NimBLE-Arduino 1.4.2 had an init/fire race in its FreeRTOS callout porting
layer where os_callout_timer_cb dispatched a queued TimerHandle expiry
against a not-yet-initialized event (NULL fn pointer), causing PC=0
InstrFetchProhibited within ~1s of boot when the camera task starved the
timer service. Confirmed by ets_printf instrumentation. Upgrading to
^2.0.0 rewrites the porting layer and eliminates the race; verified clean
on the customer network for 1+ hour.
Also rolls in DNS-resilience work that surfaced the BLE crash during
provisioning: pin lwIP/esp-netif resolvers to 1.1.1.1/8.8.8.8 across DHCP
renewals, add three-tier resolver fallback in reporter with a hardcoded
IP of last resort, and switch to raw WiFiClient with manual Host header
to bypass HTTPClient's brittle DNS path.
Migration touches for NimBLE 2.x:
- NimBLEAdvertisedDeviceCallbacks -> NimBLEScanCallbacks
- onResult signature now takes const NimBLEAdvertisedDevice*
- setAdvertisedDeviceCallbacks -> setScanCallbacks
- start(0, nullptr, false) -> start(0, false, false)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace per-track line-crossing counter with a single event state machine
gated by foreground pixel count (ENTER=250, EXIT=150) and finalized by
quiet-exit or timeout. Direction inferred from centroid excursion
(up_score vs down_score) on quiet-exit fires, and from net displacement
(last_c vs first_c) on timeout fires.
Tuning reflects bench data at the intended 7' overhead mount: walkers
produce smaller centroid excursions than originally modelled, so
EXTENT gates, MIN_TRAJ, MAX_FRAMES and REFRACTORY were all relaxed from
their initial guesses. Constants and rationale live in firmware/lib/cv/cv.h.
Bench results (8 isolated walks, 4 entries + 4 exits):
* Event detection: 8/8 (100%)
* Aggregate entries+exits split: 4+4 (matches)
* Per-walk direction labelling: 4/8 (~50%)
Document explicitly that per-walk direction is unreliable at this mount
and that downstream analytics should trust only gross traffic
(entries + exits). Recovering direction would require a physical mount
change or a richer signal; both are out of scope for v1.
Tooling:
* tools/replay_logs.py — replay event state machine against captured
[F] diagnostic lines, for offline tuning without flash-test loops.
* firmware/src/main_capture.cpp + tools/capture_frames.py +
tools/replay_frames.py — raw-frame capture firmware and Python port
of the detector, kept in tree for future iteration even though the
TimerCamera-F serial driver stripped specific byte ranges in testing
and log-based replay became the working path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Reduce debug level to 1 (errors only) for production builds
- Replace BLE pause/resume with full deinit/reinit during HTTP uploads (~25KB freed)
- Add 60s boot report delay for fast post-deploy connectivity verification
- Add device_id to BLE batch and heartbeat request bodies
- Correct API host to http:// (plain HTTP, not HTTPS)
- Add HTTP response logging and CV entry/exit serial logging
- Create root README.md with operator setup and architecture overview
- Update design spec: HMAC format, BLE memory approach, request body shapes, reporting intervals
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
loopTask: cv_init() created a CVState{} temporary (9KB background
array) on the stack — fixed by initializing members directly.
cam task: cv_process() had uint8_t fg[CV_PIXELS] (9KB) as a local
variable — made static, matching the existing fg_copy fix.
cam task stack bumped from 4096 to 8192 for headroom.
Also: switch to 4MB OTA partition table (TimerCamera-F has 4MB flash,
not 8MB), add CONFIG_ARDUINO_LOOP_STACK_SIZE=16384 build flag,
upload_speed=115200 and --no-stub for reliable CH340 flashing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add camera.h/camera.cpp for TimerCamera-F OV3660 init and box-filter
downscale to 96x96 grayscale. Add espressif/esp32-camera to lib_deps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Switch board to m5stack-timer-cam (confirmed in pio boards)
- Pin platform to espressif32@6.6.0
- Replace huge_app.csv with custom partitions_8mb_ota.csv (8MB + OTA)
- Add -DCONFIG_BT_NIMBLE_ENABLED=1 and -DCONFIG_SPIRAM_USE_MALLOC=1
- Add h2zero/NimBLE-Arduino@^1.4.2 to lib_deps
- Raise CORE_DEBUG_LEVEL from 1 → 3
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
