thor-watcher/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[0.4.1] - 2026-06-25

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 normally, 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.
• Added test_thor_tray.py covering the tray thread lifecycle (updater survives a watcher restart; stops on app exit; _exit/_do_update signal the lifetime event).

[0.4.0] - 2026-06-25

Added — Mirror (dual-send)

• Optional best-effort mirror server. Each heartbeat and each forwarded event can now be sent to a second ("mirror") server in addition to the primary, so a standby box (e.g. the office NAS) stays a continuous replica during a migration — making the eventual cutover a non-event. Default off — blank mirror_api_url/mirror_sfm_url means existing installs are unchanged after auto-update.
• Heartbeat mirror (best-effort). After the primary heartbeat POST, the same payload is fired at mirror_api_url when set. Bounded by the existing API timeout and fully wrapped — it can never delay or fail the primary heartbeat; its result is ignored except for a debug log line.
• Event mirror (reliable, isolated). Events are re-forwarded to mirror_sfm_url using a separate sha256 state file (mirror_sfm_state_file, blank → <log_dir>/thor_forwarded_mirror.json), so the mirror tracks its own delivery independently of the primary. A quick reachability probe (~3 s) skips the mirror pass when the mirror server is down, so a dead mirror never stalls the loop on per-event timeouts; skipped events stay pending in the mirror state and deliver when the mirror returns — no data loss.
• Isolation invariant (the one rule). Nothing on the mirror path can delay or fail the primary: its own state file, its own try/except, the reachability guard + bounded timeouts, all exceptions swallowed-and-logged. The primary path stays exactly as reliable as before.
• Mirror tab in the Settings dialog with Mirror API URL + Mirror SFM URL fields (blank = off). The mirror rides along with the primary — there is no separate enable flag (heartbeat-mirror active iff the primary heartbeat is on and mirror_api_url is set; event-mirror active iff primary forwarding is on and mirror_sfm_url is set).
• New unit tests in test_event_forwarder.py covering mirror reachability, the down-mirror skip, separate-state idempotency, and the isolation invariant (a mirror failure leaves the primary's result + state untouched).

Configuration

New config.json keys (all default-empty = off; existing 0.3.x deployments don't change behaviour on auto-update):

Key	Default	Notes
mirror_api_url	""	Second heartbeat destination — same URL form as api_url (blank = off)
mirror_sfm_url	""	Second SFM base URL, e.g. http://10.0.0.x:8200 (blank = off)
mirror_sfm_state_file	""	Override the mirror's forwarded-sha256 state file. Blank → <log_dir>\thor_forwarded_mirror.json

Changed

• Bumped VERSION to 0.4.0

Operational note (migration seeding). To make the mirror re-deliver only the gap since a one-time replica snapshot, copy the primary state file to the mirror state file and drop entries whose forwarded_at is after the snapshot. SFM-side dedup covers any overlap. See docs/mirror-dual-send-design.md.

[0.3.1] - 2026-05-20

Hot fix

• Improved update logging
• Improved update settings

[0.3.0] - 2026-05-19

Added

• event_forwarder.py — forwards .IDFH (histogram) and .IDFW (waveform) event files plus their TXT/<basename>.txt sidecars to a seismo-relay SFM server's new /db/import/idf_file endpoint
• Sha256-keyed thor_forwarded.json state file for idempotency across restarts and re-scans (default path: <log_dir>/thor_forwarded.json)
• "SFM Forward" tab in Settings dialog: enable/URL/Test, forward interval, quiescence, missing-report grace, HTTP timeout, max forwards per pass, max event age, state file picker
• Forwarder status line in tray menu: SFM OK | N fwd, M err | last 30s ago
• Tray icon goes amber when the SFM forwarder is failing but the API heartbeat is still healthy
• Re-pair logic: events forwarded without their TXT are re-forwarded once the sidecar appears so the relay can refresh DB rows with device-authoritative PPV/ZCFreq/peak values
• event_forwarder.py --seed-state CLI for skipping historical backfill on a first deploy
• Version badge: Thor Watcher vX.Y.Z shown at the top of the tray menu and in the Settings dialog title bar — operators no longer have to crack open the .exe properties to tell which version is running

Changed

• Bumped VERSION to 0.3.0
• Settings dialog tab order: Connection / Paths / Scanning / Logging / SFM Forward / Updates

[0.2.0] - 2026-03-20

Added

• thor_tray.py — system tray launcher with status icon (green/amber/red/grey), Settings and Open Log Folder menu items
• thor_settings_dialog.py — Tkinter settings dialog with first-run wizard; tabs for Connection, Paths, Scanning, Logging, Updates
• Hardened auto-updater: three-layer download validation (100 KB floor, 50% relative size floor, MZ magic bytes), safer swap bat with 5-retry cap and :fail exit, .exe.old backup
• Configurable update source: update_source (gitea / url / disabled), update_url for custom server
• Remote push support: update_available flag in API heartbeat response triggers update regardless of update_source setting
• build.bat — PyInstaller build script; outputs versioned exe for Gitea and plain copy for Inno Setup
• installer.iss — Inno Setup installer script with startup shortcut
• _update_log() helper writes timestamped [updater] lines to the watcher log
• log_tail included in heartbeat payload (last 25 lines) for terra-view display
• run_watcher(state, stop_event) pattern in series4_ingest.py for background thread use from tray

Changed

• series4_ingest.py refactored into tray-friendly background thread module; main() retained for standalone use
• Config key sfm_endpoint renamed to api_url for consistency with series3-watcher
• Heartbeat payload now uses source_id, source_type, version fields matching terra-view WatcherAgent model
• AppData folder: ThorWatcher (was not previously defined)

[0.1.1] - 2025-12-08

Changed

• Moved configuration from hard-coded values to external config.json file
• Configuration now loads from JSON file with graceful fallback to defaults
• Config file is loaded relative to script location for portability

Added

• config.json - External configuration file for all application settings
• load_config() function with error handling and default value fallback
• Warning messages when config file is missing or malformed

[0.1.0] - 2025-12-04

Added

• Initial release of Series 4 Ingest Agent
• Micromate (Series 4) heartbeat monitoring for Seismo Fleet Manager
• THORDATA folder scanner for MLG files
• Automatic detection of newest MLG file per unit by timestamp
• Age calculation and status classification (OK / LATE / STALE)
• Console heartbeat display with formatted output
• Optional HTTP POST to SFM backend endpoint
• Configurable age thresholds and scan intervals
• Debug logging capability
• Graceful error handling for filesystem and network operations