Fix battery cache treating a fresh boot as a cache hit (flaky CI)

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Problem

_battery_cache starts with ts = 0.0, and /battery serves the cache when time.monotonic() - ts < BATTERY_CACHE_TTL (30s). time.monotonic() counts from boot, so on a host or CI runner that has been up for less than 30 seconds the empty initial entry looks fresh and the route returns {"level": null} without fetching.

• CI: tests/test_app.py::test_battery_route fails intermittently with assert None == 85 (seen on Don't re-enable disabled users when users.json is unreadable #48; conftest.py resets the cache to the same 0.0).
• Production: a server started right at host boot reports no battery level for up to 30s.

Reproduced by patching time.monotonic to return 10.

Fix

Initial ts is float("-inf") in app.py and in the per-test reset in conftest.py, so the first request always fetches.

Tests

test_battery_fetches_on_a_freshly_booted_host fakes a 10s uptime and asserts the level is fetched. It fails with the old 0.0 reset and passes with the fix. Full suite passes (109), coverage 84%, ruff clean.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where the battery status endpoint could return an empty or outdated result shortly after a host starts. Battery status is now fetched correctly during this initial period.

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Walkthrough

The battery cache now starts with a timestamp of negative infinity. Test setup uses the same timestamp, and a regression test checks the battery route when the monotonic clock reads 10.0.

Changes

Battery cache initialization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Initial cache read behavior app.py, tests/conftest.py, tests/test_app.py	The battery cache and test fixture now initialize the timestamp to negative infinity. A regression test checks that /battery returns level 85 when time.monotonic() returns 10.0.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d5151

The cache now starts stale, but the regression test resets that state before checking /battery, so it would not catch the startup bug returning. Merge is reasonable with a small test adjustment.

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57-68: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the initialized cache in this regression test.

In the normal test order, test_get_current_time imports app before this test runs. The autouse fixture then replaces _battery_cache["ts"] with -inf, so the route fetches at monotonic time 10.0 even if the initializer regresses to 0.0. Keep the initializer value for this test and restore the cache afterward. The other battery tests check response handling or caching after a fetch, not the initial timestamp.

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Review comment at @tests/test_app.py around lines 57 - 68:
Update the test setup for test_battery_fetches_on_a_freshly_booted_host so the
autouse fixture does not overwrite _battery_cache["ts"] with -inf, allowing the
test to use the cache’s initialized timestamp. Restore the cache state afterward
so other battery tests remain isolated.

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Review comments at @tests/test_app.py:
- Around line 57-68: Update the test setup for
test_battery_fetches_on_a_freshly_booted_host so the autouse fixture does not
overwrite _battery_cache["ts"] with -inf, allowing the test to use the cache’s
initialized timestamp. Restore the cache state afterward so other battery tests
remain isolated.

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