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Rewind: a NetworkTables reconnect no longer splits a robot recording (photonvision-74) - #16
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…(photonvision-74) After a reconnect, ntcore reads /photonvision/rewind/record as its default (false) until the robot's value arrives again, and RewindManager.tick() took that for "robot stopped": at TXMAN1 (2026-10-17) each ~2 s switch drop split Q30, Q32 and a playoff match into two recordings. RobotRecordRequest keeps the 60 s grace through the reconnect until a record value arrives after it: a true carries on in the same session, a false or 60 s of nothing ends it. Connects and values come from one NetworkTableListenerPoller, read each tick in ntcore's order. RobotRecordRequestTest (real ntcore server and client on localhost) reproduces the drop, reconnect and late value: one session now, where the old rule split it. tests/rewind-sessions/ reconnect.sh checks the same end to end on the Jetson (FakeRobot gains FAKE_ROBOT_RECORD and "-norecord" phases). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review comments at @patches/photonvision-74-rewind-reconnect-grace.patch:
- Around line 73-77: Update the `RobotRecordRequest.State` data exposed to
`RewindManager` to include whether a robot value has arrived since the last
connect, then use that value in the stop-reason conditional so an explicit
`record=false` after reconnect reports “robot stopped,” while a reconnect
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Fix the stop reason for an explicit false after reconnect.
wasWaiting holds the waiting state from the previous tick. It does not show whether the robot sent a value on this tick. This produces the wrong stop reason in one case:
- Previous tick: the session is waiting after reconnect, so
waitingAfterReconnect == true. - This tick: the robot's
record=falsearrives.heardSinceConnectbecomestrue, sograceandwantsare bothfalse, and the session stops. wasWaitingistrueandntConnectedistrue. The stop reason becomes "robot didn't send record after reconnecting".
The robot did send record. The correct reason is "robot stopped". As a result, the timeout and the explicit false get the same stop reason, so the PR does not deliver the distinct stop reasons it describes. The stopReason value also misleads anyone debugging a match recording later.
The timeout case still gets the right reason, because heardSinceConnect stays false in that case.
To fix this, expose whether a robot value arrived since the last connect, and use it here. RobotRecordRequestTest only counts opened and closed sessions, so it does not catch this. Add an assertion on the stop reason for the explicit-false path.
🐛 Proposed fix
In RobotRecordRequest.java:
record State(boolean wants, boolean grace, boolean waitingAfterReconnect, boolean heard) {}
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return new State(wants, grace, grace && connected, connected && heardSinceConnect);In RewindManager.java:
: !ntConnected
? "robot disconnected"
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Review comment at @patches/photonvision-74-rewind-reconnect-grace.patch around
lines 73 - 77:
Update the `RobotRecordRequest.State` data exposed to `RewindManager` to include
whether a robot value has arrived since the last connect, then use that value in
the stop-reason conditional so an explicit `record=false` after reconnect
reports “robot stopped,” while a reconnect timeout retains its existing reason.
Add an assertion in `RobotRecordRequestTest` for the explicit-false stop reason.
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What happened
At TXMAN1 (2026-10-17) a flaky robot switch dropped NetworkTables for about 2 s in Q30, Q32 and playoff 4. Each time the match's Rewind video came out as two recordings.
photonvision-2026-10-17_00-15-54.log:Cause: on a disconnect, ntcore drops the values it had from the server. After the reconnect,
/photonvision/rewind/recordreads its default (false) until the robot's value arrives again.RewindManager.tick()took that false for "robot stopped", because the 60 s grace only applied while disconnected. The unit test below shows ntcore reading false after the drop.The fix:
patches/photonvision-74-rewind-reconnect-grace.patchRobotRecordRequest: keeps a robot recording's 60 s grace through the reconnect until the robot sends arecordvalue after it.NetworkTableListenerPollerread each tick, in ntcore's order. A drop shorter than a tick still counts. My first version used listener callbacks instead, and they lost whole event lists in the test. The poller never did.RewindManager.recordingRequested()counts the grace too, so quiet mode can't close the recording while it waits.Tests
RobotRecordRequestTest(in the patch; JUnit with a real ntcore server and client on localhost). It records, drops the robot, reconnects to a robot that hasn't sentrecordyet, then sends it late.still the same session, not "robot stopped". That's the TXMAN1 split.tests/rewind-sessions/reconnect.sh(on the Jetson, added torun-all.shasrewind-reconnect):recordafter the reconnect (newFAKE_ROBOT_RECORD=1and-norecordphases).photon-servercompiles.PipelineManagerTest,VisionSourceManagerTest,FileSaveFrameConsumerTest,VisionModuleManagerTest). They fail the same way without this patch: they're environment failures in WSL.Docs
Not in this PR
The robot-side 10 s tail is shorter than the gap between auto and teleop at this event. In the same log, Q30 was already split at the end of auto ("robot stopped" at 00:16:07, a new session at 00:16:17). That's a robot-code change, in 2026-FM-SystemCore.
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