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Fixes #1278

Track consecutive heartbeat failures, retry with exponential backoff and full jitter, and flip connection status to warning after 3 misses. Clear warning on recovery.

  • heartbeat.ts: add failures/retryTimers/meshDevices maps, MAX 3, base 1s cap 30s, full jitter (AWS), warning flip, retry via setTimeout
  • deviceStore/types.ts: add "warning" to ConnectionStatus
  • DeviceInfoPanel.tsx: warning → bg-amber-500
  • heartbeat.test.ts: 2 tests with fake timers (3 fails → warning, success → configured)

Testing:

  • vitest 243/243 (2 new)
  • tsc 44/44
  • oxlint clean
  • Live: 101 nodes via localhost:3000, dot stays emerald when healthy

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added a warning connection status after repeated heartbeat failures.
    • Warning indicators now appear in amber.
    • Connections automatically retry with backoff and recover when heartbeats succeed.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved heartbeat handling when connections stop or restart, preventing stale retries and outdated status updates.
    • Late heartbeat results from previous sessions are now ignored.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for warning states, recovery, retries, and restarted connections.

Track consecutive heartbeat failures, retry with exponential
backoff and full jitter, and flip connection status to warning
after 3 misses. Clear warning on recovery.

Fixes meshtastic#1278

Signed-off-by: RuffR1d3r <76077201+RuffR1d3r@users.noreply.github.com>
Fake timers prove 3 consecutive failures flip to warning (amber)
with full jitter, and next success clears back to configured.

Signed-off-by: RuffR1d3r <76077201+RuffR1d3r@users.noreply.github.com>
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Walkthrough

Heartbeat management now tracks failures by connection generation, retries failed heartbeats with backoff, and ignores stale callbacks. Three consecutive failures set a connection to warning. A successful heartbeat restores configured. The connection type, device panel, and tests support these states.

Changes

Heartbeat failure recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Warning status contract and display
apps/web/src/core/stores/deviceStore/types.ts, apps/web/src/components/DeviceInfoPanel.tsx
Adds warning to ConnectionStatus and displays it with an amber indicator.
Heartbeat failure lifecycle
apps/web/src/core/connections/heartbeat.ts
Tracks failure counts, retry timers, devices, and connection generations. Shared handlers update warning and configured states.
Heartbeat behavior validation
apps/web/src/core/connections/heartbeat.test.ts
Tests warning after three failures, recovery after success, restarted-session recovery, and isolation of late failures.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1cee4

A successful heartbeat after restarting a warning connection may leave the warning indicator and error message visible, causing users to see stale connection health. The change is otherwise localized and mergeable with explicit follow-up to clear that state on recovery.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant heartbeat.ts
  participant MeshDevice
  participant deviceStore
  heartbeat.ts->>MeshDevice: Send heartbeat for active generation
  MeshDevice-->>heartbeat.ts: Return failure or success
  heartbeat.ts->>heartbeat.ts: Validate generation and update failure state
  heartbeat.ts->>deviceStore: Set warning after three failures
  heartbeat.ts->>MeshDevice: Retry with bounded backoff
  MeshDevice-->>heartbeat.ts: Return successful heartbeat
  heartbeat.ts->>deviceStore: Restore configured status and clear error
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Poem

I’m a rabbit counting pulses bright,
Three missed beats turn the panel amber light.
Old callbacks lose their claim,
New sessions keep their name.
One good beat clears the night.

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 4 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes heartbeat failure tracking, backoff retries, and the warning state.
Description check ✅ Passed The description identifies issue #1278, summarizes the implementation, and reports testing results. It omits some template headings and checklist items, but the required technical information is prese…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #1278 by counting consecutive heartbeat failures, retrying with backoff, surfacing a warning status after three misses, and clearing the warning after recovery.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are limited to heartbeat handling, connection status typing, warning UI styling, and related tests. No unrelated changes are evident.
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The description identifies issue #1278, summarizes the implementation, and reports testing results. It omits some template headings and checklist items, but the required technical information is present.

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In `@apps/web/src/core/connections/heartbeat.ts`:
- Around line 42-93: Update the heartbeat session flow around
handleHeartbeatResult and the start/stop heartbeat functions to maintain a
per-start generation token for each connection ID. Pass and validate that token
in heartbeat result handlers and scheduled retry callbacks, ignoring stale
callbacks after stopHeartbeat or a subsequent restart so they cannot affect
failure counts, retries, or status for the current session. Add a regression
test covering stop, restart, and a late failure from the old MeshDevice.
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Comment thread apps/web/src/core/connections/heartbeat.ts
Guard handleHeartbeatResult and retry timers with per-start
generation token so late-settling promises from a previous
MeshDevice cannot flip the new session to warning or schedule
retries for the wrong device. Add regression test.

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apps/web/src/core/connections/heartbeat.ts (1)

56-68: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore a warning based on the connection status.

startConfigHeartbeat and startMaintenanceHeartbeat reset failures to zero. If a restarted connection is still "warning", its first successful heartbeat has prevFailures === 0. Lines 59-68 then do not restore expectedStatus or clear the heartbeat error.

Check conn?.status === "warning" independently of prevFailures. Add a regression test that restarts a warning connection and then succeeds.

Proposed fix
   if (success) {
-    const prevFailures = failures.get(id) ?? 0;
     failures.set(id, 0);
-    // Clear warning if we recovered
-    if (prevFailures >= MAX_CONSECUTIVE_FAILURES) {
-      const conn = useDeviceStore
-        .getState()
-        .savedConnections.find((c) => c.id === id);
-      if (conn?.status === "warning") {
-        useDeviceStore.getState().updateSavedConnection(id, {
-          status: expectedStatus,
-          error: undefined,
-        });
-      }
+    const conn = useDeviceStore
+      .getState()
+      .savedConnections.find((c) => c.id === id);
+    if (conn?.status === "warning") {
+      useDeviceStore.getState().updateSavedConnection(id, {
+        status: expectedStatus,
+        error: undefined,
+      });
     }
     return;
   }
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In `@apps/web/src/core/connections/heartbeat.ts` around lines 56 - 68, Update the
recovery logic in the heartbeat success path to restore any connection whose
status is "warning", regardless of prevFailures; retain the expectedStatus
update and error clearing, and add a regression test covering a restarted
warning connection whose first heartbeat succeeds.
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In `@apps/web/src/core/connections/heartbeat.ts`:
- Around line 56-68: Update the recovery logic in the heartbeat success path to
restore any connection whose status is "warning", regardless of prevFailures;
retain the expectedStatus update and error clearing, and add a regression test
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Add regression coverage for successful heartbeat recovery after a warning session is restarted.

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[Bug]: Heartbeat failures are logged but not surfaced or retried

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