v0.1.3 — the Mac app

The first release with a macOS menu-bar app, not just the CLI. Notarized by
Apple, universal (Apple Silicon and Intel), and it talks to your dish directly —
nothing leaves your network.

DishWatch.app

Download DishWatch-0.1.3.dmg, drag it to Applications, launch it — or:

brew install --cask faeton/tap/dishwatch-app

It lives in the menu bar; there is no Dock icon and no window to manage.

• Signal, latency, throughput and power at a glance, updated every second
• Obstruction and outage history from the dish's own 15-minute rings
• Energy and power-bank tracking, with an anchor you set once
• Reboot the dish from the menu

It is sandboxed and notarized, so it installs without warnings. The engine that
speaks to the dish is a restricted build with no shell-outs, no arbitrary RPC
verb and no third-party geocoder.

Requires macOS 14 or later.

The CLI

Unchanged in behaviour, but substantially more careful underneath.

brew install faeton/tap/dishwatch

Fixes worth naming

Wrong power figures after upgrading. The energy accumulator paired
accumulated watt-hours with a wall-clock denominator. On the first poll after
upgrading a saved snapshot, that produced readings like 5802 W for a 20 W dish —
and presented them as a confident since-boot average. An epoch whose sample
count cannot be reconstructed now reports no average at all until the next
reboot, rather than a fabricated one.

"Live" no longer means "the call returned". The dashboard could show
Offline in the hero while the footer read live, over metrics restored
from a snapshot of arbitrary age. Transport success and link state are different
questions and the UI answers both now.

A stalled dish no longer wedges the engine. Reflection discovery had no
deadline, oversized replies could end the process, and SIGTERM was unhandled.

Statistics no longer drift across a gap. A cursor rewind, a reboot, or a
poll gap larger than the ring used to fold bad data into the accumulators;
outage runs spanning an unmeasured gap were reported as one long outage.

Known limits

• Local Network permission behaviour on a brand-new user account is untested.
  It has never prompted here and works, but that is one machine.
• The Intel slice is built and verified present; it has not been executed.
• CLI binaries downloaded from this page (rather than via Homebrew) are unsigned
  and Gatekeeper will block them. Use Homebrew, or the app.

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