The firmware has never been flashed, and a real bug already reached the
repo because of it: RD03E_FRAME_LEN was 5 for a 6-byte frame, so the footer
check collided with the distance high byte and EVERY distance reading was
garbage — always `lo | 0x5500`, about 218 metres, regardless of what the
sensor saw. That was pure logic with no hardware dependency. It should have
been catchable on a laptop, and there was simply no way to run the code.
Extracted the hardware-free logic out of the three drivers — rd03e_parse,
bmp280_compensate, mems_level — as moves rather than rewrites, carrying the
explanatory comments along with the code they explain. The drivers now own
only their bus I/O and call into the pure units, so nothing changes for the
real device.
`./run_tests.sh` builds them with gcc -Wall -Wextra -Werror plus a
dependency-free assert harness: 175 checks, 0 failed, from a clean tree.
Proven to catch the actual bug rather than assumed to: reintroducing
FRAME_LEN 5 fails four checks, including one that reads "a simple-report
frame is 6 bytes, not 5", plus the truncated-frame and 5-byte-window cases.
Restored, green again.
This does NOT make the firmware verified, and the README says so plainly —
it is called a narrow exception and scoped to pure logic. Wiring, timing,
real register behaviour and the reconstructed RD-03E frame format all still
need the physical board.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mic: confirmed via its pinout (L/R, WS, SCK, SD, VCC, GND) that the third
target module is a standard I2S digital MEMS mic (INMP441-family). Added
mems_mic.c/h using ESP-IDF's current driver/i2s_std.h API — reports RMS
audio level in dBFS as sensor_type "evp" rather than attempting on-device
voice-band FFT (the browser EVP mode's approach); the backend's existing
statistical anomaly detector handles spike detection from the raw level,
same as it already does for temperature/pressure/presence.
Also fixes a real gap Workstream B's report flagged: User.essence (a live
model column used throughout merged code — /auth/me, inventory purchases,
summon trickle) had no migration line in main.py's lifespan, which would
have broken on the actual production Postgres database.
Researched the exact modules the user is building with and fixed three
concrete issues the earlier speculative firmware got wrong:
1. WiFi: confirmed the target board (Waveshare ESP32-P4-Module-DEV-KIT,
chip ESP32-P4NRW32) bridges WiFi through an onboard ESP32-C6
co-processor over a fixed 7-pin SDIO link (CLK18/CMD19/D0-14/D1-15/
D2-16/D3-17/RESET54, cross-confirmed against Espressif's own
esp-hosted-mcu docs). wifi_manager.c's esp_wifi_init()/esp_wifi_start()
calls don't need to change — esp_wifi_remote/esp_hosted provide a
drop-in-compatible API — but the component manifest (new
main/idf_component.yml) and sdkconfig.defaults were missing entirely.
2. Real pin conflict: the presence sensor's original UART pins (17/18)
directly collided with the SDIO CLK/D3 pins above — wiring it there
would have broken WiFi, the sensor, or both. Moved to GPIO4/5.
3. Swapped placeholder parts for the user's actual hardware:
- BME280 -> BMP280 (GY-BMP280 module): temp+pressure only, no humidity.
Rewrote the driver rather than just renaming it — the old code would
have read nonexistent humidity registers and reported garbage
forever. 3.3V-only wiring note added (the BME280 assumption of
5V-tolerant logic doesn't hold for this specific breakout).
- LD2410 -> RD-03E (Ai-Thinker, not Hi-Link — a different manufacturer
with a different, incompatible UART protocol). Rewrote the frame
parser against the RD-03E's actual (if less-documented) 5-byte
simple-report format. Reports numeric distance instead of a boolean,
which better fits both the hardware's actual output and the backend's
statistical anomaly detector.
README, CMakeLists.txt, and all cross-references updated to match.
Resolved add/add conflict in the top-level firmware README: both I and J
created one (J's brief said "create it if I hasn't", and both ran in
isolated worktrees with no visibility into each other). Combined them —
kept I's comprehensive core-project README as the base, appended J's real
RTL-SDR technical section, dropped J's now-stale "Status of this
directory" preamble (written when it couldn't see I's already-completed
work) and its duplicate honesty-policy note. Updated the stale
components/README.md placeholder to reflect that the module now exists.
New firmware/esp32p4-sensor-node/ ESP-IDF (C, FreeRTOS) project skeleton
per docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-23-esp32-sensor-node-design.md's
Workstream I:
- Wi-Fi station-mode connect with exponential-backoff reconnect
(wifi_manager.c), credentials from a gitignored main/device_config.h
the seeker fills in (template: device_config.h.example).
- Telemetry HTTP client (telemetry_client.c) POSTing the spec's exact
contract shape to /api/device/telemetry with a Bearer token, via
esp_http_client + cJSON.
- BME280 I2C driver (bme280.c) with Bosch's public double-precision
compensation formulas, using ESP-IDF's newer driver/i2c_master.h API.
- LD2410 mmWave presence driver (ld2410.c) over UART, chosen over a
plain PIR for its distance/motion data richness — its frame-offset
parsing is flagged as the least-certain code in the firmware.
- sensor_driver_t registry (sensor_driver.h, sensor_registry.c) so new
sensors are a new driver file + one array line, no main-loop changes.
- README.md: build steps, manual-config walkthrough, wiring/pinouts,
and an explicit "what's verified vs. not" section plus a real
hardware caveat (ESP32-P4 has no integrated Wi-Fi radio).
UNVERIFIED AGAINST REAL HARDWARE per the spec's honesty-policy note —
no ESP-IDF toolchain or physical boards available in this environment.
Syntax-checked with gcc against hand-written ESP-IDF API stubs (not
committed) as a best-effort substitute for a real idf.py build.
Workstream J (RTL-SDR experimental module) is explicitly out of scope
here; firmware/esp32p4-sensor-node/components/ is left in place for it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Self-contained ESP-IDF component (firmware/esp32p4-sensor-node/components/
rtlsdr_experimental/) exploring RTL2832U-over-USB-host on the ESP32-P4,
ported from frontend/src/lib/sdr.ts's researched WebUSB protocol sequence
(vendor commands, I2C-repeater tuner init) to the ESP-IDF USB Host Library.
Implements: USB Host Library install/client lifecycle, RTL2832U/Terratec
vendor-ID device matching, the demod+R820T init vendor-command sequence
over control transfers, a pipelined bulk-IN read loop for raw IQ, and an
inert-by-default upstream IQ-forwarding stub targeting a proposed separate
binary endpoint (not the JSON telemetry shape — reasoning documented in
the README) since no such backend endpoint exists yet.
Off by default (RTLSDR_EXP_ENABLE Kconfig, default n). Unverified against
real hardware and never compiled (no ESP-IDF toolchain in this
environment) — marked as such in every source file and in a dedicated
"Workstream J" section of firmware/esp32p4-sensor-node/README.md, which
this commit also creates since Workstream I's core skeleton (owned by a
separate, unmerged worktree) hadn't created one yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
