Parent: #529
Summary
Make the POTACAT integration discoverable, diagnosable, and recoverable in QsoRipper after the compatible-producer status and replay-safety work is available.
Setup
- Describe QsoRipper's listener as
WSJT-X-compatible QSO ingestion while retaining compatible configuration names.
- Provide a POTACAT recipe using Extra UDP, WSJT-X binary, loopback, and a dedicated port such as 2238.
- Explain how this coexists with POTACAT's primary logger integration.
- Detect and report bind conflicts without failing engine startup.
Status surfaces
Expose in GUI and CLI:
- Listener bound state and address.
- Last sender ID and endpoint.
- Last datagram and last successful import time.
- Last imported callsign/local ID.
- Imported, updated, duplicate, ignored, and error counters.
- Last actionable error.
Provide a safe local diagnostic based on receiving a valid heartbeat or test envelope. Do not create a fake QSO merely to test connectivity.
Recovery and reliability
- State clearly that UDP delivery is best-effort and has no end-to-end acknowledgement.
- Document replay/resend from POTACAT once stable external identity handling is present.
- Document optional append-only ADIF tail recovery only after POTACAT's file behavior is tested.
- Explain that edits and deletes do not synchronize through the baseline bridge.
- Explain that baseline multi-park/cross-program delivery is limited until the full-fidelity handoff task lands.
Deployment and security
- Keep loopback as the default.
- Document explicit LAN binding, Docker
/udp publishing, and host firewall allowlisting.
- Explain that sender application IDs are spoofable and are not authentication.
- Do not expose ingestion broadly by default.
Tests and verification
- GUI/CLI status view-model tests.
- Bind-conflict and no-sender states.
- Documentation command/config verification on Windows and Linux/container examples.
- UX capture for material Avalonia changes.
Acceptance criteria
- An operator can configure and verify POTACAT delivery without guessing ports or packet formats.
- Healthy traffic is distinguishable from delivery failures.
- Reliability and feature limits are explicit.
- POTACAT absence or failure never blocks ordinary QsoRipper logging.
Parent: #529
Summary
Make the POTACAT integration discoverable, diagnosable, and recoverable in QsoRipper after the compatible-producer status and replay-safety work is available.
Setup
WSJT-X-compatible QSO ingestionwhile retaining compatible configuration names.Status surfaces
Expose in GUI and CLI:
Provide a safe local diagnostic based on receiving a valid heartbeat or test envelope. Do not create a fake QSO merely to test connectivity.
Recovery and reliability
Deployment and security
/udppublishing, and host firewall allowlisting.Tests and verification
Acceptance criteria