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feat(windsteer): polar and VMC overlay from the active polar - #641

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Summary

Adds an optional polar overlay to the Windsteer widget. With no active waypoint it draws the active polar's curve for the current true wind speed, plus a dot for the boat's speed through water, so the helmsman sees performance against the polar at the present angle. With an active waypoint in compass mode, the curve becomes a VMC lobe whose longest spoke is the best heading to the waypoint, and the dot shows the actual VMC.

Plan: #635 (Units 3–6). Stacked on #640, which frees the dial center.

Closes #478
Closes #635

How it works

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  AP["polars.activePolar (delta, plus one REST read at start)"] --> S[ActivePolarService]
  PF["polars.performanceFactor"] --> S
  S -->|"GET /signalk/v2/api/resources/polars/<id>"| E["polar engine (TypeScript port of polar-math)"]
  E --> S
  S -->|status, polar, peak speed| W["widget-windsteer: mode decision"]
  W -->|polar-overlay.util| G[curve and dot geometry]
  G --> V[svg-windsteer]
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  • Data comes only through standard Signal K interfaces. The table is read from the v2 Resources API through the polars.activePolar pointer. The Polar Performance plugin's own curve endpoint is admin-only on Signal K 2.31 and later, so it is not used; see the upstream discussion in Polar overlay: readonly polar query routes upstream, then evaluate the plugin endpoint #636.
  • The engine is a TypeScript port of polar-math 1.1.1 and polar-format 1.0.0 (Apache-2.0). Shipping the library itself would bring ajv, which compiles its schema with new Function at load time, into the bundle. polar-math stays a devDependency as the parity oracle: interpolation matches it within 1e-9 over a grid covering in irons, the pinch zone, and TWS inside, below and above the table. THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md ships the attribution and license text in the npm package.
  • The overlay uses its own SI inputs: TWS, water TWA and STW as hidden structural paths in m/s and rad, registered only while the option is on. The existing TWS signal is a display path and holds knots. Keeping all widget values in SI is Keep values in SI inside widgets; convert only for presentation #639. Heading and waypoint bearing come from the existing degree signals and convert to radians once, where the geometry is computed.
  • Mode decision: the overlay is hidden when the option is off, no usable polar is loaded, or TWS or water TWA is stale. VMC mode needs compass mode, fresh heading, the waypoint display on and a fresh bearing. Otherwise the overlay uses polar mode.
  • VMC is water-referenced. Current adds the same amount to every heading, so it does not move the best heading. On a tack where every heading loses ground, the lobe stays empty; the angle for that tack will come from the close-hauled lines in Windsteer: drive the close-hauled line angle from the polar beat angle #638.
  • Rendering: the polar curve is a solid line in the wind frame, rotated by water TWA with the same animation as the true-wind pointer. The VMC curve has a translucent fill with a solid edge and sits inside the rotating dial. Both dots sit on the bow axis in the boat frame. Colour --skip-purple-color is the one accent token the face did not use. The peak speed maps to r 300, inside the COG and waypoint ring at r ≈ 325.
  • Options dialog: a "Polar Overlay" checkbox. Opening the dialog starts the service and shows a fixed status message when no polar is usable. When the polar is ready, the dialog also names any required path that has never been received, which works on the Freeboard settings panel as well.
  • Streams directive: it gains unobserve() and a declarative sourceFromPath, so the hidden paths can follow the source of their display counterpart.
  • The MCP schema artifact is regenerated. A help sentence in dashboards.md covers what the overlay needs and why its curve can sit offset from the pointer when the Ground TWA path is shown.

Verification

  • npm run ci passes: lint, snc, 2400 unit tests, 34 MCP schema tests.
  • Screenshots of polar mode, VMC mode, and VMC with the waypoint dead ahead at near-peak STW, in the light, dark and night themes at about 890 px and 215 px. I measured the polar-mode shot: the in-irons wedge is centred on the true-wind pointer (screen 15°–85° for TWA 52°), and the curve is symmetric about it. In the VMC shot (HDG 030°, TWD 082°, BTW 055°), the longest spoke is at the bow and the losing-tack lobe is small.
  • Perf harness, new windsteer-vmc scenario, with the VMC curve redrawn on every 10 Hz sample, 10× CPU throttle, 3 repeats:
Metric main this branch
Longest task 0 ms 0 ms
Blocking time 0 ms 0 ms
Dropped frames 0 0
p95 handler wait 9 ms 11 ms
Max handler wait 14 ms 19 ms

Not verified: a Freeboard embed tile screenshot (the settings panel is covered by a spec), and a real device.


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Summary

When enabled, the Windsteer widget shows the active polar curve and a boat-speed-through-water dot when the required wind inputs are fresh. In compass mode, when heading and waypoint bearing are also fresh, it shows the VMC curve, best heading, and actual VMC. The overlay stays hidden when required data is unavailable, and widget options explain missing polar or input data.

The active-polar service reads polar data from the Signal K v2 Resources API. A TypeScript polar engine validates and converts polar tables to SI units and calculates speeds. The change also adds rendering and service tests, plus a VMC performance-harness scenario.

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Windsteer gains an optional polar and VMC overlay. A new service loads the active polar and performance factor, and polar utilities calculate the curves and dot. Configuration, SVG rendering, tests, help text, and the performance harness support the overlay.

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Windsteer polar and VMC overlay

Layer / File(s) Summary
Polar table engine and validation
src/app/core/utils/polar-engine.util.ts, src/app/core/utils/polar-engine.util.spec.ts, src/app/core/utils/polar-engine.hurma-polar.fixture.json, package.json, THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md
Adds polar-table validation and unit conversion, plus Polar queries for speed, range, and peak speed. Tests compare results with polar-math and polar-format. The package adds polar-math and includes the third-party notices file.
Active-polar loading and status
src/app/core/services/active-polar.service.ts, src/app/core/services/active-polar.service.spec.ts
Adds active-polar and performance-factor subscriptions, a v1 REST fallback, v2 resource fetching, status signals, and retry handling. Tests cover loading, validation, errors, and retry conditions.
Overlay inputs and calculations
src/app/core/interfaces/widgets-interface.ts, src/app/core/directives/widget-streams.directive.ts, src/app/core/directives/widget-streams.directive.spec.ts, src/app/core/utils/polar-overlay.util.ts, src/app/core/utils/polar-overlay.util.spec.ts, src/app/widgets/widget-windsteer/widget-windsteer.component.ts, src/app/widgets/widget-windsteer/widget-windsteer.component.spec.ts
Adds sourceFromPath and unobserve stream support, SI overlay paths, freshness and mode selection, and polar/VMC curve and dot calculations. Tests cover source changes, overlay modes, stale inputs, and geometry.
Overlay configuration and rendering
src/app/widget-config/root-modal-widget-config/*, src/app/core/components/widget-config-panel/widget-config-panel.component.spec.ts, src/app/widgets/widget-windsteer/widget-windsteer.component.html, src/app/widgets/svg-windsteer/svg-windsteer.component.ts, src/app/widgets/svg-windsteer/svg-windsteer.component.scss, src/app/widgets/svg-windsteer/svg-windsteer.component.spec.ts, src/app/widgets/widget-windsteer/widget-windsteer.component.html, src/assets/help-docs/dashboards.md
Adds the overlay checkbox and status hint, passes overlay data to the SVG dial, and renders and animates the curves and dot. Help text describes the polar-provider requirement and water-referenced curve behavior.
Overlay harness scenarios
perf-harness/lib/server.mjs, perf-harness/lib/skip-config.mjs, perf-harness/run.mjs, perf-harness/scenarios.mjs, perf-harness/shot-windsteer.mjs, perf-harness/README.md, CLAUDE.md
Adds mock responses for self paths and polar resources, a 10 Hz VMC performance scenario, and screenshot options for polar and VMC overlay states.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WidgetWindComponent
  participant ActivePolarService
  participant DataService
  participant SignalKAPI
  participant SvgWindsteerComponent
  WidgetWindComponent->>ActivePolarService: Start when overlay is enabled
  ActivePolarService->>DataService: Subscribe to active-polar and performance-factor paths
  ActivePolarService->>SignalKAPI: Read v1 active-polar value when path is unset
  ActivePolarService->>SignalKAPI: Fetch selected polar table from v2 Resources API
  ActivePolarService->>WidgetWindComponent: Expose polar status and data
  WidgetWindComponent->>SvgWindsteerComponent: Pass mode, curves, rotation, and dot radius
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This change adds an optional, off-by-default polar and VMC overlay to Wind Steer. The options dialog's missing-input hint now checks the same data sources the widget reads, so it correctly explains why the overlay is hidden. The remaining known limitations are small: hint wording when a data timeout is enabled, and a few seconds of cached data after re-enabling the overlay. The change looks ready to merge.

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Title check ⚠️ Warning The title accurately identifies the Windsteer polar and VMC overlay change, but its subject is descriptive rather than imperative. Change the subject to imperative mood, for example: "feat(windsteer): add polar and VMC overlay from the active polar".
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The implementation covers the main #478 and #635 behavior. It adds an optional polar/VMC overlay, active-polar and v2 resource loading, SI calculations, performance-factor scaling, freshness checks, o… Remove polar-math from the application runtime dependencies. Keep reference libraries only in test or development tooling if parity tests require them. Verify the readonly query-route declaration with reviewable evidence for the excluded …
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The implementation covers the main #478 and #635 behavior. It adds an optional polar/VMC overlay, active-polar and v2 resource loading, SI calculations, performance-factor scaling, freshness checks, options status, TypeScript engine tests, and rendering tests. Trigger: package.json adds polar-math version 1.1.1 as an application dependency. Code path: the shipped package declares the reference library beside polar-engine.util.ts, although #635 requires the TypeScript engine without shipping polar-math. User-visible consequence: the application carries the forbidden runtime dependency instead of using only the TypeScript engine. The requirement to declare polar-plugin query routes readonly is not independently verifiable because src/assets/skip-dashboard-schema.json is excluded from review.

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Force-pushed feat/windsteer-polar-overlay (now 41ee69aa):

  • Rebased onto feat(windsteer): move the current readout to the bottom-right corner #640 review fixes.
  • CodeRabbit's finding on the missing-input hint is fixed in 144a211b, folded into the dialog commit. effectivePathConfig() is exported from widget-streams.directive.ts and used by both the directive and the dialog, so the hint watches each overlay input on the source the widget reads it from. A new dialog spec covers inherited device sources.
  • perf-harness/README.md: the shot-windsteer.mjs paragraph documents the --overlay states and the overlay-group check that this branch adds.

npm run ci passes: lint, snc, 2403 unit tests, 34 MCP schema tests.

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Force-pushed bfc1b2f8: the polar curve no longer closes through the dial center. After testing on a device, the radial lines from the beat angles to the center were unwanted, so polarCurve now returns an open arc from the starboard beat angle round the stern to the port one (76fc4ff1), and the SVG draws it without closing the path (e232a898). The VMC lobe stays closed, because it is filled. Specs updated (util, SVG); npm run lint and npm run snc are clean; the polar-mode probe render shows the arc with an empty in-irons wedge.

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Force-pushed 5d2cca5f: rebased onto the latest #640 (drift shown at any magnitude, large set arrow behind the value). The only conflicts were in the perf-harness/shot-windsteer.mjs header comment and the probe paragraph in perf-harness/README.md, which now document both --drift/--set-rel and --overlay; a duplicated HEADING_DEG constant from the merge is removed. npm run ci passes: lint, snc, 2409 unit tests, 34 MCP schema tests. Deployed to a HaLOS test device and checked visually.

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Force-pushed e208e2c1: rebased onto the updated #640, which is now on current main (steel compass, sea horizon and duration presentation merged since). Resolved conflicts: the widget imports in root-modal-widget-config.component.spec.ts (both sets kept) and the widget list in src/assets/help-docs/dashboards.md (the new Steel Compass line kept above the extended Windsteer line). npm run gen:mcp-schema produced no change. npm run ci passes: lint, snc, 2537 unit tests, 34 MCP schema tests.

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The TypeScript polar engine ports polar-math 1.1.1; its parity
spec loads the library as the reference implementation. Pinned
exactly so a version change is a deliberate re-run of the parity
specs. devDependency only: polar-format compiles an ajv schema at
module load, which must not reach the app bundle.

The lockfile's root version also resyncs to package.json (1.5.0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Force-pushed 8c64a2bc: rebased onto main after #640 merged. The branch now carries only its own 12 commits; the tree under them is identical to the previous base (640's final head), so the code is unchanged. This push triggers the checks, which did not run on the retarget.

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Scope: feat/windsteer-polar-overlay against main, 33 files. The diff given to reviewers excludes the lockfile, the polar fixture, the generated schema and the notice file. Intent: an optional polar and VMC overlay on the Wind Steer widget, built on the active polar from the Resources API, a TypeScript port of polar-math, ActivePolarService, a geometry util, SI input paths, options-dialog hints and streams-directive additions. Plan: #635.

Reviewers: correctness, testing, maintainability and project-standards; security (the fetch URL comes from a delta href and carries the session cookie); api-contract (new directive exports, widget config keys and the MCP schema); reliability (fetch failures and event retries); adversarial (about 1600 changed non-test lines).

Security found nothing. It verified that the href pattern plus encodeURIComponent keeps the fetch on <v2 base>/resources/polars/<id> and that no server text reaches the DOM. Api-contract confirmed that stored dashboards from before this PR load correctly.

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# File Issue Reviewers Confidence Route
1 widget-streams.directive.ts:37 sourceFromPath copies the donor slot's source even when the donor reads another path. With the Ground TWA path and a pinned source that sends only angleTrueGround, the hidden water-TWA slot subscribes to angleTrueWater from that source, so the overlay never shows. The dialog then says the server "has not sent" a path that another source does send. Fix: inherit only when both slots read the same path. correctness, api-contract, testing, adversarial 0.75 gated_auto
2 active-polar.service.ts:219 The table GET has no timeout. A request that never answers leaves the status at loading for the app's lifetime: no hint, and no retry, because the retries act only on fetch-failed. Fix: add timeout(<named constant>) like the history and storage clients, so a timeout maps to fetch-failed. reliability 0.80 gated_auto

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# File Issue Reviewers Confidence Route
3 active-polar.service.ts:181 The one-shot REST read of activePolar is never retried after an error other than 404. On a server with no polar provider the status then stays loading for good, and the dialog shows no reason. reliability, correctness, adversarial, testing 0.80 gated_auto
4 active-polar.service.ts:150 After invalid-table, nothing loads the table again. Opening the dialog retries only fetch-failed, so a table fixed in place keeps reporting invalid until the page reloads. reliability 0.62 gated_auto
5 root-modal-widget-config.component.ts:165 The missing-input hint counts only non-null replays. DataService resets a timed-out path to {value: null}, so an input that was received and went stale can be reported as never sent. The spec fakes staleness differently. testing, correctness 0.70 gated_auto
6 widget-windsteer.component.ts:646 Turning the overlay back on replays DataService's cached value, however old, and marks the inputs fresh, which contradicts the comment above it. The spec uses a streams mock, so it misses this. adversarial 0.65 gated_auto
7 active-polar.service.ts:30 An href the Polar Performance plugin accepts (an id with ., or a /signalk/v2/api prefix) is reported to the user as "no active polar". It needs a message of its own, and possibly a wider id pattern. adversarial 0.60 gated_auto
8 widget-streams.directive.ts:36 effectivePathConfig sits between widgetPathSignature and its JSDoc, which leaves widgetPathSignature undocumented. maintainability, api-contract, project-standards 0.95 safe_auto
9 svg-windsteer.component.spec.ts:701 The destroy test passes without the fix it guards: with polarOverlay() removed from the cancel list, it still passes (mutation run). Clear the spy before destroy(). testing 0.95 safe_auto
10 widget-windsteer.component.spec.ts:652 No widget test uses a performance factor other than 1, so a dropped argument at component.ts:352 or :358 would go unnoticed. testing 0.85 safe_auto
11 svg-windsteer.component.spec.ts:651 No test asserts that the VMC lobe path is closed (Z). testing 0.80 safe_auto
12 svg-windsteer.component.ts:11 POLAR_OVERLAY_DIAL_RADIUS = 350 duplicates the class field RADIUS = 350. maintainability 0.80 safe_auto
13 CLAUDE.md:49 Says "7-scenario suite"; windsteer-vmc makes 8. project-standards 0.80 safe_auto
14 widget-streams.directive.ts:161 The private effectivePathCfg only passes through to effectivePathConfig. maintainability 0.72 safe_auto
15 commits 9054a47c has a 51-character subject; 38077d7e fix(polar) revises a service that 26168fcc added on this branch and belongs folded into it. project-standards 0.80 safe_auto (history rewrite)
16 widget-windsteer.component.ts:790 normalizeRadians duplicates normalizeHeading in polar-overlay.util.ts. maintainability 0.66 safe_auto
17 polar-engine.util.ts:84 The port keeps the extrapolate: false path and fine-grained state labels, which no production caller reads. Keep them for oracle parity, but say so in the header. maintainability 0.62 safe_auto (doc)
18 widget-windsteer.component.ts:635 The overlay slot names are listed three ways (observe, unobserve, freshness reset). maintainability 0.60 safe_auto

Pre-existing

# File Issue Action
19 widget-windsteer.component.ts:258 A history-style comment ("Removed local registeredPaths guard…"). fix-here (the PR edits the lines around it)

Coverage

  • Residual risks:
    • An oversized table from a writer to the Resources API can throw inside the load handler (a Math.max spread limit) and leave the status at loading. A try/catch that maps the throw to invalid-table covers it.
    • A performance factor published as a percentage (95) clamps every radius to the dial edge.
    • The VMC lobe can swing during a tack, because heading and TWA are sampled separately.
    • Each Freeboard tile is a separate app instance with its own fetch.
  • Testing gaps beyond the findings: TWS and STW dedup; a session change while a fetch is pending; the dialog hint after an in-dialog change of the TWA source.

Verdict: ready with fixes. Findings 8–19 are mechanical and are being applied now. Findings 1–7 change behavior and are listed for the maintainer's approval; 1 and 2 are the ones that matter in normal use.

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mairas and others added 9 commits September 23, 2026 22:22
Port of polar-math 1.1.1 (table preparation with the zero-speed
row, derived beat and run targets, pinch-zone and run-side
extensions, speedAt, rangeAt) plus a peak speed across all TWS
columns, and polar-format 1.0.0's unit canonicalization.

A typed guard replaces the ajv schema: it checks only the fields
the engine reads and ignores unknown extra fields, so the Resources
API response (name, boatType, source, notes) passes and no runtime
code generation ships.

The spec checks parity against polar-math within 1e-9 over a
TWS/TWA/factor grid for the test-server table and synthetic edge
tables, and conversion parity against polar-format.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The polar engine is a TypeScript port of the Apache-2.0 packages
polar-math and polar-format. Apache-2.0 section 4(a) requires the
license text to accompany the derived work, and minification strips
the source header from the build, so the npm package now ships a
notice file with the attribution and the license text.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root service that follows polars.activePolar and
polars.performanceFactor once a consumer starts it, fetches the
table from the v2 Resources API with HttpClient, and exposes the
prepared Polar, its peak speed, the performance factor and a status
with a fixed user-facing message.

A server with no polar provider never sends polars.activePolar, so
on start the service also reads the path over v1 REST: a 404 before
any delta means no active polar, a found value is handled like the
delta, and a delta that arrives first wins. A REST read that fails
otherwise is repeated on a server reconnect, a session change or
refreshIfFailed() until an answer or a delta settles the path.

Only an href of the form /resources/polars/<id> with a restricted id
charset is fetched (single dots allowed, never ".."), and the URL is
built from the v2 API base, never by resolving the href. Every
request times out after 30 s. A failed fetch retries on a server
reconnect or refreshIfFailed(), which also retries an invalid table;
a session change always fetches again. An unexpected throw while
preparing the table counts as an invalid table.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pure functions for the Windsteer polar overlay: the polar curve in the
wind frame (closed through the origin, mirrored port and starboard), a
per-TWS speed profile reused across VMC recomputes, the VMC curve in the
compass frame, the VMC dot radius, and the fixed speed-to-radius scale
with clamping at the dial edge. SI in (m/s, rad), no Angular.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A widget that reads a path only while an option is on needs to drop
the registration when the option goes off; unobserve is the inverse
of observe. sourceFromPath lets a hidden slot read with the Data
Source the user chose for a visible slot, so an SI copy of a
displayed value comes from the same sensor. It applies only while
both slots read the same path: a source pinned for another path may
never send this one. effectivePathConfig is exported so a caller
outside the directive resolves a slot the same way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add the polarOverlayEnable option (off by default) and three hidden SI
slots (TWS m/s, water TWA rad, STW m/s), observed only while the
option is on. The TWS and water TWA slots take the Data Source of
their display slots while those read the same path. The
widget resolves the overlay mode (hidden, polar, VMC) from the option,
the active polar status, input freshness, compass mode, heading and a
fresh waypoint bearing, and computes the curve and dot geometry for
the SVG. HDG and BTW are converted to radians once, where the geometry
util is called.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three groups: the VMC lobe in the compass frame inside the rotating
dial after the wind sectors; the polar curve top-level after the
compass, turned by the water TWA with the pointer's easing; the dot
in the fixed boat frame after the crosshair, at the given radius on
the bow axis. Polar mode is a bare purple line, VMC mode a
translucent lobe with a solid edge, so the modes differ by treatment
and not only colour. Stroke 8 and dot radius 16 keep 1.7 px and 7 px
on a 215 px tile; a card-colour halo parts the dot from the curve in
the single-hue night theme.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Opening the Wind Steer options starts the active polar service, or
retries it after a failure, so the dialog can say why the overlay
cannot draw before the user turns it on. It shows the service's fixed
message, and once the polar is ready names any overlay input the
server has never sent. The check reads DataService, so the Freeboard
settings panel, which has no widget instance, shows the same hint.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Regenerate the MCP dashboard schema for the new option and SI slots,
and say on the Windsteer help line that the overlay needs a polars
resource provider with an active polar, and that the curve follows
water wind, so it can sit offset from the pointer when the Ground
wind angle is shown.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
mairas and others added 2 commits September 23, 2026 22:22
The mock serves v1 REST leaf values and v2 resources from control,
so a scenario can publish an active polar the way a polar provider
does. shot-windsteer gains --overlay polar, vmc and vmc-ahead states
that check which overlay groups draw, and a windsteer-vmc scenario
measures the overlay recomputing at 10 Hz. The run loop now clears
per-scenario data between repeats, since setControl merges.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The comment described a guard that was removed long ago rather than
the code around it; the constructor comment already says how the
stream callbacks are registered.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Force-pushed c07ce048 with the fixes from #641 (comment). Each fix is folded into the commit that introduced the code; history is 12 commits with subjects of 50 characters or fewer.

Applied

  • 1 (P2) effectivePathConfig inherits the donor slot's source only when both slots read the same path. With Ground TWA and a pinned source, the hidden water-TWA slot now reads default. Directive and dialog specs cover it.
  • 2 (P2) ACTIVE_POLAR_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000 on the table GET and the REST read. It matches the history client, so a slow Pi server is not cut off. A timeout becomes fetch-failed (network), which reconnect and dialog open retry. Covered with fake timers.
  • 3 The activePolar REST read runs again on reconnect, session change and dialog open while the pointer is unknown and no read is in flight. On a server without a provider, a first failed read now ends at no-active-polar with its message.
  • 4 Opening the dialog also retries after invalid-table. A throw while preparing the table maps to invalid-table instead of leaving the status at loading.
  • 7 (partial) Polar ids may contain . (j109.v2); . alone and anything with .. are rejected, and the id is still URL-encoded. The /signalk/v2/api href prefix is not accepted, because no provider in use sends it.
  • 8–19 JSDoc placement; destroy test clears the spy before destroy() (mutation-checked); widget tests with performance factor 0.8 (mutation-checked); exact closed d for the VMC lobe; one dial-radius constant; CLAUDE.md says 8 scenarios; effectivePathCfg wrapper removed; one exported normalizeRadians; engine header explains why the extrapolate: false path stays; overlay slots driven from one table keyed by POLAR_OVERLAY_PATH_KEYS, with a spec that the keys match the hidden slots; the stale history comment removed; the 51-character subject reworded and the fix(polar) commit folded into the service commit.

Not applied

  • 5 The missing-input hint can call a timed-out input "never sent". This happens only when a widget on the same path has the data-timeout option on (off by default for Wind Steer), and it affects hint wording only.
  • 6 Re-enabling the overlay can draw from a cached sample for at most one freshness TTL (5 s) after the toggle.

npm run ci passes: lint, snc, 2562 unit tests, 34 MCP schema tests.

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mairas force-pushed the feat/windsteer-polar-overlay branch from 8c64a2b to c07ce04 Compare September 23, 2026 19:26
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mairas merged commit 008c287 into main Sep 23, 2026
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feat: polar and VMC overlay in the Windsteer widget [Feature]: Displaying polar curves into the Windsteer widget.

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