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CYD Console Reference
Quick-lookup tables for the status words, colors, and terms used across the CYD Console Guide. These are the same words shown live on the console's own INFO → LEGEND page.
Shown top-right on HOME. Priority order when more than one could apply: HUNTED beats DARK beats EXPOSED beats CLOAKED — the worst honest truth always wins, it never shows a falsely reassuring state.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| CLOAKED (healthy color) | Decoys are actively running and there's a real ambient crowd to blend into. The intended normal state. |
| EXPOSED (warning color) | Decoys are running, but there's essentially no real crowd nearby (an empty room/street) — so there's nothing for the fake crowd to blend into. Emitting into empty air doesn't provide real cover. |
| DARK (dim/inactive) | The decoys are paused or not transmitting at all right now. |
| HUNTED (danger color) | A follower has escalated past "just seen once" — it's been confirmed as recurring or persistent, not merely a new detection. |
Applies to every detected follower, driving both its dot color and its label:
| Level | Meaning |
|---|---|
| NEW (accent color) | Seen for the first time this session. Not yet suspicious on its own. |
| RECURRING (warning color) | Seen across at least 2 sessions, or in at least 3 different places — it's showing a pattern. |
| PERSISTENT (danger color) | Seen across at least 3 sessions and at least 2 different places — the strongest behavioral case that this is actually following you, not just present nearby once. |
Shown per-node on the NODES list page and at the top of the NODE detail page. If more than one condition applies, low battery takes priority over degraded (it's shown first).
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| CHANNEL (healthy color) | Reporting normally, nothing wrong. |
| DEGRADED (warning color) | The node's own self-health check has flagged its Wi-Fi probe transmission as stuck/wedged. |
| LOW BATT (warning color) | That node's fuel gauge (if it has one) is reporting a low state of charge. |
| SILENT (dim/inactive) | Nothing has been heard from this node recently — it's gone quiet, whether powered off, out of range, or crashed. |
The tracker-signature database currently ships with fingerprints for: AirTag, SmartTag (Samsung), Tile, Flock (a make of automated license-plate-reader camera), and Axon (a make of body-worn camera). Anything else the fingerprint matcher doesn't recognize but that behaves suspiciously (keeps reappearing near you) shows up as a behavioral follower instead, identified by a short hex ID rather than a name.
- RPA (Resolvable Private Address) — a Bluetooth address that rotates periodically but can be "resolved" back to the same device by anyone holding the right key (this is how your own earbuds reconnect to your phone even though their address keeps changing). The fast-rotating, phone-like behavior.
- NRPA (Non-Resolvable Private Address) — a Bluetooth address that rotates and can't be tied back to the same device by anyone. Slower/less frequent rotation in this project's mix.
- Static address — a Bluetooth address that never rotates at all. The majority behavior in the fake crowd, matching how most fixed real-world Bluetooth beacons/tags actually behave.
- Epoch — a counter that increments every time the fleet's shared transport key is rotated (whether by a REVOKE or a manual rotation). A jump in epoch number means the key changed.
- Preset vs. LIVE vs. PENDING — PENDING is what you've selected on the console but not yet sent; LIVE is what the fleet has actually confirmed it's running, reported back over the link. They can legitimately disagree for a few seconds after you hit SEND while the command propagates.
Back to the CYD Console Guide or the Home page.