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efitenandClaude Opus 5 00ee4f9e23 fix(coverage): attribute node-discover replies to the responder (#2111)
## Problem

A CoreDrive RX companion that runs node-discover gets no coverage on an
upstream instance. Reported today by an operator on v3.13.0: the app
logged 32 discover replies from one repeater in 16 minutes (`heard
751a49f0c5dadc70 (8B, discover)`), all published, and
`client_receptions` stayed at 0 rows for that companion while
`client_rx_observations` held 93.

Two gaps, both on the upstream side:

1. **Ingestor.** `deriveHeardKey` attributes a FLOOD `path[last]` and a
0-hop advert, and drops a 0-hop `CONTROL/DISCOVER_RESP` (firmware
`CTL_TYPE_NODE_DISCOVER_RESP`). The reply carries the responder's own
pubkey at offset 6 of the payload, which `decoder.go` already parses
into `CtrlPubKey` (#1802), but the coverage path never used it.
2. **Server.** CoreDrive RX asks for `DISCOVER_PREFIX_ONLY`, so the
firmware answers with an 8-byte prefix
(`simple_repeater/MyMesh.cpp:799-805`). `coverageHeardKeyCandidates`
only built the 64, 6 and 4 hex candidates, so a 16-hex `heard_key` would
be stored and then matched by no per-node coverage query.

## Change

- `cmd/ingestor/client_reception.go`: a third branch in `deriveHeardKey`
for a discover response with no hops. Accepts exactly 8 or 32 bytes,
nothing truncated, stored with `src='discover'`.
- `cmd/server/rx_coverage.go`: adds the 16-hex prefix to
`coverageHeardKeyCandidates`.
- `docs/client-rx-coverage.md`: documents the `discover` source, the
8-byte keylen and the four-candidate lookup.

The leaderboard and `/api/rx-coverage` read `client_receptions` without
a key filter, so they pick the rows up without a change. Name resolution
goes through `batchResolveHeardKeys`, which is a prefix lookup and
handles 16 hex as is.

## Evidence from a deployment that has had this since 2026-08-19

On analyzer.on8ar.eu, `client_receptions` over the last 7 days by `src`:
discover 4232, rxlog 4909, geo 548, advert 34. Discover replies are 44%
of all coverage rows there (4232 of 9723); on an upstream instance those
rows are not written. They cannot be backfilled afterwards either:
`client_rx_observations` keeps no raw bytes, so the responder pubkey is
gone.

## Tests

- `TestDeriveHeardKey` and `TestBuildClientReception` gain discover
cases: 8-byte and 32-byte keys accepted (32-byte uppercase input
lowercased), a 3-byte and an empty key rejected, a non-discover CONTROL
rejected, a discover response with hops not attributed.
- `TestHandleClientPacketDiscoverRespWritesReception`: end to end, a raw
0-hop DISCOVER_RESP on the client topic writes one `client_receptions`
row with `src='discover'`.
- `TestCoverageHeardKeyCandidatesIncludesDiscoverPrefix`: the 16-hex
prefix is among the per-node candidates.
- Ran locally on Windows: `go test ./...` in `cmd/server` passes; in
`cmd/ingestor` everything passes except
`TestWriteStatsAtomic_SymlinkAtDestIsReplaced`, which needs the symlink
privilege on Windows and fails on clean master too.

Not done: no browser validation, as the change is ingestor and server
only and the frontend reads the same endpoints. Not included: geographic
resolution of 1-byte hops (`src='geo'`) and the RF noise layer, which
are separate changes.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-04 17:15:50 +02:00
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