- Anonymous users can submit beacons (held pending admin approval)
- Added notes field to beacons (textarea on form, shown on detail page)
- Added Beacons link to /map sidebar nav (mobile + desktop),
removed stale Rover Planner link
- Moved /backfill to /admin/backfill under the admin live_session
- Beacon detail map zooms in two extra levels after fitBounds
The Era5FetchWorker now declares an Oban unique constraint on
{lat, lon, valid_time} for any job in available/scheduled/executing/
retryable, so two backfill runs targeting the same contact grid point
can no longer spawn parallel CDS requests for the same hour.
Because Oban OSS insert_all doesn't honor unique, ERA5 jobs are now
routed through Oban.insert/1 from ContactWeatherEnqueueWorker and the
era5_backfill mix task. Other worker types still use insert_all.
Non-admin users can now submit beacons but they are held in an
unapproved state until an admin approves them. Only approved beacons
appear in the public list; pending submissions are shown in a separate
admin-only section on /beacons with Approve and Delete actions. The
show page surfaces a pending badge and an admin-only Approve button
when viewing an unapproved beacon.
Also formats EIRP (mW) on the index page without scientific notation.
Replace the idealised concentric-circle range rings with a realistic
per-HRRR-grid-cell reception map. For every 0.125° grid point within
the band's exceptional range, the estimator computes great-circle
distance, FSPL + atmospheric loss, and applies a cell-specific score
adjustment of (50 - score) * 0.3 dB — score 100 gives a 15 dB ducting
boost, score 0 a 15 dB penalty. Cells below the -145 dBm detection
floor are dropped.
The beacon map hook now renders each surviving cell as a 0.125°
filled rectangle with a tooltip showing tier, Rx dBm, distance, and
HRRR score, so the coverage footprint bulges where ducting conditions
are good and cuts off where they aren't, instead of being a perfect
circle. Falls back to score 50 for cells that don't have HRRR data
yet, so the plot is always useful.
Also fixes the prior all-grey-tiles regression by restoring an
explicit setView() at map creation and adding a post-mount
invalidateSize() for when the map is placed inside a flex container.
The power_mw field represents the beacon's effective radiated power,
not just transmitter output. Relabel it as "TX power (EIRP)" on the
form and detail list, "EIRP (mW)" in the index, and drop the now-
meaningless tx_gain_dbi constant in RangeEstimate since the stored
value already includes antenna gain.
- Add on_the_air boolean to beacons (default true); surfaced as a
checkbox on the form, a badge on the index, and in the detail list.
- Render a Leaflet map on the beacon show page with a marker at the
beacon's lat/lon tooltipped with callsign + frequency. Marker is
green when on air, gray when off.
- Compute and draw a reception-range estimate as concentric signal-
strength rings. New Microwaveprop.Beacons.RangeEstimate solves a
link budget (FSPL + O2/H2O absorption from BandConfig) at five RX
thresholds (-100 to -145 dBm), then scales by 0.5 + score/100 from
the latest Propagation.point_detail at the beacon's grid square, so
current HRRR conditions shift the rings in or out.
- Re-enable the hourly PropagationGridWorker cron and freshness
monitor in dev.exs so dev actually has HRRR-backed scores to feed
the new estimator.
- Rename beacons.height_m to height_ft; migration converts existing
values (m * 3.28084). Form/list/show labels updated.
- Beacon changeset now fills lat/lon from the grid when they're blank
(previously only the reverse worked). Lat/lon and grid inputs are no
longer marked required in the form — enter one side and the other
populates on blur via phx-change.
- Rename beacons.power_watts to power_mw (migration multiplies existing
values by 1000); form/list/show all relabeled to "Power (mW)"
- Fix Add-monitor button alignment on /users/settings by rendering the
label above and putting the input and button in a plain flex row so
the input wrapper margin no longer offsets the button
- Extend the settings page re-auth window from 10 minutes to 24 hours
Beacons:
- Scaffolded with phx.gen.live then reworked so reads are public
and mutations go through a live_session gated by the new
:require_admin on_mount hook in UserAuth
- Beacon schema stores frequency (MHz), callsign, grid, lat/lon,
power (W), and height above ground (m); grid auto-derives from
lat/lon when left blank via Maidenhead.from_latlon
- Adds Maidenhead.from_latlon/3 so we can compute grids locally
instead of hitting an external API
Users admin page:
- /users and /users/:id/edit (admin-only) for listing, editing
(callsign/name/email/is_admin), and deleting other users
- Adds Accounts.list_users, admin_update_user, delete_user, and
a dedicated admin_changeset on the User schema
- Nav gains a "Users" link for admins and a "Beacons" link for
everyone
Adds a boolean is_admin column (default false) and has the
registration changeset auto-set it to true when the email matches
graham@mcintire.me (case-insensitive). The migration also backfills
the flag for an existing row with that email.
Users can now register beacon monitors on the settings page. Each
monitor gets a unique random token the remote program will use to
authenticate its reports. Name is the only user-supplied field for
now; more will be added as the monitor protocol is defined.
Also adds :gen_smtp to deps. Swoosh's SMTP adapter depends on
:mimemail which lives in that package, and production was 500'ing
when trying to send confirmation emails without it.
- Register/Log in (or callsign/Settings/Log out) now live next to
the Map/Path/Rover links in the main header instead of a separate
top menu bar
- Add on_mount in UserAuth to assign current_scope on LiveView mount,
and pass current_scope through to Layouts.app from every LiveView
- Drop the old top <ul> from root.html.heex
- Password minimum lowered from 12 to 8 characters
Generated Accounts context, User schema, and controllers via
phx.gen.auth. Adapted it for password-only login with required
email confirmation:
- Users have callsign (unique, uppercased), name, email, password
- Registration form fields: callsign, name, email, password, confirm
- Magic-link login path removed; login is email + password only
- After register, a confirmation email is sent and login is blocked
until the account is confirmed via the token URL
- Confirmation link logs the user in on first use
- SMTP2GO configured as the outgoing mailer in k8s prod
New BandConfig entries for 902, 1296, 2304, 3456, 5760 MHz:
- All beneficial humidity effect (like 10 GHz)
- Near-zero gaseous absorption and rain attenuation
- Ranges: 902 MHz typical 400 km, 5760 MHz typical 220 km
- Same seasonal curves as 10 GHz (ducting-driven)
BandConfig.band_options/0 generates dropdown options from configs.
All pages (path, rover, submit) use centralized band_options instead
of hardcoded lists. Map page already used BandConfig.all_bands().
10 GHz remains the default on all pages.
- Toggle button for Maidenhead grid overlay (on by default)
- Coverage candidates now at 0.25° resolution (~28 km) instead of
2°×1° Maidenhead grids, matching HRRR propagation grid density
- Coverage rectangles render as 0.25° cells for finer detail
- Grid overlay is separate from coverage coloring
- Extract scoring logic to Microwaveprop.Rover.Coverage for testability
- Two-phase computation: fast pass (distance + propagation) for all grids,
then SRTM terrain analysis for top 20 candidates only
- Cap search radius to 300 km to keep candidate count reasonable
- Run terrain analysis in Task with rescue/fallback for resilience
- Background Task doesn't block LiveView process
- 5 tests covering: ranked results, empty inputs, station details,
band range differences, field presence
Interactive map-based tool for planning rover operating positions.
Rovers enter stationary stations they want to work, then click the
map to evaluate candidate operating grids.
Features:
- Add stationary stations by callsign or grid square
- Click map to add operating positions (snaps to Maidenhead grid)
- Async SRTM terrain analysis: each stop computes terrain profile
to every station, shows CLEAR/BLOCKED verdict + diffraction loss
- Terrain lines on map: green=workable, red=blocked, dashed=marginal
- Propagation score and 18-hour forecast sparkline per stop
- Route summary: driving distance, unique grid-station pairs
- Band selector affects range limits and propagation scores
- Numbered waypoint markers with score-colored backgrounds
New files:
- Geo module (shared haversine/bearing, used by PathLive too)
- RoverLive with fullscreen map + sidebar
- RoverMap JS hook with grid overlay, station/stop markers, route line
- Nav links in header and map control panel
LiveView page for analyzing microwave propagation between two points.
Features:
- Source/destination input: callsign (via gridmap.org API) or Maidenhead grid
- Band selector for all 8 microwave bands (10-241 GHz)
- Leaflet map showing path line (reuses ContactMap hook)
- Terrain elevation cross-section (reuses ElevationProfile hook)
- Link summary: distance, bearing, terrain verdict
- Loss budget: FSPL + O2 + H2O + rain + diffraction
- Propagation score with 10-factor breakdown
- Current atmospheric conditions from path-integrated HRRR
New CallsignClient for gridmap.org location lookup.
Navigation links added to main navbar and map control panel.
Contact scoring now uses all HRRR profiles along the path instead of
just pos1. Aggregation strategy:
- Best along path for beneficial factors (refractivity, pressure)
- Worst along path for harmful factors (rain, wind)
- Average for neutral factors (temp, dewpoint, PWAT, BL depth)
Scorer.path_integrated_conditions/2 merges multiple profiles into a
single conditions map. Falls back gracefully to single-profile scoring
when only one profile is available.
Apply 5-point circular moving average to reach_km values before
rendering the boundary polygon. Eliminates sharp spikes caused by
isolated terrain anomalies in SRTM data.
Runs BackfillEnqueueWorker every 30 minutes to pick up contacts with
pending/queued/failed enrichment status and enqueue missing jobs.
Before enqueueing, reconciles terrain contacts stuck in "queued" by
checking the terrain_profiles FK directly.
When ASOS/RAOB/IEMRE APIs return empty data, store a stub record so
dedup checks (has_surface_observations?, has_sounding?, has_iemre_observation?)
see coverage and don't recreate the same jobs on future backfill runs.
Queued contacts just need reconciliation (check if data exists),
while pending contacts need actual HRRR fetches. Process pending
first so real work happens before reconciliation.
Backfill dashboard now has checkboxes to select which enrichment types
to process (HRRR, Weather, Terrain, IEMRE). Prevents weather jobs from
flooding the queue when only HRRR needs work.
The propagation grid stores profiles at 0.125° intervals, so contacts
up to 0.0625° from a grid point would miss with the old 0.05° tolerance.
This caused has_hrrr_profile? and find_nearest_hrrr to fail matching
against existing data, leaving contacts incorrectly stuck as pending.
enqueue_for_contact unconditionally marked contacts as :queued even
when no HRRR jobs were needed (profiles already exist). Workers never
updated contact status to :complete after storing profiles. Contacts
got stuck and were never re-processed.
- Mark :complete when no jobs generated (data already exists)
- Include :queued in backfill enrichable states for reconciliation
- libcluster with Kubernetes IP strategy for pod discovery
- RBAC for pod list/get, POD_IP from downward API, shared cookie
- LiveDashboard at /dashboard for all environments
- Fix score_pressure crash on nil pressure_mb (coastal HRRR points)
- Set 10-min timeout on grid score upsert transaction (was :infinity)
- Single DELETE for prune_old_scores instead of N queries in a loop
- Remove dead load_hrrr_refractivity that loaded 95k rows into nil map
- Pass selected_time to point_detail to skip latest_valid_time sub-query
- Batch station existence checks (1 query per path point, not per station)
- Batch solar index upserts via insert_all in chunks of 500
- Batch backfill_distances via single UPDATE FROM VALUES statement
- Add is_grid_point boolean + partial index to hrrr_profiles (replaces
non-sargable modular arithmetic filter on every weather map query)
- Add partial index on contacts(qso_timestamp) WHERE pos1 IS NOT NULL
- Move backfill enqueue to Oban worker so UI returns immediately
Removed n_live_tup > 0 filter that hid tables when pg_stats reports 0 rows
during VACUUM. Added dead tuple column with warning highlight to monitor
vacuum progress. Also includes Styler reformatting and unused dep cleanup.
ON CONFLICT now only replaces score/factors when the score actually changed,
avoiding dead tuple generation for the ~80% of grid points that don't change
between consecutive HRRR runs.
Migration sets aggressive autovacuum on propagation_scores: zero cost delay,
2000 cost limit, 1% scale factor. The table was at 72GB with 108M dead rows
because default autovacuum couldn't keep pace with 14M upserts per hour.