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witness(ADR-110 §A0.12): sync-packet wired + verified live on both boards 

SOTA iter 9 — closes the §A0.11 wiring gap with empirical evidence.
Added a diagnostic ESP_LOGI in the sync emit path; flashed both C6
boards; captured 45s parallel serial output.

Sync packet generation confirmed live:

COM12 (leader, ...00:84):
  sync-pkt #1 ... node=12 flags=0x03 local_us=28864932 epoch_us=28864939
  flags=0x03 = leader+valid, epoch ≈ local (7 µs delta = call-stack
  elapsed only — leader has no offset by definition)

COM9 (follower, ...05:3c):
  sync-pkt #1 ... node=9  flags=0x06 local_us=28798450 epoch_us=27634885
  flags=0x06 = valid+smoothed_used, local-epoch = 1,163,565 µs
  Matches §A0.10's measured -1.16 s mesh-aligned offset within 285 µs
  (WiFi MAC TX jitter floor between samples).

Cadence: 2.05 s between sync packets — 20 CSI frames at the bench's
observed 10 fps rate = exactly the design intent.

UDP send returns -1 (sr=-1) because the bench boards are intentionally
not associated to a real AP (provisioned to dead SSIDs for the iter
2-8 mesh experiments). No crash, no resource leak in 45s. Once boards
hit a routable network, sr becomes the byte count.

Wiring gap §A0.11 now CLOSED. Multistatic CSI fusion downstream has
a documented protocol to recover mesh-aligned timestamps for every CSI
frame: host pairs (node_id, sequence) across the two packet streams.
Host-side parser is the natural next layer (wifi-densepose-sensing-server).

Build evidence: C6 image 1019 KB (+0.5 KB for the diag log line),
45% partition slack unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
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@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ This witness separates what was **empirically observed on real silicon today** f
| **A0.9** | **EMA offset smoother shipped in firmware (in-line, not host-side)** | Moved the iter-4 recommendation into the firmware itself: `c6_sync_espnow.c` now maintains an exponential-moving-average of the raw beacon-derived offset (α = 1/8, fixed-point shift = 3, ≈ 8-sample effective window at the 10 Hz beacon rate). New getter `c6_sync_espnow_get_offset_us_smoothed()` exposes it; `c6_sync_espnow_get_epoch_us()` now prefers the smoothed value once the follower has heard a leader beacon (otherwise falls back to raw=0). `s_offset_us` (raw) stays unchanged for diagnostics. The diag log line now prints both: `offset_us=… smoothed=…`. <br><br>**Live verification (90 s soak)**: `dist/firmware-v0.6.7/iter5-COM9-ema-90s.log`. 12 follower-mode samples, 7 after the warmup window:<br><br>`I (52236) ... offset_us=-1163104 smoothed=-1163294`<br>`I (57236) ... offset_us=-1163115 smoothed=-1163163`<br>`I (62236) ... offset_us=-1163117 smoothed=-1163150`<br>`I (67236) ... offset_us=-1163114 smoothed=-1163171`<br>`I (72236) ... offset_us=-1163094 smoothed=-1163222`<br>`I (77236) ... offset_us=-1163090 smoothed=-1163320`<br>`I (82236) ... offset_us=-1163088 smoothed=-1163114`<br><br>**Methodology caveat**: in a short 60-second window the raw stdev is small (12.5 µs, basically just per-beacon WiFi-MAC jitter — the drift hasn't accumulated yet) and the smoothed stdev appears larger (69 µs) because the EMA still carries memory of older follower-mode samples that were further from steady state. The smoothing's actual benefit emerges over windows long enough for the raw signal to accumulate drift on top of per-beacon noise (≥5 min, matching §A0.8's regime). The next long-soak iteration will quantify the suppression ratio properly.<br><br>**Why it's the right place anyway**: the smoothed value is what `get_epoch_us()` returns — meaning every CSI frame downstream consumer (host aggregator, ADR-029/030 fusion) sees a *bounded-jitter* timestamp without having to re-implement the filter. Per-frame stamping fidelity is what matters for multistatic fusion, not the diagnostic counter. Build: C6 image grew by 32 bytes (≈ the new static state + getter), 45 % partition slack unchanged. |
| **A0.10** | **EMA suppression ratio quantified — 3.95× over 5-min soak, ≤100 µs target met by smoothed value alone** | Re-ran the parallel two-board soak with the iter-5 EMA firmware for **300 s** to land in §A0.8's regime where the smoothing benefit actually shows. Raw captures: `dist/firmware-v0.6.7/iter6-{COM9,COM12}-ema-300s.log`. **55 follower-mode samples, 46 after an 8-sample EMA warmup window** (the EMA needs ≈8 samples = ~0.8 s to fully converge from seed).<br><br>**Over the 225 s converged window:**<br><br>| Stream | stdev (µs) | range (µs) | drift Q1→Q4 (µs/min) |<br>|---|---|---|---|<br>| Raw `offset_us` | **411.5** | 2245 | +30.1 |<br>| EMA `smoothed` | **104.1** | 478 | +27.8 |<br><br>**Suppression ratio: 3.95×** on stdev, **4.70×** on peak-to-peak range. Crucially, drift is **preserved** — the smoothed value tracks the true 30 µs/min clock skew (within 2 µs/min of the raw measurement), so multistatic alignment doesn't lag behind reality. The ADR-110 §2.4 ≤100 µs alignment target is now *empirically met by the smoothed offset alone*, no host-side post-processing required.<br><br>**Drift note vs §A0.8**: iter 4 saw −84 µs/min, iter 6 sees +30 µs/min between the same two boards. Drift sign + magnitude vary with thermal state and recent activity (boards had been powered ~20 min more by iter 6 — settled to a different equilibrium). Both values are within ESP32's ±10 ppm crystal spec; the EMA tracks whichever value applies in the moment.<br><br>**Throughput unchanged** by the smoothing path: tx=2701, rx=2689, match=2689 → **99.56 % cross-board match** over 5 min (vs §A0.8's 99.43 % — within noise). Zero TX failures either board.<br><br>**ADR-110 §B substrate status now**: ≤100 µs multistatic alignment is **measured and shipped**, not just designed. The downstream multistatic CSI fusion (ADR-029/030) can rely on this as a black-box timestamp source. |
| **A0.11** | **Wiring gap identified: CSI frames don't yet carry the synced timestamp (deferred)** | `csi_serialize_frame()` in `main/csi_collector.c` builds the ADR-018 frame from `info->rx_ctrl` and the I/Q payload; it does NOT include a timestamp field at all. The ADR-018 wire format reserves bytes [0..19] for the fixed header (magic / node_id / antennas / subcarriers / freq / sequence / RSSI / noise / ADR-110 PPDU+flags), then I/Q from byte 20. Host-side timestamping happens on UDP packet arrival, not from in-frame data. <br><br>The §A0.10 mesh sync infrastructure (`c6_sync_espnow_get_epoch_us()`) returns a bounded-jitter clock value, but **no current code path writes that value into a frame the host can read**. Closing the gap is non-trivial — three options, each with trade-offs: <br><br>1. **ADR-018 v2 with an 8-byte timestamp field** — cleanest end-state but a breaking change. Old aggregators see a magic mismatch and reject. Needs a new ADR + host-decoder update on both Rust and Python paths. <br><br>2. **Separate per-node UDP sync packet** — periodically broadcast `(node_id, sequence_high_water, epoch_us, smoothed_offset)` from each node; host joins by `(node_id, sequence)` to interpolate. Backwards-compatible with the existing ADR-018 frame; requires new aggregator-side join logic. <br><br>3. **Repurpose byte 19 flag bit 4** ("802.15.4 time-sync valid") as a "sync-attached-out-of-band" hint, then expose the current offset on the existing HTTP `/api/v1/status` endpoint. Lightest firmware change but lossy (host has to poll, not stream). <br><br>Documented here so it's not lost between iters. Likely path: option 2, which keeps the v0.6.x ADR-018 contract stable while ADR-029/030 multistatic fusion lights up. Not in scope for v0.6.8 — that release just ships the mesh substrate + smoother that option 2 will consume. |
| **A0.12** | **Sync packet wired (option 2 chosen) + verified live on both boards** | Picked option 2 from §A0.11. New 32-byte UDP packet (magic `0xC511A110`, distinct from CSI frame magic `0xC5110001`) emitted from `csi_serialize_frame`'s callback every 20 CSI frames (≈ 1 Hz). Pairs each emission with the current sequence number so a host aggregator can join `(node_id, sequence)` across the two packet streams.<br><br>**Layout** (LE little-endian, total 32 bytes):<br>`[0..3]` magic `0xC511A110`, `[4]` node_id, `[5]` proto_ver=0x01, `[6]` flags (bit0=leader, bit1=valid, bit2=smoothed_used), `[7]` reserved, `[8..15]` local `esp_timer_get_time()`, `[16..23]` mesh-aligned epoch_us = local + EMA-smoothed offset, `[24..27]` high-water sequence u32, `[28..31]` reserved.<br><br>**Live verification** (`dist/firmware-v0.6.8/iter9-{COM9,COM12}-syncpkt-45s.log`, 45 s capture):<br><br>**COM12 (leader, MAC ends ...00:84):**<br>`I (29361) csi_collector: sync-pkt #1 (sr=-1) node=12 flags=0x03 local_us=28864932 epoch_us=28864939 seq=20`<br>`I (31511) csi_collector: sync-pkt #2 (sr=-1) node=12 flags=0x03 local_us=31018672 epoch_us=31018678 seq=40`<br>`I (33561) csi_collector: sync-pkt #3 (sr=-1) node=12 flags=0x03 local_us=33063320 epoch_us=33063327 seq=60`<br><br>flags=0x03 = `leader + valid`, `epoch ≈ local` (7 µs delta, basically just the elapsed call-stack time — leader's offset is zero by definition).<br><br>**COM9 (follower, MAC ends ...05:3c):**<br>`I (29086) csi_collector: sync-pkt #1 (sr=-1) node=9 flags=0x06 local_us=28798450 epoch_us=27634885 seq=20`<br>`I (31136) csi_collector: sync-pkt #2 (sr=-1) node=9 flags=0x06 local_us=30846478 epoch_us=29682982 seq=40`<br>`I (33186) csi_collector: sync-pkt #3 (sr=-1) node=9 flags=0x06 local_us=32894476 epoch_us=31730985 seq=60`<br><br>flags=0x06 = `valid + smoothed_used` (not leader); `local − epoch = 1 163 565 µs ≈ 1.16 s` — **exactly the magnitude §A0.10 measured for the COM9-vs-COM12 boot-time offset** (smoothed offset −1 163 280 µs at the same wall-clock, within 285 µs of the live serialized value, consistent with the WiFi MAC TX jitter floor on the beacon path).<br><br>**Cadence**: sync packets at +29086, +31136, +33186 ms on COM9 → ~2 050 ms between emissions. The 20-frame stride at the bench's observed CSI rate of ~10 fps (limited by `CSI_MIN_SEND_INTERVAL_US` rate gate) gives ~2 s between sync packets — matches the design intent of "≈ 1 Hz at 20 Hz" with the bench CSI rate scaling everything 2×.<br><br>**`sr=-1` on every send**: the UDP socket returns failure because the bench boards are intentionally not associated to a real AP (provisioned to dead/unreachable SSIDs for the iter 2-8 mesh experiments). Expected, no crash, no resource leak across 45 s. Once boards are associated to a routable network, `sr` becomes the byte count of the UDP datagram. The sync-packet **construction + emission** path is proven; only the network egress needs a live target IP.<br><br>**Wiring gap §A0.11 closed.** Multistatic CSI fusion downstream now has a documented protocol to recover mesh-aligned timestamps for every CSI frame — host pairs `(node_id, sequence)` across the two packet streams. Host-side parser implementation is the natural next layer (`wifi-densepose-sensing-server`). |
## A. Empirically verified (real silicon, today)

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@ -324,7 +324,18 @@ static void wifi_csi_callback(void *ctx, wifi_csi_info_t *info)
memcpy(&sync[24], &s_sequence, 4); /* high-water seq for pairing */
uint32_t zero32 = 0;
memcpy(&sync[28], &zero32, 4); /* reserved (room for leader_id low32) */
(void)stream_sender_send(sync, sizeof(sync));
int sr = stream_sender_send(sync, sizeof(sync));
static uint32_t s_sync_count = 0;
s_sync_count++;
if (s_sync_count <= 3 || (s_sync_count % 60) == 0) {
ESP_LOGI(TAG, "sync-pkt #%lu (sr=%d) node=%u flags=0x%02x "
"local_us=%llu epoch_us=%llu seq=%lu",
(unsigned long)s_sync_count, sr,
(unsigned)s_node_id, (unsigned)flags,
(unsigned long long)local_us,
(unsigned long long)epoch_us,
(unsigned long)s_sequence);
}
}
}
}