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[4.1.0]
Adds the Client Branch - a line coming off the bus, or off any Switch or Access Point,
with clients (and now Servers) stacked beside it instead of sitting in the Individual
Clients box - and a secondary Router and Core Switch that are drawn properly in both
views. The Tree (Hyperbolic) view now shows every redundant pair as one circle.
Added
Client Branches (Flat view)
- Client Branch node. Choose + Client Branch on the Nodes page to hang one straight
off the bus (the Router), or use the + Client Branch button under any Access Point or
Switch. A branch can be named, reordered and deleted like any other node. It uses the
Flow Line Color, with a short tick joining each client to the trunk, and always stops
at its last client. Under an Access Point the whole branch is dotted; elsewhere it is
solid. Under an Access Point or Switch that has a Connected Clients circle (or a Clients
box) the parent drops onto a short bar: its own line down to the circle on the left, the
branch on the right. - Two ways to put clients on a branch: from the branch's own page (+ Add Client, or
Scan for Clients, which uses the same Auto-Discovery as the Clients page and lands
whatever you select on that branch), or from a client's page with Attach to Client
Branch (None, the default, leaves the client in the Clients box). The Clients list
shows which branch a client is on. - Client Layout (per branch): Right side only (default), Left side only, or Dual
sides, where clients hang off both sides in a staggered formation. Up/down arrows on each
client set the order they hang down the branch. - Servers on a branch. + Add Server on a branch's page opens the full Server editor
(colours, IP, PoE, custom badges, security badges, Containers / VMs). A server is drawn
after the clients, exactly like a Server on the T bar (same size, default colours, offline
test, pulse, icon size and label), without its IP badge in the Flat view since that would
overlap the clients above. Scan for Servers finds Proxmox VE nodes (with their VMs and
containers as badges) and NetAlertX servers not already on the card, and adds the ticked
ones straight onto the branch. A branch's servers are a list (up / down, edit, remove)
like its clients; Edit opens that server's own page, with Back returning to the branch.
Servers can also be chosen as an "Assign to" target for monitored services. - PoE badge on clients. Each client's page has the same Power over Ethernet (PoE)
section as an Access Point (Off / Auto / Manual, icon, colours, thresholds). Off by
default. Use Manual to point it at the switch-port power sensor; Auto only finds
PoE sensors on the client's own device. A client's PoE is not added to PoE Total. - Client Branches in the Tree view. A client on a branch hangs off the device the
branch belongs to (the router for a branch off the bus). This takes priority over the
Connected Device rule; a client with no branch falls to Unknown. Servers on a branch
appear under the branch's parent device. Only applies when clients are attached to their
devices, not in the grouped Clients layout.
Redundant devices
- Secondary Router. The Router page has Primary / Secondary tabs, like Internet,
with the same settings (entity, name, icon, colours, PoE, custom badges, speed,
WAN / LAN address, and its own LAN Connected Clients circle; keysrouter_secondary/
lan_secondary). Router discovery offers As Primary / As Secondary (and Remove
Primary / Remove Secondary). When a Secondary Router exists the Secondary Internet
connects to it: two Internet-to-Router columns, then onto the Nodes bus-line or a T-bar
into the Core Switch / Primary AP. Adding one sets the Secondary Internet's Mode to
Active/Active (solid lines); removing it restores Active/Standby (dashed). With no Mode
set the default is Active/Standby with one Router and Active/Active with two. Downstream
lines go offline only when BOTH routers are down. - Secondary Core Switch (
switch_secondary). The Core Switch page has Primary /
Secondary tabs with the same settings, and discovery offers As Primary / As
Secondary. A redundant pair is drawn side by side: from one Router a stem splits over
both switches; from two Routers each line joins a shared bar that feeds both. Below the
pair each switch drops onto the Nodes bus-line, or joins a T-bar into the Primary AP /
lone Node. Downstream lines go offline only when BOTH switches are down.
Router client counts
- LAN Connected Clients has a Client Count option: "Total clients on the network" (the
entity's value, as before) or "Router only", which takes the entity as the network total
and subtracts each switch's / access point's Connected Clients count (never twice for
nested devices, never below zero). The entity picker accepts any numeric entity, helpers
included. The Tree view's router details follow the same option. - The router's details panel shows both Total clients (its Total Clients entity, else
the LAN count plus every access point's and switch's) and Directly connected (the LAN
Connected Clients entity, else the total less everything counted on other access points
and switches). The Connected clients graph plots both.
Display and layout
- Custom badges on every element. Internet, Router, Switches, Access Points, Servers
and clients each have a Custom Badges list: + Add Custom Badge, then pick any
entity, an icon, a corner (Location), and separate Icon / Background / Border colours
for online and offline. A badge can show the entity's state (with an optional
unit) or just its icon; Online when state is (a comma list) overrides the default
"online unless unavailable, unknown or off". Badges sharing a corner stack in list order
beside the built-in PoE / VPN / monitor badges. In the Tree view they are drawn on the
nodes and listed as chips in the details panel. - Summary Left / Right in the Flat view on phones. Left and Right now work at any card
width (a side summary starts level with the top of the Internet circle, below the External
box if there is one, and never moves the diagram), and also with the details panel on
when the card is stacked, instead of silently falling back to Top. - Summary badge sizes. Summary Badge Size (default 36px) and Summary Icon Size
(default 20px, was 24px) sliders under Layout > Summary, for the Flat strip, the side
summary and the Tree's summary card. The Layout item in the editor's main menu is drawn
solid in the theme's accent colour, like Discover. - Summary Card options in the Flat view. Layout > Summary has the same Summary Card
settings in Flat as in the Tree view: Show title ("Summary"), Card Background Color
and Card Outline Color. With both colours blank the Flat summary has no card, as
before. - Vertical Line Length slider (Layout > Sizing and Animation, Flat view): nudges every
vertical drop shorter (down to -8px) or taller (up to +24px) together. 0 is the standard
length, so existing cards are unchanged. - Horizontal Scroll opens a wide diagram centred on the Internet / Router column, keeps
it centred when the card is resized, and lets you pan by dragging the empty background as
well as with the scrollbar, wheel or trackpad. The scroll area has a thin visible
scrollbar. - Reorder Containers / VMs with up/down arrows in a server's list, changing the order
and stacking of their badges.
Auto-Discovery
- NetAlertX (the Home Assistant add-on, via its MQTT publisher). Every device it
publishes (adevice_trackercarryingmac_address,last_ip,network_parent_name...)
is offered by the Clients, Router, Main Switch and Nodes scans. It publishes no device
type, so routers, switches, access points and servers are recognised by name (router /
gateway / firewall, switch, AP / access point / mesh, Proxmox / hypervisor ...), by its
icon, and by what hangs off them: a device with others under it is a Switch, or an
Access Point when most of them are Wi-Fi clients (they carry anssid). Clients added
from NetAlertX keep their icon. Group By "Connected Device" groups a client under its
parent (network_parent_name), SSID and VLAN grouping use itsssid/vlan, and IP
badges read itslast_ip. In the Tree view a client attaches to its parent by
network_parent_macfirst, then by name.
Changed
Tree (Hyperbolic) view
- Redundant devices are each drawn as ONE circle holding both side by side: the two
Internets, the two Routers and the two Core Switches. Everything that hangs off "the
router" (the Internet, LAN, Nodes, clients, Unknown / Monitored groups) hangs off the
pair, so neither device looks like the sole parent. Each device inside keeps its own
label, badges, details panel and tap; the Internet keeps its quota ring. - A standby backup keeps its dashed outline: the Secondary Internet, and now the
Secondary Router when the Internet's Mode is Active/Standby. Both go solid once the
primary Router or Internet is offline. - The secondary Router shows even when there is no Backup Internet. The view starts on the
primary device rather than on the pair. Every node's offline "!" badge now sits top-right,
and every PoE badge in the tree sits bottom-right, whatever corner it uses in Flat.
Flat view layout
- Uniform vertical drops. Every device-to-device and device-to-T-bar line in the trunk
is one length (the same as the Access Point drop, tall enough for an IP badge with room
above and below), instead of a mix of 26/28/32/40/48px. It only grows where two IP badges
share one vertical line. - An Access Point lifted level with a Switch no longer drops through an empty tier before
its own T bar; the T bar and everything beneath it move up with it. - Level start on the T bar: when the bus carries a Switch or Server, a plain Access
Point or Client Branch off the bus starts at the same height instead of one row lower. - PoE badges in a bottom corner sit 5px lower so they no longer overlap the circle's icon.
- The download / upload strands on an Access Point's line are now the same distance apart
as the pair between the Router and the Internet. - Client branch animations run the full length of the branch, down the trunk and along each
tick to the last client.
Defaults
- Server node: Show connection to Connected/Clients now defaults to off; Horizontal
Scroll now defaults to on.
Fixed
- Client branch flow. On a branch with Left or Dual-sides layout the dots on the
left-hand ticks now flow right to left (out from the trunk to the client), and dots on
client branches move about 1.7x slower. - Redundant pairs. The Flat view stopped rendering when a redundant Router / Internet /
Core Switch pair was combined with the details panel; Flat taps on those circles select
the right device again. In the Tree view a Secondary Internet with only some metric
entities (a ping sensor, say) now shows, and the Secondary Router stays on screen when the
Secondary Internet is removed. (The Flat view still draws the secondary router only
alongside a Secondary Internet, since it sits in that backup WAN's column.) - Animations. With Animations on, every line now carries flow dots from the Internet
down to the Clients box: the dotted lines under each Access Point, the mini T bars, the
main bus and its horizontal runs, the dual-Internet T bar, and the connectors into and out
of the External / Clients boxes. - TP-Link Deco. Wired clients that also name the unit they sit behind (
connection_type: wiredplusdeco_device) stay grouped under that unit and carry a small Ethernet marker
(and "(Wired)" in the tooltip). The Tree view matches a client'sdeco_device("Living
Room") to a node named "Living Room Deco" when exactly one node name starts or ends with
it, so those clients no longer fall into Unknown. - Wired clients under Connected Device. A wired client whose integration doesn't say
which switch it is on (anything but TP-Link Omada) now goes into "Wired" instead of
"Unknown", as in every other grouping mode; Omada clients still group by their switch. In
the Tree view such a client hangs off the router instead of the Unknown node. TP-Link
Router clients also group under Connected Device by the mesh unit they are on (ap_name). - Summary speeds. Real-time Download / Upload fall back to the Primary Access Point's
speed sensors when the Router has none (for example a Deco mesh whose "router" is just
its main unit), instead of the whole Summary coming up empty. - External box width. The External monitored devices box now spans the full width of
the diagram like the Clients box (it was squeezed in by padding when the Summary sat to
the left or right, which also wrapped it onto two rows). - Horizontal Scroll can now be scrolled all the way back to the diagram's far-left edge.
Behaviour worth knowing
- A client attached to a branch is drawn on the branch instead of in the Clients box. If
every client is on a branch, the Clients box is not drawn. - Deleting a branch (or the Node, Switch or Access Point it hangs off) sends its clients back
to the Clients box. No client is ever lost. - A branch with no clients yet shows a dashed placeholder circle so it can be seen.
- A Switch with a Client Branch beneath it does not also draw its own Connected Clients
circle, as with any Switch that feeds other devices. - If the device above a branch goes offline, its clients stay on screen, dimmed, with the
line to them cut. - Client Branches are Flat view only; the Tree view places their clients as described
above.
Compatibility
- Existing configurations render exactly as before. A client's
client_branchis blank by
default, aclient_branchnaming a branch that no longer exists is treated as blank, and
branches saved earlier read as Right side. - New configuration keys:
client_branchon a Node ({ id, name, layout, servers }),
client_brancheson a Switch or Access Point (a list of the same),client_branchon a
client (theidof its branch),router_secondary,lan_secondaryand
switch_secondary.