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Hold far frames off the cloud: the sweep's hand-overs until the plate is 220 px or stopped, and the camera's alarm still while a sweep reads - #193
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughLocal sweeps now hold cloud handovers until a plate reaches a configured width, stops growing, or enters the last-chance period. Shadow mode preserves handover timing and records would-be holds. Local reads and authorized local gate injections continue without waiting for cloud handovers. ChangesLocal Sweep Cloud Handover Hold
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant TriggerCapture
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TriggerCapture->>LocalReader: Read sweep frame and measure plate
LocalReader-->>TriggerCapture: Return recognition and plate width
TriggerCapture->>CloudReader: Upload eligible frame when reachable
CloudReader-->>TriggerCapture: Return OCR result
TriggerCapture->>Gate: Inject authorized local or cloud result
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to With the hold on by default, a camera still can be kept off the cloud after the sweep has stopped reading. Later images in a multi-image upload can still reach the cloud and delay decisions. Fix these hold boundaries before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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| if read.recognised: | ||
| rank = ( | ||
| (-1 if plate_px is None else plate_px, read.score) | ||
| if rank_by_width else (read.score,) | ||
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| if candidate is None or rank > candidate[0]: | ||
| candidate = (rank, frame, captured_at, digest, read) |
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With sweep_cloud_hold="on", this excludes a frame unless the local OCR produced plate text, even though LocalRecognizer._read_once can return status="no_plate" with a valid detector box when its best EngineRead has an empty or non-normalizable plate. In that case a close, large plate never becomes candidate, so the width rule cannot release it to the cloud; the sweep waits until stopped or last_chance, and stopped may hand over a newer unboxed unread frame instead. Include reads with a measurable plate_px in the width-ranked candidate pool so the cloud receives the close frame the detector actually found.
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Checked against a real passage: the 2026-10-05 16:29 D-Max arrival (events 4477–4491). I ran this branch's own detector on the stored frames and converted with
Even stopped at the gate, the D-Max's plate is ~270 px, not the ~370 px in the 811A notes (that was a different vehicle and stopping spot). So Worth re-fitting the minimum from the new (Every local read here is junk because the camera was out of focus at the time; focus was restored at ~17:13 the same day.) |
The camera's alarm and the early trigger fire with the car far down the lane, and the sweep handed the cloud a frame every second from the first one. On 2026-10-05 (arrival 16:30:27) all five lookups had gone by +8.8 s, the sweep ran to +17 s, and no frame from the closest part of the approach was ever shown to the cloud. 15 Sep-5 Oct: 222 decision_timeout, 50 ocr_busy, 72 queue_coalesced. GATE_LOCAL_SWEEP_CLOUD_HOLD=off|shadow|on (default shadow). Under `on` a sweep_cloud hand-over waits until the plate the on-device detector boxed is GATE_LOCAL_SWEEP_CLOUD_MIN_PLATE_PX wide (300 px in 4K: stop 369-372, approach 192-258), or has stopped growing, or the last GATE_LOCAL_SWEEP_CLOUD_LAST_CHANCE_SECONDS (3) of the window or the waiting phase have come; and the largest plate is the one offered. Blind frames no longer spend the budget first. The on-device reader, authorised local injections, the cap, the spacing, the fallback, the internet-down and breaker skips and the early-trigger permit are unchanged. A held frame is not in the pipeline, so it is never charged to the decision timeout (the clock starts at enqueue). `shadow` hands over exactly as before and journals what `on` would have held. Journal: stage=cloud_held once a passage; plate_px and release= on every hand-over; plate_px on stage=read; cloud_hold/cloud_held on outcome=ended. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… off the cloud while a sweep reads 300 px was fitted to one car. On 2026-10-05 a pickup was read on the device at 0.994 at 238 px and never got wider than ~274 px; on 2026-10-06 the same pickup stopped at the gate measured 197-217 px. The far frames that were sent and could not be read measured 160-215 px. 220 holds those and lets the frames that read go; a car stopped smaller is released by the stopped rule. The camera's own FTP alarm still is the one far frame the hold did not cover: taken at the alarm, it went to the cloud however small its plate, and at 21:31 on 2026-10-05 one (read L514 at 0.078 on the device) spent 6 s on a lookup that could not succeed. While a sweep is reading the same passage's live stream (`TriggerFrameCapture.camera_still_hold`), a camera upload the device read and could not decide is now decided on that read (`gate_ocr stage=cloud_skipped reason=sweep_reading`). With no sweep reading, or where the device never read it (GATE_LOCAL_OCR_CLOUD=always), the still goes to the cloud as before. The worker flags an upload by its having no BurstIdentity, and only for a preparer that takes `camera_upload`. GATE_LOCAL_SWEEP_CLOUD_HOLD now defaults to `on`; `shadow` and `off` remain. The Pi's /etc/gate-controller.env sets none of these, so this takes effect on deploy. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| if identity is None and _accepts_camera_upload(prepare): | ||
| # An FTP upload from the camera (its alarm still), not a frame | ||
| # the sweep handed over: see `camera_still_hold`. | ||
| prepare_options["camera_upload"] = True |
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In the production worker, FTP uploads do have an identity: BurstCollector.flush_due() appends BurstIdentity(idempotency_key), and run_worker() enables include_idempotency_key. Therefore this condition is always false for real camera uploads, so camera_upload=True never reaches GateProcessor.prepare() and the alarm still continues to consume a cloud lookup during an active sweep. The new test misses this because inject_upload() manually queues an identity-less item; distinguish FTP bursts from trigger-capture bursts explicitly instead of using the absence of BurstIdentity.
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Review comments at @docs/reolink-rlc-810a.md:
- Line 308: Update the “Which frames” summary row to state that
`GATE_LOCAL_SWEEP_CLOUD_HOLD=on` offers the largest boxed plate since the
previous handover, using the shipped 220 px threshold. Remove the incorrect
newest-frame and 300 px descriptions.
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- Around line 468-469: Update the hold handling in process() so every frame in a
held FTP upload burst stays off the cloud, rather than applying cloud_skip only
to sequence zero. Preserve local recognition for each eligible frame so the
burst does not delay subsequent local decisions.
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- Line 1326: Update the stopped-release check in the flow containing
plate_stopped() to require a current boxed candidate before returning "stopped".
When candidate is absent, allow the blind frame to continue to "last_chance"
instead of releasing it based on previous plate boxes.
- Line 1016: Update the callback guard around _sweep_ready() so it checks an
explicit sweep-active state rather than relying on session_active(), which
remains true during presence_session(). Set that state while local_sweep() is
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| | Cost per frame | ~200 ms of one core | a billed lookup | | ||
| | Frames per passage | every frame in the window | `GATE_LOCAL_SWEEP_CLOUD_FRAMES` (5) | | ||
| | Which frames | all of them, newest first | the newest the device could not place | | ||
| | Which frames | all of them, newest first | the newest the device could not place; with `GATE_LOCAL_SWEEP_CLOUD_HOLD=on`, only once its plate is 300 px (4K) or has stopped growing, or near the window's end | |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Correct the frame-selection summary.
This row says the hold releases at 300 px and offers the newest frame. The shipped threshold is 220 px, and on mode offers the largest boxed plate since the previous handover. Update the row so operators do not tune or interpret handovers against the wrong rule.
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Update the “Which frames” summary row to state that
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| if hold == "on": | ||
| prepared.cloud_skip = CLOUD_SKIP_SWEEP_READING |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Apply the camera-still hold to the whole upload burst.
If an FTP burst contains multiple images, cloud_skip reaches _recognise only for sequence zero. process() can then send the second image to the cloud on the burst thread, despite routing the burst away from CloudLane. This defeats the hold and can delay subsequent local decisions. Keep every frame in a held upload burst off the cloud, or perform a bounded local pass for each frame that remains eligible.
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Update the hold handling in process() so every frame in a held FTP upload burst
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| if mode not in ("on", "shadow"): | ||
| return None | ||
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| if not (self._sweep_ready() and self.session_active()): |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Check that a sweep is reading, not only that a session is active.
session_active() stays true during presence_session() after local_sweep() returns. If an FTP still is prepared during that phase, this callback returns "on" and suppresses its cloud read although the sweep is no longer reading. Track the sweep’s active phase separately and clear it when local_sweep() ends.
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Update the callback guard around _sweep_ready() so it checks an explicit
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| plate_px = None if candidate is None else _plate_px(candidate[4]) | ||
| if plate_px is not None and plate_px >= config.sweep_cloud_min_plate_px: | ||
| return "plate_width" | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Require a boxed candidate for a stopped release.
After a stopped-plate handover clears candidate, a new blind frame can still encounter the previous plate’s recent boxes. plate_stopped() then releases that blind frame before last chance. Require a current boxed candidate before returning "stopped"; blind frames must wait for "last_chance".
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Update the stopped-release check in the flow containing plate_stopped() to
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Update 2026-10-09 — rebased onto #196/#197/#192/#195, switched on, and the camera still added
on, minimum 220 px (wasshadow, 300). Evidence:TriggerFrameCapture.camera_still_hold→GateProcessor._hold_camera_still, journalled ascloud_skipped reason=sweep_reading.L514at 0.078 on the device, spent 6 s on a lookup that couldn't succeed.GATE_LOCAL_OCR_CLOUD=always), it still goes to the cloud.Why
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