Signing in on a second Mac showed "engine not reachable at
http://127.0.0.1:8010" and 0 of 0 cameras, on an account whose shops were
running and recognising people the whole time. Nothing was broken: Live() and
Cameras() read only the engine on loopback, so the app answered as though the
person had never signed in - and camera sync goes through the engine, which is
why the count was zero rather than stale.
Having no engine is a normal state. A shop PC watches cameras; an owner's
laptop, a manager's machine and a second till being set up do not, and all
three are signed in to the same estate. Both methods now fall back to head
office when loopback fails and somebody is signed in. Loopback is still tried
first: a real shop PC must never be shown a minute-old summary when the engine
two milliseconds away has the live one.
Decisions worth keeping:
- Viewing is on the snapshot, not inferred per screen. Three surfaces read it,
and a screen that computed it separately is how the shops screen once came
out labelled Working, in green, above "2 of 3 cameras not connecting".
- fraction_below_gate takes the WORST shop, never an average. 0.10 against
0.73 averages to 0.42 and hides the only shop anyone needs to visit.
- A remote camera is flagged, and Edit, Remove and Check placement are
withheld. They talk to a camera on a LAN this computer cannot reach, and a
button that cannot work is worse than one that is absent.
- connected is three states. null is "no shop computer has reported yet" and
reads as waiting; false is "Not connecting". A bare false sends somebody to
check cabling on a camera nobody has tried to reach.
- Snapshots are fetched in Go as data: URIs and cached by snapshot_at. A
webview <img> resolves a relative src against wails:// and cannot send the
bearer - the problem VisitorImage already solved - and this screen polls
every 8 seconds at ~90 KB a camera.
- With no engine AND no session, the engine error is still the answer. The
person is most likely setting this PC up.
The picture is the last snapshot and the banner says so: there is no live
video from here, because the engine's MJPEG stream is on the shop PC's
loopback behind a router with no inbound route. The LiveHub relay head office
uses is the answer to that and is a further step for this client.
Verified against production: five arrivals and two cameras parsed from the
real API. viewing_test.go covers the fallback, the worst-shop rule, the
withheld credentials and that an unchanged snapshot is fetched once across
two polls.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KGcjxF1cNLcuwc3DAPcnfj
