no data)
+- [20/30/40 NN]: special blocks with type-dependent length
+"""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+
+
+def walk(body, start):
+    i = start
+    blocks = []
+    while i + 1 < len(body):
+        t0 = body[i]
+        t1 = body[i + 1]
+        if t0 == 0x10 and t1 % 4 == 0 and 0 < t1 <= 0x80:
+            # data chunk: length NN/2 + 2
+            length = t1 // 2 + 2
+            blocks.append((i, "10", t1, bytes(body[i + 2 : i + length]), length))
+            i += length
+        elif t0 == 0x00 and t1 % 4 == 0:
+            # 2-byte marker
+            blocks.append((i, "00", t1, b"", 2))
+            i += 2
+        elif t0 == 0x20 and t1 % 4 == 0:
+            # type 2 — try length 2+t1/2 (similar to 10) OR fixed
+            length = t1 // 2 + 2
+            blocks.append((i, "20", t1, bytes(body[i + 2 : i + length]), length))
+            i += length
+        elif t0 == 0x30 and t1 % 4 == 0:
+            length = t1 // 2 + 2
+            blocks.append((i, "30", t1, bytes(body[i + 2 : i + length]), length))
+            i += length
+        elif t0 == 0x40 and t1 == 0x02:
+            # Special "footer transition" block — try fixed 22 bytes
+            length = 22
+            blocks.append((i, "40", t1, bytes(body[i + 2 : i + length]), length))
+            i += length
+        else:
+            # Unknown tag — stop
+            blocks.append((i, "??", t0, bytes(body[i:i+8]), 0))
+            break
+    return blocks, i
+
+
+def main():
+    for name in ("event-c", "event-d", "event-a", "event-b"):
+        b = load_bundle(name)
+        body = b.body
+        # Auto-detect start
+        for s in range(15):
+            if body[s] == 0x10 and body[s+1] % 4 == 0 and 0 < body[s+1] <= 0x80:
+                start = s
+                break
+        else:
+            start = 7
+        blocks, end = walk(body, start)
+        # Categorize
+        from collections import Counter
+        types = Counter(b[1] for b in blocks)
+        print(f"\n=== {name} === body={len(body)} N={len(b.samples['Tran'])}  start={start}")
+        print(f"  total blocks: {len(blocks)}, walk ended at {end}/{len(body)}")
+        print(f"  type counts: {dict(types)}")
+        # Print last 5 blocks
+        print(f"  last 5 blocks: {[(bb[0], bb[1], bb[2]) for bb in blocks[-5:]]}")
+        if end < len(body):
+            print(f"  bytes at end: {body[end:end+24].hex(' ')}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/walk_v5.py

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+"""
+Walker v5: flexible NN range and multiple block-type lengths.
+
+Hypothesis:
+- [10 NN]: 4-bit-delta data block, length = NN/2 + 2
+- [20 NN]: 8-bit-literal data block, length = NN + 2
+- [00 NN]: 2-byte marker (no payload)
+- [30 NN]: trailer/summary block, length = NN*4
+- [40 NN]: footer-marker block, fixed 22 bytes
+"""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+from collections import Counter
+
+
+def walk(body, start, max_blocks=10000):
+    i = start
+    blocks = []
+    while i + 1 < len(body) and len(blocks) < max_blocks:
+        t0 = body[i]
+        t1 = body[i + 1]
+        if t0 == 0x10 and t1 % 4 == 0 and 0 < t1 <= 0xFC:
+            length = t1 // 2 + 2
+            if i + length > len(body):
+                break
+            data = bytes(body[i + 2 : i + length])
+            blocks.append((i, "10", t1, data, length))
+            i += length
+        elif t0 == 0x20 and t1 % 4 == 0 and 0 < t1 <= 0xFC:
+            length = t1 + 2
+            if i + length > len(body):
+                break
+            data = bytes(body[i + 2 : i + length])
+            blocks.append((i, "20", t1, data, length))
+            i += length
+        elif t0 == 0x00 and t1 % 4 == 0:
+            # 2-byte marker
+            blocks.append((i, "00", t1, b"", 2))
+            i += 2
+        elif t0 == 0x30 and t1 % 4 == 0:
+            length = t1 * 4
+            if i + length > len(body):
+                break
+            data = bytes(body[i + 2 : i + length])
+            blocks.append((i, "30", t1, data, length))
+            i += length
+        elif t0 == 0x40 and t1 == 0x02:
+            length = 22
+            if i + length > len(body):
+                break
+            data = bytes(body[i + 2 : i + length])
+            blocks.append((i, "40", t1, data, length))
+            i += length
+        else:
+            blocks.append((i, "??", t0, bytes(body[i:i+8]), 0))
+            break
+    return blocks, i
+
+
+def main():
+    for name in ("event-c", "event-d", "event-a", "event-b"):
+        b = load_bundle(name)
+        body = b.body
+        for s in range(15):
+            if body[s] == 0x10 and body[s+1] % 4 == 0 and 0 < body[s+1] <= 0xFC:
+                start = s; break
+        else:
+            start = 7
+        blocks, end = walk(body, start)
+        types = Counter(bb[1] for bb in blocks)
+        print(f"\n=== {name} === body={len(body)} N={len(b.samples['Tran'])}  start={start}")
+        print(f"  total blocks: {len(blocks)}, walk ended at {end}/{len(body)}")
+        print(f"  type counts: {dict(types)}")
+        if blocks and blocks[-1][1] == "??":
+            print(f"  stopped at byte: 0x{blocks[-1][2]:02x}, prev 5 blocks: {[(bb[0], bb[1], bb[2]) for bb in blocks[-6:-1]]}")
+        # Sum payload sizes by type
+        payload_sizes = {t: sum(len(bb[3]) for bb in blocks if bb[1] == t) for t in types}
+        print(f"  payload bytes by type: {payload_sizes}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

analysis/walk_v6.py

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+"""
+Walker v6: handle 40 02 blocks correctly (length 20).
+
+Block formats:
+- [10 NN]: 4-bit nibble delta data, length = NN/2 + 2
+- [20 NN]: int8 literal data, length = NN + 2
+- [00 NN]: 2-byte marker
+- [30 NN]: trailer/summary block, length = NN*4
+- [40 02]: segment header, fixed length 20
+"""
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, ".")
+from analysis.load_bundle import load_bundle
+from collections import Counter
+
+
+def walk(body, start, max_blocks=10000):
+    i = start
+    blocks = []
+    while i + 1 < len(body) and len(blocks) < max_blocks:
+        t0 = body[i]
+        t1 = body[i + 1]
+        if t0 == 0x10 and t1 % 4 == 0 and 0 < t1 <= 0xFC:
+            length = t1 // 2 + 2
+        elif t0 == 0x20 and t1 % 4 == 0 and 0 < t1 <= 0xFC:
+            length = t1 + 2
+        elif t0 == 0x00 and t1 % 4 == 0:
+            length = 2
+        elif t0 == 0x30 and t1 % 4 == 0 and 0 < t1 <= 0x10:
+            length = t1 * 4
+        elif t0 == 0x40 and t1 == 0x02:
+            length = 20
+        else:
+            blocks.append((i, "??", t0, bytes(body[i:i+8]), 0))
+            break
+        if i + length > len(body):
+            break
+        data = bytes(body[i + 2 : i + length])
+        blocks.append((i, f"{t0:02x}", t1, data, length))
+        i += length
+    return blocks, i
+
+
+def main():
+    for name in ("event-c", "event-d", "event-a", "event-b"):
+        b = load_bundle(name)
+        body = b.body
+        for s in range(15):
+            if body[s] == 0x10 and body[s+1] % 4 == 0 and 0 < body[s+1] <= 0xFC:
+                start = s; break
+        else:
+            start = 7
+        blocks, end = walk(body, start)
+        types = Counter(bb[1] for bb in blocks)
+        print(f"\n=== {name} === body={len(body)} N={len(b.samples['Tran'])}  start={start}")
+        print(f"  total blocks: {len(blocks)}, walk ended at {end}/{len(body)}")
+        print(f"  type counts: {dict(types)}")
+        if blocks and blocks[-1][1] == "??":
+            print(f"  stopped at byte: 0x{blocks[-1][2]:02x} at offset {blocks[-1][0]}")
+            print(f"  prev 5 blocks: {[(bb[0], bb[1], bb[2]) for bb in blocks[-6:-1]]}")
+            print(f"  bytes around stop: {body[end-4:end+24].hex(' ')}")
+        # Sum
+        payload_sizes = {t: sum(len(bb[3]) for bb in blocks if bb[1] == t) for t in types}
+        print(f"  payload bytes by type: {payload_sizes}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

docs/instantel_protocol_reference.md

@@ -860,127 +860,264 @@ MicL:  39 64 1D AA  =  0.0000875 psi
 
 ---
 
-#### 7.6.1 Blast / Waveform mode — ❌ NOT VERIFIED (retracted 2026-05-08)
+#### 7.6.1 Blast / Waveform mode — 🟡 PARTIAL DECODE (2026-05-11)
 
-> ## ⚠️ RETRACTION (2026-05-08)
+> ### 📌 CURRENT STATUS — read this first
 >
-> The "4-channel interleaved s16 LE, 8 bytes per sample-set" claim
-> below was **never actually validated**.  It got into this document
-> because the decoder built around that assumption produced full-scale
-> ±32K counts on every channel of the 4-2-26 capture, and the
-> ±32K-shaped output was misread as "the signal must have saturated."
+> The body codec is **partially decoded** as of 2026-05-11.  This
+> section contains both current-truth spec AND historical retractions;
+> when in doubt, the working summary lives at
+> `docs/waveform_codec_re_status.md`.
 >
-> Cross-checking the BW-reported peaks proves the opposite:
+> | Item | Status |
+> |---|---|
+> | Body has tagged variable-length blocks, NOT raw int16 LE | ✅ confirmed |
+> | 5 block tag types (10/20/00/30/40 NN) with lengths | ✅ confirmed |
+> | 7-byte preamble: `00 02 00` + Tran[0] + Tran[1] int16 BE | ✅ confirmed |
+> | `00 NN` = RLE for zero deltas in the current channel | ✅ confirmed |
+> | Tran channel, segment 0 (~482-510 samples / event) | ✅ byte-exact, 5/5 events |
+> | Multi-segment Tran continuation | ❌ open (breaks at sample ~512) |
+> | Vert / Long / MicL channel decoders | ❌ open |
+> | `30 NN` block content (loud-from-start events) | ❌ open |
+> | Earlier "raw int16 LE, 8 bytes per sample-set" claim | ❌ REFUTED |
 >
-> | Channel | BW PPV (in/s) | Expected ADC counts at 10 in/s FS |
-> |---|---|---|
-> | Tran | 0.420 | **1,376** |
-> | Vert | 3.870 | **12,686** |
-> | Long | 0.495 | **1,622** |
->
-> None of these are anywhere near ±32K saturation.  No event in the
-> project's archive (across all captures from 1-2-26 onward) has
-> ever come close to saturation either.  Yet the decoder has
-> consistently produced ±32K-shaped noise on every event.  The right
-> conclusion is that the byte-to-sample interpretation has been wrong
-> the whole time, NOT that every event happened to saturate.
->
-> What's actually known about the body bytes:
->
-> - The byte distribution is heavily skewed (24% `0x00`, 10.5% `0x10`,
->   plus high frequencies of `0x01 / 0x04 / 0x0F / 0xF0 / 0xF1`).  Lots
->   of `10 XX` pairs.  Reading them as LE int16 produces uniform ±32K
->   noise — the signature of mis-aligned or encoded data.
-> - The CHANGELOG note for v0.14.2 calls the body a "delta-encoded
->   ADC stream" — that hint plus the byte distribution points toward
->   a delta encoding with `0x10` as an escape marker, but no decoder
->   has been worked out yet.
-> - The histogram-mode codec in §7.6.2 IS verified and decoded
->   correctly (different format: 32-byte blocks with 9× int16 LE
->   samples + metadata).  The same firmware emits both formats, so
->   §7.6.2 may share encoding primitives with the waveform codec
->   and is worth using as a structural hint when reverse-engineering.
->
-> **Treat the spec below as a starting hypothesis to disprove, not
-> ground truth.**  The frame-layout pieces (STRT location, preamble,
-> chunk header) appear correct; the per-byte sample interpretation
-> is the open question.
+> **Production code in `client.py:_decode_a5_waveform` still uses the
+> broken int16 LE decoder.**  The `.h5` sidecars SFM produces contain
+> wrong sample values and must be treated as "unverified" downstream.
+> The BW binary write path is unaffected (it's pure passthrough of the
+> device's flash bytes, no decoding) and remains byte-perfect.
 
-4-channel interleaved signed 16-bit little-endian, 8 bytes per sample-set:
+The "4-channel interleaved s16 LE, 8 bytes per sample-set" claim that
+appeared in earlier revisions of this section was never validated and
+was wrong.  No event in the project's archive ever came close to ADC
+saturation, yet the int16 LE decoder consistently produced full-scale
+±32K noise — that was the signature of mis-aligned encoded data, not
+signal saturation.
+
+##### Body file layout
+
+A Blastware waveform-file body (the variable-length section between
+the 21-byte STRT record and the 26-byte file footer) is composed of
+**tagged variable-length blocks**, NOT raw int16 samples.
 
 ```
-[T_lo T_hi  V_lo V_hi  L_lo L_hi  M_lo M_hi]  × N sample-sets
+[preamble: 7 or 9 bytes]
+[stream of tagged blocks]
+[trailer: per-channel summary blocks]
 ```
 
-- **T** = Transverse (Tran), **V** = Vertical (Vert), **L** = Longitudinal (Long), **M** = Microphone
-- Channel order follows the Blastware convention: Tran is always first (ch[0]).
-- Encoding: signed int16 little-endian.  Full scale = ±32768 counts.
-- Sample rate: set by compliance config (typical: 1024 Hz for blast monitoring).
-- Each A5 frame chunk carries a different number of waveform bytes.  Frame sizes
-  are NOT multiples of 8, so naive concatenation scrambles channel assignments at
-  frame boundaries.  **Always track cumulative byte offset mod 8 to correct alignment.**
-
-**A5[0] frame layout:**
+**Preamble (CONFIRMED 2026-05-11 across 3+4 events):**
 
 ```
-db[7:]:   [11-byte header]  [21-byte STRT record]  [6-byte preamble]  [waveform ...]
-STRT:     offset 11 in db[7:]
-           +0..3  b'STRT'     magic
-           +8..9  uint16 BE   total_samples  (full-record expected sample-set count)
-          +16..17 uint16 BE   pretrig_samples (pre-trigger window, in sample-sets)
-          +18     uint8       rectime_seconds
-preamble: +19..20 0x00 0x00   null padding
-          +21..24 0xFF × 4    synchronisation sentinel
-Waveform: starts at strt_pos + 27 within db[7:]
+body[0:3]  = 00 02 00              magic
+body[3:5]  = Tran[0]   int16 BE    first Tran sample (LSB = 0.005 in/s)
+body[5:7]  = Tran[1]   int16 BE    second Tran sample
 ```
 
-**A5[1..N] frame layout (non-metadata frames):**
+The preamble is therefore 7 bytes long.  Earlier observations of a
+"9-byte preamble" on continuous-mode events were a misread — those
+events still have a 7-byte preamble; the next 2 bytes are part of the
+first ``10 NN`` or ``20 NN`` data block (its tag).
 
-```
-db[7:]:   [8-byte per-frame header]  [waveform ...]
-Header:   [counter LE uint16, 0x00 × 6]  — frame sequence counter (0, 8, 12, 16, 20, …×0x400)
-Waveform: starts at byte 8 of db[7:]
-```
+Verified preamble decode for all 7 fixture events — Tran[0] and Tran[1]
+from the preamble bytes exactly match the BW ASCII export (rounded to
+0.005 in/s):
 
-**Special frames:**
+| Event | Preamble [3:7] (hex) | T[0] decoded | T[0] truth | T[1] decoded | T[1] truth |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| event-a (May 8) | ``01 00 00 00`` | +1 | +1 (0.005) | 0 | 0 |
+| event-b (May 8) | ``ff ff ff 00`` | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1 |
+| event-c (May 8) | ``00 00 00 00`` | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+| event-d (May 8) | ``00 00 00 00`` | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+| SP0 (May 11) | ``00 04 00 04`` | +4 | +4 (0.020) | +4 | +4 |
+| SS0 (May 11) | ``ff a7 ff a7`` | -89 | -89 (-0.445) | -89 | -89 |
+| SV0 (May 11) | ``fd 17 fd 06`` | -745 | -745 (-3.725) | -762 | -762 |
 
-| Frame index | Contents |
+##### Block tags (CONFIRMED 2026-05-08)
+
+Every block starts with a 2-byte tag.  Five tag types are confirmed:
+
+| Tag (hex) | Block type                          | On-wire length        |
+|-----------|-------------------------------------|-----------------------|
+| ``10 NN`` | Small-delta data block              | NN/2 + 2 bytes        |
+| ``20 NN`` | Literal data block (int8-shaped)    | NN + 2 bytes          |
+| ``00 NN`` | 2-byte marker between data blocks   | 2 bytes               |
+| ``30 NN`` | Trailer summary block               | NN × 4 bytes          |
+| ``40 02`` | Segment header                      | 20 bytes (fixed)      |
+
+NN is always a multiple of 4.  ``10 NN`` and ``20 NN`` data blocks
+alternate with ``00 NN`` markers — every ``10/20 NN`` block is
+followed by a ``00 NN`` marker before the next data block.
+
+##### Segments
+
+The body is divided into segments separated by ``40 02`` segment headers.
+**Segment size is variable** — bounded by a fixed device-flash byte
+budget, not a fixed sample count.  Quiet events fit more samples per
+segment (RLE compacts zero deltas via ``00 NN`` markers); loud events
+fit fewer.  Observed first-segment sizes in the bundled fixtures:
+
+| Event | Segment 0 size (Tran samples) |
 |---|---|
-| A5[0]  | Probe response: STRT record + first waveform chunk |
-| A5[7]  | Event-time metadata strings only (no waveform data) |
-| A5[9]  | Terminator frame (page_key=0x0000) — ignored |
-| A5[1..6,8] | Waveform chunks |
+| SP0 (loud, 0.25s pretrig) | 510 |
+| SV0 (loud-from-start) | 58 (stops at first ``30 NN``) |
+| SS0 (loud-from-start) | 42 (stops at first ``30 04``) |
+| JQ0 (Vert-heavy, quiet Tran) | 510 |
+| V70 (Mic-heavy, quiet geos) | 510 |
 
-**Confirmed from 4-2-26 blast capture (total_samples=9306, pretrig=298, rate=1024 Hz):**
+⚠️ Earlier drafts of this section claimed "~80 sample-sets per segment"
+based on incomplete walks; that figure is wrong.  Segments are
+flash-page-sized in bytes, not sample-count-sized.
+
+The 18-byte ``40 02`` payload structure:
+
+| Offset    | Field                                       | Status      |
+|-----------|---------------------------------------------|-------------|
+| [0:2]     | T_delta at first sample of new segment      | ✅ confirmed|
+|           | (int16 BE, in 16-count units)               |             |
+| [2:4]     | Likely T_delta at sample seg_start+1        | 🟡 likely   |
+| [4:6]     | Unknown (varies; possibly a checksum)       | ❓ open     |
+| [6:8]     | Byte length to next segment header − 2      | ✅ confirmed|
+|           | (uint16 BE; useful for walker pre-scan)     |             |
+| [8:12]    | Monotonic uint32 LE counter                 | ✅ confirmed|
+|           | (starts ~0x47, increments by 1 per segment) |             |
+| [12:14]   | Constant ``02 00``                          | ✅ confirmed|
+| [14:18]   | Unknown 4-byte field                        | ❓ open     |
+
+Examples from event-c (1 sec single-shot):
 
 ```
-Frame  Waveform bytes  Cumulative  Align(mod 8)
-A5[0]       933B           933B        0
-A5[1]       963B          1896B        5
-A5[2]       946B          2842B        0
-A5[3]       960B          3802B        2
-A5[4]       952B          4754B        2
-A5[5]       946B          5700B        2
-A5[6]       941B          6641B        4
-A5[8]       992B          7633B        1
-Total:     7633B  → 954 naive sample-sets, 948 alignment-corrected
+Segment header 1 (offset 235):
+  40 02 | 00 00 00 00 | 0a 4b 01 1e | 47 00 00 00 | 02 00 00 01 | 00 01
+                                                  ^counter=0x47
+Segment header 2 (offset 523):
+  40 02 | ff fe ff fe | 13 f5 01 06 | 48 00 00 00 | 02 00 00 01 | 00 02
+                                                  ^counter=0x48 (+1)
 ```
 
-Only 948 of 9306 sample-sets captured (10%) — `stop_after_metadata=True` terminated
-download after A5[7] was received.
+##### Trailer
 
-**Channel identification note:**  Channel ordering [Tran, Vert, Long, Mic] = [ch0, ch1, ch2, ch3]
-is the Blastware convention.  This ordering has not been independently verified end-to-end,
-since no decoder yet produces samples that match BW's own rendering of the same event (see
-the retraction at the top of §7.6.1).  Once the body codec is decoded, the per-channel PPV
-values from the 0C record (Tran=0.420, Vert=3.870, Long=0.495 in/s for the 4-2-26 capture)
-provide the cross-check that pins down channel order.
+The trailer (after the last segment's data) is a sequence of 32-byte
+``30 08`` blocks plus a final ``30 04`` / ``20 04`` / ``40 02`` summary
+ending in the constant 2-byte tail ``00 1A``.  These contain
+per-channel statistics (peak times, peak values, mean offsets — bytes
+in the form ``f3/f4/f5`` near ``20 10`` markers strongly resemble
+int8 channel-bias values around -12).  Detailed decoding of the
+trailer is outside the path needed for sample reconstruction.
 
-> **Historical note:** earlier revisions of this section claimed the 4-2-26 blast had
-> "saturated all four channels to ~32000–32617 counts," citing that as evidence the s16 LE
-> interpretation was correct.  That claim was wrong — the ±32K values were the broken
-> decoder's output, not the actual signal amplitude (which the 0C peaks above show was
-> nowhere near saturation).  Retracted 2026-05-08.
+##### Tran channel codec — CONFIRMED 2026-05-11 (segment 0)
+
+After the 7-byte preamble, the body's segment 0 carries Tran deltas
+via three block types:
+
+- ``10 NN``: ``NN/2`` bytes of payload.  Each byte = two 4-bit signed
+  nibbles (high nibble first; 0..7 → 0..+7, 8..F → -8..-1).  Each
+  nibble is one Tran delta in 16-count units (LSB = 0.005 in/s).
+
+- ``20 NN``: ``NN`` bytes of payload.  Each byte = one int8 signed
+  delta in 16-count units.  Used when deltas don't fit in 4 bits.
+
+- ``00 NN``: a 2-byte marker.  Run-length-encoded zero deltas — append
+  NN copies of the current cumulative Tran value (no change).  Used
+  heavily for silent stretches.
+
+Segment 0 ends at the first ``40 02`` segment header.  Segment 0 typically
+covers ~510 sample-sets for events with mostly-quiet Tran, fewer for
+events with rapid Tran changes.
+
+Verified against all bundled fixture events (5-8 and 5-11 bundles):
+
+| Event | Tran character | Segment 0 size | Matches truth |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| SP0 (loud all-channels, pretrig=0.25s) | small near sample 0 | 510 | 510/510 ✓ |
+| SS0 (loud-from-start) | big from sample 0 | 42* | 42/42 ✓ |
+| SV0 (loud-from-start) | big from sample 0 | 58* | 58/58 ✓ |
+| JQ0 (Vert-heavy) | near zero | 510 | 510/510 ✓ |
+| V70 (Mic-heavy) | near zero | 510 | 510/510 ✓ |
+
+\*  SS0 and SV0 decode stops early because their segment 0 contains
+``30 04`` blocks whose internal format hasn't been decoded yet (likely
+a channel-switch marker for the high-amplitude regime).  The two events
+where the codec is most complex stop at the first ``30 04``.
+
+Implementation: :func:`minimateplus.waveform_codec.decode_tran_initial`.
+
+##### Multi-segment Tran continuation — OPEN
+
+After segment 0 ends and the segment header's T_delta (bytes [0:2])
+is applied, the next segment's blocks produce values that diverge from
+truth by sample ~512.  The block structure inside segment 1 is
+identical to segment 0 (alternating ``10 NN`` / ``20 NN`` data +
+``00 NN`` RLE), and the per-segment delta budget exactly matches the
+segment size — V70 segment 1 has 264 nibble-deltas + 244 RLE-zeros =
+508 = the segment's sample count.  Cumulative deltas are correct in
+aggregate (V70 net-zero ≈ truth net-zero) but the per-sample trajectory
+is wrong when applied as Tran continuation.
+
+The strongest unverified hypothesis is that **segments rotate
+channels**: segment 0 = Tran, segment 1 = Vert, segment 2 = Long,
+segment 3 = Mic, segment 4 = Tran continuation, …  This would explain
+the per-segment delta-budget match while also explaining why segment
+1 isn't Tran continuation.  Verification needs the per-channel anchor
+to come from segment-header bytes [4:6] or [14:18], which are still
+open.
+
+##### What's still open
+
+- **Tran past the first data block.**  After the first block, the
+  body has more ``10 NN`` / ``20 NN`` blocks separated by ``00 NN``
+  markers and occasionally ``30 NN`` blocks.  Naive continuation
+  (treat all subsequent ``10/20 NN`` blocks as Tran) does NOT match
+  truth past the first block — the codec interleaves channels somehow.
+  ``30 04`` markers appearing in SS0 between blocks 1 and 5 look
+  like channel-switch tags, but the switching rule has not been
+  fully decoded.
+
+- **Vert / Long / MicL channel encodings.**  No verified decoder
+  exists for these yet.  Hypotheses tested without success:
+  V_init stored as int16 BE in ``30 NN`` block payload; V/L/M
+  blocks encoded in order after Tran with ``30 NN`` separators;
+  V encoded as ``V - T`` differential.  None match truth.
+
+- **``30 NN`` block length.**  In the trailer, ``30 NN`` blocks
+  are NN×4 bytes long.  In the data section, ``30 NN`` blocks are
+  NN×2 bytes long (= 8 bytes for NN=4 in SS0).  The walker tries
+  NN×2 first and falls back to NN×4 if needed.
+
+- **Walker correctness past offset ~427 in event-b.**  The walker
+  bails out partway through event-b — there is at least one block
+  whose length doesn't fit the lengths confirmed for the other
+  events.  This is a separate (now lower-priority) issue.
+
+##### Recommended next step
+
+A capture with a known external waveform (calibration tone of known
+frequency and amplitude) would unlock the magnitude scaling and
+disambiguate which channel a ``20 NN`` block belongs to.  Multiple
+captures of the same signal at different ``geo_range`` settings
+(Normal 10 in/s vs Sensitive 1.25 in/s) would also pin down whether
+sample values are scaled at the codec layer or only at the BW
+display layer.
+
+##### Reference module
+
+``minimateplus/waveform_codec.py`` implements the verified block
+walker (:func:`walk_body`, :func:`split_segments`,
+:func:`parse_segment_header`).  ``decode_waveform_v2`` is a stub that
+returns ``None`` until a verified per-byte sample decoder is wired
+up; production code (``minimateplus/client.py``) continues to use
+the legacy int16 LE decoder, which produces wrong samples but stable
+output shape — keep the ``.h5`` sidecars marked as
+"sample-codec unverified" until the byte-to-sample mapping lands.
+
+##### History (do not re-derive)
+
+| Date | Note |
+|---|---|
+| 2026-05-11 | Tran channel codec cracked using a high-amplitude (PPV 6-7 in/s) event bundle.  Preamble[3:7] = Tran[0]/Tran[1] as int16 BE in 16-count units (LSB = 0.005 in/s).  First data block (``10 NN`` nibble-deltas or ``20 NN`` int8-deltas) carries Tran deltas from sample 2.  Verified 22+42+46 = 110 samples across SP0/SS0/SV0 with 0 errors.  Earlier 96-combination brute-force search on the quiet 5-8 bundle failed because Tran[0] = Tran[1] = 0 in those events made initial-value-from-preamble undetectable. |
+| 2026-05-08 | Block tagging confirmed against the 4-event May 2026 bundle.  All bodies parse cleanly through `walk_body` for events a/c/d.  Event-b walks partway and stops at offset 427 (open issue). |
+| 2026-05-08 | Earlier "4-channel interleaved s16 LE" claim formally retracted — never validated, produced full-scale ±32K noise on every event because the bytes are encoded, not raw samples. |
+| 2026-04-02 | "Frame 7 metadata", "Frame 9 terminator", and `0x0400`-step chunk-counter claims documented as-was; later proved to be artifacts of an over-reading 5A walk (now superseded by §7.8.5–7.8.7). |
 
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+# Runbook — Recovering a wedged unit stuck in a call-home loop
+
+**Original incident:** BE9558H at `166.246.130.1:9034`, recovered 2026-05-17.
+
+A field unit with a stuck-triggered geophone (or any hardware fault causing
+constant event triggering) will record events back-to-back, and if Auto Call
+Home is set to "After Event Recorded" the device will dial the office BW
+ACH server in a tight loop. Combined with a Sierra Wireless modem in
+bidirectional serial-TCP mode, this makes the unit effectively unreachable
+from SFM — every TCP connection we open gets killed when the modem flips
+from server-mode to client-mode to honor the device's next AT dial command.
+
+This runbook describes how to break the loop and recover control.
+
+---
+
+## Symptoms
+
+- Terra-View / SFM `/device/info` either hangs or fails on `count_events()`.
+- `/device/monitor/status` and `/device/rescue` return 502 (protocol timeout
+  waiting for POLL response) or 503 (TCP connect refused).
+- ACEmanager serial log shows repeating
+  `Connect to IP: <BW_IP> Port: <BW_PORT>` → `Shutdown TCP socket` cycles
+  every 30-60 seconds.
+- Spam-mode endpoints (`/device/stop_monitoring_spam`) report many
+  `sent_ok` but the device's monitoring state never changes.
+- `slow_drip` reports `[Errno 32] Broken pipe` after sending the preamble
+  but before completing the drip loop.
+
+If you see *all* of these, the unit is in this exact failure mode.
+
+---
+
+## Quick reference — how to recover
+
+You need **ACEmanager access** to the unit's modem.
+
+### Step 1: stop the modem's mode-flipping
+
+In ACEmanager → **Serial → Port Configuration**:
+
+| Field | Set to |
+|---|---|
+| **Destination Address** | clear (blank) |
+| **Destination Port** | `0` |
+
+Click **Apply**. This removes the modem's auto-dial-out target. The device's
+AT dial commands now error back at the modem instead of triggering a
+mode-flip, so the modem stays in TCP-server mode permanently and our inbound
+TCP sessions stay alive.
+
+*(Optional belt-and-suspenders: also add the BW server's port to
+**Security → Port Filtering - Outbound** as a blocked port, with
+Outbound Port Filtering Mode = Blocked Ports.)*
+
+### Step 2: stop monitoring on the device (slow drip)
+
+From the SFM host:
+
+```bash
+/home/serversdown/seismo-relay/scripts/slow_drip.sh <DEVICE_IP> <PORT>
+```
+
+Defaults are 120s duration with a drip every 3s. Watch the response:
+
+- `duration_s ≈ 120` and `drips_sent ≈ 40` → session held the full duration ✓
+- `bytes_received > 0` → device is responding ✓ (this is the success signal)
+
+If `duration_s` is small or `send_error: "Broken pipe"`, Step 1 didn't take
+hold — re-check ACEmanager, may need to reboot the modem after Apply.
+
+### Step 3: confirm monitoring stopped
+
+```bash
+curl 'http://localhost:8200/device/monitor/status?host=<DEVICE_IP>&tcp_port=<PORT>&force=true'
+# expect: {"is_monitoring": false, ...}
+```
+
+### Step 4: disable ACH at the device level + erase corrupted events
+
+Either fire the rescue endpoint:
+
+```bash
+/home/serversdown/seismo-relay/scripts/rescue_device.sh <DEVICE_IP> <PORT>
+```
+
+Or do the two steps manually:
+
+```bash
+# Disable ACH in the device's compliance config
+curl -X POST 'http://localhost:8200/device/call_home?host=<DEVICE_IP>&tcp_port=<PORT>' \
+  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+  -d '{"auto_call_home_enabled": false}'
+
+# Erase corrupted event chain
+curl -X POST 'http://localhost:8200/device/events/erase?host=<DEVICE_IP>&tcp_port=<PORT>'
+```
+
+You can also do this via the SFM standalone UI → **Call Home** tab → set
+`Enable Auto Call Home` to `Disabled` → **Write to Device**.
+
+### Step 5: restore modem config (housekeeping)
+
+Once the device-side ACH is disabled, restore the modem's Destination
+Address and Port to the original values (e.g. `50.197.32.92` / `12345`) in
+ACEmanager. The modem will resume normal bidirectional behavior, but the
+unit won't issue any dial commands until ACH is explicitly re-enabled on
+the device.
+
+### Step 6: do NOT re-enable ACH on this unit until the underlying hardware
+fault is repaired. If you do, the call-home loop starts again immediately
+and you'll be running this runbook a second time.
+
+---
+
+## Why this works — the failure mode explained
+
+The Sierra Wireless RV50/RV55 serial port operates in one of two TCP modes
+at any moment:
+
+- **Server mode** — listens on `Device Port` (e.g. 9034), bridges inbound
+  TCP to the device's serial port. This is what we need to interact with
+  the device.
+- **Client mode** — when the device sends an AT dial command on its serial
+  TX line, the modem opens an outbound TCP to `Destination Address:Port`
+  and bridges that to serial.
+
+A serial port in this configuration is **bidirectional**: the modem flips
+between server and client modes on demand. When the device's firmware is
+healthy and only dials occasionally, this works fine.
+
+When the unit is constantly triggering events and ACH is set to "After
+Event Recorded", the device sends an AT dial command every few seconds.
+Each one causes the modem to:
+
+1. Drop any active inbound TCP session
+2. Flip to client mode
+3. Attempt outbound TCP to `Destination Address:Port`
+4. Hang for up to a minute waiting for it to succeed/fail
+5. Drop back to server mode
+
+**During the entire hang, no inbound TCP can establish.** Even between
+hangs, the modem closes any existing inbound session before flipping. So
+any tool that needs more than a few seconds of held TCP (e.g. POLL +
+config read + write) gets repeatedly kicked off.
+
+Clearing `Destination Address` removes step 3-4 from the cycle: the modem
+has nowhere to dial, so it doesn't flip modes when it receives an AT dial
+command. The serial port effectively becomes server-only, and inbound TCP
+sessions can stay open as long as needed.
+
+**This is a modem-layer issue, not a device firmware issue.** The device
+is alive and responsive the whole time — confirmed in the BE9558H
+recovery by 990 bytes of S3 responses received over a 120s slow-drip
+session once the modem was no longer mode-flipping.
+
+---
+
+## Why simpler approaches don't work
+
+| Approach | Why it fails |
+|---|---|
+| Standard `/device/info` | Triggers `count_events()` 1E/1F walk, takes 90s+ and hits corrupted event chain in this scenario |
+| `/device/rescue` race loop | Gets 502 (protocol timeout) because the modem closes the TCP before the POLL handshake can complete |
+| `/device/stop_monitoring_blind` (single frame) | Even if the bytes leave the wire, the device's protocol parser ignores write commands without a preceding POLL handshake (early-version bug, now fixed by including POLL preamble in blind sends) |
+| `/device/stop_monitoring_spam` (sub-second cadence) | Each session is killed by the modem's mode-flip before the device can drain its UART RX buffer; high-rate spam also risks UART FIFO overrun on the device side |
+| Outbound port firewall block alone | Stops the outbound TCP from succeeding, but doesn't stop the modem from *trying* and mode-flipping. Reduces but doesn't eliminate the contention. |
+| Modem reboot | Temporary — as soon as the device starts triggering again, the loop resumes within seconds |
+
+The combination of `slow_drip` + cleared `Destination Address` works because:
+
+1. The modem stops mode-flipping → TCP session stays open for the full
+   drip duration
+2. Slow drip rate → device's UART RX FIFO never overflows even if
+   firmware is busy with event recording
+3. The drip is `SESSION_RESET + STOP_MONITORING` every 3s → many
+   independent chances for the parser to land one valid frame
+4. Once one Stop Monitoring is parsed, event recording halts → firmware
+   has CPU to spare → subsequent operations are trivially easy
+
+---
+
+## Tooling reference
+
+All endpoints live in `seismo-relay/sfm/server.py`. All scripts live in
+`seismo-relay/scripts/` and default to SFM direct (`http://localhost:8200`),
+overridable via `SFM_BASE_URL`.
+
+### Endpoints added during BE9558H recovery
+
+| Endpoint | Purpose |
+|---|---|
+| `GET /device/events/storage_range` | SUB 0x06 — first/last event keys, `is_empty` flag. ~2s, no event walk. |
+| `GET /device/events/index` | SUB 0x08 — lifetime event counter (does NOT decrement on erase). ~2s. |
+| `POST /device/events/erase` | Full erase sequence 0xA3 → 0x1C → 0x06 → 0xA2. |
+| `POST /device/rescue` | Disable ACH + erase in one TCP session. Short timeouts for race-loop usage. |
+| `POST /device/stop_monitoring_blind` | Fire-and-forget Stop with full POLL preamble (single attempt). |
+| `POST /device/stop_monitoring_spam` | Server-side tight retry loop, sub-second cadence, duration-bounded. |
+| `POST /device/stop_monitoring_slow_drip` | One held TCP session, slow trickle of stop frames. **The endpoint that saved BE9558H.** |
+
+Also changed: default protocol recv timeout dropped from 30s → 10s in
+`_build_client`. Added `connect_timeout` knob to same. Cleaned up
+unhandled-exception path in `/device/monitor/status` so it returns 502
+instead of 500 on protocol timeouts.
+
+### Scripts
+
+| Script | Purpose |
+|---|---|
+| `scripts/rescue_device.sh` | Race-loop wrapper around `/device/rescue` |
+| `scripts/blind_stop.sh` | Race-loop wrapper around `/device/stop_monitoring_blind` |
+| `scripts/spam_stop.sh` | Single-call burst hammer (`/device/stop_monitoring_spam`) |
+| `scripts/slow_drip.sh` | Single-call held-session drip (`/device/stop_monitoring_slow_drip`) |
+| `scripts/watch_unit.sh` | Passive periodic reachability check, logs to file |
+
+---
+
+## Incident log — BE9558H, 2026-05-16/17
+
+What was wrong: Long-axis geophone developed an offset, constantly above
+trigger threshold → constant event recording → after-event ACH set →
+modem dialing office BW server (`50.197.32.92:12345`) every 30-60s.
+Local event chain corrupted (`next_boundary 0x100EE exceeds uint16`).
+
+Diagnostic path:
+
+1. `/device/info` slow, choked on event walk
+2. Built lightweight probe endpoints (`storage_range`, `index`) — useful
+   but didn't reach the wedged unit
+3. Built `/device/rescue` with short timeouts — got 502 (POLL no response)
+4. Built `/device/stop_monitoring_blind` — first version was a false
+   positive (no POLL preamble); fixed by including
+   `SESSION_RESET+POLL_PROBE+SESSION_RESET+POLL_DATA` in the dump
+5. Verified blind stop works on bench unit
+6. Built `/device/stop_monitoring_spam` — 420 successful sends over
+   5 min, zero behavior change on field unit
+7. Inspected ACEmanager logs → saw outbound dial-out attempts every ~30s,
+   confirmed device was not fully locked up
+8. Added outbound port-12345 firewall block → outbound attempts now fail
+   instantly but contention persisted
+9. Built `/device/stop_monitoring_slow_drip` — session died at 3s with
+   broken pipe (modem closing on us)
+10. Looked at full ACEmanager Port Configuration → **found
+    `Destination Address: 50.197.32.92` configured**, realized every AT
+    dial command was triggering a modem mode-flip that killed our inbound
+11. Cleared Destination Address + Port → slow_drip held 120s, device
+    responded with 990 bytes, 39 stop commands acked
+12. Disabled ACH at device level via `/device/call_home`, erased events
+
+Final state: device IDLE, memory 958.1 / 960 KB free, ACH disabled at
+device level, modem destination cleared (to be restored after physical
+service).
+
+Total time from "i was wondering if its possible to" first attempt to
+recovery: ~7 hours of intermittent debugging across one evening.

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+# Waveform body codec — FULLY DECODED (2026-05-11)
+
+This is the **clean working note** for the body-codec reverse-engineering
+effort.  It supersedes scattered claims elsewhere when they conflict.
+The deep historical record (with retractions, dead ends, and dated
+analyses) lives in `docs/instantel_protocol_reference.md §7.6.1`; the
+authoritative implementation lives in `minimateplus/waveform_codec.py`.
+
+## TL;DR
+
+**The codec is fully decoded.**  Every block type, every channel, every
+event in the fixture bundle decodes byte-exact against BW's ASCII
+export.
+
+| Block type | Meaning | Verified |
+|---|---|---|
+| `10 NN` | 4-bit signed nibble deltas | ✅ |
+| `20 NN` | int8 signed deltas | ✅ |
+| `00 NN` | run-length-encoded zero deltas | ✅ |
+| `30 NN` | 12-bit signed packed deltas | ✅ NEW (2026-05-11 late) |
+| `40 02` | segment header (anchor pair + prev-channel extension) | ✅ |
+
+Channels rotate **Tran → Vert → Long → MicL** per segment.  Each
+channel-segment carries ~512 samples (2-sample anchor pair + 508
+deltas + 2-sample continuation in next segment's header).
+
+## What decodes byte-exact today
+
+**Every decoded sample across every fixture event matches truth.  Zero
+divergences.**
+
+| Event | Description | Tran | Vert | Long | Total |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| event-a (5-8) | quiet, 3 sec | 3328 ✓ | 3328 ✓ | 3328 ✓ | **9984** |
+| event-c (5-8) | quiet, 1 sec | 1280 ✓ | 1280 ✓ | 1280 ✓ | 3840 |
+| event-d (5-8) | quiet, 1 sec | 1280 ✓ | 1280 ✓ | 1280 ✓ | 3840 |
+| JQ0 (5-11) | Vert-heavy, 3 sec | 3328 ✓ | 3328 ✓ | 3328 ✓ | **9984** |
+| V70 (5-11) | Mic-heavy, 3 sec | 3328 ✓ | 3328 ✓ | 3328 ✓ | **9984** |
+| SP0 (5-11) | loud all, 3 sec | 2048 ✓ | 1538 ✓ | 1536 ✓ | 5122 |
+| SS0 (5-11) | loud-from-start | 734 ✓ | 512 ✓ | 512 ✓ | 1758 |
+| SV0 (5-11) | loud-from-start | 1024 ✓ | 578 ✓ | 512 ✓ | 2114 |
+| event-b (5-8) | quiet, 2 sec | 512 ✓ | 226 ✓ | 0 | 738 |
+
+That's **47,364 ADC samples decoded byte-exact, zero errors.**
+
+Three full 3-sec events (event-a, JQ0, V70) decode end-to-end across
+all three geo channels.
+
+The events where fewer samples are decoded (SP0, SS0, SV0, event-b)
+are limited by the walker stopping at certain block-length edge cases,
+not by decoder correctness — every sample the walker reaches is
+correct.
+
+## What's still open
+
+- **Tail samples on SS0/SV0** — these two events decode all but the
+  last 1–7 samples per channel (out of 3079).  Likely the same
+  "last segment is truncated" pattern.  Minor; doesn't affect the
+  bulk of the data.
+
+## Sample counts (72,972 byte-exact total)
+
+| Event | Tran | Vert | Long | Status |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| event-a | 3328 | 3328 | 3328 | full |
+| event-b | 2304 | 2304 | 2304 | full |
+| event-c | 1280 | 1280 | 1280 | full |
+| event-d | 1280 | 1280 | 1280 | full |
+| JQ0 | 3328 | 3328 | 3328 | full |
+| V70 | 3328 | 3328 | 3328 | full |
+| SP0 | 3328 | 3328 | 3328 | full |
+| SS0 | 3078 | 3072 | 3072 | minus 1–7 tail samples |
+| SV0 | 3078 | 3072 | 3072 | minus 1–7 tail samples |
+
+## What's now wired into production (2026-05-11 late)
+
+- **`client.py:_decode_a5_waveform`** — now uses
+  `decode_a5_frames(a5_frames)` instead of the broken int16 LE decoder.
+  `event.raw_samples` is populated with int16 ADC counts that flow
+  through the existing `sfm/event_hdf5.py` scaling pipeline unchanged.
+  Legacy decoder is preserved as `_decode_a5_waveform_LEGACY` for
+  reference but is not called.
+
+- **MicL → dB(L) conversion** — exposed as
+  `waveform_codec.mic_count_to_db(count)`.  Verified against BW
+  display values (count=1 → 81.94 dB; count=813 → 140.14 dB; matches
+  the V70 mic-heavy fixture exactly).
+
+- **`decode_a5_frames(a5_frames)`** — production entry point that
+  reconstructs the BW-binary body from A5 frames (via the new
+  `blastware_file.extract_body_bytes` helper) and runs the verified
+  codec.  Returns the same `raw_samples` dict shape the consumers
+  already expect.
+
+## What's solved
+
+### Block framing
+
+| Tag      | Length                | Meaning                                  |
+|----------|-----------------------|------------------------------------------|
+| `10 NN`  | NN/2 + 2 bytes        | 4-bit nibble deltas (2 per byte; high    |
+|          |                       | nibble first; signed 0..7 / 8..F = -8..-1)|
+| `20 NN`  | NN + 2 bytes          | int8 signed deltas (1 per byte)          |
+| `00 NN`  | 2 bytes               | RLE: append NN copies of current value   |
+| `30 NN`  | NN*2 in data section, | Unknown content.  Only in loud-from-     |
+|          | NN*4 in trailer       | start events.                            |
+| `40 02`  | 20 bytes (fixed)      | Segment header                           |
+
+NN is always a multiple of 4.
+
+Implementation: `walk_body()` in `minimateplus/waveform_codec.py`.
+
+### 7-byte preamble
+
+```
+body[0:3]  = 00 02 00              magic
+body[3:5]  = Tran[0]   int16 BE    in 16-count units (LSB = 0.005 in/s)
+body[5:7]  = Tran[1]   int16 BE    in 16-count units
+```
+
+### Tran channel, segment 0
+
+Segment 0 (everything before the first `40 02`) encodes Tran samples
+only.  Starting from preamble anchors Tran[0] and Tran[1], each block
+contributes to a running cumulative:
+
+- `10 NN` →  append NN nibble-deltas
+- `20 NN` →  append NN int8-deltas
+- `00 NN` →  append NN copies of current value (RLE)
+- `40 02` →  end segment 0
+
+Verified byte-exact:
+
+| Event | Description | Segment 0 size | Match |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `M529LL1A.SP0` | Loud, 0.25 s pretrig | 510 | 510/510 ✓ |
+| `M529LL1A.SV0` | Loud from sample 0 | 58 | 58/58 ✓ (stops at first `30 NN`) |
+| `M529LL1A.SS0` | Loud from sample 0 | 42 | 42/42 ✓ (stops at first `30 04`) |
+| `M529LL1L.JQ0` | Vert-heavy | 510 | 510/510 ✓ |
+| `M529LL1L.V70` | Mic-heavy (140 dB) | 510 | 510/510 ✓ |
+
+Implementation: `decode_tran_initial()`.
+
+### Segment header (`40 02`, 20 bytes total) — REWRITTEN 2026-05-11
+
+| Payload offset | Field | Status |
+|---|---|---|
+| [0:2] | Previous-channel delta — 1st extension sample (int16 BE) | ✅ confirmed |
+| [2:4] | Previous-channel delta — 2nd extension sample (int16 BE) | ✅ confirmed |
+| [4:6] | Unknown (likely checksum) | ❓ open |
+| [6:8] | Byte length to next segment header − 2 (uint16 BE) | ✅ confirmed |
+| [8:12] | Monotonic uint32 LE counter (starts ~0x47) | ✅ confirmed |
+| [12:14] | Constant `02 00` | ✅ confirmed |
+| [14:16] | THIS segment's channel — sample 0 anchor (int16 BE, 16-count units) | ✅ confirmed |
+| [16:18] | THIS segment's channel — sample 1 anchor (int16 BE, 16-count units) | ✅ confirmed |
+
+**Key insight (2026-05-11 late):** every segment carries 510 main
+samples (2 anchor + 508 deltas) PLUS 2 continuation samples that live
+in the NEXT segment header.  So each channel-segment effectively spans
+512 sample-sets.  The continuation lives in the next segment because
+the segment header is also a channel-switch point, so it's a natural
+place to "extend the channel we're leaving" before "starting the
+channel we're entering."
+
+This is the same structure as the body preamble (which carries
+Tran[0] and Tran[1] as int16 BE) — every channel uses the same
+"2 anchors + delta stream" layout.
+
+## Channel rotation — VERIFIED 2026-05-11
+
+```
+(initial body)  →  Tran samples 0..509       (preamble + delta blocks)
+segment 0 hdr  ext+anchor →  Vert samples 0..511   ← anchor in hdr [14:18]
+segment 1 hdr  ext+anchor →  Long samples 0..511
+segment 2 hdr  ext+anchor →  Mic  samples 0..511
+segment 3 hdr  ext+anchor →  Tran samples 510..1021 (continuation)
+segment 4 hdr  ext+anchor →  Vert samples 512..1023
+segment 5 hdr  ext+anchor →  Long samples 512..1023
+segment 6 hdr  ext+anchor →  Mic  samples 512..1023
+segment 7 hdr  ext+anchor →  Tran samples 1022..1533
+...
+```
+
+Implementation: `decode_waveform_v2()` returns
+`{"Tran": [...], "Vert": [...], "Long": [...], "MicL": [...]}` with
+each channel's samples in 16-count units.  All verified ranges in the
+TL;DR table above are now locked in by pytest regression tests.
+
+## What's still open
+
+1. **`30 NN` block content.**  These blocks appear in high-amplitude
+   regions (sample-set deltas exceeding what int8 in `20 NN` can
+   express).  The decoder currently steps over them, which loses
+   precision for the affected samples.  Likely a packed multi-byte
+   delta format (12-bit or 16-bit per delta) — initial guesses didn't
+   match cleanly, needs more careful analysis.
+
+2. **MicL decoding.**  The mic channel's anchor pair appears in the
+   third segment of each rotation cycle in the same format as the
+   geo channels, but the BW ASCII export shows mic in dB(L) (~6 dB
+   quantization steps), so direct integer comparison against ADC
+   units doesn't work.  Need to figure out the ADC-counts → dB(L)
+   conversion or pull the mic ADC counts from somewhere else in the
+   file format.
+
+3. **Walker fix for event-b.**  The original quiet bundle's event-b
+   still bails out partway through.  Lower priority since the other
+   7 events walk cleanly.
+
+## `30 NN` block format — CRACKED 2026-05-11 late
+
+The `30 NN` block carries `NN` 12-bit signed deltas, packed as `NN/4`
+groups of 6 bytes each.  Within each 6-byte group:
+
+```
+bytes [0:2]  = 16 bits = 4 × 4-bit "high nibbles" (MSB-first)
+bytes [2:6]  = 4 × int8 "low bytes"
+
+For k in 0..3:
+    high_nibble = (header_word >> (12 - 4*k)) & 0xF
+    raw_12 = (high_nibble << 8) | low_byte[k]
+    delta[k] = raw_12 - 0x1000 if raw_12 >= 0x800 else raw_12
+```
+
+The block's total length is `NN × 1.5 + 2` bytes (tag included).  This
+is what was tripping up the earlier walker, which used `NN × 4` (the
+trailer-section formula) instead.
+
+Why 12-bit and not 16-bit: 12-bit signed range is ±2047, which in
+16-count units = ±10.2 in/s — almost exactly the ±10 in/s full-scale
+range of the geophone at Normal range.  The codec sizes its widest
+delta to cover the worst-case sample-to-sample change.
+
+Verified against all 14 `30 NN` blocks across the bundled fixture
+events.  Every delta decodes byte-exact against BW's ASCII export.
+
+## Test fixtures
+
+Committed under `tests/fixtures/`:
+
+- `decode-re-5-8-26/event-a..event-d/`: original quiet bundle (4 events,
+  PPV < 1 in/s).  These have Tran ≈ 0 throughout, so segment-0 decode
+  works but the loud-amplitude tests (preamble anchors, `30 NN`) are
+  uninformative.
+- `5-11-26/M529LL1A.{SP0,SS0,SV0}`: loud bundle (PPV 6-7 in/s on all
+  channels).  These cracked the Tran codec.
+- `5-11-26/M529LL1L.{JQ0,V70}`: targeted captures.  JQ0 is Vert-heavy,
+  V70 is Mic-heavy (140 dB).  These cracked the `00 NN` RLE rule.
+
+Each fixture has a `.TXT` Blastware ASCII export as ground truth.
+
+## Tests
+
+`tests/test_waveform_codec.py` (40 tests, all passing) locks in:
+
+- Block framing (5 tag types with correct lengths).
+- Walker contiguity (no gaps or overlaps).
+- Segment header parsing (counter monotonicity, fixed-pattern check).
+- `decode_tran_initial` against ground-truth Tran samples for all
+  fixture events.
+
+When you crack the next piece, **add fixture tests against ground-truth
+samples** for that piece before moving on.  Don't let unverified code
+ship without a regression lock-in.

minimateplus/blastware_file.py

@@ -552,6 +552,105 @@ def classify_frame(frame: S3Frame) -> str:
 
 # ── Waveform file writer ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
+def extract_body_bytes(a5_frames):
+    """Reconstruct the Blastware-file body bytes from a list of A5 frames.
+
+    Returns ``(strt, body, footer)`` where:
+
+    - ``strt`` is the 21-byte STRT record from the probe frame (or a fallback
+      record built from minimal event metadata if STRT is missing).
+    - ``body`` is the variable-length sample-data section (between STRT and
+      the 26-byte file footer).  Empty if no frames decode.
+    - ``footer`` is the 26-byte file footer.
+
+    This is the same body-construction algorithm used by :func:`write_blastware_file`
+    — refactored out so the body decoder (``waveform_codec.decode_waveform_v2``)
+    can consume the same bytes without re-implementing the frame-walking logic.
+
+    Returns ``(b"", b"", b"")`` if *a5_frames* is empty.
+    """
+    if not a5_frames:
+        return (b"", b"", b"")
+
+    # ── Extract STRT record from probe frame ─────────────────────────────────
+    w0_raw = bytes(a5_frames[0].data[7:])
+    w0_stripped = _strip_inner_frame_dles(w0_raw)
+    strt_pos_stripped = w0_stripped.find(b"STRT")
+
+    if strt_pos_stripped >= 0:
+        strt = bytes(w0_stripped[strt_pos_stripped : strt_pos_stripped + 21])
+
+        # Walk raw bytes to find the raw-domain end of the STRT (= body start).
+        target_stripped = strt_pos_stripped + 21
+        stripped_so_far = 0
+        raw_i = 0
+        while stripped_so_far < target_stripped and raw_i < len(w0_raw):
+            if (w0_raw[raw_i] == 0x10
+                    and raw_i + 1 < len(w0_raw)
+                    and w0_raw[raw_i + 1] in {0x02, 0x03, 0x04}):
+                raw_i += 2
+            else:
+                raw_i += 1
+            stripped_so_far += 1
+        probe_skip = 7 + raw_i
+    else:
+        strt = b"STRT" + b"\xff\xfe" + bytes(14) + b"\x00"
+        probe_skip = 7 + 21
+
+    if len(strt) != 21:
+        return (b"", b"", b"")
+
+    # Separate terminator from data frames.
+    term_idx: Optional[int] = None
+    if a5_frames and a5_frames[-1].page_key != 0x0010:
+        term_idx = len(a5_frames) - 1
+
+    if term_idx is not None:
+        body_frames = a5_frames[:term_idx]
+        term_frame = a5_frames[term_idx]
+    else:
+        body_frames = a5_frames
+        term_frame = None
+
+    all_bytes = bytearray()
+    for fi, frame in enumerate(body_frames):
+        if fi == 0:
+            skip = probe_skip
+        elif fi in (1, 2):
+            skip = 13   # metadata pages
+        else:
+            skip = 12   # sample chunks
+        all_bytes.extend(_frame_body_bytes(frame, skip))
+
+    if term_frame is not None:
+        all_bytes.extend(_frame_body_bytes(term_frame, 11))
+
+    # Find the first valid `0e 08` footer marker.
+    footer_pos = -1
+    pos = 0
+    while True:
+        pos = bytes(all_bytes).find(b"\x0e\x08", pos)
+        if pos < 0 or pos + 26 > len(all_bytes):
+            break
+        yr = (all_bytes[pos + 4] << 8) | all_bytes[pos + 5]
+        if 2015 <= yr <= 2050:
+            footer_pos = pos
+            break
+        pos += 1
+
+    if footer_pos >= 0:
+        body = bytes(all_bytes[:footer_pos])
+        footer = bytes(all_bytes[footer_pos : footer_pos + 26])
+    elif len(all_bytes) >= 26:
+        body = bytes(all_bytes[:-26])
+        footer = bytes(all_bytes[-26:])
+    else:
+        body = bytes(all_bytes)
+        footer = b""
+
+    return (strt, body, footer)
+
+
 def write_blastware_file(
     event: Event,
     a5_frames: list[S3Frame],

minimateplus/bw_ascii_report.py

@@ -0,0 +1,522 @@
+"""
+minimateplus/bw_ascii_report.py — parser for Blastware's per-event ASCII
+report (the .TXT file BW writes alongside each saved event binary).
+
+The ASCII export is the authoritative source for every "rich" per-event
+field that BW computes from the waveform but never persists in the BW
+binary itself:
+
+  - Per-channel PPV (Tran / Vert / Long / MicL)
+  - Peak Vector Sum + Peak Vector Sum Time
+  - Per-channel ZC Freq, Time of Peak, Peak Acceleration, Peak Displacement
+  - MicL PSPL, MicL Time of Peak, MicL ZC Freq
+  - Per-channel Sensor Self-Check (Test Freq / Test Ratio / Test Results)
+  - MicL Test Amplitude (mV)
+  - Battery, calibration date, monitor-log timestamps
+
+Persisting these values into the SFM database lets the monthly-summary
+review workflow ("show me events at Location X with PVS > 0.5") work
+without depending on the (still-undecoded) waveform body codec.
+
+Format (verified against decode-re/5-8-26 4-event bundle):
+
+  - One field per line, wrapped in double quotes:   `"Field Name : Value"`
+  - Field/value separator: literal ` : ` (space-colon-space).
+  - Some field names contain an internal `:` already (e.g. `"Project:"`),
+    so we split on the FIRST ` : ` only.
+  - Some fields have unit suffixes:  `"0.500 in/s"` / `"7.5 Hz"` / `"533 mv"`.
+  - A `"Monitor Log(s)"` marker line is followed by tab-separated rows
+    of `start_time<TAB>stop_time<TAB>description`.
+  - Final `"PC SW Version : ..."` line ends the metadata block.
+  - A blank line separates metadata from the sample table.
+  - Sample table starts with `   Tran   <TAB>   Vert   <TAB>...`, then
+    one row per sample (tab-separated, right-padded numeric values).
+  - Geo channel values are in in/s; MicL in dB(L) (or 0.000 below threshold).
+
+Because some metadata fields have whitespace quirks ("MicL  Time of
+Peak" has two spaces; the leading "Project:" value has its own colon),
+we normalise whitespace in the key before lookup.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import datetime
+import re
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
+
+
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Output dataclasses
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ChannelStats:
+    """Per-channel derived stats, populated from an event report."""
+    ppv_ips:           Optional[float] = None      # in/s            (geo channels only)
+    zc_freq_hz:        Optional[float] = None      # Hz
+    time_of_peak_s:    Optional[float] = None      # seconds (relative to trigger; can be negative)
+    peak_accel_g:      Optional[float] = None      # g               (geo channels only)
+    peak_disp_in:      Optional[float] = None      # in              (geo channels only)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class MicStats:
+    """MicL-specific stats."""
+    weighting:         Optional[str]   = None      # e.g. "Linear Weighting"
+    pspl_dbl:          Optional[float] = None      # dB(L)
+    zc_freq_hz:        Optional[float] = None
+    time_of_peak_s:    Optional[float] = None
+
+
+@dataclass
+class SensorCheck:
+    """Per-channel sensor self-check result.
+
+    Geo channels report a frequency + ratio; MicL reports a frequency +
+    amplitude (mV).  All channels also have a Pass/Fail string.
+    """
+    test_freq_hz:      Optional[float] = None
+    test_ratio:        Optional[float] = None      # geo channels only
+    test_amplitude_mv: Optional[float] = None      # MicL only
+    test_results:      Optional[str]   = None      # "Passed" / "Failed"
+
+
+@dataclass
+class MonitorLogEntry:
+    """One row of the trailing Monitor Log(s) block."""
+    start_time:  Optional[datetime.datetime] = None
+    stop_time:   Optional[datetime.datetime] = None
+    description: Optional[str] = None
+
+
+@dataclass
+class BwAsciiReport:
+    """Structured representation of one BW per-event ASCII export."""
+    # ── Identity ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    event_type:        Optional[str] = None         # e.g. "Full Waveform"
+    serial:            Optional[str] = None         # e.g. "BE11529"
+    version:           Optional[str] = None         # firmware version line
+    file_name:         Optional[str] = None         # e.g. "M529LK44.AB0"
+    event_datetime:    Optional[datetime.datetime] = None  # parsed from Event Time + Event Date
+
+    # ── Trigger / recording config ──────────────────────────────────────────
+    trigger_channel:        Optional[str]   = None  # e.g. "Vert" or "From Unit"
+    geo_trigger_level_ips:  Optional[float] = None
+    pretrig_s:              Optional[float] = None  # negative seconds
+    record_time_s:          Optional[float] = None
+    record_stop_mode:       Optional[str]   = None
+    sample_rate_sps:        Optional[int]   = None
+    battery_volts:          Optional[float] = None
+    calibration_date:       Optional[datetime.date] = None
+    calibration_by:         Optional[str]   = None  # e.g. "Instantel"
+    units:                  Optional[str]   = None  # e.g. "in/s and dB(L)"
+
+    # ── Operator-supplied metadata ──────────────────────────────────────────
+    # Parsed by POSITION from the 4-line "User Notes" block BW writes
+    # between the `Units :` and `Geo Range :` lines.  Position-based so
+    # the values populate correctly even when an operator renames the
+    # labels in Blastware's Compliance Setup → Notes tab (the 4 labels
+    # are user-editable, e.g. "Seis Loc:" → "Building:" → "Site Address:").
+    # The original labels BW wrote are preserved in `user_note_labels`
+    # so terra-view can render them as the operator named them.
+    project:           Optional[str] = None     # position 1 (BW default label "Project:")
+    client:            Optional[str] = None     # position 2 (BW default label "Client:")
+    operator:          Optional[str] = None     # position 3 (BW default label "User Name:")
+    sensor_location:   Optional[str] = None     # position 4 (BW default label "Seis Loc:")
+
+    # Maps canonical slot name → the literal label BW wrote in the ASCII
+    # export.  Empty if the User Notes block wasn't present.  Example
+    # when the operator renamed slot 4 to "Building:":
+    #     {"project": "Project:", "client": "Client:",
+    #      "operator": "User Name:", "sensor_location": "Building:"}
+    user_note_labels:  Dict[str, str] = field(default_factory=dict)
+
+    # ── Geo channel scaling ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    geo_range_ips:     Optional[float] = None       # 10.000 / 1.250
+
+    # ── Per-channel derived stats (geo + mic) ───────────────────────────────
+    channels:          Dict[str, ChannelStats] = field(default_factory=dict)
+    mic:               MicStats = field(default_factory=MicStats)
+
+    # ── Vector sum ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    peak_vector_sum_ips:    Optional[float] = None
+    peak_vector_sum_time_s: Optional[float] = None
+
+    # ── Sensor self-check (per channel) ─────────────────────────────────────
+    sensor_check:      Dict[str, SensorCheck] = field(default_factory=dict)
+
+    # ── Monitor log + tooling version ───────────────────────────────────────
+    monitor_log:       List[MonitorLogEntry] = field(default_factory=list)
+    pc_sw_version:     Optional[str] = None
+
+    # ── Sample table (optional; only parsed if requested) ───────────────────
+    # Each entry: (Tran, Vert, Long, MicL) in the report's units (geo
+    # channels in in/s, MicL in dB(L)).  None when parse_samples=False.
+    samples:           Optional[List[Tuple[float, float, float, float]]] = None
+
+
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Helpers
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+_KEY_NORMALISE_RE = re.compile(r"\s+")
+_NUMERIC_RE       = re.compile(r"^-?\d+(?:\.\d+)?")
+
+
+def _normalise_key(k: str) -> str:
+    """Collapse whitespace runs (incl. tabs) and strip — handles BW's
+    "MicL  Time of Peak" double-space and leading-colon quirks."""
+    return _KEY_NORMALISE_RE.sub(" ", k).strip()
+
+
+def _strip_quotes(line: str) -> str:
+    line = line.rstrip("\r\n")
+    if len(line) >= 2 and line.startswith('"') and line.endswith('"'):
+        return line[1:-1]
+    return line
+
+
+def _parse_number(value: str) -> Optional[float]:
+    """Pull the leading numeric portion out of a value like "0.500 in/s"."""
+    m = _NUMERIC_RE.match(value.strip())
+    if not m:
+        return None
+    try:
+        return float(m.group(0))
+    except ValueError:
+        return None
+
+
+def _parse_int(value: str) -> Optional[int]:
+    n = _parse_number(value)
+    return None if n is None else int(round(n))
+
+
+# Months exactly as BW writes them.
+_MONTHS = {
+    "January": 1, "February": 2, "March": 3, "April": 4,
+    "May": 5, "June": 6, "July": 7, "August": 8,
+    "September": 9, "October": 10, "November": 11, "December": 12,
+    # Short forms used in monitor-log rows ("Apr 23 /26").
+    "Jan": 1, "Feb": 2, "Mar": 3, "Apr": 4, "Jun": 6, "Jul": 7,
+    "Aug": 8, "Sep": 9, "Oct": 10, "Nov": 11, "Dec": 12,
+}
+
+
+def _parse_event_date(s: str) -> Optional[datetime.date]:
+    """Parse "April 23, 2026" or "May 8, 2026" → date."""
+    s = s.strip()
+    parts = s.replace(",", " ").split()
+    if len(parts) < 3:
+        return None
+    month_name, day_str, year_str = parts[0], parts[1], parts[2]
+    month = _MONTHS.get(month_name)
+    if month is None:
+        return None
+    try:
+        return datetime.date(int(year_str), month, int(day_str))
+    except ValueError:
+        return None
+
+
+def _parse_event_time(s: str) -> Optional[datetime.time]:
+    """Parse "15:56:35" → time."""
+    s = s.strip()
+    try:
+        h, m, sec = s.split(":")
+        return datetime.time(int(h), int(m), int(sec))
+    except (ValueError, IndexError):
+        return None
+
+
+def _parse_calibration(value: str) -> Tuple[Optional[datetime.date], Optional[str]]:
+    """Parse "April 29, 2025 by Instantel" → (date, "Instantel")."""
+    parts = value.split(" by ", 1)
+    date = _parse_event_date(parts[0])
+    by = parts[1].strip() if len(parts) > 1 else None
+    return date, by
+
+
+def _parse_monitor_row(line: str) -> Optional[MonitorLogEntry]:
+    """Parse a tab-separated monitor log row.
+
+    Format: `<start>\t<stop>\t<desc>` where each timestamp is BW's
+    short form "Mon DD /YY HH:MM:SS" (e.g. "Apr 23 /26 15:46:16").
+    Year is encoded as a 2-digit suffix; we expand "/26" → 2026.
+    """
+    parts = line.split("\t")
+    if len(parts) < 2:
+        return None
+    start = _parse_monitor_ts(parts[0])
+    stop  = _parse_monitor_ts(parts[1])
+    desc  = parts[2].strip() if len(parts) > 2 else None
+    if start is None and stop is None and not desc:
+        return None
+    return MonitorLogEntry(start_time=start, stop_time=stop, description=desc)
+
+
+def _parse_monitor_ts(s: str) -> Optional[datetime.datetime]:
+    """Parse "Apr 23 /26 15:46:16" → datetime."""
+    s = s.strip()
+    parts = s.split()
+    if len(parts) < 4:
+        return None
+    month = _MONTHS.get(parts[0])
+    if month is None:
+        return None
+    try:
+        day = int(parts[1])
+        # parts[2] looks like "/26" → century-flip to 2026
+        yy = int(parts[2].lstrip("/"))
+        year = 2000 + yy if yy < 80 else 1900 + yy
+        h, m, sec = (int(x) for x in parts[3].split(":"))
+        return datetime.datetime(year, month, day, h, m, sec)
+    except (ValueError, IndexError):
+        return None
+
+
+# ── User-notes positional slot map ──────────────────────────────────────────
+#
+# Blastware's Compliance Setup → Notes tab shows four operator-supplied
+# fields whose LABELS the operator can rename (see screenshot in
+# project archive).  Defaults are "Project:" / "Client:" /
+# "User Name:" / "Seis Loc:", but an operator using a different
+# convention can rename them to anything ("Building:", "Site:",
+# "Address:", etc.).  The ASCII export reflects whatever the operator
+# typed, so label-based matching is fragile.
+#
+# What IS reliable: BW always writes the 4 user-notes lines in the
+# same order, contiguously between the `Units :` line and the
+# `Geo Range :` line.  We parse them by POSITION and preserve the
+# operator's labels in `report.user_note_labels` so terra-view can
+# render them as the operator intended.
+
+_USER_NOTE_SLOTS = ("project", "client", "operator", "sensor_location")
+
+
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Top-level parser
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def parse_report(text: Union[str, bytes], *, parse_samples: bool = False) -> BwAsciiReport:
+    """Parse a BW per-event ASCII export into a structured BwAsciiReport.
+
+    Set ``parse_samples=True`` to also populate ``report.samples`` with
+    the trailing sample table.  Default False because the table is
+    huge and most callers only want metadata for indexing.
+    """
+    if isinstance(text, bytes):
+        text = text.decode("ascii", errors="replace")
+
+    report = BwAsciiReport()
+    # Pre-create channel stat slots so callers can rely on them existing.
+    for ch in ("Tran", "Vert", "Long", "MicL"):
+        report.channels.setdefault(ch, ChannelStats())
+        report.sensor_check.setdefault(ch, SensorCheck())
+
+    lines = text.splitlines()
+    i = 0
+    n = len(lines)
+
+    in_monitor_log_section = False
+    event_time_str: Optional[str] = None
+    event_date: Optional[datetime.date] = None
+
+    # User-notes block detection.  We enter the block after parsing
+    # the "Units :" line and exit on the "Geo Range :" line.  Inside,
+    # the first 4 unmatched `<label> : <value>` lines are assigned to
+    # the 4 canonical operator-supplied slots by POSITION (project,
+    # client, operator, sensor_location) regardless of what the
+    # operator named the labels in BW's Compliance Setup → Notes tab.
+    in_user_notes_block = False
+    user_note_position = 0
+
+    while i < n:
+        raw_line = lines[i]
+        i += 1
+        # Blank line marks the start of the sample table.
+        if raw_line.strip() == "":
+            break
+
+        line = _strip_quotes(raw_line)
+
+        # Monitor log section: "Monitor Log(s)" header followed by N rows
+        # (still inside double-quoted lines), terminated by a non-row line
+        # like "PC SW Version : ..." or a blank line.
+        if not in_monitor_log_section and line.strip() == "Monitor Log(s)":
+            in_monitor_log_section = True
+            continue
+        if in_monitor_log_section:
+            # Heuristic: monitor rows contain a tab; the next "Field : Value"
+            # line ends the section.
+            if "\t" in line:
+                entry = _parse_monitor_row(line)
+                if entry:
+                    report.monitor_log.append(entry)
+                continue
+            # Falls through to the field parser below; clear the flag.
+            in_monitor_log_section = False
+
+        # "Field : Value" — split on FIRST occurrence of " : "
+        idx = line.find(" : ")
+        if idx < 0:
+            continue
+        key = _normalise_key(line[:idx])
+        value = line[idx + 3 :].strip()
+
+        # ── Identity / config ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+        if   key == "Event Type":           report.event_type = value
+        elif key == "Serial Number":        report.serial = value
+        elif key == "Version":              report.version = value
+        elif key == "File Name":            report.file_name = value
+        elif key == "Event Time":           event_time_str = value
+        elif key == "Event Date":           event_date = _parse_event_date(value)
+
+        elif key == "Trigger":              report.trigger_channel = value
+        elif key == "Geo Trigger Level":    report.geo_trigger_level_ips = _parse_number(value)
+        elif key == "Pre-trigger Length":   report.pretrig_s = _parse_number(value)
+        elif key == "Record Time":          report.record_time_s = _parse_number(value)
+        elif key == "Record Stop Mode":     report.record_stop_mode = value
+        elif key == "Sample Rate":          report.sample_rate_sps = _parse_int(value)
+        elif key == "Battery Level":        report.battery_volts = _parse_number(value)
+        elif key == "Calibration":
+            report.calibration_date, report.calibration_by = _parse_calibration(value)
+        elif key == "Units":
+            report.units = value
+            # Entering the user-notes block.  Next ~4 lines until
+            # "Geo Range :" are the operator-supplied notes.
+            in_user_notes_block = True
+            user_note_position = 0
+
+        elif key == "Geo Range":
+            # Exiting the user-notes block.
+            in_user_notes_block = False
+            report.geo_range_ips = _parse_number(value)
+
+        # User-notes block: assign by position (operator may have
+        # renamed the labels, so we don't trust them).  Preserve the
+        # original labels in `user_note_labels` for downstream UIs
+        # (terra-view) that want to display them as the operator
+        # named them.
+        elif in_user_notes_block and user_note_position < len(_USER_NOTE_SLOTS):
+            slot = _USER_NOTE_SLOTS[user_note_position]
+            setattr(report, slot, value)
+            report.user_note_labels[slot] = key
+            user_note_position += 1
+
+        # ── Per-channel stats ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+        # All match the pattern "{Channel} <stat-name>"
+        elif key in (
+            "Tran PPV", "Vert PPV", "Long PPV",
+            "Tran ZC Freq", "Vert ZC Freq", "Long ZC Freq",
+            "Tran Time of Peak", "Vert Time of Peak", "Long Time of Peak",
+            "Tran Peak Acceleration", "Vert Peak Acceleration", "Long Peak Acceleration",
+            "Tran Peak Displacement", "Vert Peak Displacement", "Long Peak Displacement",
+        ):
+            ch_name, stat = key.split(" ", 1)
+            cs = report.channels.setdefault(ch_name, ChannelStats())
+            num = _parse_number(value)
+            if   stat == "PPV":                 cs.ppv_ips        = num
+            elif stat == "ZC Freq":             cs.zc_freq_hz     = num
+            elif stat == "Time of Peak":        cs.time_of_peak_s = num
+            elif stat == "Peak Acceleration":   cs.peak_accel_g   = num
+            elif stat == "Peak Displacement":   cs.peak_disp_in   = num
+
+        # ── Vector Sum ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+        elif key == "Peak Vector Sum":
+            report.peak_vector_sum_ips = _parse_number(value)
+        elif key == "Peak Vector Sum Time":
+            report.peak_vector_sum_time_s = _parse_number(value)
+
+        # ── Microphone block ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+        elif key == "Microphone":
+            report.mic.weighting = value
+        elif key == "MicL PSPL":
+            report.mic.pspl_dbl = _parse_number(value)
+            # Mirror onto the "MicL" entry in channels so callers querying
+            # `channels["MicL"].ppv_ips` see something — but it's dB(L), not
+            # in/s, so we store as-is in the MicStats and mark the channel.
+        elif key == "MicL Time of Peak":
+            report.mic.time_of_peak_s = _parse_number(value)
+            cs = report.channels.setdefault("MicL", ChannelStats())
+            cs.time_of_peak_s = report.mic.time_of_peak_s
+        elif key == "MicL ZC Freq":
+            report.mic.zc_freq_hz = _parse_number(value)
+            cs = report.channels.setdefault("MicL", ChannelStats())
+            cs.zc_freq_hz = report.mic.zc_freq_hz
+
+        # ── Sensor self-check ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+        elif key in (
+            "Tran Test Freq", "Vert Test Freq", "Long Test Freq", "MicL Test Freq",
+            "Tran Test Ratio", "Vert Test Ratio", "Long Test Ratio",
+            "MicL Test Amplitude",
+            "Tran Test Results", "Vert Test Results", "Long Test Results", "MicL Test Results",
+        ):
+            ch_name, stat = key.split(" ", 1)
+            sc = report.sensor_check.setdefault(ch_name, SensorCheck())
+            if   stat == "Test Freq":      sc.test_freq_hz      = _parse_number(value)
+            elif stat == "Test Ratio":     sc.test_ratio        = _parse_number(value)
+            elif stat == "Test Amplitude": sc.test_amplitude_mv = _parse_number(value)
+            elif stat == "Test Results":   sc.test_results      = value
+
+        # ── Trailer ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+        elif key == "PC SW Version":
+            report.pc_sw_version = value
+
+        # Unknown keys are silently dropped — forward-compat for future
+        # BW versions that may add fields.
+
+    # Combine event date + time into a datetime
+    if event_date is not None and event_time_str is not None:
+        t = _parse_event_time(event_time_str)
+        if t is not None:
+            report.event_datetime = datetime.datetime.combine(event_date, t)
+
+    if parse_samples:
+        report.samples = _parse_sample_table(lines, i)
+
+    return report
+
+
+def _parse_sample_table(
+    lines: List[str], start: int,
+) -> List[Tuple[float, float, float, float]]:
+    """Parse the trailing sample table.
+
+    The table starts with a header row ("   Tran   <TAB>...") and continues
+    until EOF.  Each data row is a tab-separated quartet of numeric values.
+    """
+    samples: List[Tuple[float, float, float, float]] = []
+    seen_header = False
+    for line in lines[start:]:
+        line = line.rstrip("\r\n")
+        if not line.strip():
+            continue
+        cols = [c.strip() for c in line.split("\t") if c.strip()]
+        if not seen_header:
+            # Header row contains channel names; numeric rows don't.
+            if any(c in ("Tran", "Vert", "Long", "MicL") for c in cols):
+                seen_header = True
+            continue
+        if len(cols) < 4:
+            continue
+        try:
+            samples.append((
+                float(cols[0]), float(cols[1]),
+                float(cols[2]), float(cols[3]),
+            ))
+        except ValueError:
+            continue
+    return samples
+
+
+def parse_report_file(
+    path: Union[str, Path], *, parse_samples: bool = False,
+) -> BwAsciiReport:
+    """Convenience: read a .TXT file from disk and parse it."""
+    return parse_report(Path(path).read_bytes(), parse_samples=parse_samples)

minimateplus/client.py

@@ -1500,22 +1500,69 @@ def _decode_a5_waveform(
     (BULK_WAVEFORM_STREAM) frame payloads and populate event.raw_samples,
     event.total_samples, event.pretrig_samples, and event.rectime_seconds.
 
-    This requires ALL A5 frames (stop_after_metadata=False), not just the
-    metadata-bearing subset.
+    Wired up 2026-05-11 to the verified ``decode_waveform_v2`` codec (see
+    ``minimateplus/waveform_codec.py`` and ``docs/waveform_codec_re_status.md``).
+    Replaces the legacy int16 LE decoder, which produced full-scale ±32K
+    noise on every event because the body bytes are encoded, not raw
+    samples.
 
-    ── Waveform format (confirmed from 4-2-26 blast capture) ───────────────────
-    The blast waveform is 4-channel interleaved signed 16-bit little-endian,
-    8 bytes per sample-set:
+    Output convention (preserved from the legacy decoder):
+      ``event.raw_samples`` is a dict with keys "Tran", "Vert", "Long",
+      "MicL" mapping to lists of **int16 ADC counts**.  Multiply by
+      ``geo_range / 32768`` for geo channels to get in/s; use
+      :func:`minimateplus.waveform_codec.mic_count_to_db` for mic dB(L).
+
+    ``total_samples`` / ``pretrig_samples`` / ``rectime_seconds`` are set
+    to ``None`` so the caller backfills from compliance_config (the
+    authoritative source — STRT fields aren't reliable).
+    """
+    from .waveform_codec import decode_a5_frames
+
+    event.total_samples = None
+    event.pretrig_samples = None
+    event.rectime_seconds = None
+
+    if not frames_data:
+        log.debug("_decode_a5_waveform: no frames provided")
+        return
+
+    decoded = decode_a5_frames(frames_data)
+    if decoded is None:
+        log.warning("_decode_a5_waveform: codec returned no samples")
+        return
+
+    event.raw_samples = decoded
+    log.debug(
+        "_decode_a5_waveform: decoded %d/%d/%d/%d samples (T/V/L/M)",
+        len(decoded.get("Tran", [])),
+        len(decoded.get("Vert", [])),
+        len(decoded.get("Long", [])),
+        len(decoded.get("MicL", [])),
+    )
+
+
+def _decode_a5_waveform_LEGACY(
+    frames_data: list[S3Frame],
+    event: Event,
+) -> None:
+    """
+    LEGACY decoder — kept for reference only.  DO NOT CALL.
+
+    This is the int16 LE decoder that produced full-scale ±32K noise
+    on every event.  Retracted 2026-05-08; replaced 2026-05-11 with
+    the verified codec in :mod:`minimateplus.waveform_codec`.  See
+    ``docs/instantel_protocol_reference.md §7.6.1`` for the full history.
+
+    ── Waveform format (LEGACY — WRONG) ────────────────────────────────
+    Claimed 4-channel interleaved signed 16-bit little-endian, 8 bytes
+    per sample-set:
 
         [T_lo T_hi V_lo V_hi L_lo L_hi M_lo M_hi] × N
 
-    where T=Tran, V=Vert, L=Long, M=Mic.  Channel ordering follows the
-    Blastware convention [Tran, Vert, Long, Mic] = [ch0, ch1, ch2, ch3].
+    where T=Tran, V=Vert, L=Long, M=Mic.
 
-    ⚠️  Channel ordering is a confirmed CONVENTION — the physical ordering on
-        the ADC mux is not independently verifiable from the saturating blast
-        captures we have.  The convention is consistent with Blastware labeling
-        (Tran is always the first channel field in the A5 STRT+waveform stream).
+    The body bytes are actually a tagged delta+RLE stream — this
+    interpretation was wrong.
 
     ── Frame structure ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
     A5[0] (probe response):

minimateplus/event_file_io.py

@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ from typing import Optional, Union
 
 from .models import Event, PeakValues, ProjectInfo, Timestamp
 from . import blastware_file as _bw  # avoid circular reference at module load
+from .bw_ascii_report import BwAsciiReport
+
+# Reference pressure for dB(L) → psi conversion (20 µPa expressed in psi).
+# Same constant as sfm/sfm_webapp.html so server-side and browser-side
+# conversions agree.
+_DBL_REF_PSI = 2.9e-9
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -41,7 +47,7 @@ SIDECAR_KIND   = "sfm.event"
 # bumped without a `pip install` re-run — leading to confusing stale
 # version stamps in sidecars.  Bump this constant and CHANGELOG.md
 # together at release time.
-TOOL_VERSION = "0.15.0"
+TOOL_VERSION = "0.16.1"
 
 try:
     # Best-effort: prefer the installed metadata when it's NEWER than the
@@ -94,6 +100,158 @@ def _peak_values_to_dict(pv: Optional[PeakValues]) -> dict:
     }
 
 
+def _bw_report_to_dict(report: BwAsciiReport) -> dict:
+    """Project a parsed BW ASCII report into the sidecar's `bw_report` block.
+
+    All fields are rendered as plain JSON-compatible types (no datetime
+    objects).  Channels are uniformly lowercased for stable JSON keys.
+    """
+    def _ch(ch_name: str) -> dict:
+        cs = report.channels.get(ch_name)
+        if cs is None:
+            return {}
+        out = {
+            "ppv_ips":         cs.ppv_ips,
+            "zc_freq_hz":      cs.zc_freq_hz,
+            "time_of_peak_s":  cs.time_of_peak_s,
+            "peak_accel_g":    cs.peak_accel_g,
+            "peak_disp_in":    cs.peak_disp_in,
+        }
+        # Drop all-None entries — keeps the JSON tidy for partial reports.
+        return {k: v for k, v in out.items() if v is not None}
+
+    def _sc(ch_name: str) -> dict:
+        sc = report.sensor_check.get(ch_name)
+        if sc is None:
+            return {}
+        out = {
+            "freq_hz":      sc.test_freq_hz,
+            "ratio":        sc.test_ratio,
+            "amplitude_mv": sc.test_amplitude_mv,
+            "result":       sc.test_results,
+        }
+        return {k: v for k, v in out.items() if v is not None}
+
+    monitor_log = []
+    for entry in report.monitor_log:
+        e = {
+            "start":       entry.start_time.isoformat() if entry.start_time else None,
+            "stop":        entry.stop_time.isoformat()  if entry.stop_time  else None,
+            "description": entry.description,
+        }
+        monitor_log.append({k: v for k, v in e.items() if v is not None})
+
+    return {
+        "available":   True,
+        "event_type":  report.event_type,
+        "version":     report.version,
+        "trigger": {
+            "channel":       report.trigger_channel,
+            "geo_level_ips": report.geo_trigger_level_ips,
+        },
+        "recording": {
+            "sample_rate_sps":  report.sample_rate_sps,
+            "record_time_s":    report.record_time_s,
+            "pretrig_s":        report.pretrig_s,
+            "stop_mode":        report.record_stop_mode,
+            "geo_range_ips":    report.geo_range_ips,
+            "units":            report.units,
+        },
+        "device": {
+            "battery_volts":    report.battery_volts,
+            "calibration_date": report.calibration_date.isoformat() if report.calibration_date else None,
+            "calibration_by":   report.calibration_by,
+        },
+        "peaks": {
+            "tran":         _ch("Tran"),
+            "vert":         _ch("Vert"),
+            "long":         _ch("Long"),
+            "vector_sum": {
+                "ips":     report.peak_vector_sum_ips,
+                "time_s":  report.peak_vector_sum_time_s,
+            },
+        },
+        "mic": {
+            "weighting":        report.mic.weighting,
+            "pspl_dbl":         report.mic.pspl_dbl,
+            "zc_freq_hz":       report.mic.zc_freq_hz,
+            "time_of_peak_s":   report.mic.time_of_peak_s,
+        },
+        "sensor_check": {
+            "tran": _sc("Tran"),
+            "vert": _sc("Vert"),
+            "long": _sc("Long"),
+            "mic":  _sc("MicL"),
+        },
+        "monitor_log":   monitor_log,
+        "pc_sw_version": report.pc_sw_version,
+    }
+
+
+def _dbl_to_psi(pspl_dbl: float) -> float:
+    """Convert dB(L) sound pressure level back to psi.  Uses the same
+    20 µPa reference (= 2.9e-9 psi) as the webapp so server-side and
+    browser-side conversions agree."""
+    return _DBL_REF_PSI * (10.0 ** (pspl_dbl / 20.0))
+
+
+def apply_report_to_event(event: Event, report: BwAsciiReport) -> None:
+    """Overlay device-authoritative fields from a parsed BW ASCII report
+    onto an in-memory Event, IN-PLACE.
+
+    Why this exists
+    ───────────────
+    `read_blastware_file()` parses the BW binary and fills `Event.peak_values`
+    via `_peaks_from_samples()` — which runs the (still-undecoded) BW body
+    codec assuming raw int16 LE and produces ±32K-shaped noise on every
+    channel.  Result: peak values land in the SeismoDb event row as
+    ~10 in/s on every event regardless of the actual signal.
+
+    When a paired BW ASCII report is available, the report carries the
+    device's own authoritative peak / project / sample-rate / record-time
+    values.  This helper folds those onto the Event before it flows to
+    `SeismoDb.insert_events()`, so the DB columns reflect the report
+    rather than the broken-codec output.
+
+    Fields overlaid (only when the report supplies a non-None value):
+      - peak_values.tran / .vert / .long              (from report.channels)
+      - peak_values.peak_vector_sum                   (from report.peak_vector_sum_ips)
+      - peak_values.micl  (psi)                       (from report.mic.pspl_dbl → psi)
+      - project_info.project / .client / .operator / .sensor_location
+      - sample_rate                                   (from report.sample_rate_sps)
+      - rectime_seconds                               (from report.record_time_s)
+
+    Fields NOT touched (operator-edit / parser-output preserved):
+      - timestamp, raw_samples, record_type, total_samples,
+        pretrig_samples, _waveform_key, _a5_frames, _raw_record
+      - false_trigger and review state (those live on the sidecar, not on Event)
+    """
+    if event.peak_values is None:
+        event.peak_values = PeakValues()
+    pv = event.peak_values
+    ch = report.channels
+    if (t := ch.get("Tran")) and t.ppv_ips is not None: pv.tran = t.ppv_ips
+    if (v := ch.get("Vert")) and v.ppv_ips is not None: pv.vert = v.ppv_ips
+    if (l := ch.get("Long")) and l.ppv_ips is not None: pv.long = l.ppv_ips
+    if report.peak_vector_sum_ips is not None:
+        pv.peak_vector_sum = report.peak_vector_sum_ips
+    if report.mic.pspl_dbl is not None and report.mic.pspl_dbl > 0:
+        pv.micl = _dbl_to_psi(report.mic.pspl_dbl)
+
+    if event.project_info is None:
+        event.project_info = ProjectInfo()
+    pi = event.project_info
+    if report.project:         pi.project         = report.project
+    if report.client:          pi.client          = report.client
+    if report.operator:        pi.operator        = report.operator
+    if report.sensor_location: pi.sensor_location = report.sensor_location
+
+    if report.sample_rate_sps:
+        event.sample_rate = report.sample_rate_sps
+    if report.record_time_s is not None:
+        event.rectime_seconds = report.record_time_s
+
+
 def _project_info_to_dict(pi: Optional[ProjectInfo]) -> dict:
     if pi is None:
         return {
@@ -123,35 +281,104 @@ def event_to_sidecar_dict(
     captured_at: Optional[datetime.datetime] = None,
     review: Optional[dict] = None,
     extensions: Optional[dict] = None,
+    bw_report: Optional[BwAsciiReport] = None,
 ) -> dict:
     """
     Build a v1 sidecar dict from an Event + the surrounding metadata.
 
     Pure helper — no file I/O.  Callers stitch the result into a sidecar
     via `write_sidecar()` (or POST it back via the PATCH endpoint).
+
+    When *bw_report* is supplied (e.g. by the ACH-forwarded import path
+    where Blastware writes a per-event ASCII report alongside the binary),
+    its decoded fields are folded into the sidecar:
+
+      - A new top-level ``bw_report`` block carries the rich derived
+        per-channel stats (Peak Acceleration, Peak Displacement, ZC Freq,
+        Time of Peak), the Peak Vector Sum + time, the per-channel sensor
+        self-check results, and monitor-log timestamps.
+      - ``peak_values`` is overlaid from the report (the report's PPV/PVS
+        values are computed by the device firmware and are authoritative;
+        anything ``read_blastware_file()`` derived from samples is
+        approximate at best until the body codec is decoded).
+      - ``project_info`` is overlaid from the report when the report
+        supplies a non-empty value (the report mirrors the device's
+        compliance config, which is what BW shows in its event report).
+      - ``event.timestamp`` is overlaid from the report's Event Date +
+        Event Time (BW's report timestamps are second-resolution and
+        match the binary's footer; we prefer the report value because
+        the BW-binary footer timestamp can drift on some firmware).
     """
-    if source_kind not in {"sfm-live", "sfm-ach", "bw-import"}:
+    if source_kind not in {"sfm-live", "sfm-ach", "bw-import", "idf-import"}:
         raise ValueError(f"unknown source_kind: {source_kind!r}")
 
     captured_at = captured_at or datetime.datetime.utcnow()
 
-    return {
+    # ── Overlay event fields from the report when present ───────────────────
+    timestamp_iso = _ts_iso(event.timestamp)
+    if bw_report and bw_report.event_datetime:
+        timestamp_iso = bw_report.event_datetime.isoformat()
+
+    # Build peak_values, optionally overlaid from the report.  The report
+    # stores Mic peak as PSPL (dB(L)); we convert to psi to match the
+    # existing peak_values.mic_psi field.
+    peak_dict = _peak_values_to_dict(event.peak_values)
+    if bw_report:
+        ch = bw_report.channels
+        if (t := ch.get("Tran")) and t.ppv_ips is not None: peak_dict["transverse"]   = t.ppv_ips
+        if (v := ch.get("Vert")) and v.ppv_ips is not None: peak_dict["vertical"]     = v.ppv_ips
+        if (l := ch.get("Long")) and l.ppv_ips is not None: peak_dict["longitudinal"] = l.ppv_ips
+        if bw_report.peak_vector_sum_ips is not None:
+            peak_dict["vector_sum"] = bw_report.peak_vector_sum_ips
+        if bw_report.mic.pspl_dbl is not None and bw_report.mic.pspl_dbl > 0:
+            peak_dict["mic_psi"] = _dbl_to_psi(bw_report.mic.pspl_dbl)
+
+    # Project info: overlay from report (the report mirrors the
+    # session-start compliance config that BW renders in event reports).
+    proj_dict = _project_info_to_dict(event.project_info)
+    if bw_report:
+        if bw_report.project:         proj_dict["project"]         = bw_report.project
+        if bw_report.client:          proj_dict["client"]          = bw_report.client
+        if bw_report.operator:        proj_dict["operator"]        = bw_report.operator
+        if bw_report.sensor_location: proj_dict["sensor_location"] = bw_report.sensor_location
+
+    # Event-block fields: overlay from report where available.
+    event_block = {
+        "serial":           serial,
+        "timestamp":        timestamp_iso,
+        "waveform_key":     event._waveform_key.hex() if event._waveform_key else None,
+        "record_type":      event.record_type,
+        "sample_rate":      event.sample_rate,
+        "rectime_seconds":  event.rectime_seconds,
+        "total_samples":    event.total_samples,
+        "pretrig_samples":  event.pretrig_samples,
+    }
+    if bw_report:
+        # Report values are authoritative — they're the user-configured
+        # values BW reads back, not STRT-derived guesses.  In particular
+        # `event.rectime_seconds` from `read_blastware_file()` reads
+        # STRT[18] which is actually the `0x46` record-type marker (= 70)
+        # rather than the user's Record Time setting.  Always overwrite.
+        if bw_report.sample_rate_sps:
+            event_block["sample_rate"] = bw_report.sample_rate_sps
+        if bw_report.record_time_s is not None:
+            event_block["rectime_seconds"] = bw_report.record_time_s
+        # Derive total_samples + pretrig_samples per channel from the
+        # report's sample_rate × times.  These match the row count of
+        # the report's sample table (verified: event-c reports 1024 sps
+        # × (1.0 + 0.25) = 1280 rows).
+        if (sr := bw_report.sample_rate_sps) and bw_report.record_time_s is not None:
+            pretrig_s = abs(bw_report.pretrig_s) if bw_report.pretrig_s is not None else 0.0
+            event_block["total_samples"]   = int(round(sr * (bw_report.record_time_s + pretrig_s)))
+            event_block["pretrig_samples"] = int(round(sr * pretrig_s))
+
+    out = {
         "schema_version": SCHEMA_VERSION,
         "kind":           SIDECAR_KIND,
 
-        "event": {
-            "serial":           serial,
-            "timestamp":        _ts_iso(event.timestamp),
-            "waveform_key":     event._waveform_key.hex() if event._waveform_key else None,
-            "record_type":      event.record_type,
-            "sample_rate":      event.sample_rate,
-            "rectime_seconds":  event.rectime_seconds,
-            "total_samples":    event.total_samples,
-            "pretrig_samples":  event.pretrig_samples,
-        },
-
-        "peak_values":  _peak_values_to_dict(event.peak_values),
-        "project_info": _project_info_to_dict(event.project_info),
+        "event":        event_block,
+        "peak_values":  peak_dict,
+        "project_info": proj_dict,
 
         "blastware": {
             "filename":  blastware_filename,
@@ -177,6 +404,11 @@ def event_to_sidecar_dict(
         "extensions": extensions or {},
     }
 
+    if bw_report:
+        out["bw_report"] = _bw_report_to_dict(bw_report)
+
+    return out
+
 
 # ── Sidecar IO ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
@@ -414,6 +646,50 @@ def _peaks_from_samples(samples: dict[str, list[int]]) -> PeakValues:
     )
 
 
+_RECORD_TYPE_BY_EXT_SUFFIX = {
+    'H': 'Histogram',
+    'W': 'Waveform',
+    'M': 'Manual',
+    'E': 'Event',
+    'C': 'Combo',
+}
+
+
+def derive_record_type_from_filename(filename, default: str = "Waveform") -> str:
+    """Derive a BW Event's record_type from its filename's extension suffix.
+
+    V10.72+ MiniMate Plus firmware encodes the event type as the LAST
+    character of the extension (the `T` in BW's `AB0T` scheme):
+
+        ``M529LKIQ.G10H``  →  H  →  ``"Histogram"``
+        ``T350L385.VY0W``  →  W  →  ``"Waveform"``
+        ``...M``           →  M  →  ``"Manual"``
+        ``...E``           →  E  →  ``"Event"``
+        ``...C``           →  C  →  ``"Combo"``
+
+    Old S338 firmware uses 3-char extensions ending in ``0`` whose
+    encoding is not yet known — those fall through to ``default``.
+    Micromate Series 4 uses a different scheme entirely (observed:
+    ``IDFH``, ``IDFW``) but the LAST-char convention (H / W) still holds
+    for the type code, so it works for both families.
+
+    Returns ``default`` if filename is empty, has no extension, or the
+    suffix char isn't a recognized type code.
+    """
+    if not filename:
+        return default
+    try:
+        name = Path(filename).name
+    except (TypeError, ValueError):
+        return default
+    if '.' not in name:
+        return default
+    ext = name.rsplit('.', 1)[1]
+    if not ext:
+        return default
+    return _RECORD_TYPE_BY_EXT_SUFFIX.get(ext[-1].upper(), default)
+
+
 def read_blastware_file(path: Union[str, Path]) -> Event:
     """
     Parse a Blastware waveform file into an Event.
@@ -495,7 +771,12 @@ def read_blastware_file(path: Union[str, Path]) -> Event:
     ev = Event(index=-1)
     if strt_fields.get("waveform_key"):
         ev._waveform_key = bytes.fromhex(strt_fields["waveform_key"])
-    ev.record_type     = "Waveform"
+    # Derive record_type from the filename's extension suffix (H/W/M/E/C).
+    # When called from save_imported_bw the path here is a tmp file with a
+    # ".bw" suffix, so the derivation falls back to "Waveform" and the
+    # caller overrides ev.record_type using the original filename — see
+    # waveform_store.save_imported_bw.
+    ev.record_type     = derive_record_type_from_filename(path.name)
     ev.rectime_seconds = strt_fields.get("rectime_seconds")
     ev.total_samples   = strt_fields.get("total_samples")
     ev.pretrig_samples = strt_fields.get("pretrig_samples")

minimateplus/waveform_codec.py

@@ -0,0 +1,578 @@
+"""
+waveform_codec.py — block-walker and verified decoder for the MiniMate Plus
+waveform-file body.
+
+FULLY DECODED 2026-05-11.  Every block type, every channel, and the
+channel-rotation rule are verified byte-exact against BW's ASCII export
+across the 9-event fixture bundle (47,364 ADC samples, zero errors).
+
+The Blastware waveform-file body — the bytes between the 21-byte STRT
+record and the 26-byte file footer — is a tagged variable-length block
+stream with a custom delta + RLE codec.  (Not raw int16 LE, which was
+the historical wrong assumption that produced ±32K noise on every event.)
+
+Current status:
+
+- Block framing: ✅ solved (5 block types and lengths all confirmed)
+- Per-channel decode: ✅ solved (Tran / Vert / Long / MicL all byte-exact)
+- Channel rotation: ✅ Tran → Vert → Long → MicL per segment
+- Segment header: ✅ fully decoded (anchor pair + prev-channel extension)
+- 30 NN packed-delta block: ✅ NN × 12-bit signed deltas in NN/4 groups
+- MicL → dB(L) conversion: ✅ ``mic_count_to_db`` matches BW display
+- Production wiring: ✅ ``client.py:_decode_a5_waveform`` uses the new
+  codec (via ``decode_a5_frames``).  ``.h5`` sidecars now render
+  correctly.
+
+Known limitations:
+
+- Walker stops early on the loudest events (SP0, SS0, SV0, event-b) at
+  some mid-segment edge cases not yet fully characterized.  Every
+  sample reached IS correct; the walker just doesn't reach all of
+  them yet.  The cleanly-decoded subset is still ~5000–15000 samples
+  per loud event.
+
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+Body layout (CONFIRMED 2026-05-11 against 8 fixture events)
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    [7-byte preamble] [stream of tagged blocks] [trailer]
+
+The preamble is always exactly 7 bytes:
+
+    body[0:3]  = 00 02 00              magic
+    body[3:5]  = Tran[0]   int16 BE    in 16-count units (LSB = 0.005 in/s)
+    body[5:7]  = Tran[1]   int16 BE    in 16-count units
+
+(Earlier drafts of this module described a "7-or-9-byte preamble";
+that was wrong — single-shot and continuous events both use 7 bytes.
+The "extra 2 bytes" on continuous events were the first ``00 NN`` RLE
+marker, not part of the preamble.)
+
+Block types and lengths (all confirmed):
+
+| Tag      | Length                | Meaning                                |
+|----------|-----------------------|----------------------------------------|
+| ``10 NN``| NN/2 + 2 bytes        | 4-bit nibble deltas (2 per byte; high  |
+|          |                       | nibble first; signed 0..7 / 8..F = -8..-1)|
+| ``20 NN``| NN + 2 bytes          | int8 signed deltas (1 per byte)        |
+| ``00 NN``| 2 bytes               | RLE: append NN copies of current value |
+| ``30 NN``| NN*2 in data, NN*4    | Unknown content.  Only in loud events. |
+|          | in trailer            |                                        |
+| ``40 02``| 20 bytes (fixed)      | Segment header                         |
+
+NN is always a multiple of 4.
+
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+Tran channel, segment 0 (CONFIRMED 2026-05-11)
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+Segment 0 — everything before the first ``40 02`` segment header — encodes
+Tran samples only.  Starting from preamble anchors Tran[0] and Tran[1],
+each subsequent block contributes to the running Tran value:
+
+    10 NN  →  append NN deltas (4-bit signed nibbles)
+    20 NN  →  append NN deltas (int8 signed bytes)
+    00 NN  →  append NN copies of the current value (RLE zeros)
+    40 02  →  segment 0 ends; multi-segment continuation is open
+
+This decodes the first 482–510 samples of Tran for each event with zero
+errors against BW's ASCII export.  The exact segment-0 sample count
+varies per event (it's bounded by a fixed device-flash byte budget, not
+a fixed sample count — quiet events fit more samples because zero
+deltas pack into ``00 NN`` markers compactly).
+
+Implementation: :func:`decode_tran_initial`.
+
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+Segment header (40 02, 20 bytes total)
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+The 18-byte payload of the ``40 02`` block:
+
+| Offset    | Field                                       | Status      |
+|-----------|---------------------------------------------|-------------|
+| [0:2]     | T_delta at first sample of new segment      | ✅ confirmed|
+|           | (int16 BE, in 16-count units)               |             |
+| [2:4]     | Likely T_delta at sample seg_start+1        | 🟡 likely   |
+| [4:6]     | Unknown (varies; possibly checksum)         | ❓ open     |
+| [6:8]     | Byte length to next segment header − 2      | ✅ confirmed|
+|           | (uint16 BE; useful for walker pre-scan)     |             |
+| [8:12]    | Monotonic uint32 LE counter                 | ✅ confirmed|
+|           | (starts ~0x47, increments by 1 per segment) |             |
+| [12:14]   | Constant ``02 00``                          | ✅ confirmed|
+| [14:18]   | Unknown 4-byte field                        | ❓ open     |
+
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+What breaks the multi-segment decoder (the main open question)
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+After segment 0 ends and the segment header T_delta is consumed,
+applying segment 1's blocks as Tran continuation produces values that
+diverge from truth by sample ~512.  The block structure inside segment
+1 is IDENTICAL to segment 0 (same alternating 10 NN / 00 NN pattern),
+and the delta budget matches the segment size exactly (V70 segment 1
+has 264 nibble-deltas + 244 RLE zeros = 508 = the segment's sample
+count).  But the cumulative is wrong.
+
+The strongest unverified hypothesis is that segments rotate channels:
+
+    segment 0  →  Tran samples 0..509
+    segment 1  →  Vert samples 0..507
+    segment 2  →  Long samples 0..507
+    segment 3  →  Mic  samples 0..507
+    segment 4  →  Tran samples 510..N (continuation)
+    ...
+
+This is consistent with the segment-1 block sums net-to-near-zero in
+V70 (where all 4 channels are near zero) and with the per-segment delta
+budget matching the segment size for a single channel.  It is NOT yet
+verified because the per-segment channel anchor isn't pinned down in
+the segment header — bytes [4:6] and [14:18] of the header are still
+open and probably encode V/L/M anchors.
+
+See ``docs/waveform_codec_re_status.md`` for the current working notes
+and the suggested next experiment ("segment-channel scoring analyzer").
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import math
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import List, Optional, Tuple
+
+
+@dataclass
+class WaveformBlock:
+    """One tagged block parsed out of a Blastware waveform-file body."""
+    offset: int      # byte offset into body
+    tag_hi: int      # first tag byte (0x10 / 0x20 / 0x00 / 0x30 / 0x40)
+    tag_lo: int      # second tag byte (NN)
+    data: bytes      # block payload (excludes the 2-byte tag)
+    length: int      # total block length on the wire (includes the tag)
+
+    @property
+    def kind(self) -> str:
+        return f"{self.tag_hi:02x} {self.tag_lo:02x}"
+
+
+def find_data_start(body: bytes) -> int:
+    """Auto-detect the offset of the first data block.
+
+    The body starts with a 7-byte preamble (magic ``00 02 00`` + two int16 BE
+    Tran anchors).  After that, the data section starts with a tag — usually
+    ``10 NN`` or ``20 NN``, but quiet events may begin with a ``00 NN`` RLE
+    marker.  We return the offset of the first recognized tag.
+    """
+    # Try fixed offset 7 first (canonical preamble length).
+    if len(body) >= 9:
+        b, nn = body[7], body[8]
+        if (b in (0x00, 0x10, 0x20, 0x30) and nn % 4 == 0 and 0 < nn <= 0xFC) \
+                or (b == 0x40 and nn == 0x02):
+            return 7
+    # Fall back to scanning the first 20 bytes.
+    for i in range(min(20, len(body) - 1)):
+        b = body[i]
+        nn = body[i + 1]
+        if b in (0x10, 0x20) and nn % 4 == 0 and 0 < nn <= 0xFC:
+            return i
+    return -1
+
+
+def walk_body(body: bytes, start: Optional[int] = None) -> List[WaveformBlock]:
+    """Walk the tagged-block sequence starting at *start* (auto-detected by default).
+
+    Stops when an unrecognized tag is encountered or end of body is reached.
+    Returned blocks are in stream order.
+    """
+    if start is None:
+        start = find_data_start(body)
+        if start < 0:
+            return []
+
+    blocks: List[WaveformBlock] = []
+    i = start
+    while i + 1 < len(body):
+        t0 = body[i]
+        t1 = body[i + 1]
+        if t0 == 0x10 and t1 % 4 == 0 and 0 < t1 <= 0xFC:
+            length = t1 // 2 + 2
+        elif (t0 & 0xF0) == 0x10 and (t0 & 0x0F) != 0 and t1 % 4 == 0:
+            # Wide-NN nibble block: ``1X NN`` where X is the high nibble of a
+            # 12-bit NN value.  NN = ((t0 & 0x0F) << 8) | t1.  Block length
+            # = NN/2 + 2 bytes (NN nibble deltas, same as ``10 NN`` semantics
+            # but with NN > 0xFC).  Confirmed 2026-05-11 in SP0 segment 12
+            # where V continuation uses ``11 90`` = NN=0x190=400.
+            wide_nn = ((t0 & 0x0F) << 8) | t1
+            length = wide_nn // 2 + 2
+        elif t0 == 0x20 and t1 % 4 == 0 and 0 < t1 <= 0xFC:
+            length = t1 + 2
+        elif (t0 & 0xF0) == 0x20 and (t0 & 0x0F) != 0 and t1 % 4 == 0:
+            # Wide-NN int8 block: ``2X NN`` extends NN to 12 bits the same way.
+            wide_nn = ((t0 & 0x0F) << 8) | t1
+            length = wide_nn + 2
+        elif t0 == 0x00 and t1 % 4 == 0:
+            length = 2
+        elif t0 == 0x30 and t1 % 4 == 0 and 0 < t1 <= 0x10:
+            # Data-section ``30 NN`` blocks carry NN 12-bit signed deltas packed
+            # as NN/4 groups of (2-byte high-nibble field + 4 × int8 low byte).
+            # Length = NN/4 × 6 + 2 = NN × 1.5 + 2 (= 8 for NN=4, 14 for NN=8,
+            # 20 for NN=12, etc.).  Confirmed 2026-05-11 by full-decoder
+            # verification against BW ASCII export.
+            #
+            # Trailer-section ``30 NN`` blocks have a different length formula
+            # (NN × 4 = 32 for NN=8 in trailers).  We try the data-section
+            # length first and fall back to the trailer length if needed.
+            cand_data = t1 * 3 // 2 + 2
+            cand_trailer = t1 * 4
+            if (i + cand_data < len(body) - 1
+                    and body[i + cand_data] in (0x10, 0x20, 0x00, 0x30, 0x40)):
+                length = cand_data
+            else:
+                length = cand_trailer
+        elif t0 == 0x40 and t1 == 0x02:
+            length = 20
+        else:
+            # Unknown tag; stop.  Caller can inspect ``i`` to see where.
+            break
+
+        if i + length > len(body):
+            break
+
+        data = bytes(body[i + 2 : i + length])
+        blocks.append(WaveformBlock(offset=i, tag_hi=t0, tag_lo=t1, data=data, length=length))
+        i += length
+
+    return blocks
+
+
+def split_segments(blocks: List[WaveformBlock]) -> List[List[WaveformBlock]]:
+    """Group consecutive blocks into segments separated by ``40 02`` headers.
+
+    The first segment is whatever runs before the first ``40 02`` header
+    (typically the "segment 0" preamble data after the body preamble).
+    Subsequent segments start with a ``40 02`` block, then have their
+    own data blocks until the next ``40 02``.
+    """
+    segments: List[List[WaveformBlock]] = []
+    current: List[WaveformBlock] = []
+    for b in blocks:
+        if b.tag_hi == 0x40 and b.tag_lo == 0x02:
+            if current:
+                segments.append(current)
+            current = [b]
+        else:
+            current.append(b)
+    if current:
+        segments.append(current)
+    return segments
+
+
+def parse_segment_header(block: WaveformBlock) -> Optional[dict]:
+    """Decode the 18-byte payload of a ``40 02`` segment header.
+
+    Returns a dict with the labelled fields, or None if *block* is not
+    a ``40 02`` header.
+    """
+    if not (block.tag_hi == 0x40 and block.tag_lo == 0x02):
+        return None
+    if len(block.data) < 18:
+        return None
+    p = block.data
+    counter = int.from_bytes(p[8:12], "little", signed=False)
+    return {
+        "anchor_bytes": p[0:4],          # 4-byte field, role unconfirmed
+        "field2": p[4:8],                # 4-byte field, role unconfirmed
+        "counter": counter,              # uint32 LE — increments by 1 per segment
+        "fixed_pattern": p[12:16],       # always b"\x02\x00\x00\x01"
+        "tail": p[16:18],                # last 2 bytes
+    }
+
+
+def _s4(n: int) -> int:
+    """Sign-extend a 4-bit value to signed int (0..7 → 0..7; 8..F → -8..-1)."""
+    return n if n < 8 else n - 16
+
+
+def _i8(b: int) -> int:
+    """Reinterpret an unsigned byte as signed int8."""
+    return b if b < 128 else b - 256
+
+
+def decode_tran_initial(body: bytes) -> Optional[List[int]]:
+    """
+    Decode the initial Tran-channel samples — VERIFIED 2026-05-11.
+
+    Returns Tran samples in **16-count units** (LSB = 0.005 in/s at Normal
+    range — the same quantization BW uses for its ASCII export).  Returns
+    ``None`` if the body cannot be parsed.
+
+    The decoded list extends from sample 0 through the end of segment 0
+    (= just before the first ``40 02`` segment header; ~510 sample-sets
+    for the events tested).  Multi-segment decoding requires continuing
+    past the segment header — that's done by :func:`decode_tran_full`
+    when the per-segment rules are pinned down for all signal types.
+
+    Codec for segment 0 (CONFIRMED 2026-05-11 against 7 fixture events):
+
+    - Body bytes [0:3] are the magic ``00 02 00``.
+    - Body bytes [3:5] = ``Tran[0]`` as int16 BE in 16-count units.
+    - Body bytes [5:7] = ``Tran[1]`` as int16 BE in 16-count units.
+    - Data blocks (``10 NN`` or ``20 NN``) carry Tran deltas starting
+      at sample 2:
+
+      * ``10 NN``: NN nibbles = NN/2 bytes; each nibble is a 4-bit
+        signed delta (0..7 → 0..+7; 8..F → -8..-1).  High nibble of
+        each byte comes first.
+      * ``20 NN``: NN int8 signed deltas (one delta per byte).
+
+    - ``00 NN`` blocks are run-length-encoded zero deltas: append NN
+      copies of the current cumulative Tran value (no change).
+
+    - ``30 NN`` blocks have not yet been decoded for content — they
+      appear in segment 0 of loud-from-start events (SS0, SV0) and
+      seem to signal a transition or special-case interpretation.
+      The walker steps over them but their data is ignored.
+
+    The walk stops at the first ``40 02`` segment header.
+    """
+    if len(body) < 7 or body[0:3] != b"\x00\x02\x00":
+        return None
+    t0 = int.from_bytes(body[3:5], "big", signed=True)
+    t1 = int.from_bytes(body[5:7], "big", signed=True)
+
+    start = find_data_start(body)
+    if start < 0:
+        return [t0, t1]
+
+    out = [t0, t1]
+    cur = t1
+    for blk in walk_body(body, start):
+        if blk.tag_hi == 0x40:
+            # Segment boundary — stop.  Multi-segment decode is decode_tran_full.
+            break
+        if blk.tag_hi == 0x10:
+            for byte in blk.data:
+                for nib in ((byte >> 4) & 0xF, byte & 0xF):
+                    cur += _s4(nib)
+                    out.append(cur)
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x20:
+            for byte in blk.data:
+                cur += _i8(byte)
+                out.append(cur)
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x00:
+            # RLE zero deltas: append NN copies of current Tran value.
+            for _ in range(blk.tag_lo):
+                out.append(cur)
+        # 30 NN: unknown content; skip.
+    return out
+
+
+def decode_waveform_v2(body: bytes) -> Optional[dict]:
+    """
+    Decode the body into per-channel sample arrays.
+
+    Status (2026-05-11 evening — channel-rotation hypothesis CONFIRMED):
+    segments rotate channels in fixed order **Tran → Vert → Long → MicL**.
+    Each channel-segment carries a 2-sample anchor pair in segment-header
+    bytes [14:18] (or in the body preamble for the initial Tran segment)
+    plus a stream of delta blocks for samples 2 onward.
+
+    Returns ``{"Tran": [...], "Vert": [...], "Long": [...], "MicL": [...]}``
+    with each channel's decoded samples in 16-count units (LSB = 0.005
+    in/s at Normal range).  Returns ``None`` if the body cannot be
+    parsed.
+    """
+    if len(body) < 7 or body[0:3] != b"\x00\x02\x00":
+        return None
+
+    channels = ["Tran", "Vert", "Long", "MicL"]
+    out: dict = {ch: [] for ch in channels}
+
+    # Initial Tran segment: preamble anchor pair + delta blocks before first 40 02.
+    t0 = int.from_bytes(body[3:5], "big", signed=True)
+    t1 = int.from_bytes(body[5:7], "big", signed=True)
+    out["Tran"].extend([t0, t1])
+
+    start = find_data_start(body)
+    if start < 0:
+        return out
+
+    blocks = walk_body(body, start)
+    seg_idx = [i for i, b in enumerate(blocks) if b.tag_hi == 0x40]
+
+    def apply_blocks(channel: str, anchor: int,
+                     block_start: int, block_end: int) -> int:
+        """Apply delta blocks [block_start, block_end) to *channel*'s sample
+        list, starting from *anchor*.  Returns the final cumulative value."""
+        cur = anchor
+        for bi in range(block_start, block_end):
+            blk = blocks[bi]
+            if (blk.tag_hi & 0xF0) == 0x10:
+                # Both ``10 NN`` (NN ≤ 0xFC) and wide-NN ``1X NN`` (X != 0)
+                # are nibble-delta streams.  The walker has already used the
+                # right length; here we just iterate the payload bytes.
+                for byte in blk.data:
+                    for nib in ((byte >> 4) & 0xF, byte & 0xF):
+                        cur += _s4(nib)
+                        out[channel].append(cur)
+            elif (blk.tag_hi & 0xF0) == 0x20:
+                # ``20 NN`` and wide ``2X NN`` both carry int8 deltas.
+                for byte in blk.data:
+                    cur += _i8(byte)
+                    out[channel].append(cur)
+            elif blk.tag_hi == 0x00:
+                for _ in range(blk.tag_lo):
+                    out[channel].append(cur)
+            elif blk.tag_hi == 0x30:
+                # 12-bit signed deltas, packed as NN/4 groups of 6 bytes each:
+                #   bytes [0:2] = 16 bits = 4 × 4-bit high nibbles (MSB first)
+                #   bytes [2:6] = 4 × int8 low bytes
+                # Each delta = sign_extend_12((high_nibble << 8) | low_byte).
+                # Confirmed 2026-05-11 against all 14 ``30 NN`` blocks in the
+                # bundled fixtures.
+                n_groups = blk.tag_lo // 4
+                for g in range(n_groups):
+                    grp = blk.data[g * 6 : (g + 1) * 6]
+                    if len(grp) < 6:
+                        break
+                    high_word = (grp[0] << 8) | grp[1]
+                    for k in range(4):
+                        nib = (high_word >> (12 - 4 * k)) & 0xF
+                        v = (nib << 8) | grp[2 + k]
+                        if v >= 0x800:
+                            v -= 0x1000
+                        cur += v
+                        out[channel].append(cur)
+            # 40 02: should not occur in segment data.
+        return cur
+
+    # Initial Tran segment: deltas from start of body up to first 40 02 (or end).
+    first_seg = seg_idx[0] if seg_idx else len(blocks)
+    last_tran_value = apply_blocks("Tran", t1, 0, first_seg)
+
+    # Subsequent segments rotate channels.  Each segment header carries:
+    #   bytes [0:2] and [2:4] = 2 deltas extending the PREVIOUS channel
+    #   bytes [14:16] and [16:18] = anchor pair for THIS segment's channel
+    #
+    # Rotation: V, L, M, T, V, L, M, T, ...  (initial Tran segment is the
+    # implicit T in the cycle.)
+    rotation = ["Vert", "Long", "MicL", "Tran"]
+    # Track each channel's "running cumulative value" so we can apply the
+    # previous-channel extension deltas at every segment boundary.
+    last_value = {"Tran": last_tran_value, "Vert": None, "Long": None, "MicL": None}
+
+    for k, hi in enumerate(seg_idx):
+        channel = rotation[k % 4]
+        prev_channel = "Tran" if k == 0 else rotation[(k - 1) % 4]
+        header = blocks[hi]
+        if len(header.data) < 18:
+            continue
+        # Validate: real segment headers have bytes [12:14] = `02 00`.
+        # Trailer/footer "40 02" markers contain ASCII serial bytes or other
+        # non-header data there and would otherwise be mis-interpreted as
+        # segment headers, adding spurious samples at the tail.
+        if header.data[12:14] != b"\x02\x00":
+            break
+        # Extend the PREVIOUS channel by 2 more samples (deltas in bytes [0:4]).
+        prev_d0 = int.from_bytes(header.data[0:2], "big", signed=True)
+        prev_d1 = int.from_bytes(header.data[2:4], "big", signed=True)
+        if last_value[prev_channel] is not None:
+            v = last_value[prev_channel] + prev_d0
+            out[prev_channel].append(v)
+            v += prev_d1
+            out[prev_channel].append(v)
+            last_value[prev_channel] = v
+        # Anchor pair for THIS segment's channel.
+        c0 = int.from_bytes(header.data[14:16], "big", signed=True)
+        c1 = int.from_bytes(header.data[16:18], "big", signed=True)
+        out[channel].extend([c0, c1])
+        # Apply delta blocks for this segment.
+        next_hi = seg_idx[k + 1] if k + 1 < len(seg_idx) else len(blocks)
+        last_value[channel] = apply_blocks(channel, c1, hi + 1, next_hi)
+
+    return out
+
+
+# ── ADC-scale conversion helpers ────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+# Scaling factor: decode_waveform_v2 produces geo-channel samples in the BW
+# display quantization (16-count units, LSB = 0.005 in/s at Normal range).
+# The legacy consumer pipeline (sfm/event_hdf5.py) expects raw_samples in
+# 1-count ADC units (× full_scale / 32768 → physical).  To plug the new
+# decoder in without rewriting consumers, multiply geo values by 16.
+#
+# Mic samples are already in raw ADC counts (decoded value 1 = 1 mic ADC count
+# = -81.94 dB on the BW display).  Mic values pass through unchanged.
+_GEO_DECODER_TO_ADC = 16
+
+
+def decoded_to_adc_counts(decoded: dict) -> dict:
+    """Convert :func:`decode_waveform_v2` output to int16 ADC counts.
+
+    Geo channels are scaled by ×16 (decoder produces 16-count units,
+    consumer expects 1-count ADC).  Mic is passed through as raw counts.
+    """
+    if not decoded:
+        return {}
+    return {
+        "Tran": [v * _GEO_DECODER_TO_ADC for v in decoded.get("Tran", [])],
+        "Vert": [v * _GEO_DECODER_TO_ADC for v in decoded.get("Vert", [])],
+        "Long": [v * _GEO_DECODER_TO_ADC for v in decoded.get("Long", [])],
+        "MicL": list(decoded.get("MicL", [])),
+    }
+
+
+def mic_count_to_db(count: int) -> float:
+    """Convert a MicL ADC count to dB(L) for BW-display-compatible output.
+
+    Empirical formula (confirmed 2026-05-11 against V70 fixture: count=813
+    → 140.1 dB; count=±1 → ±81.94 dB; count=±24 → ±109.5 dB):
+
+        dB = sign(count) × (81.94 + 20 × log10(|count|))    for |count| ≥ 1
+        dB = 0.0                                            for count == 0
+
+    The constant 81.94 corresponds to 10^(81.94/20) ≈ 12490 mic ADC counts
+    being the dB(L) reference level — almost certainly a calibration
+    constant from the device's mic.
+    """
+    if count == 0:
+        return 0.0
+    sign = 1.0 if count > 0 else -1.0
+    return sign * (81.94 + 20.0 * math.log10(abs(count)))
+
+
+# ── A5-frame entry point ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def decode_a5_frames(a5_frames) -> Optional[dict]:
+    """Decode a list of A5 (BULK_WAVEFORM_STREAM) frames into per-channel
+    int16 ADC samples.
+
+    Returns ``{"Tran": [...], "Vert": [...], "Long": [...], "MicL": [...]}``
+    with each channel's samples in **1-count ADC units** (the legacy
+    ``event.raw_samples`` convention — multiply by ``full_scale / 32768``
+    to convert to physical units; for mic, use :func:`mic_count_to_db` or
+    a per-count psi factor).
+
+    Returns ``None`` if the frames cannot be parsed.
+
+    This is the wired-up production entry point.  It:
+      1. Reconstructs the BW-binary body bytes from the A5 frames
+         (``blastware_file.extract_body_bytes``).
+      2. Runs the verified codec (``decode_waveform_v2``) on the body.
+      3. Converts to int16 ADC counts via :func:`decoded_to_adc_counts`.
+    """
+    # Local import to avoid a cycle: blastware_file imports models and
+    # ultimately client.py imports waveform_codec.
+    from .blastware_file import extract_body_bytes
+
+    if not a5_frames:
+        return None
+    _strt, body, _footer = extract_body_bytes(a5_frames)
+    if not body:
+        return None
+    decoded = decode_waveform_v2(body)
+    if decoded is None:
+        return None
+    return decoded_to_adc_counts(decoded)

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "seismo-relay"
-version = "0.15.0"
+version = "0.18.0"
 description = "Python client and REST server for MiniMate Plus seismographs"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [

scratch/next_experiment_skeleton.py

@@ -0,0 +1,360 @@
+"""
+scratch/next_experiment_skeleton.py — segment-channel scoring analyzer.
+
+This is the suggested NEXT EXPERIMENT for cracking the waveform body codec.
+The goal is to figure out what segments 1+ contain, since segment 0 = Tran
+is solved but multi-segment continuation diverges from truth at sample ~512.
+
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+The hypothesis to test
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+Segments rotate through channels:
+
+    segment 0  →  Tran samples 0..509
+    segment 1  →  Vert samples 0..507
+    segment 2  →  Long samples 0..507
+    segment 3  →  Mic  samples 0..507
+    segment 4  →  Tran samples 510..N (continuation)
+    ...
+
+This would explain why segment 0 works perfectly (it's pure Tran) and why
+applying segment 1's blocks as Tran continuation gives wrong values
+(it's actually Vert).
+
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+What the analyzer should do
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+For each segment in each fixture event:
+
+1. Run the segment-0 block-walker + RLE decode (the same algorithm that
+   ``decode_tran_initial`` uses) over the segment's blocks.  Start from
+   some anchor value and produce a cumulative trajectory of length =
+   number-of-deltas-in-segment.
+
+2. For each candidate channel C ∈ {Tran, Vert, Long, MicL}:
+   For each candidate anchor location in the segment-header payload
+   (try [0:2], [2:4], [4:6], [14:16], [16:18] as int16 BE):
+       Compare the decoded trajectory against truth[C] starting from
+       the segment's first sample index.
+       Score = number of matches (or sum of squared errors).
+
+3. Report the best (channel, anchor-location) combination per segment.
+
+If the rotation hypothesis is correct, you'll see:
+    segment 0  →  best score for (Tran, preamble bytes [3:5])    ✓ already known
+    segment 1  →  best score for (Vert, <some-header-byte>)
+    segment 2  →  best score for (Long, <some-header-byte>)
+    segment 3  →  best score for (MicL, <some-header-byte>)
+    segment 4  →  best score for (Tran, continuing from segment 0's end)
+
+If the rotation hypothesis is NOT correct, the scorer will at least narrow
+down what segment 1 actually carries.  Maybe channels interleave at finer
+granularity, or maybe segments alternate by something other than channel.
+
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+Why this is a scoring analyzer, not a hand-written decoder
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+Direct hand-coding ("assume segment 1 is Vert with anchor at byte X") gets
+stuck when the assumption is wrong because the failure mode is silent —
+you get plausible-looking-but-wrong samples and have to manually diff
+against truth to debug.
+
+The scorer is brute-force but cheap: every fixture event × every segment ×
+4 channels × 5 anchor-byte candidates is only ~hundreds of comparisons.
+The winning combination jumps out by score.
+
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+Skeleton
+────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import List, Optional, Tuple
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ".."))
+
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import walk_body, find_data_start, WaveformBlock
+
+
+# ── Reusable pieces ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+CHANNELS = ("Tran", "Vert", "Long", "MicL")
+LSB_INV = 200  # 1 in/s / 0.005 in/s/LSB; multiply BW-export floats by this
+               # to get 16-count units (the body's native quantization).
+
+
+@dataclass
+class FixtureEvent:
+    name: str           # e.g. "M529LL1A.SP0"
+    bin_path: str
+    txt_path: str
+    body: bytes
+    truth: dict         # {channel: list of int16-quantized samples}
+    blocks: List[WaveformBlock]
+    segment_starts: List[int]  # block indices of each 40 02 segment header
+    segment_sample_starts: List[int]  # for each segment, the truth sample index it starts at
+
+
+def s4(n: int) -> int:
+    """4-bit signed nibble decode."""
+    return n if n < 8 else n - 16
+
+
+def i8(b: int) -> int:
+    """int8 reinterpret of unsigned byte."""
+    return b if b < 128 else b - 256
+
+
+def load_fixture(name: str) -> FixtureEvent:
+    """Load a fixture event with its truth values and parsed block stream."""
+    # Find the fixture (search both subdirs of tests/fixtures/).
+    base = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "tests", "fixtures")
+    candidates = [
+        os.path.join(base, "5-11-26", name),
+        os.path.join(base, "decode-re-5-8-26", "event-a", name),  # not used directly
+    ]
+    bin_path = next((c for c in candidates if os.path.exists(c)), None)
+    if bin_path is None:
+        # Try a glob walk for the 5-8 fixtures (they're in subdirs).
+        for root, _, files in os.walk(base):
+            if name in files:
+                bin_path = os.path.join(root, name)
+                break
+    if bin_path is None:
+        raise FileNotFoundError(name)
+
+    txt_path = bin_path + ".TXT"
+    with open(bin_path, "rb") as f:
+        raw = f.read()
+    body = raw[43:-26]
+    truth = _parse_txt(txt_path)
+    blocks = walk_body(body, find_data_start(body))
+
+    seg_idx = [i for i, b in enumerate(blocks) if b.tag_hi == 0x40]
+    # Segment 0 starts at sample 0; subsequent segments start at the
+    # cumulative sample count from previous segment(s).  Tran's segment 0
+    # is N samples; if rotation hypothesis is correct, segment 1's data
+    # starts at sample 0 for a *different* channel.  The analyzer should
+    # try both "continues from previous segment" and "starts at sample 0
+    # of a different channel."
+    seg_sample_starts = _compute_segment_sample_starts(blocks, seg_idx)
+
+    return FixtureEvent(
+        name=name, bin_path=bin_path, txt_path=txt_path,
+        body=body, truth=truth, blocks=blocks,
+        segment_starts=seg_idx, segment_sample_starts=seg_sample_starts,
+    )
+
+
+def _parse_txt(path: str) -> dict:
+    """Parse BW ASCII TXT export into {channel: [int_samples_in_16_count_units]}."""
+    with open(path, "r", encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") as f:
+        lines = f.read().splitlines()
+    header_idx = next(
+        (i for i, l in enumerate(lines)
+         if all(c in l for c in CHANNELS)),
+        None,
+    )
+    if header_idx is None:
+        return {ch: [] for ch in CHANNELS}
+    out = {ch: [] for ch in CHANNELS}
+    for line in lines[header_idx + 1:]:
+        parts = re.split(r"\s+", line.strip())
+        if len(parts) < 4:
+            continue
+        try:
+            vals = [float(p) for p in parts[:4]]
+        except ValueError:
+            continue
+        for ch, v in zip(CHANNELS, vals):
+            # Multiply by LSB_INV; geo channels are in in/s, MicL is in dB(L)
+            # (which doesn't quantize the same way — leaving raw for MicL is fine,
+            # the scorer should treat MicL specially).
+            out[ch].append(round(v * LSB_INV) if ch != "MicL" else v)
+    return out
+
+
+def _compute_segment_sample_starts(
+    blocks: List[WaveformBlock], seg_idx: List[int]
+) -> List[int]:
+    """Cumulative sample-count up to each segment header (if all blocks treated
+    as Tran continuation).  Useful as one candidate for segment-1-Tran tests.
+
+    The scorer should ALSO try "segment 1 starts at sample 0 of a new channel"
+    as the rotation hypothesis predicts.
+    """
+    starts = []
+    cum = 2  # T[0] + T[1] from preamble
+    for i, b in enumerate(blocks):
+        if i in seg_idx:
+            starts.append(cum)
+        if b.tag_hi == 0x10:
+            cum += b.tag_lo
+        elif b.tag_hi == 0x20:
+            cum += b.tag_lo
+        elif b.tag_hi == 0x00:
+            cum += b.tag_lo
+        # 30 NN and 40 02 don't contribute samples (for this hypothesis)
+    return starts
+
+
+# ── The core algorithm: decode a segment's blocks as deltas ─────────────────
+
+
+def decode_segment_as_channel(
+    blocks: List[WaveformBlock],
+    seg_start_block_idx: int,
+    seg_end_block_idx: int,
+    anchor: int,
+) -> List[int]:
+    """Apply the segment-0 codec rules to a range of blocks, starting from *anchor*.
+
+    Returns a list of cumulative sample values (one per delta).  Does NOT include
+    the anchor itself in the output — the first returned value is anchor + first_delta.
+    """
+    out = []
+    cur = anchor
+    for bi in range(seg_start_block_idx, seg_end_block_idx):
+        blk = blocks[bi]
+        if blk.tag_hi == 0x10:
+            for byte in blk.data:
+                for nib in ((byte >> 4) & 0xF, byte & 0xF):
+                    cur += s4(nib)
+                    out.append(cur)
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x20:
+            for byte in blk.data:
+                cur += i8(byte)
+                out.append(cur)
+        elif blk.tag_hi == 0x00:
+            for _ in range(blk.tag_lo):
+                out.append(cur)
+        # 30 NN: skip (content unknown)
+        # 40 02: shouldn't appear in segment data (it's the segment header)
+    return out
+
+
+def score_against_truth(
+    decoded: List[int],
+    truth: List[int],
+    truth_start: int,
+) -> Tuple[int, int]:
+    """Compare *decoded* to truth[truth_start : truth_start + len(decoded)].
+
+    Returns (n_matches, n_compared).
+    """
+    n = min(len(decoded), len(truth) - truth_start)
+    if n <= 0:
+        return (0, 0)
+    matches = sum(1 for i in range(n) if decoded[i] == truth[truth_start + i])
+    return (matches, n)
+
+
+# ── TODO for the next pass ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def score_segment_against_all_channels(
+    event: FixtureEvent,
+    segment_index: int,
+) -> List[Tuple[str, int, int, int]]:
+    """For segment *segment_index* of *event*, find the best (channel, start_sample)
+    fit.
+
+    For each candidate channel C and each candidate starting truth-sample index s,
+    we pick the anchor that makes the FIRST decoded value match truth[C][s], then
+    score the remaining decoded values against truth[C][s+1 : s+N].
+
+    Returns rows of (channel_name, start_sample, n_matches, n_compared)
+    sorted by match-count descending.
+    """
+    # Block range of this segment: from the segment header (inclusive) up to
+    # the next segment header (exclusive), or end-of-blocks.
+    seg_header_idx = event.segment_starts[segment_index]
+    next_header_idx = (
+        event.segment_starts[segment_index + 1]
+        if segment_index + 1 < len(event.segment_starts)
+        else len(event.blocks)
+    )
+
+    # Decode the segment's data blocks (skip the segment-header block itself).
+    # Use anchor=0 — we'll re-anchor when scoring against each channel.
+    deltas_trajectory = decode_segment_as_channel(
+        event.blocks, seg_header_idx + 1, next_header_idx, anchor=0
+    )
+    if not deltas_trajectory:
+        return []
+
+    n = len(deltas_trajectory)
+    results = []
+
+    for ch in ("Tran", "Vert", "Long"):
+        truth = event.truth.get(ch)
+        if not truth or len(truth) < n + 1:
+            continue
+        # For each candidate starting sample s in truth, check if applying
+        # the deltas starting from truth[s] reproduces truth[s+1:s+n+1].
+        best = (0, -1)
+        for s in range(len(truth) - n):
+            anchor = truth[s]
+            offset = anchor - deltas_trajectory[0] + truth[s + 1] - anchor
+            # Recompute: trajectory[i] = anchor + cumulative_delta_through_i
+            # but we already have deltas_trajectory computed from anchor=0,
+            # so trajectory_relative[i] = anchor + deltas_trajectory[i].
+            matches = 0
+            for i in range(n):
+                if truth[s + i + 1] == anchor + deltas_trajectory[i]:
+                    matches += 1
+                # Note: we could break early on first mismatch for "matches start",
+                # but counting total matches gives a more robust score.
+            if matches > best[0]:
+                best = (matches, s)
+        results.append((ch, best[1], best[0], n))
+
+    results.sort(key=lambda r: -r[2])
+    return results
+
+
+# ── Driver ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def main():
+    """Run the analyzer on all loud-bundle events and print best scores."""
+    events = ["M529LL1A.SP0", "M529LL1A.SS0", "M529LL1A.SV0",
+              "M529LL1L.JQ0", "M529LL1L.V70"]
+    for name in events:
+        try:
+            event = load_fixture(name)
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            print(f"{name}: fixture not found")
+            continue
+
+        print(f"\n=== {name} ===")
+        print(f"  body bytes: {len(event.body)}")
+        print(f"  blocks: {len(event.blocks)}")
+        print(f"  segments: {len(event.segment_starts)}")
+        print(f"  segment sample-starts (if all blocks are 1 channel):")
+        for si, sample_start in enumerate(event.segment_sample_starts):
+            print(f"    seg {si}: sample {sample_start}")
+
+        for si in range(len(event.segment_starts)):
+            results = score_segment_against_all_channels(event, si)
+            if not results:
+                print(f"  seg {si}: (no scorable data)")
+                continue
+            tag = "✓" if results[0][2] / max(results[0][3], 1) > 0.9 else " "
+            top = results[0]
+            print(f"  seg {si}: best fit {tag} = {top[0]:<5} "
+                  f"starting at sample {top[1]:>5}, {top[2]:>4}/{top[3]:<4} match"
+                  + (f"  (next: {results[1][0]} @{results[1][1]} {results[1][2]}/{results[1][3]})"
+                     if len(results) > 1 else ""))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

scripts/backfill_record_type.py

@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+"""
+scripts/backfill_record_type.py — fix `record_type` on legacy event
+rows whose value was hardcoded to "Waveform" regardless of actual type.
+
+Why this is needed
+──────────────────
+Pre-v0.16.1 the BW file importer (`event_file_io.read_blastware_file`)
+hardcoded `ev.record_type = "Waveform"` for every imported event.  Fixed
+in commit aac1c8e — new ingests now derive the type from the Blastware
+filename's extension last character (H=Histogram, W=Waveform, M=Manual,
+E=Event, C=Combo) per the V10.72+ MiniMate Plus AB0T filename scheme.
+
+Effect on a server that imported events under the old code: every
+events row has `record_type = "Waveform"`, even for histograms,
+manuals, etc.  Visible in terra-view's event-detail modal under the
+"Record Type" field.  Terra-view also has a client-side workaround
+that derives the type from the filename for display purposes, so
+operators see the correct type in the UI even before this backfill.
+This script makes the DB column match what the UI is already showing,
+which matters for reporting and any downstream consumer that reads
+events.record_type directly.
+
+This script
+───────────
+Walks the `events` table and updates each row's `record_type` to the
+derived value from its `blastware_filename`.  Old S338 firmware files
+(3-char extensions ending in `0`) and any unrecognized suffix get
+left at the existing value (defaults to "Waveform").
+
+Idempotent: re-running after a successful backfill finds zero rows
+needing updates and exits cleanly (it always re-derives but only
+writes when the value would change).
+
+Usage
+─────
+  # Dry-run (default): print what would change, don't touch the DB
+  python -m scripts.backfill_record_type --db bridges/captures/seismo_relay.db
+
+  # Apply the backfill
+  python -m scripts.backfill_record_type --db bridges/captures/seismo_relay.db --apply
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import sqlite3
+import sys
+from collections import Counter
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+# Must stay in sync with minimateplus.event_file_io._RECORD_TYPE_BY_EXT_SUFFIX.
+_TYPE_FROM_SUFFIX = {
+    "H": "Histogram",
+    "W": "Waveform",
+    "M": "Manual",
+    "E": "Event",
+    "C": "Combo",
+}
+
+
+def derive_record_type(filename: str | None, default: str = "Waveform") -> str:
+    """Mirror of minimateplus.event_file_io.derive_record_type_from_filename.
+
+    Vendored here so this script runs without needing the seismo-relay
+    package on the Python path (useful on prod where you might be
+    running it via `docker exec` against a container's DB volume).
+    """
+    if not filename:
+        return default
+    name = Path(filename).name
+    if "." not in name:
+        return default
+    ext = name.rsplit(".", 1)[1]
+    if not ext:
+        return default
+    return _TYPE_FROM_SUFFIX.get(ext[-1].upper(), default)
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
+    ap.add_argument("--db", required=True, help="Path to seismo_relay.db")
+    ap.add_argument("--apply", action="store_true",
+                    help="Actually write changes (default is dry-run).")
+    ap.add_argument("--default", default="Waveform",
+                    help="Fallback record_type when filename doesn't encode one. "
+                         "Default: Waveform (matches the pre-fix bug's behavior).")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    db_path = Path(args.db)
+    if not db_path.exists():
+        print(f"ERROR: database not found at {db_path}", file=sys.stderr)
+        return 1
+
+    conn = sqlite3.connect(str(db_path))
+    conn.row_factory = sqlite3.Row
+    cur = conn.cursor()
+
+    cur.execute("""
+        SELECT id, blastware_filename, record_type
+        FROM events
+        WHERE blastware_filename IS NOT NULL
+          AND blastware_filename != ''
+    """)
+    rows = cur.fetchall()
+    total = len(rows)
+    print(f"Scanning {total:,} event rows…")
+    print()
+
+    # Tally proposed changes.
+    transitions: Counter[tuple[str, str]] = Counter()
+    update_ids: list[tuple[str, str]] = []
+    unrecognized = 0
+
+    for row in rows:
+        derived = derive_record_type(row["blastware_filename"], default=args.default)
+        current = row["record_type"] or ""
+        if derived == current:
+            continue
+        transitions[(current, derived)] += 1
+        update_ids.append((row["id"], derived))
+
+    if not update_ids:
+        print("Nothing to update — all rows already match.")
+        conn.close()
+        return 0
+
+    print(f"{len(update_ids):,} row(s) need updating:")
+    for (old, new), count in sorted(transitions.items(), key=lambda x: -x[1]):
+        print(f"  {count:>6,}  {old!r:14s} → {new!r}")
+    print()
+
+    if not args.apply:
+        print("(dry-run — re-run with --apply to write changes)")
+        conn.close()
+        return 0
+
+    print("Applying changes…")
+    cur.executemany(
+        "UPDATE events SET record_type = ? WHERE id = ?",
+        [(new, eid) for eid, new in update_ids],
+    )
+    conn.commit()
+    print(f"Done. Updated {cur.rowcount:,} row(s).")
+    conn.close()
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())

scripts/blind_stop.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Fire-and-forget Stop Monitoring loop — for wedged or constantly-triggering units.
+#
+# Hammers POST /device/stop_monitoring_blind in a tight loop.  The endpoint
+# opens TCP, dumps SESSION_RESET + a few copies of the SUB 0x97 frame, and
+# closes — without ever reading an S3 response.  Each TCP-won attempt is
+# ~50ms of wire activity instead of the multi-frame handshake the regular
+# rescue endpoint does, so windows that are too small for the full rescue
+# can still land a stop-monitoring command.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   ./blind_stop.sh <host> [tcp_port]
+#
+# Env:
+#   SFM_BASE_URL    Default: http://localhost:8200 (SFM direct).
+#                   Set to http://localhost:8001/api/sfm to route through
+#                   Terra-View's proxy.
+#   MAX_ATTEMPTS    Default: 600
+#   SLEEP_S         Default: 0  (no backoff — hammer it)
+#   MAX_TIME_S      Default: 15
+#   CONNECT_TIMEOUT Default: 5
+#   REPEAT          Frames per TCP session (default 3 — increases hit rate
+#                   if the device is busy reading its own buffer).
+#   STOP_ON_OK      Default: 1.  Set to 0 to keep hammering indefinitely
+#                   even after successful sends (every 503 means the device
+#                   is in *another* session, every 200 means our bytes got
+#                   through — but the device may not have processed them).
+
+set -u
+
+host="${1:-}"
+tcp_port="${2:-9034}"
+if [[ -z "$host" ]]; then
+  echo "usage: $0 <host> [tcp_port]" >&2
+  exit 2
+fi
+
+base="${SFM_BASE_URL:-http://localhost:8200}"
+max_attempts="${MAX_ATTEMPTS:-600}"
+sleep_s="${SLEEP_S:-0}"
+max_time_s="${MAX_TIME_S:-15}"
+connect_timeout="${CONNECT_TIMEOUT:-5}"
+repeat="${REPEAT:-3}"
+stop_on_ok="${STOP_ON_OK:-1}"
+
+url="${base}/device/stop_monitoring_blind?host=${host}&tcp_port=${tcp_port}&connect_timeout=${connect_timeout}&repeat=${repeat}"
+
+echo "blind_stop: target ${host}:${tcp_port}  connect_timeout=${connect_timeout}s  repeat=${repeat}"
+echo "blind_stop: POST ${url}"
+echo "blind_stop: up to ${max_attempts} attempts, ${sleep_s}s between, ${max_time_s}s per request"
+echo "blind_stop: stop_on_ok=${stop_on_ok}"
+echo
+
+ok_count=0
+busy_count=0
+err_count=0
+started=$(date +%s)
+
+for ((i=1; i<=max_attempts; i++)); do
+  printf "[%4d] %s  " "$i" "$(date +%H:%M:%S)"
+  http_code=$(curl -sS -o /tmp/blind_resp.$$ -w "%{http_code}" \
+    --max-time "$max_time_s" \
+    -X POST "$url" || echo "000")
+  body=$(cat /tmp/blind_resp.$$ 2>/dev/null || true)
+  rm -f /tmp/blind_resp.$$
+
+  case "$http_code" in
+    200|201)
+      ok_count=$((ok_count + 1))
+      echo "SENT  $body"
+      if [[ "$stop_on_ok" == "1" ]]; then
+        elapsed=$(( $(date +%s) - started ))
+        echo
+        echo "blind_stop: success after ${i} attempts (${elapsed}s).  ok=${ok_count} busy=${busy_count} err=${err_count}"
+        echo "blind_stop: NEXT — wait ~10s, then try the full rescue:"
+        echo "  /home/serversdown/seismo-relay/scripts/rescue_device.sh ${host} ${tcp_port}"
+        exit 0
+      fi
+      ;;
+    503)
+      busy_count=$((busy_count + 1))
+      echo "busy (503)"
+      ;;
+    000)
+      err_count=$((err_count + 1))
+      echo "curl error"
+      ;;
+    *)
+      err_count=$((err_count + 1))
+      echo "HTTP $http_code  $body" | head -c 400
+      echo
+      ;;
+  esac
+  [[ "$sleep_s" != "0" ]] && sleep "$sleep_s"
+done
+
+elapsed=$(( $(date +%s) - started ))
+echo
+echo "blind_stop: gave up after ${max_attempts} attempts (${elapsed}s).  ok=${ok_count} busy=${busy_count} err=${err_count}" >&2
+exit 1

scripts/repair_unknown_serials.py

@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+"""
+scripts/repair_unknown_serials.py — re-attribute events stuck under
+`serial = 'UNKNOWN'` to their correct serial by decoding the BW filename.
+
+Why this is needed
+──────────────────
+The /db/import/blastware_file endpoint had a bug (fixed in commit a032fa5+1
+on the ach-report-ingestion branch) where every forwarded event was inserted
+with serial='UNKNOWN' because the endpoint's `_serial_from_event(ev)` stub
+returned None and never consulted the BW-filename serial that
+`WaveformStore.save_imported_bw()` had already decoded.
+
+Effect on a server that ran a buggy version: every forwarded event's
+SeismoDb row has `serial='UNKNOWN'`, even though the on-disk waveform
+store has correctly bucketed the files into `BE<NNNN>/` folders.  So
+the BW binaries / sidecars / HDF5s are fine, but `/db/units` and
+`/db/events?serial=...` queries don't surface the events.
+
+This script
+───────────
+Walks the events table looking for rows with `serial='UNKNOWN'` and
+re-attributes each one to the serial decoded from its
+`blastware_filename` column.  If the row's serial would collide with
+an existing row (already-correct duplicate from a later re-forward),
+the UNKNOWN row is deleted.  Otherwise the row's `serial` column is
+updated in-place.
+
+Idempotent: re-running after a successful repair finds zero matching
+rows and exits cleanly.
+
+Usage
+─────
+  # Dry-run (default): print what would change, don't touch the DB
+  python -m scripts.repair_unknown_serials --db bridges/captures/seismo_relay.db
+
+  # Apply the repair
+  python -m scripts.repair_unknown_serials --db bridges/captures/seismo_relay.db --apply
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import sqlite3
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+# Reach into sfm.waveform_store for the serial decoder.  This script
+# is run from the repo root via `python -m scripts.repair_unknown_serials`.
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
+from sfm.waveform_store import _serial_from_bw_filename
+
+
+def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="Re-attribute events stuck under serial='UNKNOWN'.",
+    )
+    p.add_argument(
+        "--db", required=True, type=Path,
+        help="Path to seismo_relay.db (e.g. bridges/captures/seismo_relay.db)",
+    )
+    p.add_argument(
+        "--apply", action="store_true",
+        help="Apply the repair.  Without this flag the script runs in "
+             "dry-run mode and only reports what would change.",
+    )
+    args = p.parse_args(argv)
+
+    if not args.db.exists():
+        print(f"DB not found: {args.db}", file=sys.stderr)
+        return 2
+
+    conn = sqlite3.connect(str(args.db))
+    conn.row_factory = sqlite3.Row
+
+    rows = list(conn.execute(
+        "SELECT id, serial, timestamp, blastware_filename "
+        "  FROM events "
+        " WHERE serial = 'UNKNOWN' "
+        " ORDER BY timestamp",
+    ))
+    print(f"Found {len(rows)} UNKNOWN-serial rows in events table.")
+    if not rows:
+        return 0
+
+    updated   = 0
+    deleted   = 0
+    unresolved = 0
+    by_serial: dict[str, int] = {}
+
+    for row in rows:
+        rid       = row["id"]
+        ts        = row["timestamp"]
+        bw_name   = row["blastware_filename"]
+        new_serial = _serial_from_bw_filename(bw_name) if bw_name else None
+        if not new_serial:
+            print(f"  ⚠ id={rid[:8]} ts={ts} filename={bw_name!r} — "
+                  f"cannot decode serial from filename; skipping")
+            unresolved += 1
+            continue
+
+        # Check for an existing row at the target (serial, timestamp).
+        existing = conn.execute(
+            "SELECT id FROM events WHERE serial = ? AND timestamp = ?",
+            (new_serial, ts),
+        ).fetchone()
+        action: str
+        if existing is None:
+            # Safe to UPDATE in place.
+            if args.apply:
+                conn.execute(
+                    "UPDATE events SET serial = ? WHERE id = ?",
+                    (new_serial, rid),
+                )
+            action = "UPDATE"
+            updated += 1
+        else:
+            # A correctly-attributed row already exists.  Drop the
+            # UNKNOWN duplicate.
+            if args.apply:
+                conn.execute("DELETE FROM events WHERE id = ?", (rid,))
+            action = "DELETE (dup)"
+            deleted += 1
+
+        by_serial[new_serial] = by_serial.get(new_serial, 0) + 1
+        print(f"  {action:14s}  id={rid[:8]}  ts={ts}  "
+              f"filename={bw_name}  →  {new_serial}")
+
+    if args.apply:
+        conn.commit()
+    conn.close()
+
+    print()
+    print(f"Summary:")
+    print(f"  UNKNOWN rows scanned:       {len(rows)}")
+    print(f"  Updated to real serial:     {updated}")
+    print(f"  Deleted (duplicate of an    ")
+    print(f"   already-correct row):      {deleted}")
+    print(f"  Unresolved (bad filename):  {unresolved}")
+    print()
+    if by_serial:
+        print(f"Per-serial breakdown of repaired rows:")
+        for serial, count in sorted(by_serial.items()):
+            print(f"  {serial:12s}  {count}")
+    if not args.apply:
+        print()
+        print("(dry-run — re-run with --apply to commit)")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())

scripts/rescue_device.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Rescue an uncooperative MiniMate that's busy with another ACH session.
+#
+# Hammers POST /device/rescue in a tight loop with a short timeout.  When the
+# device is in an ACH session our SYN either gets refused or silently dropped
+# (5s connect timeout inside the endpoint) and we retry immediately.  When the
+# device is between sessions, our TCP wins, the endpoint disables Auto Call
+# Home and erases events inside the same session, then returns success.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   ./rescue_device.sh <host> [tcp_port] [--no-erase] [--no-disable-ach]
+#
+# Examples:
+#   ./rescue_device.sh 166.246.130.1 9034
+#   ./rescue_device.sh 166.246.130.1 9034 --no-erase     # just silence it
+#
+# Environment:
+#   SFM_BASE_URL    Defaults to http://localhost:8200 (SFM direct).
+#                   Set to http://localhost:8001/api/sfm to route through
+#                   Terra-View's proxy.  Direct mode avoids the proxy's
+#                   60s timeout, which matters for long-running endpoints.
+#   MAX_ATTEMPTS    Cap on retries (default 600 ≈ 30+ min).
+#   SLEEP_S         Backoff between attempts (default 1).
+#   MAX_TIME_S      Per-request timeout (default 60).
+#   CONNECT_TIMEOUT TCP connect timeout (default 5).
+#   RECV_TIMEOUT    Per-frame S3 recv timeout (default 5).  If POLL or any
+#                   subsequent frame doesn't respond within this window, the
+#                   rescue endpoint bails and this script retries.
+
+set -u
+
+host="${1:-}"
+tcp_port="${2:-9034}"
+shift 2 2>/dev/null || shift $# 2>/dev/null
+
+if [[ -z "$host" ]]; then
+  echo "usage: $0 <host> [tcp_port] [--no-erase] [--no-disable-ach]" >&2
+  exit 2
+fi
+
+disable_ach="true"
+erase="true"
+for arg in "$@"; do
+  case "$arg" in
+    --no-erase)        erase="false" ;;
+    --no-disable-ach)  disable_ach="false" ;;
+    *) echo "unknown flag: $arg" >&2; exit 2 ;;
+  esac
+done
+
+base="${SFM_BASE_URL:-http://localhost:8200}"
+max_attempts="${MAX_ATTEMPTS:-600}"
+sleep_s="${SLEEP_S:-1}"
+max_time_s="${MAX_TIME_S:-60}"
+connect_timeout="${CONNECT_TIMEOUT:-5}"
+recv_timeout="${RECV_TIMEOUT:-5}"
+
+url="${base}/device/rescue?host=${host}&tcp_port=${tcp_port}&disable_ach=${disable_ach}&erase=${erase}&connect_timeout=${connect_timeout}&recv_timeout=${recv_timeout}"
+
+echo "rescue: target ${host}:${tcp_port}  disable_ach=${disable_ach}  erase=${erase}"
+echo "rescue: connect_timeout=${connect_timeout}s  recv_timeout=${recv_timeout}s"
+echo "rescue: POST ${url}"
+echo "rescue: up to ${max_attempts} attempts, ${sleep_s}s between, ${max_time_s}s per request"
+echo
+
+started=$(date +%s)
+for ((i=1; i<=max_attempts; i++)); do
+  printf "[%3d] %s  " "$i" "$(date +%H:%M:%S)"
+  http_code=$(curl -sS -o /tmp/rescue_resp.$$ -w "%{http_code}" \
+    --max-time "$max_time_s" \
+    -X POST "$url" || echo "000")
+  body=$(cat /tmp/rescue_resp.$$ 2>/dev/null || true)
+  rm -f /tmp/rescue_resp.$$
+
+  case "$http_code" in
+    200|201)
+      elapsed=$(( $(date +%s) - started ))
+      echo "OK  (${elapsed}s total)"
+      echo "$body"
+      exit 0
+      ;;
+    503)
+      # Connection refused / timeout — device busy in another session.  Retry fast.
+      echo "busy (503)"
+      ;;
+    000)
+      echo "curl error (network)"
+      ;;
+    *)
+      echo "HTTP $http_code"
+      echo "  $body" | head -c 400
+      echo
+      ;;
+  esac
+  sleep "$sleep_s"
+done
+
+echo "rescue: gave up after ${max_attempts} attempts" >&2
+exit 1

scripts/slow_drip.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Hold a single TCP session open and drip stop-monitoring frames at a slow
+# rate, so the device's UART RX FIFO has time to drain between sends.
+#
+# Use when high-rate spam isn't landing — typically because the device's
+# firmware is too busy to drain its serial buffer fast enough and bytes
+# are being lost to UART overrun.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   ./slow_drip.sh <host> [tcp_port] [duration_s]
+#
+# Env:
+#   DURATION         Default: 120 (seconds; arg 3 overrides). Clamped 1..600.
+#   INTERVAL         Seconds between drip sends (default 3).  Lower = more
+#                    aggressive, more risk of FIFO overrun.  Higher = safer
+#                    but fewer total drips per duration.
+#   CONNECT_TIMEOUT  Default: 5
+#   SFM_BASE_URL     Default: http://localhost:8200 (SFM direct).
+
+set -u
+
+host="${1:-}"
+tcp_port="${2:-9034}"
+duration="${3:-${DURATION:-120}}"
+if [[ -z "$host" ]]; then
+  echo "usage: $0 <host> [tcp_port] [duration_s]" >&2
+  exit 2
+fi
+
+base="${SFM_BASE_URL:-http://localhost:8200}"
+interval="${INTERVAL:-3}"
+connect_timeout="${CONNECT_TIMEOUT:-5}"
+
+url="${base}/device/stop_monitoring_slow_drip?host=${host}&tcp_port=${tcp_port}&duration_s=${duration}&interval_s=${interval}&connect_timeout=${connect_timeout}"
+
+echo "slow_drip: target ${host}:${tcp_port}  duration=${duration}s  interval=${interval}s  connect_timeout=${connect_timeout}s"
+echo "slow_drip: POST ${url}"
+echo
+
+# Give curl enough slack to wait out the duration plus a buffer
+max_time=$(awk -v d="$duration" 'BEGIN { printf "%d", d + 30 }')
+
+curl -sS --max-time "$max_time" -X POST "$url"
+echo

scripts/spam_stop.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Hammer a device with blind stop-monitoring sessions as fast as possible.
+# Single HTTP call kicks off the burst inside SFM (no per-attempt HTTP
+# overhead).  Default: 10 seconds, ~500 ms per attempt = ~20 attempts/sec.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   ./spam_stop.sh <host> [tcp_port] [duration_s]
+#
+# Examples:
+#   ./spam_stop.sh 166.246.130.1                  # 10s burst
+#   ./spam_stop.sh 166.246.130.1 9034 30          # 30s burst
+#   DURATION=60 CONNECT_TIMEOUT=0.2 ./spam_stop.sh 166.246.130.1
+#
+# Env:
+#   SFM_BASE_URL     Default: http://localhost:8200 (SFM direct).
+#                    Set to http://localhost:8001/api/sfm to route through
+#                    Terra-View's proxy — but note the proxy has a 60s
+#                    timeout, so long bursts need direct mode.
+#   DURATION         Default: 10 (seconds; arg 3 overrides)
+#   CONNECT_TIMEOUT  Default: 0.5 (seconds)
+#   REPEAT           Default: 3   (stop frames per TCP session)
+
+set -u
+
+host="${1:-}"
+tcp_port="${2:-9034}"
+duration="${3:-${DURATION:-10}}"
+
+if [[ -z "$host" ]]; then
+  echo "usage: $0 <host> [tcp_port] [duration_s]" >&2
+  exit 2
+fi
+
+base="${SFM_BASE_URL:-http://localhost:8200}"
+connect_timeout="${CONNECT_TIMEOUT:-0.5}"
+repeat="${REPEAT:-3}"
+
+url="${base}/device/stop_monitoring_spam?host=${host}&tcp_port=${tcp_port}&duration_s=${duration}&connect_timeout=${connect_timeout}&repeat=${repeat}"
+
+echo "spam_stop: target ${host}:${tcp_port}  duration=${duration}s  connect_timeout=${connect_timeout}s  repeat=${repeat}"
+echo "spam_stop: POST ${url}"
+echo
+
+# Give curl enough slack to wait out the duration plus a buffer
+max_time=$(awk -v d="$duration" 'BEGIN { printf "%d", d + 10 }')
+
+curl -sS --max-time "$max_time" -X POST "$url"
+echo

scripts/watch_unit.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Passive monitor for a misbehaving unit.  Every INTERVAL seconds, attempts
+# a single short TCP probe + storage_range read and logs the result.  Designed
+# to run unattended for hours/days and tell you when the unit comes back.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   ./watch_unit.sh <host> [tcp_port]
+#
+# Env:
+#   INTERVAL    Seconds between checks (default 300 = 5 min)
+#   LOG_FILE    Append results here (default /tmp/watch_<host>.log)
+#   SFM_BASE_URL  Default: http://localhost:8200
+
+set -u
+
+host="${1:-}"
+tcp_port="${2:-9034}"
+if [[ -z "$host" ]]; then
+  echo "usage: $0 <host> [tcp_port]" >&2
+  exit 2
+fi
+
+interval="${INTERVAL:-300}"
+log_file="${LOG_FILE:-/tmp/watch_${host}.log}"
+base="${SFM_BASE_URL:-http://localhost:8200}"
+
+url="${base}/device/events/storage_range?host=${host}&tcp_port=${tcp_port}"
+
+echo "watch_unit: target ${host}:${tcp_port}  interval=${interval}s  log=${log_file}"
+echo "watch_unit: Ctrl-C to stop"
+
+while true; do
+  ts=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
+  http_code=$(curl -sS -o /tmp/watch_resp.$$ -w "%{http_code}" \
+    --max-time 20 "$url" || echo "000")
+  body=$(cat /tmp/watch_resp.$$ 2>/dev/null || true)
+  rm -f /tmp/watch_resp.$$
+
+  case "$http_code" in
+    200|201)
+      # Strip the raw_hex for readability
+      summary=$(echo "$body" | sed 's/"raw_hex":"[^"]*",*//; s/,*$//' | head -c 200)
+      echo "$ts  REACHABLE  $summary" | tee -a "$log_file"
+      ;;
+    502|503)
+      err=$(echo "$body" | head -c 150)
+      echo "$ts  ERROR_$http_code  $err" | tee -a "$log_file"
+      ;;
+    000)
+      echo "$ts  CURL_FAIL  (network/timeout)" | tee -a "$log_file"
+      ;;
+    *)
+      echo "$ts  HTTP_$http_code  $(echo "$body" | head -c 150)" | tee -a "$log_file"
+      ;;
+  esac
+
+  sleep "$interval"
+done

sfm/database.py

@@ -374,28 +374,64 @@ class SeismoDb:
                     inserted += 1
                 except sqlite3.IntegrityError:
                     skipped += 1
-                    # Upsert waveform fields onto the existing dedup row so a
-                    # re-download via the live endpoint refreshes filename /
-                    # size / sidecar without churning the rest of the row.
-                    if rec and ts:
-                        conn.execute(
-                            """
-                            UPDATE events
-                               SET blastware_filename = ?,
-                                   blastware_filesize = ?,
-                                   a5_pickle_filename = ?,
-                                   sidecar_filename   = ?
-                             WHERE serial = ? AND timestamp = ?
-                            """,
-                            (
-                                rec.get("filename"),
-                                rec.get("filesize"),
-                                rec.get("a5_pickle_filename"),
-                                rec.get("sidecar_filename"),
-                                serial,
-                                ts,
-                            ),
-                        )
+                    # UPSERT path: a row for this (serial, timestamp) already
+                    # exists.  Refresh every device-authoritative field from
+                    # the new data so that a re-import with better data (e.g.
+                    # a watcher re-forward where the previous attempt missed
+                    # the paired BW ASCII report) replaces stale peaks /
+                    # project info / sample_rate.
+                    #
+                    # Preserved (not in this UPDATE):
+                    #   id, waveform_key, session_id, created_at  — immutable / FK
+                    #   false_trigger                              — operator review state
+                    #
+                    # Behaviour change vs prior versions: this UPDATE used
+                    # to only refresh filename / filesize / a5_pickle /
+                    # sidecar fields.  As a result, the first insert's
+                    # broken-codec peak values were locked in forever even
+                    # if subsequent re-forwards arrived with correct
+                    # report-derived values.  Now every re-import lifts the
+                    # DB row up to whatever the latest Event carries.
+                    conn.execute(
+                        """
+                        UPDATE events
+                           SET tran_ppv           = ?,
+                               vert_ppv           = ?,
+                               long_ppv           = ?,
+                               peak_vector_sum    = ?,
+                               mic_ppv            = ?,
+                               project            = ?,
+                               client             = ?,
+                               operator           = ?,
+                               sensor_location    = ?,
+                               sample_rate        = ?,
+                               record_type        = ?,
+                               blastware_filename = ?,
+                               blastware_filesize = ?,
+                               a5_pickle_filename = ?,
+                               sidecar_filename   = ?
+                         WHERE serial = ? AND timestamp = ?
+                        """,
+                        (
+                            pv.tran            if pv else None,
+                            pv.vert            if pv else None,
+                            pv.long            if pv else None,
+                            pv.peak_vector_sum if pv else None,
+                            pv.micl            if pv else None,
+                            pi.project         if pi else None,
+                            pi.client          if pi else None,
+                            pi.operator        if pi else None,
+                            pi.sensor_location if pi else None,
+                            ev.sample_rate,
+                            ev.record_type,
+                            rec.get("filename")           if rec else None,
+                            rec.get("filesize")           if rec else None,
+                            rec.get("a5_pickle_filename") if rec else None,
+                            rec.get("sidecar_filename")   if rec else None,
+                            serial,
+                            ts,
+                        ),
+                    )
 
         log.debug("insert_events serial=%s inserted=%d skipped=%d",
                   serial, inserted, skipped)
@@ -455,6 +491,75 @@ class SeismoDb:
             )
         return cur.rowcount > 0
 
+    def delete_event(self, event_id: str) -> Optional[dict]:
+        """
+        Hard-delete one event row by id.  Returns the deleted row (so the
+        caller can clean up any on-disk files referenced by it) or None
+        if no row matched.
+        """
+        with self._connect() as conn:
+            row = conn.execute(
+                "SELECT * FROM events WHERE id = ?", (event_id,),
+            ).fetchone()
+            if row is None:
+                return None
+            conn.execute("DELETE FROM events WHERE id = ?", (event_id,))
+        return dict(row)
+
+    def delete_events_bulk(
+        self,
+        serial: Optional[str] = None,
+        from_dt: Optional[datetime.datetime] = None,
+        to_dt: Optional[datetime.datetime] = None,
+        false_trigger: Optional[bool] = None,
+        ids: Optional[list[str]] = None,
+    ) -> list[dict]:
+        """
+        Hard-delete events matching the given filters.  Returns the list
+        of deleted row dicts.  Refuses to delete with no filters at all
+        (would wipe the whole table) — raises ValueError.
+
+        Filter semantics match query_events: serial / from_dt / to_dt /
+        false_trigger combine with AND.  `ids` is an additional inclusion
+        list (event_id IN (...)); if supplied alongside other filters,
+        only rows matching all conditions are deleted.
+        """
+        clauses: list[str] = []
+        params:  list      = []
+
+        if serial:
+            clauses.append("serial = ?")
+            params.append(serial)
+        if from_dt:
+            clauses.append("timestamp >= ?")
+            params.append(from_dt.isoformat())
+        if to_dt:
+            clauses.append("timestamp <= ?")
+            params.append(to_dt.isoformat())
+        if false_trigger is not None:
+            clauses.append("false_trigger = ?")
+            params.append(1 if false_trigger else 0)
+        if ids:
+            placeholders = ",".join("?" * len(ids))
+            clauses.append(f"id IN ({placeholders})")
+            params.extend(ids)
+
+        if not clauses:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "delete_events_bulk refuses to delete with no filters "
+                "(would wipe the entire events table)"
+            )
+
+        where = "WHERE " + " AND ".join(clauses)
+
+        with self._connect() as conn:
+            rows = conn.execute(
+                f"SELECT * FROM events {where}", params,
+            ).fetchall()
+            if rows:
+                conn.execute(f"DELETE FROM events {where}", params)
+        return [dict(r) for r in rows]
+
     def update_event_review(self, event_id: str, review: dict) -> bool:
         """
         Sync derived index columns from a sidecar's `review` block.
@@ -564,21 +669,79 @@ class SeismoDb:
 
     def query_units(self) -> list[dict]:
         """
-        Return one row per known serial with summary stats:
-        last_seen, total_events, total_monitor_entries.
+        Return one row per known serial with summary stats.
+
+        Aggregates from BOTH source tables:
+          - `events`        — populated by every ingest path
+                              (live ACH, /db/import/blastware_file
+                              from the series3-watcher forwarder, etc.)
+          - `ach_sessions`  — only populated by the live ACH server;
+                              empty for events that came in via the
+                              BW-importer route.
+
+        Earlier this method only joined on `ach_sessions`, which made
+        watcher-forwarded units invisible to the SFM webapp's fleet
+        overview even though their events were correctly populated in
+        `events`.  Now we union the two and surface every serial that
+        has activity in either table.
+
+        Fields:
+          serial                — unit serial number (e.g. "BE11529")
+          last_seen             — most recent of MAX(events.timestamp)
+                                  and MAX(ach_sessions.session_time)
+          total_events          — COUNT(*) from `events` (the
+                                  authoritative count regardless of
+                                  ingest path)
+          total_monitor_entries — from `ach_sessions`, 0 when absent
+          total_sessions        — COUNT(*) from `ach_sessions`, 0 when absent
         """
         with self._connect() as conn:
-            rows = conn.execute(
-                """
-                SELECT
-                    s.serial,
-                    MAX(s.session_time)  AS last_seen,
-                    SUM(s.events_downloaded)  AS total_events,
-                    SUM(s.monitor_entries)    AS total_monitor_entries,
-                    COUNT(*)                  AS total_sessions
-                FROM ach_sessions s
-                GROUP BY s.serial
-                ORDER BY last_seen DESC
-                """
-            ).fetchall()
-        return [dict(r) for r in rows]
+            event_stats = {
+                row["serial"]: row
+                for row in conn.execute(
+                    """
+                    SELECT serial,
+                           MAX(timestamp) AS last_event_at,
+                           COUNT(*)        AS total_events
+                      FROM events
+                     GROUP BY serial
+                    """,
+                ).fetchall()
+            }
+            session_stats = {
+                row["serial"]: row
+                for row in conn.execute(
+                    """
+                    SELECT serial,
+                           MAX(session_time)         AS last_session_at,
+                           SUM(monitor_entries)      AS total_monitor_entries,
+                           COUNT(*)                  AS total_sessions
+                      FROM ach_sessions
+                     GROUP BY serial
+                    """,
+                ).fetchall()
+            }
+
+        all_serials = set(event_stats) | set(session_stats)
+        units = []
+        for serial in all_serials:
+            e = event_stats.get(serial)
+            s = session_stats.get(serial)
+            last_event_at   = e["last_event_at"]   if e else None
+            last_session_at = s["last_session_at"] if s else None
+            # Prefer whichever timestamp is more recent
+            last_seen = max(
+                (t for t in (last_event_at, last_session_at) if t),
+                default=None,
+            )
+            units.append({
+                "serial":                serial,
+                "last_seen":             last_seen,
+                "total_events":          e["total_events"]          if e else 0,
+                "total_monitor_entries": s["total_monitor_entries"] if s else 0,
+                "total_sessions":        s["total_sessions"]        if s else 0,
+            })
+
+        # Sort by last_seen desc; serials with no timestamp at all sink to the bottom.
+        units.sort(key=lambda u: u.get("last_seen") or "", reverse=True)
+        return units

sfm/idf_ascii_report.py

@@ -0,0 +1,291 @@
+"""
+sfm/idf_ascii_report.py — parse Thor (Micromate Series IV) IDF ASCII reports.
+
+Thor exports a `.IDFW.txt` or `.IDFH.txt` sidecar next to each `.IDFW`
+(waveform) or `.IDFH` (histogram) event binary.  Each sidecar is a
+plain-text file with `"Key : Value"` lines covering the full device-
+authoritative event metadata — PPV per channel, ZC Freq, Time of Peak,
+Peak Acceleration / Displacement, sensor self-check results, project
+strings, calibration date, battery level, etc. — followed by a raw
+waveform-samples block headed by the literal line "Waveform Data Channels".
+
+This is the Thor analogue of `minimateplus/bw_ascii_report.py` for the
+Blastware (Series III) report format.  The parser is intentionally
+permissive: we extract everything we recognise into a flat dict and
+silently ignore anything we don't.  Downstream callers parse units
+(`"0.2119 in/s"` → 0.2119) only on the fields they need.
+
+Example input (truncated):
+
+    "EventType : Full Waveform"
+    "SampleRate : 1024 sps"
+    "EventTime : 16:27:23"
+    "EventDate : 2023-12-19"
+    "TranPPV : 0.0251 in/s"
+    "VertPPV : 0.2119 in/s"
+    "LongPPV : 0.0282 in/s"
+    "PeakVectorSum : 0.2131 in/s"
+    "MicPSPL : 99.4 dB(L)"
+    "TranZCFreq : 6.5 Hz"
+    "SerialNumber : UM11719"
+    "Version : Micromate ISEE 11.0AK"
+    "FileName : UM11719_20231219162723.IDFW"
+    "BatteryLevel : 3.8 volts"
+    "Calibration : November 22, 2023 by Instantel"
+    "TranTestResults : Passed"
+    "TitleString1 : UPMC Presby-Loc 3-Level1-1R Elevator Rm"
+    Waveform Data Channels
+        Tran    Vert    Long    MicL
+        0.0003  -0.0003  0.0003  0.00013
+        ...
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import datetime
+import re
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Tuple, Union
+
+
+# Lines look like:  "Key : Value"   (quotes literal, single ":" separator)
+_LINE_RE = re.compile(r'^\s*"?([^":]+?)"?\s*:\s*"?(.*?)"?\s*$')
+
+# Marker that ends the metadata block — everything after is raw sample data.
+_WAVEFORM_BLOCK_MARKER = "waveform data channels"
+
+
+def _normalize_key(raw: str) -> str:
+    """Convert "TranPPV" / "PreTriggerLength" → snake_case."""
+    s = raw.strip()
+    # Insert underscore between lower→upper / digit→letter transitions
+    s = re.sub(r"(?<=[a-z0-9])(?=[A-Z])", "_", s)
+    s = re.sub(r"(?<=[A-Z])(?=[A-Z][a-z])", "_", s)
+    s = s.replace("-", "_").replace(" ", "_")
+    return s.lower()
+
+
+def _strip_unit_suffix(value: str) -> str:
+    """Return the numeric part of values like "0.2119 in/s" → "0.2119"."""
+    parts = value.strip().split()
+    return parts[0] if parts else value.strip()
+
+
+def _parse_float(value: str) -> Optional[float]:
+    try:
+        return float(_strip_unit_suffix(value))
+    except (ValueError, TypeError):
+        return None
+
+
+def _parse_int(value: str) -> Optional[int]:
+    try:
+        return int(float(_strip_unit_suffix(value)))
+    except (ValueError, TypeError):
+        return None
+
+
+def parse_idf_report(text: Union[str, bytes]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """
+    Parse a Thor IDFW.txt / IDFH.txt sidecar.
+
+    Returns a flat dict with two kinds of entries:
+
+      - **Raw fields** — every `Key : Value` line, keyed by snake_case
+        of the original key, value as a string (unit suffix preserved).
+        Lets callers grab any field we haven't explicitly normalised.
+
+      - **Derived fields** — a curated set with parsed types:
+          * `serial_number`     str
+          * `event_type`        str  ("Full Waveform" / "Full Histogram")
+          * `event_datetime`    ISO-8601 string ("YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS") when
+                                 both EventDate and EventTime are present
+          * `sample_rate`       int  (samples/sec)
+          * `tran_ppv`,`vert_ppv`,`long_ppv` float (in/s)
+          * `mic_ppv`           float (dB or psi — same units as MicPSPL)
+          * `peak_vector_sum`   float (in/s)
+          * `tran_zc_freq`,`vert_zc_freq`,`long_zc_freq` float (Hz)
+          * `record_time_sec`   float (seconds)
+          * `pre_trigger_sec`   float (seconds)
+          * `project`           str  (from TitleString1 — Thor's location)
+          * `client`            str  (TitleString2)
+          * `operator`          str  (TitleString3 — company/operator)
+          * `notes`             str  (TitleString4)
+          * `setup`             str
+          * `version`           str  (firmware)
+          * `battery_volts`     float
+          * `calibration_text`  str  (e.g. "November 22, 2023 by Instantel")
+          * `tran_test_passed`, `vert_test_passed`, `long_test_passed`,
+            `mic_test_passed`  bool  ("Passed" → True; anything else → False)
+          * `filename`          str  (FileName line — useful sanity check)
+
+    Stops parsing at the literal "Waveform Data Channels" line; the
+    raw-samples block is left to whoever wants to decode the binary.
+
+    Input may be `str` or `bytes` (`utf-8`/`latin-1` tolerant).
+    """
+    if isinstance(text, bytes):
+        try:
+            text = text.decode("utf-8")
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            text = text.decode("latin-1", errors="replace")
+
+    raw: Dict[str, str] = {}
+
+    for line in text.splitlines():
+        stripped = line.strip()
+        if not stripped:
+            continue
+        if stripped.lower().startswith(_WAVEFORM_BLOCK_MARKER):
+            break
+        m = _LINE_RE.match(stripped)
+        if not m:
+            continue
+        key = _normalize_key(m.group(1))
+        value = m.group(2).strip()
+        # Multi-value lines (Channel, Units, etc.) — coalesce by appending.
+        if key in raw:
+            raw[key] = raw[key] + "; " + value
+        else:
+            raw[key] = value
+
+    out: Dict[str, Any] = dict(raw)  # keep all raw fields
+
+    # ── Derived fields ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    def _take(*candidates: str) -> Optional[str]:
+        for c in candidates:
+            if c in raw:
+                return raw[c]
+        return None
+
+    # Event identity
+    if "serial_number" in raw:
+        out["serial_number"] = raw["serial_number"]
+    if "event_type" in raw:
+        out["event_type"] = raw["event_type"]
+    if "file_name" in raw:
+        out["filename"] = raw["file_name"]
+
+    # Combined date+time.  Waveform sidecars use "EventDate" / "EventTime";
+    # histogram sidecars use "HistogramStartDate" / "HistogramStartTime".
+    # Prefer the event_* names when both are present.
+    ed = raw.get("event_date") or raw.get("histogram_start_date")
+    et = raw.get("event_time") or raw.get("histogram_start_time")
+    if ed and et:
+        try:
+            dt = datetime.datetime.strptime(f"{ed} {et}", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
+            out["event_datetime"] = dt.isoformat()
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
+
+    # Numeric scalars
+    for key in ("sample_rate",):
+        v = raw.get(key)
+        if v is not None:
+            iv = _parse_int(v)
+            if iv is not None:
+                out[key] = iv
+
+    for key in ("tran_ppv", "vert_ppv", "long_ppv", "peak_vector_sum",
+                "tran_zc_freq", "vert_zc_freq", "long_zc_freq",
+                "tran_peak_acceleration", "vert_peak_acceleration",
+                "long_peak_acceleration",
+                "tran_peak_displacement", "vert_peak_displacement",
+                "long_peak_displacement",
+                "tran_time_of_peak", "vert_time_of_peak", "long_time_of_peak",
+                "mic_time_of_peak", "mic_zc_freq"):
+        v = raw.get(key)
+        if v is not None:
+            fv = _parse_float(v)
+            if fv is not None:
+                out[key] = fv
+
+    # Microphone — Thor reports MicPSPL (dB(L)) which is the closest
+    # analogue to BW's mic_ppv.  Stored as a float; units are in the
+    # original raw field (`mic_pspl` raw entry preserves "99.4 dB(L)").
+    mic = raw.get("mic_pspl")
+    if mic is not None:
+        fv = _parse_float(mic)
+        if fv is not None:
+            out["mic_ppv"] = fv
+
+    # Record / pre-trigger duration
+    rt = raw.get("record_time")
+    if rt is not None:
+        fv = _parse_float(rt)
+        if fv is not None:
+            out["record_time_sec"] = fv
+    pt = raw.get("pre_trigger_length")
+    if pt is not None:
+        fv = _parse_float(pt)
+        if fv is not None:
+            out["pre_trigger_sec"] = fv
+
+    # Project / client / operator / location strings.  Thor's title
+    # strings are operator-defined; conventional mapping (per Thor's
+    # default TitleNote labels in the example data):
+    #   TitleString1 = Location  → project (sensor location identifier)
+    #   TitleString2 = Client    → client
+    #   TitleString3 = Company   → operator (the monitoring company)
+    #   TitleString4 = Notes     → notes
+    out["project"]  = _take("title_string1")
+    out["client"]   = _take("title_string2")
+    out["operator"] = _take("title_string3", "operator")
+    out["notes"]    = _take("title_string4", "post_event_note")
+
+    if "setup" in raw:
+        out["setup"] = raw["setup"]
+    if "version" in raw:
+        out["version"] = raw["version"]
+
+    # Battery (e.g. "3.8 volts" → 3.8)
+    bl = raw.get("battery_level")
+    if bl is not None:
+        fv = _parse_float(bl)
+        if fv is not None:
+            out["battery_volts"] = fv
+
+    # Calibration line is free-form (e.g. "November 22, 2023 by Instantel").
+    if "calibration" in raw:
+        out["calibration_text"] = raw["calibration"]
+
+    # Sensor self-check results — bool flags
+    for key, out_key in (
+        ("tran_test_results", "tran_test_passed"),
+        ("vert_test_results", "vert_test_passed"),
+        ("long_test_results", "long_test_passed"),
+        ("mic_test_results",  "mic_test_passed"),
+    ):
+        v = raw.get(key)
+        if v is not None:
+            out[out_key] = v.strip().lower() == "passed"
+
+    return out
+
+
+def serial_from_filename(name: str) -> Optional[str]:
+    """Convenience: pull the serial prefix from a Thor event filename.
+
+    Thor uses the literal serial as the filename prefix:
+      UM11719_20231219163444.IDFW  →  "UM11719"
+      BE9439_20200713124251.IDFH   →  "BE9439"
+    """
+    m = re.match(r"^([A-Z]{2}\d+)_\d{14}\.(IDFH|IDFW)(?:\.txt)?$",
+                 name, re.IGNORECASE)
+    return m.group(1).upper() if m else None
+
+
+def parse_event_filename(name: str) -> Optional[Tuple[str, datetime.datetime, str]]:
+    """Parse `<SERIAL>_<YYYYMMDDHHMMSS>.<KIND>` → (serial, datetime, kind).
+
+    `kind` is "IDFH" or "IDFW" (upper-case).  Returns None on no match.
+    """
+    m = re.match(r"^([A-Z]{2}\d+)_(\d{14})\.(IDFH|IDFW)$",
+                 name, re.IGNORECASE)
+    if not m:
+        return None
+    try:
+        ts = datetime.datetime.strptime(m.group(2), "%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
+    except ValueError:
+        return None
+    return m.group(1).upper(), ts, m.group(3).upper()

sfm/waveform_store.py

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import logging
 import pickle
 import shutil
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Optional
+from typing import Optional, Union
 
 from minimateplus import event_file_io
 from minimateplus.blastware_file import blastware_filename, write_blastware_file
@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@ class WaveformStore:
         source_path: Path,
         *,
         serial_hint: Optional[str] = None,
+        bw_report_text: Optional[Union[str, bytes]] = None,
     ) -> tuple[Event, dict]:
         """
         Ingest a Blastware event file produced by an external tool
@@ -267,10 +268,17 @@ class WaveformStore:
         Workflow:
           1. Parse the bytes via event_file_io.read_blastware_file (writes
              a temp file to do that, since the parser takes a path).
-          2. Resolve serial from BW filename (`<P><serial3>...`) or use
+          2. Optionally parse a paired BW ASCII event report (the .TXT
+             file BW writes alongside the binary).  When supplied, its
+             decoded fields land in the sidecar's `bw_report` block AND
+             overlay the device-authoritative peak values into the
+             top-level `peak_values` block.  This is the right path for
+             the ACH-forwarder daemon use case where Blastware's own
+             ACH writes both files into the watch folder.
+          3. Resolve serial from BW filename (`<P><serial3>...`) or use
              serial_hint.  Falls back to "UNKNOWN".
-          3. Copy the BW bytes verbatim into <root>/<serial>/<filename>.
-          4. Write the .sfm.json sidecar with source.kind = "bw-import"
+          4. Copy the BW bytes verbatim into <root>/<serial>/<filename>.
+          5. Write the .sfm.json sidecar with source.kind = "bw-import"
              and a5_pickle_filename = None.  Does NOT write a .a5.pkl
              (no A5 source available; byte-for-byte regeneration not
              possible — the on-disk BW file IS the byte-for-byte source).
@@ -292,6 +300,47 @@ class WaveformStore:
             except FileNotFoundError:
                 pass
 
+        # read_blastware_file derives record_type from its path arg, but
+        # that arg is the tmp file (suffix ".bw") — so override with the
+        # original filename's encoded type (H/W/M/E/C in the BW AB0T
+        # scheme).  Without this override every BW-imported event lands
+        # in the DB with record_type="Waveform" regardless of the actual
+        # type (Histogram, Manual, etc.).
+        ev.record_type = event_file_io.derive_record_type_from_filename(
+            source_path.name
+        )
+
+        # Parse the BW ASCII report if one was supplied.  Failures here
+        # are non-fatal: we still write the binary + sidecar without the
+        # rich derived fields.
+        bw_report = None
+        if bw_report_text is not None:
+            try:
+                from minimateplus.bw_ascii_report import parse_report
+                bw_report = parse_report(bw_report_text)
+            except Exception as exc:
+                log.warning(
+                    "save_imported_bw: BW report parse failed: %s — continuing without it",
+                    exc,
+                )
+
+        # If we have a report, overlay its device-authoritative fields
+        # (peaks, project, sample_rate, record_time) onto the Event
+        # BEFORE handing it to db.insert_events().  Without this overlay
+        # the DB row gets `peak_values` from _peaks_from_samples(), which
+        # runs the still-undecoded waveform codec on the BW body and
+        # produces ±10 in/s saturation values on every channel for every
+        # event.  The sidecar JSON had the correct values via
+        # event_to_sidecar_dict(bw_report=...) but the DB columns didn't.
+        if bw_report is not None:
+            try:
+                event_file_io.apply_report_to_event(ev, bw_report)
+            except Exception as exc:
+                log.warning(
+                    "save_imported_bw: failed to overlay report onto event: %s",
+                    exc,
+                )
+
         # Resolve serial.  blastware_filename derives a 4-char prefix from
         # the numeric serial (e.g. BE11529 → M529); we go the other way
         # via the source filename if a hint wasn't given.
@@ -345,6 +394,7 @@ class WaveformStore:
             source_kind="bw-import",
             a5_pickle_filename=None,
             review=existing_review,
+            bw_report=bw_report,
         )
         event_file_io.write_sidecar(sidecar_path, sidecar)
 
@@ -360,6 +410,180 @@ class WaveformStore:
             "a5_pickle_filename": None,
             "hdf5_filename":      hdf5_filename,
             "sidecar_filename":   sidecar_path.name,
+            "serial":             serial,
+        }
+
+    def save_imported_idf(
+        self,
+        idf_bytes: bytes,
+        source_path: Path,
+        *,
+        serial_hint: Optional[str] = None,
+        idf_report_text: Optional[Union[str, bytes]] = None,
+    ) -> tuple[Optional["Event"], dict]:
+        """
+        Ingest a Thor (Micromate Series IV) IDF event file (`.IDFW` or
+        `.IDFH`) produced by Thor's TXT exporter.
+
+        Thor binaries are stored as opaque bytes — seismo-relay doesn't
+        decode the proprietary IDF binary format.  Device-authoritative
+        metadata comes from the paired `.IDFW.txt` / `.IDFH.txt` sidecar
+        when supplied; we parse that text and surface its fields onto
+        the returned Event so the SFM database row has real PPV/project
+        values instead of NULLs.
+
+        Workflow:
+          1. Parse the paired TXT report (when supplied) via
+             `sfm.idf_ascii_report.parse_idf_report`.
+          2. Build a minimal `Event` populated from the report fields
+             (timestamp, peaks, project info, sample_rate, record_type).
+          3. Resolve serial from filename prefix or `serial_hint`.
+          4. Copy bytes verbatim into <root>/<serial>/<filename>.
+          5. Write the `.sfm.json` sidecar with source.kind = "idf-import".
+
+        Returns (event, record_dict) so the endpoint can both insert
+        into SeismoDb and surface the parsed event.
+        """
+        from sfm.idf_ascii_report import (
+            parse_idf_report,
+            parse_event_filename,
+            serial_from_filename as _idf_serial_from_filename,
+        )
+        from minimateplus.models import (
+            Event, PeakValues, ProjectInfo, Timestamp,
+        )
+
+        # Parse the .txt sidecar (best-effort; non-fatal on failure).
+        report: dict = {}
+        if idf_report_text is not None:
+            try:
+                report = parse_idf_report(idf_report_text)
+            except Exception as exc:
+                log.warning(
+                    "save_imported_idf: report parse failed: %s — continuing without it",
+                    exc,
+                )
+
+        # Resolve serial: prefer the explicit hint, fall back to filename prefix.
+        serial = (
+            serial_hint
+            or report.get("serial_number")
+            or _idf_serial_from_filename(source_path.name)
+            or "UNKNOWN"
+        )
+
+        # Resolve event timestamp + kind from the filename (always present).
+        parsed_name = parse_event_filename(source_path.name)
+        kind = "Waveform"
+        ts_dt: Optional[datetime.datetime] = None
+        if parsed_name is not None:
+            _, ts_dt, kind_token = parsed_name
+            kind = "Histogram" if kind_token == "IDFH" else "Waveform"
+        # Report's event_datetime is the device-authoritative value; prefer it.
+        if "event_datetime" in report:
+            try:
+                ts_dt = datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(report["event_datetime"])
+            except (TypeError, ValueError):
+                pass
+
+        ts_obj: Optional[Timestamp] = None
+        if ts_dt is not None:
+            ts_obj = Timestamp(
+                raw=bytes(9),
+                flag=0,
+                year=ts_dt.year,
+                unknown_byte=0,
+                month=ts_dt.month,
+                day=ts_dt.day,
+                hour=ts_dt.hour,
+                minute=ts_dt.minute,
+                second=ts_dt.second,
+            )
+
+        # Build PeakValues from the report (fields are None when absent).
+        pv = PeakValues(
+            tran=report.get("tran_ppv"),
+            vert=report.get("vert_ppv"),
+            long=report.get("long_ppv"),
+            micl=report.get("mic_ppv"),
+            peak_vector_sum=report.get("peak_vector_sum"),
+        )
+
+        # Build ProjectInfo.  See idf_ascii_report — Thor's title strings
+        # carry project / client / company / notes in TitleString1..4.
+        pi = ProjectInfo(
+            setup_name=report.get("setup"),
+            project=report.get("project"),
+            client=report.get("client"),
+            operator=report.get("operator"),
+            sensor_location=None,  # Thor folds location into TitleString1 = project
+            notes=report.get("notes"),
+        )
+
+        # Filesystem write.
+        filename = source_path.name
+        bw_path = self._serial_dir(serial) / filename
+        bw_path.write_bytes(idf_bytes)
+        filesize = bw_path.stat().st_size
+        sha256   = event_file_io.file_sha256(bw_path)
+
+        # _waveform_key dedups (serial, timestamp) rows in the events
+        # table.  Use the binary's sha256 (first 16 bytes) as a stable
+        # surrogate — every distinct binary maps to a distinct row.
+        waveform_key = bytes.fromhex(sha256)[:16]
+
+        ev = Event(
+            index=0,
+            timestamp=ts_obj,
+            sample_rate=report.get("sample_rate"),
+            peak_values=pv,
+            project_info=pi,
+            record_type=kind,
+            rectime_seconds=report.get("record_time_sec"),
+        )
+        ev._waveform_key = waveform_key
+
+        # Write the sidecar.  Source kind "idf-import" was added to the
+        # allow-list in event_file_io.event_to_sidecar_dict for this.
+        sidecar_path = self.sidecar_path_for(serial, filename)
+        existing_review = None
+        if sidecar_path.exists():
+            try:
+                existing_review = event_file_io.read_sidecar(sidecar_path).get("review")
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+
+        sidecar = event_file_io.event_to_sidecar_dict(
+            ev,
+            serial=serial,
+            blastware_filename=filename,
+            blastware_filesize=filesize,
+            blastware_sha256=sha256,
+            source_kind="idf-import",
+            a5_pickle_filename=None,
+            review=existing_review,
+        )
+        # Stash the full parsed IDF report under extensions so downstream
+        # consumers can recover the rich derived fields that don't fit
+        # the BW-shaped event model (Peak Acceleration / Displacement,
+        # Time of Peak, sensor self-check, calibration, firmware).
+        if report:
+            sidecar["extensions"]["idf_report"] = report
+        event_file_io.write_sidecar(sidecar_path, sidecar)
+
+        log.info(
+            "WaveformStore.save_imported_idf serial=%s filename=%s filesize=%d "
+            "report_attached=%s",
+            serial, filename, filesize, bool(report),
+        )
+        return ev, {
+            "filename":           filename,
+            "filesize":           filesize,
+            "sha256":             sha256,
+            "a5_pickle_filename": None,
+            "hdf5_filename":      None,
+            "sidecar_filename":   sidecar_path.name,
+            "serial":             serial,
         }
 
     def load_a5(self, serial: str, filename: str) -> Optional[list[S3Frame]]:

tests/test_bw_ascii_report.py

@@ -0,0 +1,407 @@
+"""
+test_bw_ascii_report.py — parser for Blastware's per-event ASCII export.
+
+Run:
+    python -m pytest tests/test_bw_ascii_report.py -q
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import datetime
+import os
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
+
+from minimateplus.bw_ascii_report import (
+    BwAsciiReport,
+    parse_report,
+    parse_report_file,
+)
+
+
+FIXTURES = Path(__file__).parent.parent / "decode-re" / "5-8-26"
+
+
+def _fixture(event_name: str) -> Path:
+    """Find the .TXT file inside a fixture event folder."""
+    for p in (FIXTURES / event_name).iterdir():
+        if p.suffix.lower() == ".txt":
+            return p
+    raise FileNotFoundError(f"no .TXT in {FIXTURES / event_name}")
+
+
+# ── Identity / config ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def test_event_c_identity_and_config():
+    r = parse_report_file(_fixture("event-c"))
+
+    assert r.event_type == "Full Waveform"
+    assert r.serial == "BE11529"
+    assert r.file_name == "M529LK44.AB0"
+    assert r.event_datetime == datetime.datetime(2026, 4, 23, 15, 56, 35)
+
+    assert r.trigger_channel == "Vert"
+    assert r.geo_trigger_level_ips == pytest.approx(0.5)
+    assert r.pretrig_s == pytest.approx(-0.25)
+    assert r.record_time_s == pytest.approx(1.0)
+    assert r.record_stop_mode == "Fixed"
+    assert r.sample_rate_sps == 1024
+    assert r.battery_volts == pytest.approx(6.8)
+    assert r.calibration_date == datetime.date(2025, 4, 29)
+    assert r.calibration_by == "Instantel"
+    assert r.units == "in/s and dB(L)"
+
+
+def test_event_c_operator_metadata():
+    r = parse_report_file(_fixture("event-c"))
+
+    # The "Project: : value" pattern (key has its own trailing colon)
+    # is handled by stripping the colon at lookup time.
+    assert r.project == "Test4-21-26"
+    assert r.client == "Test-Client1"
+    assert r.operator == "Brian and claude"
+    assert r.sensor_location == "catbed"
+
+
+def test_event_c_geo_range():
+    r = parse_report_file(_fixture("event-c"))
+    assert r.geo_range_ips == pytest.approx(10.0)
+
+
+# ── Per-channel derived stats ───────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def test_event_c_per_channel_stats():
+    r = parse_report_file(_fixture("event-c"))
+
+    tran = r.channels["Tran"]
+    assert tran.ppv_ips         == pytest.approx(0.065)
+    assert tran.zc_freq_hz      == pytest.approx(47.0)
+    assert tran.time_of_peak_s  == pytest.approx(0.007)
+    assert tran.peak_accel_g    == pytest.approx(0.066)
+    assert tran.peak_disp_in    == pytest.approx(0.001)
+
+    vert = r.channels["Vert"]
+    assert vert.ppv_ips         == pytest.approx(0.610)
+    assert vert.zc_freq_hz      == pytest.approx(16.0)
+    assert vert.time_of_peak_s  == pytest.approx(0.024)
+    assert vert.peak_accel_g    == pytest.approx(0.437)
+    assert vert.peak_disp_in    == pytest.approx(0.006)
+
+    long_ = r.channels["Long"]
+    assert long_.ppv_ips        == pytest.approx(0.070)
+    assert long_.zc_freq_hz     == pytest.approx(22.0)
+    assert long_.time_of_peak_s == pytest.approx(0.019)
+    assert long_.peak_accel_g   == pytest.approx(0.040)
+    assert long_.peak_disp_in   == pytest.approx(0.001)
+
+
+def test_event_c_micl_stats():
+    r = parse_report_file(_fixture("event-c"))
+
+    # MicL specific block
+    assert r.mic.weighting       == "Linear Weighting"
+    assert r.mic.pspl_dbl        == pytest.approx(88.0)
+    assert r.mic.zc_freq_hz      == pytest.approx(57.0)
+    assert r.mic.time_of_peak_s  == pytest.approx(-0.004)
+
+    # Mirrored onto channels["MicL"] for uniform per-channel access
+    micl_ch = r.channels["MicL"]
+    assert micl_ch.zc_freq_hz     == pytest.approx(57.0)
+    assert micl_ch.time_of_peak_s == pytest.approx(-0.004)
+
+
+def test_event_c_vector_sum():
+    r = parse_report_file(_fixture("event-c"))
+    assert r.peak_vector_sum_ips    == pytest.approx(0.612)
+    assert r.peak_vector_sum_time_s == pytest.approx(0.024)
+
+
+# ── Sensor self-check ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def test_event_c_sensor_check_geo_channels():
+    r = parse_report_file(_fixture("event-c"))
+
+    for ch_name, expected_freq, expected_ratio in [
+        ("Tran", 7.4, 3.7),
+        ("Vert", 7.6, 3.5),
+        ("Long", 7.5, 3.8),
+    ]:
+        sc = r.sensor_check[ch_name]
+        assert sc.test_freq_hz   == pytest.approx(expected_freq), ch_name
+        assert sc.test_ratio     == pytest.approx(expected_ratio), ch_name
+        assert sc.test_results   == "Passed", ch_name
+        # Geo channels don't have an Test Amplitude
+        assert sc.test_amplitude_mv is None
+
+
+def test_event_c_sensor_check_micl():
+    r = parse_report_file(_fixture("event-c"))
+
+    sc = r.sensor_check["MicL"]
+    assert sc.test_freq_hz       == pytest.approx(20.1)
+    assert sc.test_amplitude_mv  == pytest.approx(533.0)
+    assert sc.test_results       == "Passed"
+    # MicL doesn't have a ratio — it has amplitude instead
+    assert sc.test_ratio is None
+
+
+# ── Monitor log + tooling ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def test_event_c_monitor_log_and_pc_version():
+    r = parse_report_file(_fixture("event-c"))
+
+    assert len(r.monitor_log) == 1
+    e = r.monitor_log[0]
+    assert e.start_time == datetime.datetime(2026, 4, 23, 15, 46, 16)
+    assert e.stop_time  == datetime.datetime(2026, 4, 23, 15, 56, 36)
+    assert e.description == "Event recorded."
+
+    assert r.pc_sw_version == "V 10.74"
+
+
+# ── Sample table ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def test_event_c_sample_table_parsed_when_requested():
+    r = parse_report_file(_fixture("event-c"), parse_samples=True)
+
+    # 1 sec event @ 1024 sps + 0.25 sec pretrig = 1280 samples
+    assert r.samples is not None
+    assert len(r.samples) == 1280, f"expected 1280 samples, got {len(r.samples)}"
+
+    # First row: "0.000     \t0.005     \t0.005     \t-81.94"
+    t, v, l, m = r.samples[0]
+    assert t == pytest.approx(0.000)
+    assert v == pytest.approx(0.005)
+    assert l == pytest.approx(0.005)
+    assert m == pytest.approx(-81.94)
+
+
+def test_event_c_sample_table_skipped_by_default():
+    r = parse_report_file(_fixture("event-c"))
+    assert r.samples is None
+
+
+# ── Cross-event smoke ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("event_name", ["event-a", "event-b", "event-c", "event-d"])
+def test_all_fixtures_parse_without_error(event_name):
+    """Every fixture in the bundle must parse cleanly with the same parser."""
+    r = parse_report_file(_fixture(event_name))
+
+    # Common invariants: serial, event_datetime, sample rate, all four
+    # channels surfaced.
+    assert r.serial == "BE11529"
+    assert r.event_datetime is not None
+    assert r.sample_rate_sps in (1024, 2048, 4096)
+    for ch in ("Tran", "Vert", "Long", "MicL"):
+        assert ch in r.channels
+        assert ch in r.sensor_check
+
+    # PVS should be present and positive on triggered events
+    if r.peak_vector_sum_ips is not None:
+        assert r.peak_vector_sum_ips >= 0
+
+
+# ── Edge cases / defensive parsing ──────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def test_parse_empty_input():
+    r = parse_report("")
+    assert r.serial is None
+    assert r.event_datetime is None
+    assert all(cs.ppv_ips is None for cs in r.channels.values())
+
+
+def test_parse_unknown_keys_ignored():
+    """Forward-compat: future BW versions may add fields we don't recognise.
+    Those should be silently dropped, not raise."""
+    text = (
+        '"Serial Number : BE99999"\n'
+        '"Future Field That Does Not Exist : 42 widgets"\n'
+        '"Tran PPV : 0.123 in/s"\n'
+    )
+    r = parse_report(text)
+    assert r.serial == "BE99999"
+    assert r.channels["Tran"].ppv_ips == pytest.approx(0.123)
+
+
+def test_parse_numeric_with_units_strips_unit():
+    text = (
+        '"Vert PPV : 1.275 in/s"\n'
+        '"Vert ZC Freq : 23 Hz"\n'
+        '"MicL  Test Amplitude : 569 mv"\n'
+    )
+    r = parse_report(text)
+    assert r.channels["Vert"].ppv_ips    == pytest.approx(1.275)
+    assert r.channels["Vert"].zc_freq_hz == pytest.approx(23.0)
+    assert r.sensor_check["MicL"].test_amplitude_mv == pytest.approx(569.0)
+
+
+def test_parse_handles_micl_double_space_in_key():
+    """BW writes "MicL  Time of Peak" with TWO spaces; the parser must
+    normalise whitespace before key lookup."""
+    text = (
+        '"MicL  Time of Peak : 0.012 sec"\n'
+        '"MicL  ZC Freq : 51 Hz"\n'
+    )
+    r = parse_report(text)
+    assert r.mic.time_of_peak_s == pytest.approx(0.012)
+    assert r.mic.zc_freq_hz     == pytest.approx(51.0)
+
+
+# ── Position-based user-notes parsing ───────────────────────────────────────
+#
+# The 4 user-supplied note slots (Project / Client / User Name / Seis Loc
+# by default) have OPERATOR-EDITABLE labels in BW's Compliance Setup →
+# Notes tab.  An operator could rename them to "Building:", "Site:",
+# "Address:", etc. and the ASCII export would write those labels
+# verbatim.  We parse by POSITION between the `Units :` and `Geo Range :`
+# anchors, NOT by matching the label text.
+
+
+def _wrap_user_notes(*lines: str) -> str:
+    """Helper: wrap N user-note lines in the minimal context the parser
+    needs (`Units :` opens the block, `Geo Range :` closes it)."""
+    body = ['"Units : in/s and dB(L)"']
+    body.extend('"' + l + '"' for l in lines)
+    body.append('"Geo Range : 10.000 in/s"')
+    return "\n".join(body) + "\n"
+
+
+def test_user_notes_default_labels_populate_by_position():
+    """The BW-default labels (Project / Client / User Name / Seis Loc)
+    populate the four canonical slots in order."""
+    r = parse_report(_wrap_user_notes(
+        "Project: : Test4-21-26",
+        "Client: : Acme Inc",
+        "User Name: : Brian",
+        "Seis Loc: : Catbed",
+    ))
+    assert r.project          == "Test4-21-26"
+    assert r.client           == "Acme Inc"
+    assert r.operator         == "Brian"
+    assert r.sensor_location  == "Catbed"
+    assert r.user_note_labels == {
+        "project":         "Project:",
+        "client":          "Client:",
+        "operator":        "User Name:",
+        "sensor_location": "Seis Loc:",
+    }
+
+
+def test_user_notes_operator_renamed_labels_still_populate():
+    """If the operator renames the labels in BW's UI (e.g. "Seis Loc:"
+    → "Building:"), the values STILL populate the canonical slots by
+    position — and the operator's labels are preserved in
+    `user_note_labels` for terra-view to display."""
+    r = parse_report(_wrap_user_notes(
+        "Building : Main Office",
+        "Project Manager : Brian",
+        "Inspector : Claude",
+        "Site Address : 123 Main St",
+    ))
+    assert r.project         == "Main Office"
+    assert r.client          == "Brian"
+    assert r.operator        == "Claude"
+    assert r.sensor_location == "123 Main St"
+    assert r.user_note_labels == {
+        "project":         "Building",
+        "client":          "Project Manager",
+        "operator":        "Inspector",
+        "sensor_location": "Site Address",
+    }
+
+
+def test_user_notes_with_histogram_label_spelling():
+    """Histogram exports use 'Seis. Location:' (with period and colon)
+    instead of 'Seis Loc:'.  Position-based parsing handles both."""
+    r = parse_report(_wrap_user_notes(
+        "Project: : Plum Cont.- Rainbow Run",
+        "Client: : Plum Contracting In.c",
+        "User Name: : Terra-Mechanics Inc.",
+        "Seis. Location: : Loc #1 - 2652 Hepner",
+    ))
+    assert r.project == "Plum Cont.- Rainbow Run"
+    assert r.client == "Plum Contracting In.c"
+    assert r.operator == "Terra-Mechanics Inc."
+    assert r.sensor_location == "Loc #1 - 2652 Hepner"
+    # And the histogram's specific label spelling is preserved
+    assert r.user_note_labels["sensor_location"] == "Seis. Location:"
+
+
+def test_user_notes_outside_block_are_ignored():
+    """Lines that look like user-notes but appear OUTSIDE the
+    Units→Geo Range range don't get assigned to user-note slots."""
+    # No Units anchor — these lines shouldn't populate user-note slots
+    text = (
+        '"Serial Number : BE11529"\n'
+        '"Project: : SHOULD NOT POPULATE"\n'
+    )
+    r = parse_report(text)
+    assert r.serial == "BE11529"
+    assert r.project is None
+
+
+def test_user_notes_partial_block_only_fills_present_slots():
+    """If BW writes fewer than 4 user-notes (e.g. operator disabled
+    Extended Notes mid-block), only the present positions populate;
+    later slots stay None."""
+    r = parse_report(_wrap_user_notes(
+        "Project: : Just-a-project",
+        "Client: : Just-a-client",
+    ))
+    assert r.project == "Just-a-project"
+    assert r.client  == "Just-a-client"
+    assert r.operator is None
+    assert r.sensor_location is None
+
+
+def test_user_notes_extra_lines_beyond_four_are_dropped():
+    """If somehow more than 4 lines appear in the user-notes block
+    (e.g. BW adds an Extended Notes line), only the first 4 are
+    captured — slots 5+ have nowhere to go."""
+    r = parse_report(_wrap_user_notes(
+        "L1 : v1",
+        "L2 : v2",
+        "L3 : v3",
+        "L4 : v4",
+        "L5 : v5",   # ignored — no fifth slot
+    ))
+    assert r.project         == "v1"
+    assert r.client          == "v2"
+    assert r.operator        == "v3"
+    assert r.sensor_location == "v4"
+    # 5th label not captured
+    assert "L5" not in r.user_note_labels.values()
+
+
+def test_real_histogram_fixture_populates_sensor_location():
+    """End-to-end: the histogram fixture uses 'Seis. Location:' — must
+    successfully populate sensor_location via position-based parsing."""
+    fixture_dir = (
+        Path(__file__).parent.parent / "example-events" / "histogram"
+    )
+    if not fixture_dir.exists():
+        pytest.skip("histogram fixtures not present")
+    txt = next(fixture_dir.glob("*_ASCII.TXT"), None)
+    if txt is None:
+        pytest.skip("no histogram TXT in fixture dir")
+
+    r = parse_report_file(txt)
+    assert r.sensor_location is not None
+    assert len(r.sensor_location) > 0
+    assert r.user_note_labels.get("sensor_location") is not None
+    # Sanity: other shared fields still parse correctly
+    assert r.serial is not None
+    assert r.serial.startswith("BE")
+    assert r.geo_range_ips is not None

tests/test_event_file_io.py

@@ -294,6 +294,114 @@ def test_read_blastware_file_round_trip(tmp_path: Path):
     assert parsed.peak_values.peak_vector_sum == 0.0
 
 
+def test_save_imported_bw_with_paired_report(tmp_path: Path):
+    """save_imported_bw + a paired BW ASCII report fold the report's
+    rich derived fields into the sidecar.  This is the daemon-forwarded
+    ACH workflow: BW writes <event>.AB0 and <event>.AB0.TXT side by side;
+    the daemon ships both; we overlay the report-decoded values onto the
+    sidecar (peaks, project, plus the rich `bw_report` block)."""
+    from minimateplus.blastware_file import write_blastware_file, blastware_filename
+    from sfm.waveform_store import WaveformStore
+
+    ev, frames = _make_synthetic_event()
+    fname = blastware_filename(ev, "BE11529")
+    src = tmp_path / fname
+    write_blastware_file(ev, frames, src)
+
+    # Use one of the real BW ASCII exports as the paired report.
+    report_path = (
+        Path(__file__).parent.parent
+        / "decode-re" / "5-8-26" / "event-c" / "M529LK44.AB0.TXT"
+    )
+    if not report_path.exists():
+        import pytest as _pt
+        _pt.skip("decode-re fixtures not present")
+    report_bytes = report_path.read_bytes()
+
+    store = WaveformStore(tmp_path / "waveforms")
+    parsed_ev, rec = store.save_imported_bw(
+        src.read_bytes(),
+        source_path=src,
+        bw_report_text=report_bytes,
+    )
+
+    sc = store.load_sidecar("BE11529", fname)
+    assert sc is not None
+
+    # ── bw_report block populated with the rich fields ──────────────────
+    assert "bw_report" in sc
+    br = sc["bw_report"]
+    assert br["available"] is True
+    assert br["event_type"] == "Full Waveform"
+    assert br["recording"]["sample_rate_sps"] == 1024
+    assert br["recording"]["geo_range_ips"]   == 10.0
+
+    # Per-channel derived stats
+    assert br["peaks"]["tran"]["ppv_ips"]        == 0.065
+    assert br["peaks"]["vert"]["ppv_ips"]        == 0.610
+    assert br["peaks"]["long"]["ppv_ips"]        == 0.070
+    assert br["peaks"]["vert"]["peak_accel_g"]   == 0.437
+    assert br["peaks"]["vert"]["peak_disp_in"]   == 0.006
+    assert br["peaks"]["tran"]["zc_freq_hz"]     == 47.0
+    assert br["peaks"]["vector_sum"]["ips"]      == 0.612
+    assert br["peaks"]["vector_sum"]["time_s"]   == 0.024
+
+    # Sensor self-check per channel
+    assert br["sensor_check"]["tran"]["freq_hz"]  == 7.4
+    assert br["sensor_check"]["tran"]["ratio"]    == 3.7
+    assert br["sensor_check"]["tran"]["result"]   == "Passed"
+    assert br["sensor_check"]["mic"]["amplitude_mv"] == 533.0
+
+    # Mic block
+    assert br["mic"]["weighting"]    == "Linear Weighting"
+    assert br["mic"]["pspl_dbl"]     == 88.0
+
+    # Monitor log roundtripped
+    assert len(br["monitor_log"]) == 1
+    assert "2026-04-23T15:46:16" in br["monitor_log"][0]["start"]
+    assert br["pc_sw_version"] == "V 10.74"
+
+    # ── Overlay onto canonical peak_values ──────────────────────────────
+    # Report values win over the broken-codec samples-derived peaks.
+    assert sc["peak_values"]["transverse"]   == 0.065
+    assert sc["peak_values"]["vertical"]     == 0.610
+    assert sc["peak_values"]["longitudinal"] == 0.070
+    assert sc["peak_values"]["vector_sum"]   == 0.612
+    # Mic PSPL converted to psi (dbl=88 → 10^(88/20) * 2.9e-9)
+    assert sc["peak_values"]["mic_psi"] is not None
+    assert 1e-5 < sc["peak_values"]["mic_psi"] < 1e-3
+
+    # ── Overlay onto project_info ───────────────────────────────────────
+    assert sc["project_info"]["project"]         == "Test4-21-26"
+    assert sc["project_info"]["client"]          == "Test-Client1"
+    assert sc["project_info"]["operator"]        == "Brian and claude"
+    assert sc["project_info"]["sensor_location"] == "catbed"
+
+    # ── Event timestamp overlaid from report ───────────────────────────
+    assert sc["event"]["timestamp"] == "2026-04-23T15:56:35"
+
+
+def test_save_imported_bw_without_report_works_unchanged(tmp_path: Path):
+    """Calling save_imported_bw with no bw_report_text behaves exactly
+    as before — no `bw_report` block, peak_values come from samples."""
+    from minimateplus.blastware_file import write_blastware_file, blastware_filename
+    from sfm.waveform_store import WaveformStore
+
+    ev, frames = _make_synthetic_event()
+    fname = blastware_filename(ev, "BE11529")
+    src = tmp_path / fname
+    write_blastware_file(ev, frames, src)
+
+    store = WaveformStore(tmp_path / "waveforms")
+    store.save_imported_bw(src.read_bytes(), source_path=src)
+
+    sc = store.load_sidecar("BE11529", fname)
+    assert sc is not None
+    assert "bw_report" not in sc          # block is absent without a report
+    # Synthetic event has zero samples → peaks all zero (was true before this change)
+    assert sc["peak_values"]["transverse"] == 0.0
+
+
 def test_save_imported_bw_round_trip(tmp_path: Path):
     """save_imported_bw stores a copy + sidecar with source.kind = bw-import."""
     from minimateplus.blastware_file import write_blastware_file, blastware_filename
@@ -310,6 +418,10 @@ def test_save_imported_bw_round_trip(tmp_path: Path):
 
     assert rec["filename"] == fname
     assert rec["a5_pickle_filename"] is None  # no A5 source for BW imports
+    # The serial decoded from the BW filename surfaces on the record so
+    # the import endpoint can use it when calling SeismoDb.insert_events()
+    # (otherwise forwarded events would all bucket into serial="UNKNOWN").
+    assert rec["serial"] == "BE11529"
     sc = store.load_sidecar("BE11529", fname)
     assert sc is not None
     assert sc["source"]["kind"] == "bw-import"

tests/test_idf_ascii_report.py

@@ -0,0 +1,234 @@
+"""
+test_idf_ascii_report.py — parser for Thor's per-event IDF ASCII export.
+
+Run:
+    python -m pytest tests/test_idf_ascii_report.py -q
+
+Tests use real Thor sample data shipped under
+`thor-watcher/example-data/THORDATA_example/`.  When that path is not
+available (e.g. running from a checkout where the watcher repo isn't
+sibling), tests gracefully skip.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import datetime
+import os
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
+
+from sfm.idf_ascii_report import (
+    parse_event_filename,
+    parse_idf_report,
+    serial_from_filename,
+)
+
+
+# ── Sample data ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+SAMPLE_REPO = Path("/home/serversdown/thor-watcher/example-data/"
+                   "THORDATA_example/THORDATA_example")
+
+
+def _sample_path(rel: str) -> Path:
+    return SAMPLE_REPO / rel
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def upmc_waveform_txt() -> str:
+    p = _sample_path("UPMC Presby/UM11719/TXT/UM11719_20231219162723.IDFW.txt")
+    if not p.exists():
+        pytest.skip(f"sample missing: {p}")
+    return p.read_text()
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def upmc_histogram_txt() -> str:
+    p = _sample_path("UPMC Presby/UM11719/TXT/UM11719_20231219163444.IDFH.txt")
+    if not p.exists():
+        pytest.skip(f"sample missing: {p}")
+    return p.read_text()
+
+
+# ── Filename parsing ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def test_parse_event_filename_waveform():
+    parsed = parse_event_filename("UM11719_20231219163444.IDFW")
+    assert parsed is not None
+    serial, ts, kind = parsed
+    assert serial == "UM11719"
+    assert ts == datetime.datetime(2023, 12, 19, 16, 34, 44)
+    assert kind == "IDFW"
+
+
+def test_parse_event_filename_histogram():
+    parsed = parse_event_filename("BE9439_20200713124251.IDFH")
+    assert parsed is not None
+    serial, ts, kind = parsed
+    assert serial == "BE9439"
+    assert kind == "IDFH"
+
+
+def test_parse_event_filename_case_insensitive():
+    parsed = parse_event_filename("um11719_20231219163444.idfw")
+    assert parsed is not None
+    assert parsed[0] == "UM11719"
+    assert parsed[2] == "IDFW"
+
+
+def test_parse_event_filename_rejects_invalid():
+    for name in [
+        "UM11719_20231219163444.MLG",
+        "UM11719.IDFW",
+        "UM11719_20231219163444.IDFW.txt",  # report sidecar — not a binary
+        "UM11719_2023121916344X.IDFW",
+        "garbage",
+        "",
+    ]:
+        assert parse_event_filename(name) is None, name
+
+
+def test_serial_from_filename():
+    assert serial_from_filename("UM11719_20231219163444.IDFW") == "UM11719"
+    assert serial_from_filename("BE9439_20200713124251.IDFH") == "BE9439"
+    # Works on the .txt sidecar name too — handy in pairing code paths
+    assert serial_from_filename("UM11719_20231219163444.IDFW.txt") == "UM11719"
+    assert serial_from_filename("not_a_thor_file.bin") is None
+
+
+# ── Report parsing — derived fields against real Thor sample ─────────────────
+
+
+def test_waveform_report_derives_serial_event_type_and_datetime(upmc_waveform_txt):
+    r = parse_idf_report(upmc_waveform_txt)
+    assert r["serial_number"]  == "UM11719"
+    assert r["event_type"]     == "Full Waveform"
+    assert r["event_datetime"] == "2023-12-19T16:27:23"
+    assert r["filename"]       == "UM11719_20231219162723.IDFW"
+
+
+def test_waveform_report_parses_peak_velocities(upmc_waveform_txt):
+    r = parse_idf_report(upmc_waveform_txt)
+    assert r["tran_ppv"]        == pytest.approx(0.0251)
+    assert r["vert_ppv"]        == pytest.approx(0.2119)
+    assert r["long_ppv"]        == pytest.approx(0.0282)
+    assert r["peak_vector_sum"] == pytest.approx(0.2131)
+
+
+def test_waveform_report_parses_zc_freq_and_mic(upmc_waveform_txt):
+    r = parse_idf_report(upmc_waveform_txt)
+    assert r["tran_zc_freq"] == pytest.approx(6.5)
+    assert r["vert_zc_freq"] == pytest.approx(73.1)
+    assert r["long_zc_freq"] == pytest.approx(85.3)
+    assert r["mic_ppv"]      == pytest.approx(99.4)
+
+
+def test_waveform_report_parses_record_and_pretrigger_durations(upmc_waveform_txt):
+    r = parse_idf_report(upmc_waveform_txt)
+    assert r["record_time_sec"] == pytest.approx(2.0)
+    assert r["pre_trigger_sec"] == pytest.approx(0.25)
+
+
+def test_waveform_report_parses_sample_rate(upmc_waveform_txt):
+    r = parse_idf_report(upmc_waveform_txt)
+    assert r["sample_rate"] == 1024
+
+
+def test_waveform_report_extracts_title_strings(upmc_waveform_txt):
+    r = parse_idf_report(upmc_waveform_txt)
+    # TitleString1 (location) → project
+    assert r["project"] == "UPMC Presby-Loc 3-Level1-1R Elevator Rm"
+    # TitleString2 → client
+    assert r["client"]  == "Whiting-Turner - PJ Dick - Joint Venture"
+    # TitleString3 → operator (company)
+    assert r["operator"] == "Terra-Mechanics, Inc. - D. Harrsion"
+
+
+def test_waveform_report_extracts_setup_version_and_calibration(upmc_waveform_txt):
+    r = parse_idf_report(upmc_waveform_txt)
+    assert r["setup"]            == "UPMC Loc 3.mmb"
+    assert r["version"]          == "Micromate ISEE 11.0AK"
+    assert r["calibration_text"] == "November 22, 2023 by Instantel"
+    assert r["battery_volts"]    == pytest.approx(3.8)
+
+
+def test_waveform_report_decodes_sensor_self_check(upmc_waveform_txt):
+    r = parse_idf_report(upmc_waveform_txt)
+    assert r["tran_test_passed"] is True
+    assert r["vert_test_passed"] is True
+    assert r["long_test_passed"] is True
+    assert r["mic_test_passed"]  is True
+
+
+def test_histogram_report_parses(upmc_histogram_txt):
+    """Histogram sidecars have the same shape as waveform — both
+    decode through the same parser without errors."""
+    r = parse_idf_report(upmc_histogram_txt)
+    assert r["serial_number"] == "UM11719"
+    # IDFH timestamp in the sample
+    assert r["event_datetime"] == "2023-12-19T16:34:44"
+    assert r["event_type"]    .lower().startswith("full histogram") or \
+           r["event_type"]    .lower().startswith("histogram")
+    # Sample rate present
+    assert "sample_rate" in r
+
+
+# ── Edge cases ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def test_parses_bytes_input():
+    text = (
+        '"SerialNumber : UM11719"\n'
+        '"TranPPV : 0.0251 in/s"\n'
+    )
+    r = parse_idf_report(text.encode("utf-8"))
+    assert r["serial_number"] == "UM11719"
+    assert r["tran_ppv"] == pytest.approx(0.0251)
+
+
+def test_parses_latin1_fallback():
+    """Garbled non-UTF8 bytes fall back to latin-1 instead of crashing."""
+    text = b'"SerialNumber : UM11719"\n"Operator : Caf\xe9"\n'
+    r = parse_idf_report(text)
+    assert r["serial_number"] == "UM11719"
+    assert r["operator"] == "Café"
+
+
+def test_stops_at_waveform_data_marker():
+    """Lines after the 'Waveform Data Channels' marker are not parsed
+    as key/value pairs — they're tabular sample data."""
+    text = (
+        '"SerialNumber : UM11719"\n'
+        '"TranPPV : 0.0251 in/s"\n'
+        'Waveform Data Channels\n'
+        '    Tran    Vert    Long    MicL\n'
+        '    0.0003  -0.0003  0.0003  0.00013\n'
+    )
+    r = parse_idf_report(text)
+    assert r["serial_number"] == "UM11719"
+    assert r["tran_ppv"] == pytest.approx(0.0251)
+    # No spurious entries from the table body
+    assert "tran" not in r
+    assert "0.0003" not in r
+
+
+def test_missing_event_time_omits_datetime():
+    r = parse_idf_report('"SerialNumber : UM11719"\n')
+    assert r["serial_number"] == "UM11719"
+    assert "event_datetime" not in r
+
+
+def test_handles_empty_input():
+    r = parse_idf_report("")
+    assert r == {
+        "project":  None,
+        "client":   None,
+        "operator": None,
+        "notes":    None,
+    }

tests/test_waveform_codec.py

@@ -0,0 +1,518 @@
+"""
+Tests for minimateplus.waveform_codec — Blastware waveform-file body block walker.
+
+These tests lock in the STRUCTURAL framing of the body codec.  The byte-to-sample
+mapping is open (see waveform_codec module docstring) — until that's nailed down,
+:func:`decode_waveform_v2` returns ``None`` and there is no per-sample assertion
+to make.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+
+import pytest
+
+from minimateplus.waveform_codec import (
+    WaveformBlock,
+    decode_tran_initial,
+    decode_waveform_v2,
+    decoded_to_adc_counts,
+    find_data_start,
+    mic_count_to_db,
+    parse_segment_header,
+    split_segments,
+    walk_body,
+)
+
+
+FIXTURES = os.path.join(
+    os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "decode-re-5-8-26"
+)
+
+
+def _bw_body(path):
+    """Strip the 22-byte header and 21-byte STRT and 26-byte footer to get the body."""
+    with open(path, "rb") as f:
+        binary = f.read()
+    return binary[43:-26]
+
+
+# Fixture metadata — bundled BW binaries from a real BE11529 unit, May 8 2026.
+# Each is paired with a Blastware TXT export (the ASCII ground truth).
+FIXTURES_INFO = {
+    "event-a": {
+        "filename": "M529LKVQ.6S0",
+        "n_samples": 3328,    # 3.0 s rectime + 0.25 s pretrig at 1024 sps
+        "rectime": 3.0,
+    },
+    "event-b": {
+        "filename": "M529LK5Q.RG0",
+        "n_samples": 2304,    # 2.0 s
+        "rectime": 2.0,
+    },
+    "event-c": {
+        "filename": "M529LK44.AB0",
+        "n_samples": 1280,    # 1.0 s
+        "rectime": 1.0,
+    },
+    "event-d": {
+        "filename": "M529LK2V.470",
+        "n_samples": 1280,
+        "rectime": 1.0,
+    },
+}
+
+
+def _fixture_path(event_name):
+    info = FIXTURES_INFO[event_name]
+    return os.path.join(FIXTURES, event_name, info["filename"])
+
+
+# ── Find data start ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("event_name", list(FIXTURES_INFO.keys()))
+def test_find_data_start_locates_first_block(event_name):
+    """The walker auto-detects the first ``10 NN`` tag within the first 20 bytes."""
+    path = _fixture_path(event_name)
+    if not os.path.exists(path):
+        pytest.skip(f"fixture missing: {path}")
+    body = _bw_body(path)
+    start = find_data_start(body)
+    assert 0 <= start < 20, f"expected start in [0, 20), got {start}"
+    assert body[start] in (0x00, 0x10, 0x20, 0x30, 0x40), (
+        f"first tag byte 0x{body[start]:02x} not a recognized block type"
+    )
+    assert body[start + 1] % 4 == 0 or (body[start] == 0x40 and body[start + 1] == 0x02)
+
+
+def test_find_data_start_canonical_offset_7():
+    """All events have a 7-byte preamble (3-byte magic + 4-byte Tran anchors)."""
+    for name in FIXTURES_INFO:
+        path = _fixture_path(name)
+        if not os.path.exists(path):
+            pytest.skip(f"fixture missing: {path}")
+        body = _bw_body(path)
+        # Sanity: magic
+        assert body[0:3] == b"\x00\x02\x00", f"{name}: bad magic"
+        # First tag at offset 7
+        assert find_data_start(body) == 7, f"{name}: expected start=7"
+
+
+# ── Block walker ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def test_walk_body_empty_returns_empty():
+    assert walk_body(b"") == []
+
+
+def test_walk_body_invalid_start_returns_empty():
+    # Body that does not begin with a recognized tag.
+    assert walk_body(b"\xff\xff\xff\xff", start=0) == []
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("event_name", list(FIXTURES_INFO.keys()))
+def test_walk_body_produces_blocks(event_name):
+    """The walker should produce a non-empty stream of blocks for every fixture."""
+    path = _fixture_path(event_name)
+    if not os.path.exists(path):
+        pytest.skip(f"fixture missing: {path}")
+    body = _bw_body(path)
+    blocks = walk_body(body)
+    assert len(blocks) > 0
+    # All blocks have one of the known tag families.  ``1X NN`` / ``2X NN``
+    # with X in 0..F are valid (X > 0 means wide-NN encoding).
+    for b in blocks:
+        assert (b.tag_hi & 0xF0) in (0x10, 0x20, 0x00, 0x30, 0x40), (
+            f"unknown tag {b.tag_hi:#04x} at offset {b.offset}"
+        )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("event_name", list(FIXTURES_INFO.keys()))
+def test_walk_body_block_lengths_consistent(event_name):
+    """Each block's recorded length matches its on-wire footprint."""
+    path = _fixture_path(event_name)
+    if not os.path.exists(path):
+        pytest.skip(f"fixture missing: {path}")
+    body = _bw_body(path)
+    blocks = walk_body(body)
+    for b in blocks:
+        # Tag (2 bytes) + payload should equal length.
+        assert 2 + len(b.data) == b.length, (
+            f"block at {b.offset} length mismatch: tag(2) + data({len(b.data)}) != length({b.length})"
+        )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("event_name", list(FIXTURES_INFO.keys()))
+def test_walk_body_blocks_contiguous(event_name):
+    """Block n+1 starts exactly where block n ends (no gaps, no overlaps)."""
+    path = _fixture_path(event_name)
+    if not os.path.exists(path):
+        pytest.skip(f"fixture missing: {path}")
+    body = _bw_body(path)
+    blocks = walk_body(body)
+    for i in range(1, len(blocks)):
+        prev = blocks[i - 1]
+        cur = blocks[i]
+        assert cur.offset == prev.offset + prev.length, (
+            f"gap/overlap between block {i-1} (off={prev.offset} len={prev.length}) "
+            f"and block {i} (off={cur.offset})"
+        )
+
+
+# ── Segment splitting ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("event_name", list(FIXTURES_INFO.keys()))
+def test_split_segments_yields_at_least_one(event_name):
+    path = _fixture_path(event_name)
+    if not os.path.exists(path):
+        pytest.skip(f"fixture missing: {path}")
+    body = _bw_body(path)
+    blocks = walk_body(body)
+    segments = split_segments(blocks)
+    assert len(segments) > 0
+
+
+def test_split_segments_segment_count_at_least_one_per_event():
+    """The walker should produce at least one ``40 02`` segment header per event.
+
+    Note: the walker currently bails out partway through event-b (still an
+    open issue — the body codec uses block lengths the walker doesn't
+    handle correctly past offset ~427).  The other 3 events walk farther
+    and have many segment headers.
+    """
+    for name in FIXTURES_INFO:
+        path = _fixture_path(name)
+        if not os.path.exists(path):
+            continue
+        body = _bw_body(path)
+        blocks = walk_body(body)
+        n_40 = sum(1 for b in blocks if b.tag_hi == 0x40)
+        assert n_40 >= 1, f"{name}: no 40 02 segment header found"
+
+
+# ── Segment header parsing ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def test_parse_segment_header_returns_none_for_non_40():
+    block = WaveformBlock(offset=0, tag_hi=0x10, tag_lo=0x04, data=b"\x00\x00", length=4)
+    assert parse_segment_header(block) is None
+
+
+def test_parse_segment_header_decodes_fields():
+    """Decode a known 40 02 block to verify field offsets."""
+    # First segment header from event-c at body offset 235:
+    # 40 02 00 00 00 00 0a 4b 01 1e 47 00 00 00 02 00 00 01 00 01
+    payload = bytes.fromhex("00000000 0a4b011e 47000000 02000001 0001".replace(" ", ""))
+    block = WaveformBlock(
+        offset=235, tag_hi=0x40, tag_lo=0x02, data=payload, length=20
+    )
+    decoded = parse_segment_header(block)
+    assert decoded is not None
+    assert decoded["counter"] == 0x47       # uint32 LE
+    assert decoded["fixed_pattern"] == b"\x02\x00\x00\x01"
+    assert decoded["anchor_bytes"] == b"\x00\x00\x00\x00"
+
+
+def test_segment_counter_increments():
+    """The 4-byte counter at bytes [8:12] of each 40 02 payload increments by 1."""
+    path = _fixture_path("event-c")
+    if not os.path.exists(path):
+        pytest.skip("fixture missing")
+    body = _bw_body(path)
+    blocks = walk_body(body)
+    headers = [b for b in blocks if b.tag_hi == 0x40 and b.tag_lo == 0x02]
+    counters = [parse_segment_header(b)["counter"] for b in headers]
+    assert len(counters) >= 5, "expect at least 5 segments to verify increments"
+    # First few counters should be strictly monotonic (the BW counter is global,
+    # incrementing across the whole flash buffer; some events may share counter
+    # values with the previous event's tail block, so allow non-strict).
+    for i in range(1, min(8, len(counters))):
+        assert counters[i] >= counters[i - 1], (
+            f"counter went backwards: {counters[i-1]} → {counters[i]}"
+        )
+
+
+# ── decode_waveform_v2: currently a stub ─────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("event_name", list(FIXTURES_INFO.keys()))
+def test_decode_waveform_v2_returns_dict(event_name):
+    """decode_waveform_v2 returns a dict with all 4 channels (verified 2026-05-11)."""
+    path = _fixture_path(event_name)
+    if not os.path.exists(path):
+        pytest.skip(f"fixture missing: {path}")
+    body = _bw_body(path)
+    result = decode_waveform_v2(body)
+    assert result is not None
+    assert set(result.keys()) == {"Tran", "Vert", "Long", "MicL"}
+
+
+# Multi-channel ground-truth fixtures.  Each row: (path, channel, n_to_verify).
+# These lock in the channel-rotation hypothesis: segments cycle T → V → L → M,
+# with each segment header carrying a 2-sample anchor pair (bytes [14:18])
+# for THIS segment's channel plus 2 continuation deltas (bytes [0:4]) for
+# the PREVIOUS channel.
+MULTICHANNEL_FIXTURES = [
+    # ALL geo channels fully decoded for every event in the bundle:
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1L.V70"), "Tran", 3328),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1L.V70"), "Vert", 3328),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1L.V70"), "Long", 3328),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1L.JQ0"), "Tran", 3328),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1L.JQ0"), "Vert", 3328),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1L.JQ0"), "Long", 3328),
+    # SP0 (loud all-channels): NOW fully decodes after the wide-NN walker fix.
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1A.SP0"), "Tran", 3328),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1A.SP0"), "Vert", 3328),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1A.SP0"), "Long", 3328),
+    # SS0 / SV0 (loud-from-start): walker now reaches 3072–3078 samples per
+    # channel (out of 3079 total).  A few tail samples still missing.
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1A.SS0"), "Tran", 3078),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1A.SS0"), "Vert", 3072),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1A.SS0"), "Long", 3072),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1A.SV0"), "Tran", 3078),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1A.SV0"), "Vert", 3072),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1A.SV0"), "Long", 3072),
+    # 5-8-26 quiet bundle: events without 30 NN blocks decode FULLY across all channels.
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "decode-re-5-8-26",
+                  "event-a", "M529LKVQ.6S0"), "Tran", 3328),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "decode-re-5-8-26",
+                  "event-a", "M529LKVQ.6S0"), "Vert", 3328),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "decode-re-5-8-26",
+                  "event-a", "M529LKVQ.6S0"), "Long", 3328),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "decode-re-5-8-26",
+                  "event-c", "M529LK44.AB0"), "Tran", 1280),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "decode-re-5-8-26",
+                  "event-c", "M529LK44.AB0"), "Vert", 1280),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "decode-re-5-8-26",
+                  "event-c", "M529LK44.AB0"), "Long", 1280),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "decode-re-5-8-26",
+                  "event-d", "M529LK2V.470"), "Tran", 1280),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "decode-re-5-8-26",
+                  "event-d", "M529LK2V.470"), "Vert", 1280),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "decode-re-5-8-26",
+                  "event-d", "M529LK2V.470"), "Long", 1280),
+    # event-b: 2304 samples × 3 — now fully decodes (was the historical
+    # walker-stop case; fixed by wide-NN tag support).
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "decode-re-5-8-26",
+                  "event-b", "M529LK5Q.RG0"), "Tran", 2304),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "decode-re-5-8-26",
+                  "event-b", "M529LK5Q.RG0"), "Vert", 2304),
+    (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "decode-re-5-8-26",
+                  "event-b", "M529LK5Q.RG0"), "Long", 2304),
+]
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("path,channel,n", MULTICHANNEL_FIXTURES)
+def test_decode_waveform_v2_channels_match_truth(path, channel, n):
+    """Decoded channels match the BW ASCII export byte-exact for the verified ranges."""
+    if not os.path.exists(path):
+        pytest.skip(f"fixture missing: {path}")
+    with open(path, "rb") as f:
+        body = f.read()[43:-26]
+    truth = _full_truth_channel(path, channel)
+    decoded = decode_waveform_v2(body)
+    assert decoded is not None
+    pred = decoded[channel]
+    assert len(pred) >= n, f"only {len(pred)} samples decoded, expected ≥ {n}"
+    for i in range(n):
+        assert pred[i] == truth[i], (
+            f"{os.path.basename(path)} {channel}[{i}]: pred={pred[i]} truth={truth[i]}"
+        )
+
+
+# ── decode_tran_initial: confirmed correct against ground truth ──────────────
+
+# Bundled fixtures for the high-amplitude 5-11-26 events (PPV ~6-7 in/s).
+# These cracked the Tran codec — see waveform_codec module docstring.
+TRAN_INITIAL_FIXTURES = [
+    # (path, expected first N Tran samples in 16-count units, # of samples to verify)
+    (
+        os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1A.SP0"),
+        [4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0],
+        22,
+    ),
+    (
+        os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1A.SS0"),
+        [-89, -89, -91, -91, -92, -93, -94, -94, -94, -94],
+        42,
+    ),
+    (
+        os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1A.SV0"),
+        [-745, -762, -771, -774, -779, -794, -808, -811, -811, -819],
+        46,
+    ),
+    # Vert-heavy event (T near zero) — segment 0 = 510 samples, all decode correctly.
+    (
+        os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1L.JQ0"),
+        [0] * 4 + [-1, 0, 0, -1, -1, 0],
+        38,
+    ),
+    # Mic-heavy event (geos all near zero) — segment 0 = 482 samples.
+    (
+        os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "fixtures", "5-11-26", "M529LL1L.V70"),
+        [0] * 10,
+        6,
+    ),
+]
+
+
+def _full_truth(path):
+    """Load Tran samples (in 16-count units) from the BW ASCII export."""
+    return _full_truth_channel(path, "Tran")
+
+
+def _full_truth_channel(path, channel):
+    """Load one channel's samples (in 16-count units) from the BW ASCII export."""
+    import glob, re
+    col_idx = {"Tran": 0, "Vert": 1, "Long": 2, "MicL": 3}[channel]
+    # event-a's TXT has a typo ("M59" vs "M529") — pick the .TXT in the same dir
+    # rather than assuming exact-name correspondence.
+    txt_path = path + ".TXT"
+    if not os.path.exists(txt_path):
+        candidates = glob.glob(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(path), "*.TXT"))
+        if candidates:
+            txt_path = candidates[0]
+    with open(txt_path, "r", encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") as f:
+        lines = f.read().splitlines()
+    header_idx = None
+    for i, line in enumerate(lines):
+        if "Tran" in line and "Vert" in line and "Long" in line and "MicL" in line:
+            header_idx = i
+            break
+    if header_idx is None:
+        return None
+    out = []
+    for line in lines[header_idx + 1:]:
+        parts = re.split(r"\s+", line.strip())
+        if len(parts) < 4:
+            continue
+        try:
+            out.append(round(float(parts[col_idx]) * 200))
+        except ValueError:
+            continue
+    return out
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("path,expected,n_required", TRAN_INITIAL_FIXTURES)
+def test_decode_tran_initial_matches_ground_truth(path, expected, n_required):
+    """The Tran initial decoder produces values matching the BW ASCII export exactly."""
+    if not os.path.exists(path):
+        pytest.skip(f"fixture missing: {path}")
+    with open(path, "rb") as f:
+        raw = f.read()
+    body = raw[43:-26]
+    decoded = decode_tran_initial(body)
+    assert decoded is not None
+    # Check first len(expected) samples match exactly.
+    for i in range(len(expected)):
+        assert decoded[i] == expected[i], (
+            f"sample {i}: decoded={decoded[i]} expected={expected[i]}"
+        )
+    # And we got at least n_required samples decoded.
+    assert len(decoded) >= n_required, (
+        f"decoded only {len(decoded)} samples, expected at least {n_required}"
+    )
+
+
+def test_decode_tran_initial_handles_empty():
+    assert decode_tran_initial(b"") is None
+    assert decode_tran_initial(b"not a body") is None
+
+
+def test_decode_tran_initial_synthetic_body():
+    """A synthetic body with preamble + one 10 04 block decodes correctly."""
+    # Magic + T[0]=10 + T[1]=20 in 16-count units.
+    # Then 10 04 block with 4 nibbles: (+1, -1, +2, -2)
+    # Encoded high-nibble first: 0x1F = (1, -1), 0x2E = (2, -2)
+    body = b"\x00\x02\x00\x00\x0a\x00\x14" + b"\x10\x04" + b"\x1f\x2e"
+    decoded = decode_tran_initial(body)
+    # T[0]=10, T[1]=20, then deltas (+1, -1, +2, -2) from T[1]=20
+    assert decoded == [10, 20, 21, 20, 22, 20]
+
+
+def test_decode_tran_initial_with_rle():
+    """A synthetic body with 00 NN RLE block runs the current Tran value forward."""
+    # T[0]=5, T[1]=5, then 00 08 RLE block = 8 zero deltas → T[2..9] = 5
+    body = b"\x00\x02\x00\x00\x05\x00\x05" + b"\x00\x08"
+    decoded = decode_tran_initial(body)
+    assert decoded == [5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5]
+
+
+def test_decode_tran_initial_full_segment_silent_events():
+    """For events with near-silent Tran, segment 0 (~482-510 samples) decodes fully."""
+    for path, _, _ in TRAN_INITIAL_FIXTURES[3:]:  # JQ0 (Vert-heavy) and V70 (Mic-heavy)
+        if not os.path.exists(path):
+            pytest.skip(f"fixture missing: {path}")
+        with open(path, "rb") as f:
+            body = f.read()[43:-26]
+        truth = _full_truth(path)
+        decoded = decode_tran_initial(body)
+        assert decoded is not None
+        # The decoder should produce a clean run of samples; check ALL of them
+        # match truth (segment 0 is fully solved for events where T is near zero).
+        n = len(decoded)
+        for i in range(n):
+            assert decoded[i] == truth[i], (
+                f"{os.path.basename(path)}: sample {i}: decoded={decoded[i]} truth={truth[i]}"
+            )
+        # And we should have decoded at least 400 samples (= segment 0 worth).
+        assert n >= 400, f"only {n} samples decoded for {path}"
+
+
+# ── ADC scaling + dB conversion ──────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def test_decoded_to_adc_counts_geo_scales_by_16():
+    """Geo channels in decoder units (16-count) should multiply by 16 to ADC."""
+    decoded = {"Tran": [0, 1, -2, 100], "Vert": [5], "Long": [-10], "MicL": [813]}
+    adc = decoded_to_adc_counts(decoded)
+    assert adc["Tran"] == [0, 16, -32, 1600]
+    assert adc["Vert"] == [80]
+    assert adc["Long"] == [-160]
+    # Mic passes through unchanged (already ADC counts).
+    assert adc["MicL"] == [813]
+
+
+def test_decoded_to_adc_counts_empty():
+    assert decoded_to_adc_counts({}) == {}
+    assert decoded_to_adc_counts(
+        {"Tran": [], "Vert": [], "Long": [], "MicL": []}
+    ) == {"Tran": [], "Vert": [], "Long": [], "MicL": []}
+
+
+def test_mic_count_to_db_zero_is_zero():
+    assert mic_count_to_db(0) == 0.0
+
+
+def test_mic_count_to_db_unit_is_reference():
+    """count = ±1 → ±81.94 dB (the calibration reference)."""
+    assert abs(mic_count_to_db(1) - 81.94) < 0.01
+    assert abs(mic_count_to_db(-1) - (-81.94)) < 0.01
+
+
+def test_mic_count_to_db_doubles_every_6db():
+    """Each doubling of |count| adds ~6.02 dB."""
+    # count=2 → 87.96 dB (+ 6.02 from 81.94)
+    assert abs(mic_count_to_db(2) - 87.96) < 0.05
+    # count=4 → 93.98 dB
+    assert abs(mic_count_to_db(4) - 93.98) < 0.05
+    # count=8 → 100.00 dB
+    assert abs(mic_count_to_db(8) - 100.00) < 0.05
+
+
+def test_mic_count_to_db_v70_peak():
+    """V70 mic peak count 813 → 140.14 dB (matches BW reported PSPL 140.1)."""
+    assert abs(mic_count_to_db(813) - 140.14) < 0.1
+    # And the negative-direction equivalent
+    assert abs(mic_count_to_db(-813) - (-140.14)) < 0.1
+
+
+# ── End-to-end: decode_a5_frames (production entry point) ───────────────────
+
+
+def test_decode_a5_frames_empty():
+    from minimateplus.waveform_codec import decode_a5_frames
+    assert decode_a5_frames([]) is None
+    assert decode_a5_frames(None) is None