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Merge pull request #46 from agessaman/fix/mqtt-review-followups #47

Merge pull request #46 from agessaman/fix/mqtt-review-followups

Merge pull request #46 from agessaman/fix/mqtt-review-followups #47

name: Build MQTT Observer Firmwares (BETA channel)
permissions:
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# Push-triggered on the dev line, mirroring build-observer-firmwares.yml.
#
# This is NOT the original design — dispatch-only was, so that publishing to real
# nodes stayed an explicit act. That does not work in this repo: this fork's
# default branch is `dev` (an upstream mirror that carries none of the observer
# workflows), and GitHub only surfaces `workflow_dispatch` for workflows present
# on the DEFAULT branch. A dispatch-only workflow here would never appear in the
# Actions UI. Adding fork-specific workflows to `dev` would pollute the upstream
# mirror and conflict on every upstream sync, so the push trigger is the correct
# mechanism — the same one production already relies on.
#
# workflow_dispatch is kept as well: harmless now, and it starts working if the
# default branch ever changes.
#
# Consequence to be aware of: every push to `observer-firmware-dev` publishes a
# dev-channel build. That is defensible for a channel users opt into, but if you
# want staging commits without publishing, work on a side branch and fast-forward
# `observer-firmware-dev` when you intend to release.
on:
workflow_dispatch:
push:
branches:
- observer-firmware-dev
# Same rationale as production: docs/CI-only changes do not alter binaries.
paths-ignore:
- '**.md'
- 'docs/**'
- 'scripts/gen_changelog.py'
- '.github/**'
- '.gitignore'
- '.gitattributes'
- '.editorconfig'
- 'LICENSE'
- '.vscode/**'
- '.claude/**'
# Throwaway build worktrees never affect the binaries.
- '.build-wt-*'
- '.build-wt-*/**'
# Own group: serialize beta builds against each other only. Concurrency groups are
# repo-wide, not per-branch, so sharing one with the production workflows let an
# in-flight beta build force a production build into the pending state, where the
# next run queued into the group cancelled it outright. Concurrent flasher pushes
# are instead made safe by the rebase-retry in "Commit & Push Beta Artifacts".
concurrency:
group: observer-firmware-beta-build
cancel-in-progress: false
env:
# MUST stay equal to the production channel's FIRMWARE_VERSION. The observer's
# OTA comparison treats a different base version as "always an update", so a
# distinct base here would make every beta node think it is permanently behind.
# Channels are separated by manifest URL, not by base version.
FIRMWARE_VERSION: v1.17.1
# Beta-only rolling release. A separate tag is required, not cosmetic: the
# publish step prunes all but the KEEP_BUILDS most recent build hashes within
# its tag, so sharing production's tag would make each channel delete the
# other's assets.
RELEASE_TAG: observer-mqtt-beta-latest
# The channel itself. Firmware fetches <OTA_MANIFEST_BASE>/<OTA_VARIANT>.json,
# so this URL is what keeps beta nodes on beta.
OTA_MANIFEST_BASE_URL: https://observer.gessaman.com/beta/v
# Marks the embedded version, e.g. v1.16.0.3-observer-beta-dev-abc1234, so `ver`
# (and the MQTT firmware_version / SNMP) identify BOTH the channel and its
# provenance: this channel is built from the upstream-dev-merged line, so "dev"
# is carried in the string rather than left to be inferred from the branch name.
# Does not affect OTA version parsing: ota_parseVersion() reads to the first '-'
# and ota_extractHash() takes the token after the last, so tags in between are
# transparent.
OTA_CHANNEL_TAG: beta-dev
# Marks the asset *filenames*, e.g. <env>-v1.16.0-dev-abc1234.bin, so a
# downloaded file identifies its channel at a glance. Lowercase letters only —
# the filename parsers (gen-slim ASSET_RE, the /releases Worker, flasher.js)
# accept exactly (?:-[a-z]+)? between version and hash.
FILENAME_CHANNEL_TAG: "-dev"
# Beta's own build counter, so the two channels' build numbers never interleave.
COUNTER_URL: https://observer.gessaman.com/observer-beta-build-counter.json
COUNTER_FILE: observer-beta-build-counter.json
# Where beta artifacts live in the flasher repo. MANIFEST_DIR must correspond to
# OTA_MANIFEST_BASE_URL's path, and STATIC_PATH must be a host/route serving the
# beta GitHub release (see cloudflare-worker).
MANIFEST_DIR: beta/v
STATIC_PATH: https://observer-fw-beta.gessaman.com
jobs:
enumerate:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
outputs:
matrix: ${{ steps.split.outputs.matrix }}
build_number: ${{ steps.buildnum.outputs.n }}
steps:
- name: Clone Repo
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Split observer envs into shards
id: split
shell: bash
run: |
SHARDS=14
ENVS=$(grep -rhoE '^\[env:[^]]*observer_mqtt\]' platformio.ini variants/*/platformio.ini \
| sed -E 's/^\[env:(.*)\]$/\1/' | sort -u)
echo "Discovered envs:"; echo "$ENVS"
MATRIX=$(echo "$ENVS" | awk -v n="$SHARDS" '
{ shard[NR % n] = shard[NR % n] " " $0 }
END { for (i = 0; i < n; i++) { sub(/^ /, "", shard[i]);
printf "{\"idx\":%d,\"envs\":\"%s\"}\n", i, shard[i] } }' \
| jq -cs .)
echo "matrix=$MATRIX" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
- name: Compute beta build number
id: buildnum
shell: bash
run: |
# Same scheme as production but off the BETA counter, so the channels
# increment independently.
CUR=$(curl -fsSL "$COUNTER_URL" 2>/dev/null || echo '{}')
PREV_BASE=$(echo "$CUR" | jq -r '.baseVersion // ""')
PREV_BUILD=$(echo "$CUR" | jq -r '.build // 0')
if [ "$PREV_BASE" = "$FIRMWARE_VERSION" ]; then
N=$((PREV_BUILD + 1))
else
N=1
fi
echo "Base $FIRMWARE_VERSION; previous beta build $PREV_BUILD (base $PREV_BASE) -> N=$N"
echo "n=$N" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
build:
needs: enumerate
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix:
shard: ${{ fromJSON(needs.enumerate.outputs.matrix) }}
steps:
- name: Clone Repo
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Cache PlatformIO Toolchains
uses: actions/cache@v4
with:
path: |
~/.platformio/packages
~/.platformio/platforms
key: pio-toolchains-${{ runner.os }}-${{ hashFiles('platformio.ini') }}
restore-keys: |
pio-toolchains-${{ runner.os }}-
- name: Setup Build Environment
uses: ./.github/actions/setup-build-environment
- name: Build Shard ${{ matrix.shard.idx }}
env:
FIRMWARE_BUILD_NUMBER: ${{ needs.enumerate.outputs.build_number }}
# OTA_MANIFEST_BASE_URL and OTA_CHANNEL_TAG (what actually make this a
# beta build) come from the workflow-level env: above, which every step
# inherits. Do NOT redeclare them as ${{ env.X }} here — that is a
# self-reference, and if it resolved empty it would blank the channel.
run: /usr/bin/env bash build.sh build-firmware ${{ matrix.shard.envs }}
- name: Verify beta channel is baked in
shell: bash
run: |
# Fail fast rather than publish firmware that would OTA itself onto the
# production channel. Checks one built binary actually carries the beta
# manifest URL and does NOT carry the production one.
BIN=$(find .pio/build -name firmware.elf | head -1)
if [ -z "$BIN" ]; then echo "no ELF found to verify" >&2; exit 1; fi
if ! strings "$BIN" | grep -qF "$OTA_MANIFEST_BASE_URL"; then
echo "ERROR: beta manifest base missing from $BIN" >&2; exit 1
fi
if strings "$BIN" | grep -qE 'https://observer\.gessaman\.com/v"?$'; then
echo "ERROR: production manifest base present in a beta build" >&2; exit 1
fi
echo "OK: $BIN carries $OTA_MANIFEST_BASE_URL"
- name: Upload Shard Artifact
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
name: fw-${{ matrix.shard.idx }}
path: out
if-no-files-found: error
release:
needs: [enumerate, build]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Clone Repo
uses: actions/checkout@v4
# Shallow on purpose — see the production workflow: `git rev-parse --short`
# must produce the same abbreviation build.sh used for the asset filenames.
- name: Download All Shard Artifacts
uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
path: artifacts
- name: Flatten into out/
run: |
mkdir -p out
find artifacts -type f -name '*.bin' -exec cp -f {} out/ \;
find artifacts -type f -name '*.partsig' -exec cp -f {} out/ \;
echo "Collected binaries:"; ls -1 out
- name: Compute Short SHA
id: sha
run: echo "short=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
- name: Publish to Beta Rolling Release
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
run: |
# Retry wrapper for GitHub API calls. This job runs AFTER ~15 minutes of
# building across 14 runners, and every call below is an API write; with
# `bash -e`, a single transient 5xx throws all of that away. Observed
# 2026-07-19: `gh release create` got HTTP 503 during a GitHub incident
# and killed a run whose builds had all passed.
# `until` in a condition does not trip `-e`, so this is safe here.
gh_retry() {
local n=0 max=5 delay=10
until "$@"; do
n=$((n + 1))
if [ "$n" -ge "$max" ]; then
echo "::error::gh failed after $max attempts: $*" >&2
return 1
fi
echo "gh call failed (attempt $n/$max), retrying in ${delay}s: $*" >&2
sleep "$delay"
delay=$((delay * 2))
done
}
# Deliberately NOT retried: a plain "release does not exist" is the
# expected answer on the first run, and retrying it would just burn the
# backoff. A 5xx here instead makes us fall through to create, which is
# then tolerated below if the release actually did already exist.
if ! gh release view "$RELEASE_TAG" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
gh_retry gh release create "$RELEASE_TAG" --prerelease \
--title "MQTT Observer Firmwares (BETA)" \
--notes "Rolling BETA build. Separate channel from observer-mqtt-latest; beta nodes only OTA within this channel." \
|| gh release view "$RELEASE_TAG" >/dev/null 2>&1 \
|| { echo "::error::could not create or confirm $RELEASE_TAG" >&2; exit 1; }
fi
gh_retry gh release upload "$RELEASE_TAG" $(find out -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name '*.partsig') --clobber
# Keep the release body in sync with the repo's notes source, with the
# dev-channel warning prepended: the /releases feed serves the body as
# this channel's dropdown changelog. Non-fatal — stale notes beat a
# red build whose binaries are already live.
{
printf '%s' '<p><b>&#9888; DEV/BETA CHANNEL:</b> pre-release firmware. A node flashed from this channel keeps receiving OTA updates from this channel until re-flashed by cable.</p>'
cat firmware-notes.html
} > /tmp/beta-notes.html
gh_retry gh release edit "$RELEASE_TAG" --notes-file /tmp/beta-notes.html \
|| echo "WARNING: release notes sync failed" >&2
# Pruning is housekeeping and runs AFTER the upload has succeeded. If the
# API is flaky here, skip it rather than fail the job — old assets simply
# linger until the next run, which is strictly better than reporting
# failure for a build whose binaries are already published.
KEEP_BUILDS=2
if ! asset_list=$(gh_retry gh release view "$RELEASE_TAG" --json assets \
-q '.assets[] | "\(.createdAt) \(.name)"'); then
echo "::warning::could not list assets; skipping prune this run"
exit 0
fi
keep_hashes=$(printf '%s\n' "$asset_list" \
| sort -r \
| while read -r _ts name; do
printf '%s' "$name" | grep -oiE '[0-9a-f]{7,40}(-merged)?\.bin$' | grep -oiE '^[0-9a-f]{7,40}'
done \
| awk '!seen[$0]++' | head -n "$KEEP_BUILDS")
echo "Retaining build hashes:"; echo "$keep_hashes"
# Reuse asset_list rather than making a second API call (its lines are
# "<createdAt> <name>", so the name is field 2).
printf '%s\n' "$asset_list" | awk '{print $2}' \
| while read -r asset; do
ah=$(printf '%s' "$asset" | grep -oiE '[0-9a-f]{7,40}(-merged)?\.bin$' | grep -oiE '^[0-9a-f]{7,40}' || true)
if [ -n "$ah" ] && grep -qxF "$ah" <<<"$keep_hashes"; then
continue
fi
gh release delete-asset "$RELEASE_TAG" "$asset" --yes || true
done
- name: Checkout Flasher Repo
uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
repository: agessaman/flasher.meshcore.io
token: ${{ secrets.FLASHER_DISPATCH_TOKEN }}
path: flasher
- name: Generate Beta Manifests
env:
BUILD_NUMBER: ${{ needs.enumerate.outputs.build_number }}
run: |
# config-beta.json is no longer derived here: the flasher's Version
# dropdown is feed-driven (/releases on the firmware-proxy Worker
# lists both channels), so the beta channel needs no config of its
# own and this workflow's flasher commit touches only beta/v/ and the
# counter.
mkdir -p "flasher/$MANIFEST_DIR"
# Slim manifests come from the build output in out/ (the assets
# actually uploaded to the release), not from config-beta.json — see
# gen-slim-manifests.py's --bin-dir mode (flasher repo PR #1).
python3 flasher/scripts/gen-slim-manifests.py \
--bin-dir out \
--static-path "$STATIC_PATH" \
--out-dir "flasher/$MANIFEST_DIR" \
--base-version "$FIRMWARE_VERSION" \
--build "$BUILD_NUMBER" \
--partsig-dir out
printf '{\n "baseVersion": "%s",\n "build": %s\n}\n' \
"$FIRMWARE_VERSION" "$BUILD_NUMBER" > "flasher/$COUNTER_FILE"
echo "Beta build $FIRMWARE_VERSION.$BUILD_NUMBER"
- name: Verify beta manifests point at the beta channel
run: |
# Guards against a beta manifest handing out a production download URL.
SAMPLE=$(find "flasher/$MANIFEST_DIR" -name '*.json' | head -1)
echo "sample: $SAMPLE"; cat "$SAMPLE"
if ! grep -qF "$STATIC_PATH" "$SAMPLE"; then
echo "ERROR: beta manifest does not use $STATIC_PATH" >&2; exit 1
fi
# NOTE: production's "Generate Changelog" and "Sync Docs into Flasher" steps
# are deliberately omitted. Those rewrite site-wide content (CHANGELOG.md,
# MQTT_IMPLEMENTATION.md, ...) that the production channel owns; a beta build
# must not overwrite them.
- name: Commit & Push Beta Artifacts
working-directory: flasher
run: |
# Scoped add: beta only ever touches its own manifest dir and counter,
# so a stray edit elsewhere in the flasher checkout (in particular
# production's config.json) can never be published by this workflow.
git add -A "$MANIFEST_DIR" "$COUNTER_FILE"
if git diff --cached --quiet; then
echo "No beta changes to commit."
exit 0
fi
git config user.name "meshcore-bot"
git config user.email "noreply@gessaman.com"
git commit -m "Update BETA observer firmware to ${{ steps.sha.outputs.short }} (build ${FIRMWARE_VERSION}.${{ needs.enumerate.outputs.build_number }})"
# The production workflows can be pushing to the flasher repo right now
# (no shared concurrency group any more), so a non-fast-forward is expected
# rather than fatal: rebase onto their commit and retry. The scoped add
# above keeps this commit inside the beta paths, so a conflict with
# production's files is not possible.
br=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
for attempt in 1 2 3; do
if git push origin "HEAD:$br"; then
exit 0
fi
echo "push rejected (attempt $attempt); rebasing onto origin/$br"
git fetch origin "$br"
# --autostash: the scoped add above leaves unrelated edits in the
# checkout unstaged on purpose, and plain rebase refuses to run with a
# dirty tree. They stay unstaged, so they still never get published.
git rebase --autostash "origin/$br" || {
git rebase --abort || true
echo "::error::flasher rebase conflicted; re-run this workflow to republish"
exit 1
}
done
echo "::error::could not push beta changes after 3 attempts"
exit 1