ESPSomfy-RTS/GLOSSARY.md
cjkas 4f8eac03ac refactor: move the shade's behaviour into ShadeBehaviour
PR B of SHADE_BEHAVIOUR_PLAN.md. What a shade does with frames, commands,
group commands and radio events moves unchanged from SomfyShade into
ShadeBehaviour, which builds natively and is pinned by test_shadebehaviour.

ShadeBehaviour reads ShadeSettings and RemoteSettings, gets the time on
every input, and holds the motion state that other files now read through
state(). It sends through MotorLink and reports through ShadeEvents
(changes, commands, save wanted, sensor flags) as things happen.
SomfyShade wraps it: its MotorLink is SomfyRemote::sendCommandAfter, which
now leaves the sender out of the echo and radio hold because the module
hears its own frame. lastFrame stays shared with the send path.

ConfigFile writes through restore() and clearTilt(), SomfyShadeOps through
setPosition(). The pinning tests label where the copies of a rule disagree
"today:", for the reconcile phase.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-16 21:21:38 +02:00

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Glossary

Domain terms used in the code, commits and design discussions.

Radio

Radio job One transmission handed to the radio task: an encoded first frame plus a number of repeat frames. A job is either our own (a command or sensor frame from one of our remotes, with outcome events) or a repeater frame (a frame received from someone else's remote and sent again). A repeater frame reports no events, and since it carries none of our rolling codes it never holds back a stop.

RadioScheduler The module that owns the radio jobs waiting for, or on, the air. It decides their order, when a delayed job is due, which jobs a flush or suspend drops, and the outcome of every job. Producers hand it jobs and get a ticket back. The radio task asks it for the next job and reports back how the job went. It knows nothing about FreeRTOS, the CC1101 or shades.

Ticket What submitting a radio job returns: the job's sequence number, 0 when the radio refused it. Every event about the job carries it. A command that went out over GPIO, not the radio, has ticket 0.

Back job / front job A job normally joins the back of the queue. A priority job (a stop) goes to the front, unless an earlier job from the same remote is still waiting. Overtaking that job would put the remote's rolling codes out of order, and the motor would reject the older frame.

Delayed job A job that must wait a given time after it was queued and after the transmission ahead of it ended, so the motor has settled (for example the long press that stores a favorite). It holds up the jobs behind it, but front jobs may overtake it while it waits.

Flush Drops every waiting job (each gets a dropped event) and stops the job on air after its current frame (it gets aborted).

Suspend Stops the radio taking jobs for a reason (frequency scan, OTA). Suspending flushes; while suspended, new jobs are refused.

Job outcome Every job we submit gets exactly one started event, unless it is dropped before going on air. It then ends with exactly one of finished (every frame went on air), aborted (cut short) or dropped (never went on air).

Rolling code The per-remote counter in every Somfy frame. A motor ignores any frame whose code is not newer than the last one it accepted, so a remote's frames must go on air in the order their codes were assigned.

Pulse decoder Turns the times between edges of a received transmission into a frame's bits: it finds the hardware and software sync, which also tell a 56-bit frame from an 80-bit one, then reads the Manchester-coded bits.

Shades

Shade Any motor the firmware drives: a roller, blind, awning, shutter, drapery, garage door, gate or dry contact. Avoid: blind (one type of shade), cover (Home Assistant's word)

Shade model Everything the user has set up: rooms, shades, groups and repeaters, with their state. Avoid: installation, config

Favorite The position a motor stores and goes to on My. A shade may have none. Avoid: My position

Step A short move in one direction, sized by the shade's step time and the number of steps the frame asks for. An integrated tilt turns its slats to the end first, then moves the lift.

Sensor frame A frame from a sun and wind sensor reporting whether it is sunny and whether it is windy. It carries no command; the shade decides what to do.

Sun flag The per-shade switch that lets the sun move a shade. While it is on, lasting sun extends the shade and lasting cloud retracts it; wind retracts the shade whether it is on or not.

Extend / retract Where the weather sends a shade: extend to its favorite, or fully when it has none; retract fully. A tilt-only shade extends and retracts its tilt, every other shade its lift.

ShadeSettings What the user sets up for a shade and its behaviour only reads: shade and tilt type, travel times, step size, flip position, simulated My and sun sensor. Avoid: config (the whole shade model is saved in the config file)

RemoteSettings What shades and groups share about how their frames go on air: flip commands, bit length and repeats.

Flags The byte a shade is saved and sent with. Its sun sensor, light and simulated My bits are settings; its sun flag, sunny, windy and demo mode bits are state. A group's flags are its shades' flags together.

ShadeBehaviour What a shade does with frames, commands, group commands and radio events, and where that leaves it: positions, targets, directions, the favorite and the sensor state. Avoid: shade logic, motion (ShadeMotion is the position maths it uses)

MotorLink The seam a shade's commands reach its motor through, radio or GPIO. The shade hears its own frame; every other shade hears it through the link.

ShadeEvents The seam through which a shade's behaviour reports what happened: changes for the change fan-out, commands for clients, a save wanted, and sensor flags for the groups.

Entry points and outputs

Entry point Where a request from outside reaches the firmware: an HTTP route, an MQTT command topic or a frame received from a remote. Avoid: controller (it already names the owner of the shade list and the /controller read)

WebUiRoutes The HTTP routes on port 80 that the config web UI calls, plus the UI's own files. Avoid: WebUiController, Web

ApiRoutes The HTTP routes on port 8081 that integrations such as Home Assistant call. Avoid: WebApiController

MqttCommands The MQTT topics ending in /set that command a shade or group. Avoid: MQTTController

MqttPublisher What sends the state of rooms, shades and groups, and the Home Assistant discovery config, to the MQTT broker. Avoid: MQTTController

SocketEmitter What pushes state events to WebSocket clients on port 8080. A client can only join or leave a room; it sends no commands. Avoid: WebSocketController

MqttConnection The link to the MQTT broker that MqttCommands and MqttPublisher share: connecting, the root topic and the subscriptions. Avoid: MQTTClass

Change fan-out What sends everything that changed about a shade or group in one pass of loop() once: its changed MQTT topics, then one state event.

Domain modules

Domain module A module that holds the rules of one part of the domain, such as what a shade request does. Entry points call it; it never calls an output itself. Avoid: service, business service

Shade request A request from outside to command a shade or group, set or clear its favorite, unpair it, or correct its position or rolling code. It names the shade or group and gives positions as the client sees them. Avoid: web command

ShadeRequests The domain module that carries out shade requests, whichever entry point they came from.

ModelEditor The domain module that adds, changes, deletes, links and orders the rooms, shades, groups and repeaters of the shade model. Avoid: ShadeConfig, InstallationEditor

ModelSnapshot A copy of the shade model taken for one read, so the reply describes a single moment. Avoid: InstallationSnapshot

LoopQueue The single queue through which shade requests, model edits and snapshot requests reach loop() from other tasks, in the order they arrived. Avoid: web command queue