One WFS/GML XML feed (~135 cameras) aggregating three publishers under a
`font` field: SCT's own highway cameras plus hotlinked Barcelona (IMI) and
Terrassa municipal cameras. Frame URLs are checked against a small host
allowlist rather than one pinned origin, and every non-SCT camera carries
its real owner as a `credit` shown beside the shared provider. The feed
carries no compass heading, so every camera loads at low heading confidence
(same as TfL and Fintraffic), and ground elevation is primed per publisher
rather than one flat prior.
SCT's own frame link needed a workaround: RenderService always 302s to a
second endpoint (TransitCamera) on a Location the upstream hardcodes as
plain http even when requested over https — refused by fetchWithinHost's
same-origin (scheme-included) redirect policy, by design (stops an upstream
steering a host-pinned request into a plaintext downgrade). Separately,
mct.gencat.cat's TLS setup fails the handshake with Node's fetch outright
(ERR_SSL_WRONG_SIGNATURE_TYPE) even though other HTTP clients complete it.
The loader builds the TransitCamera URL itself, over plain http, from
RenderService's sctidcam id, instead of registering the broken upstream
link — the only transport this host actually serves to this runtime.
Verified against the live feed and the production fetch path
(fetchCctvImageFromUpstream): all 135 cameras return real image bytes, 0
false positives. Ambient-card refresh cadence added to src/data/cctvLod.js
(3 minutes), matching the upstream update rate measured empirically (no
change inside 64s, changed within ~90-150s) — the same cadence already used
for Caltrans/TfL/Ontario/TxDOT.
CCTV_CATALONIA_MAX_SOURCES sets the cap and CCTV_CATALONIA_ENABLED=0 turns
the pack off. No overlap with any existing pack (checked catalog.js and the
git history for Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona coverage: none exists).
Verified before this commit: format, check:boundaries, unit suite (3692
tests), and build all green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Supersedes #218 by @spcpza, ported onto the current component layout with fixes from review.
Verified before merge: format, package boundaries, unit suite, build, and the browser tracking suite; a browser harness for the change where one applies; adversarial review applied.
Contributor: @spcpza. His original commit is the base of this branch, and his own re-port onto main (2026-09-15, `5b69011`) was consulted while finishing the height work. That port reads every vehicle's surface from the app's shared ground-floor system (`cachedGroundFloor` / `warmGroundFloor` / `GROUND_FLOOR_LIFT_M`) rather than sampling the scene per layer, keeps a vehicle hidden until its cell answers, warms a bounded batch per poll on a timer instead of per frame, and renders at the ellipsoid above the altitude gate. That is the sounder primitive — one floor system for the app, with the rooftop-versus-street question already settled against a datum-correct DEM prior — and this branch's height work was rebuilt on it, replacing a bespoke cell cache, ground prior and rooftop rule written here. Credit for that direction is his.
Future work (not in this PR), both written up in docs/CURRENT-STATE.md:
- Readable route names. The realtime feeds carry only `route_id`; `route_short_name` / `route_long_name` live in each operator's static GTFS `routes.txt`, and headsigns in `trips.txt`. Doing it properly wants a server-side metadata loader beside the transit proxy with fixed registered static sources, bounded indexes built once and persisted, a slow conditional refresh, and a versioned route dictionary the browser caches. Shipped here: ids are never rewritten, and a cut one carries an ellipsis instead of reading as a typo.
- Below-ground rendering. Subway vehicles are drawn on the surface directly above themselves, because the feeds carry no depth and a train nobody can see is not worth drawing; the card says so plainly. Real treatment wants OSM tunnel geometry per city and a ghosted sprite tethered to the surface. The owner recorded it and left it.
Round four and after (2026-09-15). The owner tested round three under FLIR and NVG, and then asked for the design to be taken further: elegant in performance, beautiful on camera, trails with a cache for public transport, Cesium-native, and a core other moving layers can adopt. Codex Astra reviewed the plan (it confirmed the speed fault: a glide started from the drawn position at receipt time but spanned the gap between report times, so with MBTA reporting every ~10 s against a 15 s poll every second glide ran at 1.5x; it rejected a queued-segment patch), then wrote the design, then implemented it in commit-sized passes with adversarial review between them and real-browser harness runs by the integrator.
What this PR now contains beyond the contributor's original port:
- Delayed playback in a contact-agnostic core (`src/data/contactPlayback.js`): each vehicle keeps a typed, bounded fix history and a display clock that runs at one second per second through it, a feed-derived lag behind real time, holding at its newest fix rather than extrapolating and never sprinting to catch up. Marker, course, motion word, card and trail all read the same displayed sample. The clock has an explicit time-offset and seek API so a rewind is a later feature, not a rewrite; flights and vessels are untouched.
- A selected-vehicle trail (`src/data/contactTrailRenderer.js`, `src/layers/transit/trails.js`): the retained history drawn with batched Cesium primitives, clipped at display time so the head is exactly the sprite, faded by age, in the mode colour (white under sensor presets), on the same surface path as the marker.
- Bounded proxy-side history (`server/providers/transitHistory.js`): fifteen minutes and at most 128 fixes per vehicle with hard byte ceilings, MBTA only for now (opt-in per feed), served by a small endpoint that never fetches upstream, so a selected trail survives a browser reload while the server keeps running.
- Scene work bounded to what is visible and moving, an occluder, cached DETECT candidates, holds on the render loop only while something visible moves.
- Sensor presets: white-hot haloed sprites under NVG/FLIR/noir (black-hot inverts), saturated mode colours under CRT, per-mode bracket tiers in every theme, the selected card keeping its mode colour.
- A discriminating browser harness (`scripts/qa-transit.mjs`) that samples postRender frames, reads the real card anchor, and measures fleet budgets at 800 and 3,000 vehicles.
Not built, recorded as follow-ups: curated route display names (lowest priority per the owner), fleet-wide tails, route snapping, a rewind UI, adoption of the playback core by flights and vessels.
Verified at merge (2026-09-15 morning): unit suite 3,896 passing, build clean, format and boundary gates clean, tracking regression 109/109, browser harness keyless 200 pass / 0 fail (13 sensor checks unexercised because the live view offered fewer than six isolated sprites; every judged sprite passed), keyed on Google 3D tiles 198 pass with the per-frame allocation gate as the only failure. Follow-ups recorded: the keyed build's playback sampler still allocates per frame (CPU and frame time stay within budget; the 3,000-vehicle metro view sits at a 27.6 ms frame interval against a 25 ms budget), the shared detection overlay's per-paint allocation, friendlier route names, fleet-wide tails, a rewind UI, and adopting the playback core for vessels and flights.
Co-authored-by: spcpza <[email protected]>
Ported onto the split provider layout: the route now lives in
server/providers/openai/debug-log.js and its state belongs to the handler
the factory returns rather than to module scope.
/api/realtime/debug-log is the one route in its family left unhardened.
Both siblings enforce a limiter through openai/rate-limit.js, and this was
the only handler still writing with fs.appendFileSync on the request path.
- Always-on per-IP limiter (120/min, 400 global). Deliberately not the
opt-in openAiRateLimiter(): that one defaults to unlimited so throttling
cannot silently change what a user spends, and this sink spends disk and
event-loop time rather than provider quota.
- Serialized async appends with a 32 MB rotation ceiling and one retained
generation. REALTIME_DEBUG_LOG_MAX_BYTES caps a single request body; it
never bounded the file those bodies accumulate into, so any local page
could grow .gev-logs/realtime-conversations.jsonl for as long as the dev
server ran. Serializing also closes a read-then-write race on the size
check, where concurrent callers all stat under the ceiling and none
rotates.
- Generic 400/500 answers separating a malformed record or oversized body
from a failed write, instead of echoing error.message — an errno and an
absolute path for an fs failure.
- readRequestBody marks an oversized body with code 'BODY_TOO_LARGE', the
marker its sibling readRequestBodyCapped already sets, so the two cases
are distinguishable without matching on text.
Coverage extends src/tooling/localServices.test.mjs, which already drives
the real handler over a temporary sourceRoot. Both new tests fail on the
previous implementation and pass with this one.
Refs #23. Does not add authentication: these proxies have no auth
mechanism today, so introducing one is a maintainer design decision.
Ported onto the split provider layout: the routes now live in
server/providers/openai/{hud-summary,realtime}.js and the camera health
entry in server/providers/cctv.js.
The routes #263 names — celestrak, terrain, adsbdb — were sanitized by
#289. The same defect had moved:
- /api/openai/hud-summary relayed `data.error.message` verbatim on a
non-ok upstream. That is OpenAI's own error text, carrying request ids,
organization hints and quota wording. Its catch echoed the JS error too.
- /api/realtime/token echoed the JS error when minting failed, which for a
network fault is a resolver message naming the upstream host.
- cctvProxy stored the raw error as a camera's health `message`. This is
the least obvious of the three and the reason the PR is worth its size:
GET /api/cctv/health serializes `message`, and src/layers/cctv/frames.js
renders it as the camera's status label, so the detail reached the
screen through a different door than the sanitized 502 beside it.
Logs name the failure and the upstream status without the text, matching
the Launch Library and terrain paths; these lines get pasted into issues.
Coverage extends the existing harnesses rather than adding files —
localServices.test.mjs drives both OpenAI routes over a mocked upstream,
mediaProviders.test.mjs drives a failing media fetch and then reads
/health. All three assertions fail on the previous implementation.
Refs #263. Does not touch /api/realtime/debug-log's identical echo; that
route is the subject of the #23 PR, so the two do not overlap a line.
Supersedes #350 by @sendmebits, ported onto the current component layout with fixes from review.
Verified before merge: format, package boundaries, unit suite, build, and the browser tracking suite; a browser harness for the change where one applies; adversarial review applied.
Co-authored-by: sendmebits <[email protected]>
Supersedes #420 by @GladiatorrX9, ported onto the current component layout with fixes from review.
Verified before merge: format, package boundaries, unit suite, build, and the browser tracking suite; a browser harness for the change where one applies; adversarial review applied.
Co-authored-by: Cyber Knight <[email protected]>
Supersedes #219 by @spcpza, ported onto the current component layout with fixes from review.
Verified before merge: format, package boundaries, unit suite, build, and the browser tracking suite; a browser harness for the change where one applies; adversarial review applied.
Co-authored-by: spcpza <[email protected]>
Supersedes #438 by @rileygramlich, ported onto the current component layout with fixes from review.
Verified before merge: format, package boundaries, unit suite, build, and the browser tracking suite; a browser harness for the change where one applies; adversarial review applied.
Co-authored-by: rileygramlich <[email protected]>
Supersedes #253 by @Maher-Reven, ported onto the current component layout with fixes from review.
Verified before merge: format, package boundaries, unit suite, build, and the browser tracking suite; a browser harness for the change where one applies; adversarial review applied.
Co-authored-by: Maher Kurdi <[email protected]>
Two independent triggers turned the global status chip red while every layer
was still populated (reproduced at JFK in Cockpit; timeline in the issue).
adsb.lol proxy: a non-OK upstream status was relayed verbatim even with a
12 s-old cache in hand, and the browser layer answers a 429 with a 45 s
cooldown in which every refresh reports "adsb.lol rate limited" without a
network call. The proxy now serves its cached body as STALE on a 429/5xx and
backs off from upstream for Retry-After (bounded), mirroring the OpenSky
proxy. A failure with nothing cached is still relayed.
Mapped installations: the "zoom in" guidance was stored in `error`, so the
manager reported a refresh failure and the chip a LOAD FAILED whenever the
view could not be bounded (Cockpit looks at the horizon). The status is now
set without an error string; the row reads the prompt from `statusMessage`,
and the chip ignores `error` for guidance statuses, matching the carve-out
layerFeedState already has.
Use 64-point browser and upstream terrain batches to reduce cold-cache timeouts. Preserve successful chunk results, distinguish absent readings from malformed responses, and reject fabricated zero heights.
Original terrain resilience contribution by ItzDESTAQ, with browser batching, validation and regression follow-up by Sameh Khamis.
Validated with unit/build/format/boundary checks, 108 tracking checks, 5 terrain-outage checks, controlled slow-upstream comparison and live browser checks.
Co-authored-by: ItzDESTAQ <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Sameh Khamis <[email protected]>
Pedro Lobato