POS-Automation/DECISIONS.md

POS-Automation — Decisions

Format: YYYY-MM-DD: <decision> — <why>

• 2026-06-07: On-demand trigger via MQTT bridge (lgtv pattern), not cron. Seth wants a Google Home button, not a scheduled print. Bridge pos-briefing-mqtt.service (systemd, User=claude) on steel141 subscribes to posbriefing/button/press on broker CT 301 (192.168.0.154); HA exposes a script to Google as a Scene (button). The earlier "schedule 4:58am/3pm" was never a real cron job — that commit only edited SESSION.md.
• 2026-06-07: Printer discovered by MAC 50:57:9c:eb:0f:07, not a fixed IP. The TM-m30's IP changes on every reboot (router DHCP, no reservation). Cache last IP (~/.cache/pos-briefing/last_ip), verify by MAC + port, sweep the /24 on a miss. A router DHCP reservation would make this belt-and-suspenders but isn't required.
• 2026-06-07: Summaries on gemma4:26b; story selection stays on a fast model. Seth asked to switch summaries to gemma4. gemma4:26b under format:json ignores the bare-array instruction and emits a reasoning object ({"thought": ...}), which broke Phase-1 selection. Selection now uses ollama_select_model (default qwen2.5:1.5b); summaries use ollama_model = gemma4:26b. Also better latency for an interactive button.
• 2026-06-07: yfinance installed on steel141 via pip --user --break-system-packages (PEP 668). It was missing after the CT 166 → steel141 migration — the original "not firing" had two causes: no cron ever installed + this missing dependency.
• 2026-06-07: paho-mqtt v1 callbacks (CallbackAPIVersion.VERSION1). paho 2.1.0 is installed for claude; matches the working lgtv bridge. One-time deprecation warning at startup is harmless.

Deferred / Rejected

• Print latency (~1–2 min/press): gemma4:26b summarization (+ yfinance) dominates. Acceptable for v1; the button returns immediately and posbriefing/status tracks progress. Optimize later (model keep-alive, fewer/shorter summaries) if it annoys.
• Router DHCP reservation for the printer: Seth's router action; MAC discovery makes it optional. Add if convenient to drop the sweep fallback.
• zfs/reddit/grafana dashboard fields return None on steel141 (not the tank/ZFS host; cannot open 'tank'). Out of scope for the trigger work — track separately.