fix: updater survives Settings saves + cache unsniffable MLGs (v1.6.1)

Two reliability fixes for the Series 3 tray app:

1. Auto-updater no longer dies on a Settings save. _restart_watcher
   set+replaced the shared stop_event that the updater loop also keyed
   off, so saving settings could kill the updater thread (race). Give
   the updater its own app-lifetime event (_app_stop). Same fix as
   thor-watcher 0.4.1.

2. Unsniffable .MLG files are now cached, so each is sniffed + logged
   once per session instead of every 5-min scan. A long-lived autocall
   folder with a few hundred unidentifiable files was flooding the log
   (~600K lines in 10 days) and re-reading every header each scan.

Adds test_series3_tray.py (4 lifecycle tests) and test_scan_latest.py
(2 scan tests). Full suite 50 passing. Bump to v1.6.1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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---
## [6-25-26] — v1.6.1
Reliability fixes for the tray app's auto-updater and scan logging.
### Fixed
- **Auto-updater no longer dies when Settings are saved.** Saving the Settings dialog restarts the watcher thread via `_restart_watcher`, which sets and then replaces the shared `stop_event`. Because the updater loop keyed off that *same* event, saving settings would terminate the auto-updater thread (a race — it could survive one save and die on the next). The watcher kept running and reporting heartbeats, but the agent silently stopped checking for / applying updates until the tray app was relaunched. The updater now keys off its own app-lifetime event (`_app_stop`) that watcher restarts never touch; it stops only on Exit or when applying an update. (Same fix as thor-watcher 0.4.1.)
- **Unsniffable `.MLG` files are logged once, not every scan.** A `.MLG` file the watcher couldn't extract a unit ID from was never cached, so every scan (~every 5 min) re-sniffed *and* re-emitted its `[unsniffable-recent]` log line. With a few hundred such files in a long-lived Blastware autocall folder that meant tens of thousands of duplicate lines per day (a 10-day-old log had grown to ~600K lines). The scan now caches the unsniffable result, so each file is sniffed and logged once per session — and the redundant per-scan header reads are gone.
- Added `test_scan_latest.py` (unsniffable cached / logged-once + happy-path sniff) and `test_series3_tray.py` (updater survives a watcher restart; stops on exit).
## [6-25-26] — v1.6.0
Optional dual-send mirror so a standby server stays a live replica.
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# Series 3 Watcher v1.6.0
# Series 3 Watcher v1.6.1
Monitors Instantel **Series 3 (Minimate)** call-in activity on a Blastware server. Runs as a **system tray app** that starts automatically on login, reports heartbeats to terra-view, and self-updates from Gitea.
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ where the corresponding server-side work lives.
## Versioning
Follows **Semantic Versioning**. Current release: **v1.6.0**.
Follows **Semantic Versioning**. Current release: **v1.6.1**.
See `CHANGELOG.md` for full history.
---
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[Setup]
AppName=Series 3 Watcher
AppVersion=1.6.0
AppVersion=1.6.1
AppPublisher=Terra-Mechanics Inc.
DefaultDirName={pf}\Series3Watcher
DefaultGroupName=Series 3 Watcher
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"""
Series 3 Watcher — System Tray Launcher v1.6.0
Series 3 Watcher — System Tray Launcher v1.6.1
Requires: pystray, Pillow, tkinter (stdlib)
Run with: pythonw series3_tray.py (no console window)
@@ -335,7 +335,8 @@ def _show_cancel_message():
class WatcherTray:
def __init__(self):
self.state = {}
self.stop_event = threading.Event()
self.stop_event = threading.Event() # watcher lifecycle; replaced on restart
self._app_stop = threading.Event() # app lifetime; only set on exit/update
self._watcher_thread = None
self._icon = None
# Lock guards _rebuild_menu calls from the updater thread
@@ -394,6 +395,7 @@ class WatcherTray:
subprocess.Popen(["explorer", HERE])
def _exit(self, icon, item):
self._app_stop.set()
self.stop_event.set()
icon.stop()
@@ -459,7 +461,7 @@ class WatcherTray:
last_status = None
update_check_counter = 0 # check for updates every ~5 min (30 * 10s ticks)
while not self.stop_event.is_set():
while not self._app_stop.is_set():
icon_status = self._tray_status()
if self._icon is not None:
@@ -487,7 +489,7 @@ class WatcherTray:
self._do_update(url)
return # exit loop; swap bat will relaunch
self.stop_event.wait(timeout=10)
self._app_stop.wait(timeout=10)
def _do_update(self, download_url=None):
"""Notify tray icon then apply update. If url is None, fetch it first."""
@@ -502,6 +504,7 @@ class WatcherTray:
success = apply_update(download_url)
if success:
self._app_stop.set()
self.stop_event.set()
if self._icon is not None:
self._icon.stop()
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uid = cached[1]
else:
uid = sniff_unit_from_mlg(fpath, header_bytes)
if not uid:
# If unsniffable but very recent, log for later inspection
if (recent_cutoff is not None) and (mtime >= recent_cutoff):
if logger:
logger("[unsniffable-recent] {}".format(fpath))
continue # skip file if no unit ID found in header
# Cache the result either way — including unsniffable (uid=None) —
# so the same file isn't re-sniffed and re-logged on every scan.
cache[fpath] = (mtime, uid)
if (not uid) and (recent_cutoff is not None) and (mtime >= recent_cutoff):
# Log once, on first sight, for later inspection.
if logger:
logger("[unsniffable-recent] {}".format(fpath))
if not uid:
continue # no unit ID in header — skip (cached above, won't re-log)
if (uid not in latest) or (mtime > latest[uid]["mtime"]):
latest[uid] = {"mtime": mtime, "fname": e.name, "path": fpath}
@@ -253,7 +256,7 @@ def scan_latest(
# --- API heartbeat / SFM telemetry helpers ---
VERSION = "1.6.0"
VERSION = "1.6.1"
def _read_log_tail(log_file: str, n: int = 25) -> Optional[list]:
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"""
Series 3 Watcher — Settings Dialog v1.6.0
Series 3 Watcher — Settings Dialog v1.6.1
Provides a Tkinter settings dialog that doubles as a first-run wizard.
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"""
Tests for scan_latest's handling of unsniffable .MLG files.
Regression guard: a .MLG file the watcher can't extract a unit ID from must
be cached (as "no id") so it isn't re-sniffed and re-logged on every scan.
Previously the unsniffable result was never cached, so the
`[unsniffable-recent]` warning was re-emitted every scan cycle — ~200 files
x 288 scans/day flooded the log with hundreds of thousands of duplicate lines.
"""
import os
import time
import tempfile
import unittest
import series3_watcher
class UnsniffableCaching(unittest.TestCase):
def test_unsniffable_recent_file_logged_once_across_scans(self):
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as d:
# A .MLG file with no BE####/BA#### pattern → sniff returns None.
path = os.path.join(d, "junk001.MLG")
with open(path, "wb") as f:
f.write(b"\x00" * 512)
calls = []
cache = {}
recent_cutoff = time.time() - 86400.0 # file (mtime≈now) counts as recent
for _ in range(3):
series3_watcher.scan_latest(
watch=d,
header_bytes=2048,
cache=cache,
recent_cutoff=recent_cutoff,
max_age_days=365,
logger=calls.append,
)
unsniff = [c for c in calls if "[unsniffable-recent]" in c]
self.assertEqual(
len(unsniff), 1,
"unsniffable file should log once across scans, got {}: {}".format(
len(unsniff), unsniff),
)
def test_sniffable_file_still_returned(self):
# Sanity: a file WITH a unit id is still detected (happy path intact).
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as d:
path = os.path.join(d, "evt001.MLG")
with open(path, "wb") as f:
f.write(b"hdr\x00BE12599\x00hdr") # contains a sniffable unit id
cache = {}
result = series3_watcher.scan_latest(
watch=d, header_bytes=2048, cache=cache,
recent_cutoff=time.time() - 86400.0, max_age_days=365, logger=None,
)
self.assertIn("BE12599", result)
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()
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"""
Tests for series3_tray's thread lifecycle.
Regression guard: saving the Settings dialog restarts the watcher thread via
``_restart_watcher``, which sets and replaces the shared ``stop_event``. The
auto-updater must key off its own lifetime event (``_app_stop``) so a watcher
restart never kills it; it should only stop when the app actually exits.
"""
import sys
import time
import threading
import unittest
from unittest import mock
# Series3's tray pulls in Windows-only GUI deps at import time; stub them.
for _name in ("pystray", "PIL", "PIL.Image", "PIL.ImageDraw"):
sys.modules.setdefault(_name, mock.MagicMock())
import series3_tray # noqa: E402
class TrayThreadLifecycle(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
# No-op watcher loop so restarting the watcher doesn't spin up the real
# Blastware scanner / network heartbeat.
patcher = mock.patch.object(
series3_tray.watcher, "run_watcher", lambda state, stop_event: None
)
patcher.start()
self.addCleanup(patcher.stop)
def test_app_stop_is_separate_lifetime_event(self):
app = series3_tray.WatcherTray()
self.assertIsInstance(app._app_stop, threading.Event)
self.assertIsNot(app._app_stop, app.stop_event)
self.assertFalse(app._app_stop.is_set())
def test_exit_signals_app_stop(self):
app = series3_tray.WatcherTray()
icon = mock.MagicMock()
app._exit(icon, None)
self.assertTrue(app._app_stop.is_set())
icon.stop.assert_called_once()
def test_restart_watcher_leaves_watcher_stop_unset(self):
app = series3_tray.WatcherTray()
app._restart_watcher()
self.assertFalse(app.stop_event.is_set())
def test_updater_survives_watcher_restart_then_stops_on_exit(self):
app = series3_tray.WatcherTray()
app._icon = None
with mock.patch.object(series3_tray, "check_for_update", return_value=(None, None)), \
mock.patch.object(app, "_tray_status", return_value="ok"):
t = threading.Thread(
target=app._icon_updater, daemon=True, name="test-updater"
)
t.start()
time.sleep(0.1)
self.assertTrue(t.is_alive(), "updater failed to start")
# A settings save restarts the watcher — it must NOT kill the updater.
app._restart_watcher()
time.sleep(0.2)
self.assertTrue(
t.is_alive(), "updater thread died on watcher restart (the bug)"
)
# Real app exit DOES stop the updater.
app._app_stop.set()
t.join(timeout=2)
self.assertFalse(
t.is_alive(), "updater thread did not stop on app exit"
)
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()