Full cutover: the propagation_scores Postgres table is gone, and
the binary files under /data/scores are the sole source of truth
for the map render path. Three stacked changes:
1. New migration drops the propagation_scores table and its indexes
(the earlier tuning migrations for it were already applied and
are now no-ops against a missing table, which is fine — Ecto
just runs them on fresh environments).
2. Propagation context is gutted of every GridScore reference.
replace_scores/2 writes files only. upsert_scores/2 is deleted.
load_scores_from_db, available_valid_times_from_db,
point_detail_from_db, point_forecast_from_db, fetch_factors,
coalesce_factors, the Postgres side of prune_old_scores, and
the Postgres fallbacks in latest/earliest_valid_time are all
removed. point_detail always returns an empty factors map now
since factor breakdowns were retired with the table.
3. Deleted modules:
- Propagation.GridScore (the schema)
- Propagation.ScorerDiff (read factors from the table)
- Propagation.AsosNudge (helper for AsosAdjustmentWorker)
- Workers.AsosAdjustmentWorker (its cron was already disabled)
- Mix.Tasks.ScorerDiff (wrapper around the deleted module)
And their tests. AdminTaskWorker's scorer_diff task is a
logging no-op so any queued Oban rows drain cleanly.
Release.scorer_diff stays as a stub that tells the operator.
propagation_prune_worker_test rewritten to exercise ScoresFile
pruning. propagation_test.exs rewritten to use replace_scores +
ScoresFile throughout (no more GridScore / upsert_scores paths).
PropagationGridWorker.merge_commercial_link_data/2 called
Commercial.link_degradation_at twice per grid cell (once to count,
once to merge), and each call re-ran enabled_links plus two sample
queries per in-range link. That was ~500k SQL queries per forecast
hour — fine for the DB but catastrophic for log volume in dev
iex sessions trying to watch a chain step run.
Split into two new functions:
* build_link_lookup/2 does all the DB work up front — one
enabled_links query + one link_degradation per enabled link
(~10 queries total).
* link_degradation_from_lookup/3 is pure: takes a (lat, lon)
and the precomputed lookup, returns the aggregate or nil.
The worker now calls build_link_lookup once per forecast hour and
the per-cell path is haversine-only. Net: 500k queries → ~10.
PipelineStatus freshness detection moves off oban_jobs.completed_at
onto ScoresFile.latest_valid_time(). The on-disk files ARE the data
the map renders from, so the chip's "Up to date · Nm ago" and the
2h stale threshold now track actual data presence. Running-state
detection still comes from oban_jobs since the chain step is still
an Oban row. Tests updated to seed a ScoresFile instead of a
completed Oban row for the idle/stale cases.
Read-side cutover for the binary scores store and a companion
cleanup that removes the biggest remaining DB write from the hot
path.
Propagation.scores_at/3, available_valid_times/1, latest_valid_time/0,
latest_valid_time/1, earliest_valid_time/1, point_detail/4, and
point_forecast/3 all now prefer ScoresFile and fall back to the
propagation_scores table when a file is missing. The map render
path reads from /data/scores first; Postgres stays as a safety
net while dual-write is on. point_detail still pulls factors from
Postgres (analysis-hour rows only) and coalesces nil to an empty
map so the JS popup iterates cleanly.
replace_scores/2 is now gated by a postgres_writes_enabled? flag
(runtime env MICROWAVEPROP_SCORES_POSTGRES=false, or the
:propagation_scores_postgres app env key) so the binary-only path
can be benchmarked locally without the DB insert. Default stays
true.
PropagationGridWorker no longer calls store_hrrr_profiles —
persisting 92k grid rows × 19 forecast hours of JSONB profiles
was ~12 min of wall time per chain for a table only
AsosAdjustmentWorker read from. Per-contact HRRR enrichment
through HrrrFetchWorker still writes its own (is_grid_point:
false) rows. AsosAdjustmentWorker is disabled in all three cron
configs since its data source is gone.
DataCase resets the scores tree between tests so per-test
ScoresFile writes don't leak across cases, and ScoresFileTest
switches to async: false because it mutates the global
:propagation_scores_dir env.
First step of the disk-backed scores migration from the DuckDB plan
doc. Ended up shipping the raw-binary variant instead of Parquet
because the data is disposable after ~2h — the ecosystem benefits
of Parquet only pay off for long-lived datasets, and the binary
path has zero new dependencies.
Microwaveprop.Propagation.ScoresFile writes one file per
(band_mhz, valid_time) tuple under the configured scores dir,
default /data/scores in prod and priv/dev_scores in dev. Layout is
a 33-byte header plus a dense n_rows × n_cols uint8 array (255 is
the no-data sentinel). The whole CONUS grid serializes to ~93 KB
per band, and writes use the temp-then-rename pattern so NFSv4
concurrent readers never see a partial file.
Propagation.replace_scores/2 now materializes the score stream
once and dual-writes: Postgres on the primary path, then one
ScoresFile per band as a best-effort follow-up (any file error is
logged but doesn't fail the DB write, so we can verify the file
path in prod before cutting readers over).
Propagation.prune_old_scores/0 also clears expired score files so
the existing 15-minute prune cron covers both storage layers.
Dev configuration points at priv/dev_scores/, added to .gitignore.
Test configuration points at a per-run tmp directory.
The :propagation Oban queue runs with concurrency 2, so the grid
worker chain step and the 10-minute ASOS nudge can (and do) execute
in parallel. PipelineStatus.current/0 used to return only the
most-recently-started worker, which made the chip label flip to
"ASOS nudge" at every :00 / :10 tick even though HRRR was still
chugging through forecast hours behind it.
Replace the single :detail field with a list of running_detail
maps, each tagged with :grid or :asos so the chip can:
- Render one sub-line per currently-executing worker
- Sort them deterministically (grid before asos) so the eye
doesn't see rows swap
- Still override the grid entry with the forecast-hour progress
label when a propagation_pipeline_progress broadcast arrives
The scoring+upsert phase was ~4m40s per forecast hour and dominated
wall time. Three stacked optimizations attack it from different
angles.
replace_scores/2 is a new hot-path writer that does DELETE WHERE
valid_time = $1 followed by a plain insert_all (no ON CONFLICT
resolution). The chain worker rewrites the full (valid_time, all
bands) slice every forecast hour, so conflict detection was pure
waste. AsosAdjustmentWorker still uses upsert_scores because it
only rewrites the subset of cells near a station.
factors is now nullable. Forecast hours f01-f18 pass factors: nil
so the JSONB encode + toast write is skipped entirely — roughly
halves the data volume per run. point_detail/4 coalesces nil to
an empty map so the JS popup renders without a TypeError, and
scorer_diff only pulls the most recent valid_time that still has
factors (the f00 row).
propagation_scores is now UNLOGGED, so inserts bypass WAL entirely.
Durability tradeoff: an unclean shutdown truncates the table, but
PropagationGridWorker rebuilds it from HRRR every 3h so a lost
table is re-populated within one cron cycle.
Also adds docs/plans/2026-04-14-duckdb-scores-storage.md — a
speculative plan for a flat-file / DuckDB rewrite with explicit
trigger conditions for when to pick it up (partitioning deferred
too; revisit only if these three don't solve it).
A full f00-f18 sweep takes ~170 min of wall time, longer than the
~90 min gap between deploys on this cluster. Over the last 7 days
every run was killed mid-sweep and zero runs completed. The
propagation_scores table only ever held the scraps from partial
runs that landed before the pod died, which is why the map looked
like it was showing "the current hour" (or nothing).
The worker now processes exactly one forecast hour per perform/1
(~8-10 min) and enqueues the next hour as a fresh Oban job. A cron
fire with empty args seeds the chain at f00; subsequent runs carry
run_time + forecast_hour args. At f18 the chain stops and the
pruner runs. Each step broadcasts propagation:updated immediately
so new hours appear on the map as they land.
Wall time per perform drops from ~170 min to ~10 min, so Lifeline's
2h rescue window is no longer a factor and a pod restart loses at
most one forecast hour instead of the whole sweep. Retries and
max_attempts now describe a single fh, not the whole chain.
Also: bump the :propagation queue from 1 to 2 slots so
PropagationPruneWorker can run alongside the chain job, drop the
worker timeout/1 from 90 min to 20 min to match single-fh runs,
and pull Lifeline rescue_after from 120 min to 45 min to keep the
safety net above the step timeout.
Adds a "Data from HH:MM UTC · Nh ago/now/+Nh" indicator above the
pipeline chip in both the mobile and desktop sidebars so the user
can tell which valid_time the map is showing when the bottom
timeline isn't visible.
Era5SubmitWorker was counting era5_cds_jobs rows 1:1 against the CDS
150-job ceiling, but each row holds TWO CDS job IDs (single-level +
pressure-level). Prod hit 74 rows = 148 in-flight jobs and got stuck
in a reject→resubmit spiral. The cap guard now multiplies row count
by 2 to match what CDS sees.
Era5PollWorker @stuck_after_seconds goes from 4h to 18h. CDS
single-level routinely sits at 'accepted' for 12+h under load while
pressure finishes in ~90 min; the 4h threshold was firing on normal
slow runs and feeding the same spiral.
PipelineStatus now returns `label` + `detail` separately so the map
chip can render "Updating propagation" on one line and the
sub-detail ("HRRR run" / "ASOS nudge" / "+3h" / "now") on a second
line below it. running_label/1 is renamed to running_detail/1 and
returns just the sub-part.
PropagationGridWorker now broadcasts a {:propagation_pipeline_progress,
%{forecast_hour:, valid_time:}} message on the propagation:pipeline
PubSub topic at the start of each process_forecast_hour/4 call.
MapLive subscribes on mount, stashes the last message in the new
:pipeline_progress assign, and clears it on the refresh tick whenever
PipelineStatus flips out of :running.
The chip component consults a new PipelineStatus.running_label/1
helper that formats the payload as "Updating propagation · now" for
f00 and "Updating propagation · +Nh" for f01-f18, falling back to
the base running label until the first progress message arrives.
Covered by unit tests on the formatter and an integration test in
MapLiveTest that seeds an executing grid job, broadcasts progress,
and asserts the rendered chip.
The running label "Updating propagation (HRRR run)" didn't fit in
the 224 px desktop sidebar alongside the NTMS title block, so it
was being truncated. Move the chip to the bottom of the sidebar
(below the auth menu) where it can use the full sidebar width,
let the text wrap naturally instead of truncating, and drop the
trailing ellipsis. Mobile chip stays at the top since the mobile
layout collapses menu + auth into a dropdown.
AsosAdjustmentWorker fires every 10 minutes and loads every row of
`hrrr_profiles` on the grid for the latest valid_time. The old query
selected `profile: h.profile` — ~1.3 KB of JSONB × 92k grid points ≈
120 MB of JSONB per tick. Postgrex's Jason.decode! ran inline for
each row and blew past the 15 s pool checkout window, so every tick
was killing connections with:
DBConnection.ConnectionError: client timed out because it queued
and checked out the connection for longer than 15000ms
`score_grid_point/4` only touched the profile array to re-derive
`min_refractivity_gradient`, but `hrrr_profiles` already persists
that value as a scalar column at ingestion time. Teach
`derive_from_hrrr/1` to honour the persisted scalar when it's
present and drop `h.profile` from the worker's SELECT list. Net
effect: same score math, ~1% of the JSONB transfer, tick stays
under the pool deadline.
Covered by a new scorer test that feeds a profile map with no
`:profile` list and asserts the refractivity factor still reflects
the persisted gradient instead of the neutral baseline.
Adds a small chip below the NTMS title in both the mobile and
desktop sidebars of /map that collapses PropagationGridWorker +
AsosAdjustmentWorker Oban state into one of four states —
running / idle / stale / unknown — with a plain-language label
("Updating propagation (HRRR run)…", "Up to date · 12m ago").
The chip refreshes on a 15s timer and whenever the pipeline
broadcasts propagation:updated, so a long HRRR sweep is visible
from the moment a visitor opens the page.
Observed in prod: after the CDS cap guard shipped, jobs started
landing but one leg per tile-month would routinely stay in 'accepted'
state for 16+ hours while the other completed in ~90 minutes. CDS's
per-user queue fairness apparently serializes competing leg requests
and the single-level ones got stranded behind higher-priority work.
Add an age-based stuck detector in Era5PollWorker: if a row has been
submitted for more than 4 hours and neither leg is fully done, treat
both legs as terminal, clean them up from CDS, and re-enqueue the
submit. Re-uses the resubmit_vanished path. 4h is ~8× the normal
completion time so transient queue variance doesn't trip it, but
tight enough that stuck jobs self-heal in a working session.
CDS returns status="rejected" (distinct from "failed") when a submit
is rate-limited past the 150-job per-user cap. The poll worker's
interpret_status_body treated this as an unknown status → generic
retryable error → 10 retries → discarded. 102 jobs hit this path
overnight.
Fix:
* Era5Client.check_status/1 now returns {:rejected, reason} (and
treats "dismissed" the same way — that's the status a manually
deleted job transitions to).
* Era5PollWorker handles :rejected exactly like :not_found: drop the
DB row, clean up the sibling CDS job, re-enqueue the submit, and
discard the current Oban job so it doesn't burn attempts retrying
a terminal state.
* Widened Era5SubmitWorker cap headroom from 10 → 30 (effective
ceiling 120 not 140). The race between concurrent workers all
passing the count check simultaneously meant we were reaching 141
in-flight against the 150 hard cap; 30 slots of headroom tolerates
a ~15-worker race before clipping CDS's ceiling.
Refactored handle_row/1 into handle_row + handle_non_both_done with a
leg_outcome/1 tag helper so the cross-product of leg statuses collapses
to a single pair match (credo complexity limit).
CDS enforces a per-user cap of 150 queued jobs. Each successful submit
adds 2 rows to era5_cds_jobs (single-level + pressure-level), so when
the current in-flight count + 2 would exceed (150 - 10 headroom), the
worker snoozes for 5 minutes instead of POSTing to CDS. Stops 'Number
of queued requests is limited to 150' rejects from burning Oban
attempts.
Contacts whose weather/hrrr/terrain/iemre status has been :queued for
more than 3 days (144 cron cycles) are flipped to :unavailable. The
set_enrichment_status!/3 helper is a no-op when the status is unchanged,
so a stuck row retains a stale updated_at — which is exactly the signal
we need for 'the cron has already tried and the data doesnt exist
upstream' (dead ASOS station, pre-2014 HRRR, out-of-grid IEMRE). Clears
~1,492 pre-existing stuck contacts and stops them from churning the
backfill queue.
When CDS returns 404 for a poll check, the job is gone (manually
deleted, reaped, or never existed). Retrying will always 404, so treat
it as terminal: drop the era5_cds_jobs row, delete the sibling CDS job,
re-enqueue Era5SubmitWorker for the tile-month, and discard the Oban
poll job. Fixes 30 retryable poll jobs left behind by the interrupted
manual-cleanup script.
Ports the same two overlay toggles from /map to /weather:
- Maidenhead grid squares via the shared updateGridOverlay helper,
redrawn on moveend when visible.
- ECCC GeoMet WMS radar (CONUS + Canada dBZ), lazy-created on first
toggle with a 6-minute tile refresh timer.
Both toggles live in the desktop sidebar below the layer description
and in the mobile pulldown panel. Hook cleanup clears the radar
refresh timer on destroyed().
The single Era5MonthBatchWorker pinned an Oban slot for the full 30-45
min a CDS month-tile takes to assemble, and lost the work entirely on a
rolling deploy because the in-flight Task died with the pod. This splits
the flow into two tiny workers and persists the CDS job IDs so deploys
survive.
New pipeline:
1. Era5SubmitWorker (:era5_submit queue) — POSTs both CDS requests in
parallel, writes an `era5_cds_jobs` row with the returned job IDs,
and enqueues an Era5PollWorker scheduled +5 min. ~1s of real work.
Short-circuits when the month-tile is already cached or when a row
already exists (in-flight from a previous attempt).
2. Era5PollWorker (:era5_poll queue) — reads the row, calls
Era5Client.check_status/1 for both CDS job IDs, and:
- returns {:snooze, 300} if either job is still running (Oban
re-schedules without counting an attempt and releases the slot
immediately — a pod can keep dozens of tile-months in flight
without pinning workers)
- streams both GRIB files to disk via Req into: File.stream!,
decodes via Wgrib2.extract_grid_messages_from_file, bulk-inserts
via Era5BatchClient.decode_and_insert/6, deletes the row, and
DELETEs both completed jobs from CDS to free server-side quota
- if either leg CDS-reports failed, deletes the row + both CDS
jobs and returns {:error, reason}
Era5Client gains four testable building blocks:
submit_job/2 (bare POST → {:ok, job_id})
check_status/1 (GET → :running | {:done, src} | {:failed, reason})
download_source_to_file/3 (streams {:url, href} or writes {:body, bin})
delete_job/1 (DELETE /jobs/:id, treats 200/202/204/404 as :ok)
All Req calls now route through `era5_req_options` so tests can stub
CDS responses via Req.Test.stub(Era5Client, fn).
Era5MonthBatchWorker is retained as a thin forwarder to Era5SubmitWorker
so any jobs already in the :era5_batch queue on prod pods drain cleanly
on the next rolling deploy. Safe to delete in a follow-up.
Adds era5_cds_jobs table with a unique index on
(year, month, tile_lat, tile_lon) so duplicate submits collapse.
New queue config in runtime.exs:
era5_submit: local_limit 4, rate_limit 30/hour (burst protection)
era5_poll: local_limit 20 (polls are cheap GETs)
era5_batch: kept at 1 for legacy job drain, delete next cycle
Four independent wins from a perf audit of the era5_batch worker path:
1. Parallel CDS submits per job. fetch_single_level_month and
fetch_pressure_level_month have no ordering dependency — each blocks
30+ min on CDS queue/download — so running them in two linked Tasks
halves wall time for every job in the backlog.
2. Stream GRIB2 downloads directly to disk via Req `into: File.stream!`.
A month-tile GRIB is 50–200 MB and was previously slurped into the
BEAM heap and then written back out to a temp file before wgrib2 ran.
New Era5Client.submit_and_download_to_file/3 skips both copies. Saves
100–200 MB heap per worker × 12 concurrent ≈ 1.2–2.4 GB peak under
full parallelism. Partial files are removed on HTTP error.
3. Wgrib2.extract_grid_messages_from_file/3 lets batch decoding read the
streamed temp file directly. The binary variant still exists for the
single-point path and now delegates through the same helper.
4. Composite index (valid_time, lat, lon) on era5_profiles, matching the
three-range scan used by Weather.find_nearest_era5 (contact detail +
path profiles) and StatusLive.count_era5_done (status page EXISTS
subquery). The unique index on (lat, lon, valid_time) couldn't serve
it efficiently.
Also bumps the bulk insert chunk size 2k → 4k to halve insert round-trips
per month-tile (still well under Postgres' 65k-parameter cap).
Raise local_limit 2→4 (12 concurrent cluster-wide) and rate_limit 10→30
per hour. Each job makes 2 serial CDS requests, so active workers map 1:1
to CDS slots; 12 sits safely under CDS-Beta's ~16 per-user ceiling while
the rate gate stays above steady-state so it stops being the bottleneck.
Contact detail page now renders an atmospheric profile section backed by
HRRR when available and ERA5 (reanalysis) otherwise, labeled with the
data source. When both sources are missing and HRRR is known-unavailable
(pre-2014 contacts), the Era5FetchWorker is enqueued so the month-tile
backfill gets triggered from a user visit.
Status page ERA5 progress previously computed "complete" as
(total_contacts - hrrr_unavailable_contacts), which treated every contact
with any HRRR status as ERA5-complete — inflating the bar to 76% while
era5_profiles had 0 rows. Replaced with a per-candidate EXISTS query
against era5_profiles using the same 0.15°/30-min tolerance
Weather.find_nearest_era5/3 uses at lookup time.
CDS rejects `reanalysis-era5-pressure-levels` requests that include
dewpoint_temperature because it's only a single-level 2m variable; no
pressure-level dewpoint exists in ERA5. The failure mode is a 2–3 second
`{"status": "failed"}` response with no message field, which is why
prod was burning through Era5MonthBatchWorker attempts without anything
landing in era5_profiles.
Switch the pressure-level moisture variable to specific_humidity (SPFH),
update the wgrib2 extraction regex, and convert SPFH → dewpoint °C via
Weather.ThetaE.dewpoint_from_spfh/2 in the profile builder. Surface
dewpoint keeps using the single-level 2m dewpoint_temperature, which is
valid and already working.
Three signal sources we already collect but weren't using:
* NEXRAD composite reflectivity → rain rate via Marshall-Palmer, taken
as max of HRRR-derived and NEXRAD-derived rate so fast convective
cells between HRRR hourly analyses can still trigger the rain penalty.
Only active on f00 — forecast hours can't see future radar. New
Scorer.dbz_to_rain_rate_mmhr/1 with 5 dBZ noise floor and 150 mm/hr
hail-safe ceiling.
* hrrr_native_profiles.best_duct_band_ghz → Scorer.score_refractivity/4
applies a 1.15× boost when the cell's native-resolution duct supports
the target band's frequency. HRRR pressure-level gradients
systematically under-read thin trapping layers the native profile can
resolve. Sub-band ducts do NOT boost — they're evidence that the
gradient we have is all there is at the target frequency.
* Commercial LOS link rx_power fading → inverse tropo sensor.
Commercial.link_degradation_at/3 computes the average 7-day-baseline
vs current delta across enabled links within 75 km, ignoring links
where link_state != 1. Scorer.commercial_link_boost/2 adds +2 to +25
to the composite score for 3+ dB of fading. ~150 km radius around
DFW is the only zone this helps today, but it's the first *measured*
signal in the algorithm vs the model-derived proxies.
Also fix a latent test bug exposed by the earlier ERA5 poll-timeout
bump: era5_batch_client_test's "uncached path returns error" tests
hung for up to an hour when run with direnv's real CDS key. New
describe-level setup explicitly unsets the env var so the tests stay
hermetic.
1,359 tests, 0 failures.
Direct queries against prod (75M HRRR profiles, 16,864 soundings, 392k
surface obs, new hrrr_native_profiles table) drive these changes:
* Reinstate shallow-BL bonus as an HPBL multiplier on the refractivity
score (1.10× <200m → 0.78× ≥2000m). The Apr 11 "shallow BL bonus
removed" conclusion was an artifact of the prior matching strategy;
with the cleaner contact↔HRRR join (n=680) the binned data goes 230 km
avg at HPBL <200m vs 100 km at ≥2000m, monotonic across all bins.
* Add 6 missing bands (142, 145, 288, 322, 403, 411 GHz) so contacts in
those bands stop being silently dropped. Coefficients extrapolate
ITU-R P.676/P.838 trends from the existing 134/241 GHz entries.
* Bump ERA5 poll timeout 10 min → 1 hour and Era5MonthBatchWorker
max_attempts 3 → 5 so CDS slowness stops discarding tiles. Also dump
the full failure body when CDS omits the message field — the prior
"ERA5 job failed: nil" was masking real error reasons in oban_jobs.
* Add scripts/recalibrate_algo.py so this analysis can be re-run any
time new data lands without manual SQL. Reads PROP_PROD_DB_URL from
.envrc, drops a Markdown report into docs/algo-reports/.
* Append a dated Part 2c to algo.md documenting the corpus expansion,
the honest accounting of historical HRRR coverage (only ~1,020 of 58k
contacts are precision-matchable), and the empty era5/rtma/climatology
tables. Update the gaseous-absorption and rain-attenuation tables to
include the new bands.
Test suite: 1,335 tests, 0 failures.
Previously rendered only the current page button. Now renders 1…(current-2)..(current+1)
using just has_next_page, collapsing with an ellipsis past page 4.
IEM's RAOB endpoint stopped keeping Canadian stations current — most
stalled around Sep 2024 — which leaves a gap in refractivity/ducting
calibration over all the CW*/CY* stations already in weather_stations.
MSC's own tephi CSV is fixed-width and rendering-focused; the WMO TEMP
bulletins would need a full decoder. University of Wyoming serves the
same stations in a clean space-delimited format, is current, and
accepts the 3-letter station code (drop the leading C from Canadian
ICAO). Its output shape matches IemClient.parse_raob_json/1 exactly,
so it drops straight into Weather.upsert_sounding/2.
- New UwyoSoundingClient with URL builder, Req-based fetch_sounding,
and a fixed-width parse_sounding_html that extracts PRES/HGHT/TEMP/
DWPT/DRCT/SKNT from the <PRE> block and DateTime from the <H2> header.
- New CanadianSoundingFetchWorker: Oban batch worker that finds all
sounding stations whose code starts with C, picks the most recently
publishable 00Z or 12Z slot (90 min publish delay), calls UWYO per
station, and upserts with SoundingParams-derived refractivity/
ducting fields.
- Oban cron at 01:30Z and 13:30Z (dev + prod) to drive the worker.
- Req.Test plug wiring in config/test.exs.
- Captured Goose Bay fixture as test/support/fixtures/uwyo_sounding_yyr.html.
Also drops two implementation plans under docs/plans/:
- 2026-04-13-rdps-vertical-profiles.md: ~2 day plan for RDPS 10 km
Canadian ducting outside HRRR's Lambert footprint.
- 2026-04-13-hrdps-canadian-prop-grid.md: ~5 day plan for the full
HRDPS 2.5 km Canadian prop grid. Explicitly recommends doing RDPS
first.
TDD throughout, 19 new tests, 1318/1318 passing, credo strict clean.
- Tailwind source(none) wasn't scanning deps, so shadcn tokens
(border-border, bg-muted, text-foreground, ...) used by live_table
and sutra_ui weren't generated, leaving `border` to fall back to
currentcolor — a heavy dark border around every table in light mode.
Add @source directives for deps/live_table/lib and deps/sutra_ui/lib.
- Drop the hardcoded width:100% on the outer .select wrapper so the
per-page selector's Tailwind w-24 wins instead of stretching across
the header and overlapping the search box.
- Make whole rows clickable: global click delegator in app.ts forwards
tr clicks to the first <a href> in the row (the Actions "View" link),
skipping inner interactive elements. cursor + hover highlight added.
- Replace the default Prev/Next footer with a daisyUI .join/.btn-based
pager (MicrowavepropWeb.LiveTableFooter), wired up globally via
:live_table defaults so it applies to every live_table at once.
warm_grid_cache_and_broadcast was re-SELECTing 92k hrrr_profiles rows
with JSONB profile/duct_characteristics columns on every forecast hour.
Row decoding exceeded the 15s default DB connection timeout, killing
the worker before f01-f18 could run. Oban retried from f00 and got
stuck in a loop: for the last several hours, no forecast hours were
being written and even f00 was stale.
Build the weather cache rows directly from the in-memory grid_data
the worker already has (Weather.build_grid_cache_rows/2) and
GridCache.broadcast_put directly. No DB round trip, no JSONB decode.
Also widen the cron from hourly to every 3 hours so a full f00-f18
sweep (~95 min) can actually complete before the next run starts,
and drop the redundant prune_old_scores() at worker start
(PropagationPruneWorker already runs every 15 min). Add a 60s query
timeout to load_weather_grid_from_db as defense-in-depth for the
cold-cache fill path that still uses it.
- Compat CSS layer (assets/css/live_table_compat.css) maps the
shadcn tokens live_table/sutra_ui use (bg-muted, text-foreground,
border-border, bg-background, select-trigger, input-group, etc.)
onto daisyUI base colors, and provides hand-written component CSS
for select/dropdown/input-group/empty so the table has a proper
surface + a select popover that actually hides when closed.
- Default-sort the Contacts table by most recent inserted_at.
- Beacon detail "Plot path" now encodes lat/lon to an 8-char
Maidenhead grid when coordinates are known, so the destination
handed to the path calculator is more precise than the beacon's
stored 4-char grid.
- Rename BackfillLive -> StatusLive, move route from /admin/backfill
to /status, retitle "Backfill Dashboard" -> "Status", drop the
enqueue form (LiveStash + BackfillEnqueueWorker no longer needed
on this page). Contact edit admin back-link now points at /status.
TerrainAnalysis.deygout_diffraction/2 short-circuits to integer 0
when the path has no interior points or the principal edge nu is
below the shadow boundary, which then made Float.round/2 blow up
inside compute_loss_budget when the rest of the losses were all
floats. Multiply the diffraction value by 1.0 before it feeds into
the total so clear paths coerce cleanly without touching
TerrainAnalysis's (number()) contract.
Replace the stacked-bar 18-hour forecast on the path calculator with
an SVG line chart that mirrors the look of the point-detail sparkline
on /map:
- polyline through every hour with per-tier stroke color
- score gridlines at 0 / 50 / 100
- white "now" marker outlined in the tier color
- highlighted best-hour dot with score label
- first / middle / last time labels along the x-axis
- Improving / Steady / Declining trend chip in the header
Rendered server-side in HEEx as a viewBox="0 0 300 96" SVG so it
scales responsively and inherits the daisyUI text color for axes.
The Best / Worst summary line under the chart is preserved.
Also fixes the Path Weather Avg card: the "Refrac Gradient" cell was
the only stat that split its units out onto a second line in a
smaller muted row. Move "N/km" up beside the value so the cell reads
the same as Pressure (mb), PWAT (mm), BL Depth (m), etc.
HEEx attribute values aren't run through Elixir's string escape
machinery, so "Feed Loss (\u00d72)" was showing up verbatim in the
Power Budget card instead of collapsing to the multiplication sign.
Swap the escape for the literal U+00D7 character.
Instead of shelling out to https://gridmap.org/locate/:callsign for
callsign → lat/lon lookups, ports the resolver pipeline from gridmap-web
into this project so the whole flow runs in-process.
New modules:
- Microwaveprop.Qrz — cache facade over the QRZ.com XML callsign API.
Looks up from qrz_callsigns first, falls back to a live fetch, and
upserts the result with a configurable cache_ttl_hours (default
168h / 7 days).
- Microwaveprop.Qrz.Client — HTTP/XML client against
https://xmldata.qrz.com/xml/current/. Holds the session key in an
Agent, transparently re-logs-in on :session_expired, and parses
responses via xmerl.
- Microwaveprop.Qrz.Callsign — Ecto schema for the qrz_callsigns
cache table, binary_id primary key per project convention.
- Microwaveprop.Qrz.Record — slim struct with only the 11 fields
we actually consume (identity, name, grid, address, lat/lon).
The full XML payload stays in the raw :data jsonb column for
anyone who wants the other ~40 QRZ fields.
- Microwaveprop.Geocoder — Req-based client against the Google Maps
Geocoding API. Only called as a fallback when QRZ has no explicit
<lat>/<lon> for the callsign.
- Microwaveprop.CallsignLocation — orchestrator. Reads the
callsign_locations cache, on miss calls Qrz then either uses QRZ's
coords directly or geocodes the formatted address, snaps to an
8-char Maidenhead grid via Microwaveprop.Radio.Maidenhead, and
upserts the result.
Microwaveprop.Radio.CallsignClient.locate/1 is rewritten to delegate
to CallsignLocation.lookup/1 and shape the response back to the
existing {:ok, %{callsign, gridsquare, lat, lon}} contract so the
callers in PathLive and RoverLive don't change.
Wiring:
- priv/repo/migrations/20260413000000_create_qrz_callsigns_and_callsign_locations.exs
creates qrz_callsigns and callsign_locations with unique indexes
on :callsign.
- Microwaveprop.Qrz.Client added to the application supervision tree
so the session Agent is started.
- :xmerl added to extra_applications so the release bundles it.
- config/test.exs wires Req.Test plugs for Microwaveprop.Qrz.Client
and Microwaveprop.Geocoder, forces cache_ttl_hours: 0 so the cache
never short-circuits test-level stubs, and supplies dummy QRZ
credentials.
- config/runtime.exs pulls QRZ_USERNAME / QRZ_PASSWORD / QRZ_AGENT
and GOOGLE_API_KEY from the environment so prod and dev can
configure both upstream keys out of band.
Tests (ported verbatim from gridmap-web):
- test/microwaveprop/qrz/callsign_test.exs — schema/changeset
- test/microwaveprop/qrz_test.exs — cache hit, cache miss, TTL
behavior, upsert on stale, error passthrough, case-insensitive
input
- test/microwaveprop/geocoder_test.exs — success, zero results,
request denied, transport error
- test/microwaveprop/callsign_location_test.exs — end-to-end flow
including the QRZ-lat/lon shortcut and the missing-address error
path
All 1294 tests still pass. Credo strict clean.
Replaces the hand-rolled sort/search/pagination on /contacts with
LiveTable.LiveResource. Sortable columns for station1/2, grid1/2,
band, mode, distance_km, qso_timestamp, and inserted_at; searchable
across both stations, both grids, and mode. Custom renderers preserve
the enrichment summary badge (with per-status tooltip), the invalid
flag column, and the qso/inserted_at formatters.
The reciprocal-grouping block has been dropped per the brainstorming
decision — every QSO now shows as its own row, which avoids fighting
live_table's one-row-per-record model. A "View" action links to the
detail page instead of the previous row-click handler (live_table's
stream dom_ids are random UUIDs so row-click by record id is no
longer practical without forking the library).
Test updates:
- sort test switched to ?sort_params[station1]=asc (live_table URL
format; the old ?sort_by/?sort_order params are gone)
- pair-search test removed since live_table does a single ILIKE
across searchable fields and no longer supports the two-callsign
intersection that Radio.list_contacts/1 used to do; single-term
search is exercised instead
- pagination test asserts the presence of "Page" (live_table's
pagination text is "Page N" without the total count)
Also converts the stray cond-with-single-clause in
UserManagementLive.Index's delete handler to if/else (credo fix).
The pending-edits list on the admin review page now sorts through
live_table. Columns for contact, submitted-by user, changed-fields
summary, and submitted timestamp are rendered via 2-arity custom
renderers so the Ecto-preloaded :contact and :user associations stay
accessible — live_table's data_provider path skips select_columns so
the full struct (with preloads) reaches the renderer.
The review drawer, diff table, approve/reject flow, and note textarea
all stay as-is; after approve/reject the page push_patches back to
its current path so live_table re-runs handle_params and the list
refreshes.
Pending count in the header now reads Radio.pending_edit_count/0
instead of length(@edits) since we no longer hold the full list in
socket state.
Replaces the stream-backed static table for approved beacons with
LiveTable.LiveResource, giving users column sorting and full-text
search across callsign and grid. Custom renderers preserve the
frequency/EIRP formatting, keying label, and on-air badge so the
visual output matches the previous daisyUI cells.
A new Beacons.approved_beacons_query/0 returns the base Ecto query
(`where: approved == true`), assigned onto socket.assigns.data_provider
in mount so live_table's handle_params uses it as the root query and
applies sort/search/paginate on top. The leaflet map above the table
keeps its existing phx-hook+phx-update=ignore setup, and the pending-
approval admin section stays as a stream-backed `<.table>` — live_table
is single-resource-per-liveview and the pending list is a distinct
admin concern anyway.
PubSub updates (beacon created/updated/deleted) now push_patch to the
current path so live_table re-runs handle_params and the table
refreshes in place.
Adds an "Open in Path Calculator" action to the contact detail
header. The link navigates to /path with source/destination prefilled
(preferring Maidenhead grids over station callsigns, since grids
are exact and callsigns go through a QRZ + geocoder round-trip)
and the contact's band selected. PathLive's handle_params already
auto-runs the calculation when source + destination are present,
so the user lands straight on the computed path ready to tweak
TX power, antenna heights, and gains.
TerrainAnalysis.analyse was being called with default 0 m antenna
heights on both ends of a QSO's path, which makes the knife-edge
diffraction math pretend the radios are sitting directly on the
terrain surface. Pass 3.048 m (10 ft) for both ant_ht_a and ant_ht_b,
and shift the forward/reverse elevation angles to match. This is
only a display assumption on /contacts/:id — terrain worker paths
computed elsewhere are unaffected.
Hovering the dotted-underlined "callsign" in the Destination label
on /path now surfaces a tooltip explaining that callsign lookup
queries QRZ for the licensee's mailing address and geocodes it, so
the resulting position may differ from where the station actually
operates. Gives users a reason to enter a grid directly when they
know it's more accurate than a QRZ address.
Wire up gurujada/live_table 0.4.1 as a dependency (alongside its
transitive sutra_ui and optional igniter requirement) with the
:live_table config pointing at our Repo and PubSub. Forced oban_web
override so the path-pinned vendored copy still wins over live_table's
hex constraint.
Convert the admin /users page to use LiveTable.LiveResource with
sortable, searchable columns for callsign, name, and email. Custom
renderers preserve the daisyUI admin badge and the pending/confirmed
date cell. Hidden id field stays in the query so the edit and delete
actions can target a record by id.
Updated the delete test to push the delete event directly with an id
payload; the stream dom_ids under live_table are random UUIDs so
tr#users-<id> selectors no longer work.
Collapse the three admin-only links (Users, Contact edits, Oban) into
a single "Admin" dropdown in the horizontal nav so the top bar isn't
cluttered with admin controls for the one admin account. Non-admins
see nothing extra.
The profile page's involving-contacts query now limits to the 100
most recent rows (ordered by qso_timestamp desc). A small note is
shown under the heading when the cap is hit so users know there's
more data they're not seeing.
Clicking anywhere in a row on the /u/:callsign involving-contacts
table now navigates to that contact's detail page, matching the
click affordance on the main /contacts list.
Add a new card on the profile page listing every contact where the
callsign appears as either station1 or station2, case-insensitive,
newest first. Backed by a new `Radio.list_contacts_involving_callsign/1`
query with unit coverage for station1/station2 matching, case handling,
ordering, and blank input.
Move Scoring Algorithm directly above About in map and weather-map
sidebars; reorder the horizontal nav so Submit sits before Contacts
to match.
Add a "Plot path to beacon" button on the beacon detail page that
navigates to /path with destination, band (snapped via BandResolver),
and dst_height_ft prefilled from the beacon.
/beacons gains a Leaflet map above the table showing every approved
beacon as a circle marker with a popup that links to the detail page.
New BeaconsListMap JS hook (assets/js/beacons_list_map_hook.ts) walks a
data-beacons JSON payload, fitBounds over the marker set, and mirrors
the format_freq/1 integer-comma formatting used on the detail view so
the popups match the rest of the UI. Approved/on-air beacons render
green, off-air beacons render gray. BeaconLive.Index.mount/3 now
materializes the list into an assign so it can encode it into the data
attribute; the live PubSub path keeps the map in sync on
create/update/delete.
Profile (/u/:callsign) polish: drop the hero-radio, hero-signal, and
hero-information-circle icons per request, and replace the daisyUI
`avatar placeholder` wrapper with a plain flex-centered circle so the
initial letter actually lives inside the circle instead of anchored to
the top-left corner (daisyUI 5 removed the old placeholder-centering
behavior).
Navigation ordering: in the top navbar (layouts.ex) Contacts now sits
immediately before Contact Map instead of after it. All three vertical
sidebars already had them adjacent in the correct order, so only the
horizontal nav changed.
Profile page:
* New MicrowavepropWeb.UserProfileLive at /u/:callsign is a public
page showing a user's contacts and beacons. Resolves case-
insensitively so /u/w5isp and /u/W5ISP are the same thing; unknown
callsigns redirect to /. Uses daisyUI card / stats / table
components with an avatar-placeholder initial and hero icons.
* Accounts.get_user_by_callsign/1 (case-insensitive) plus
Radio.list_contacts_for_user/1 and Beacons.list_beacons_for_user/1
back the page. Beacons list includes both approved and pending so
owners see their drafts.
* The top nav bar and the three LiveView sidebars (MapLive,
WeatherMapLive, ContactMapLive) now render the logged-in callsign
as a navigate link to /u/:callsign instead of a static label.
* Nine new tests cover the lookup, the LiveView render, and the
ownership-scoped queries.
Flexible band input:
* New Microwaveprop.Radio.BandResolver module converts any of:
ADIF wavelength labels ("33cm", "1.25cm", "6mm", case/whitespace
insensitive), numeric frequency strings ("903.100", "10368.000"),
and canonical MHz integers into the one of the site's known bands.
Returns the nearest allowed band for numeric inputs >= 900 MHz,
nil otherwise.
* 902 MHz is added to Contact.@allowed_bands, ContactEdit.@allowed_bands,
AdifImport.@allowed_bands, and the BandResolver list so "33cm"
round-trips end-to-end.
* AdifImport and CsvImport now delegate band resolution to
BandResolver, and Radio.create_contact/2 normalizes the :band attr
on the way in so the manual form and any API callers benefit too.
CsvImport's "invalid band" tests previously used 99999 MHz which
the new resolver snaps to the nearest allowed band; swapped to
"notaband" which is truly unresolvable.
Contacts and beacons list UX:
* Remove the "Submitted" column from /contacts — it duplicated info
already visible on the detail page and was pushing the real
columns off narrow viewports. submitted_cell/1 and its three
column-specific tests go with it.
* Hide the Lat / Lon columns from /beacons — six decimal places of
coordinates weren't useful next to the grid square and took a
disproportionate amount of row width.
