Add a SPEAKER ROLES section to the GPT-4o-mini prompt teaching it to
distinguish dispatch voice (names a unit then gives assignment + address)
from unit voice (opens with own callsign + brief status). Applied to
location attribution (dispatch-provided address beats unit position report)
and unit extraction (dispatched units vs. acknowledging units). No extra
API calls — purely prompt-level reasoning on the existing transcript.
- Geocoding: reject GEOMETRIC_CENTER/APPROXIMATE results — vague location strings
(regions, city centroids) were resolving to node-area coords and creating false
proximity matches that merged unrelated incidents
- Thin path: on dispatch channels with multiple active incidents, skip attachment
rather than guessing — "10-4" with 3 active incidents is genuinely ambiguous
- Short transcripts (≤5 words) now write skip_reason="transcript_too_short" to
the call doc, matching garbage transcript behavior
- upload.py no-scenes fallback now checks skip_reason before running correlation —
flagged calls (garbage, too short) no longer attach via thin path
- Update Server README to reflect current project purpose, goals, and pipeline
- Cap unit-continuity path at 20 min idle (unit_continuity_max_idle_minutes)
- Block time_fallback and unit-continuity matching on reassignment calls
- Expand reassignment detection to cover unit-initiated self-reassignment
- Skip GPT extraction entirely for transcripts ≤5 words (prevents hallucinated tags/units)
- Reduce geocode_max_km from 75 to 40 to reject far-out-of-area results
- Include county in geocoding query for tighter jurisdiction anchoring
geocode_max_km: 25 → 75 km. The node is a physical receiver, not the system boundary;
digital repeaters extend coverage well beyond 25km (North White Plains at 35.5km from
the Yorktown node is a legitimate Westchester County location).
Query now fully qualified: "High Street" → "High Street, Yorktown, New York".
Added _get_node_state() which reverse-geocodes the node position once (cached) using
Google Maps to get the state name, appended alongside the municipality.
Generic street names (High Street, Main Street) no longer resolve to wrong-country results.
Switch geocoding from Nominatim to Google Maps Geocoding API for accurate
local place name resolution (bounds-biased, with 25km distance rejection guard).
Remove the now-unused _get_node_place reverse-geocoder and _node_place_cache.
Map page (TOC improvements):
- Weather radar tiles auto-refresh every 5 minutes via radarEpoch key cycling
- Google Maps traffic overlay added to LayersControl
- Live 24h clock overlay at bottom-left for situational awareness
- Incident sidebar cards now show age (time since dispatch) and unit count
Nominatim's viewbox is advisory (bounded=0), so ambiguous place names like
"Pinebrook" can resolve to locations 30-40km away in the wrong town. Added
a post-geocode distance gate: results farther than geocode_max_km (default
25km) from the node are discarded with a warning log rather than written to
the incident.
Also logs distance on successful geocodes for easier audit.
New config setting: geocode_max_km (float, default 25.0)
Phonetic run threshold 5 → 12: a plate spellout ("Foxtrot Alpha Uniform Lima
Kilo...") produces 6–8 consecutive phonetic words, triggering false positives
and blocking intelligence extraction on legitimate calls. 12 is safely above
any real spellout (~8 max) while still catching the full-alphabet hallucination
(26 words). Also writes skip_reason="garbage_transcript" to the call doc and
surfaces it in the admin correlation debug endpoint.
- intelligence.py: detect Whisper phonetic-alphabet hallucinations before
sending to GPT; skip extraction entirely to prevent fake units/tags
corrupting correlation
- intelligence.py: upgrade node reverse-geocode from zoom=5 (state) to
zoom=10 (county) and include county in address queries so common street
names (e.g. "East Main Street") resolve to the correct county
- incident_correlator.py: add "patched" and "primary" to dispatch channel
regex so patched trunking channels are treated as shared backbones
- incident_correlator.py: add 20-min idle gate for tactical channel default
so a reused frequency can't absorb a new unrelated incident
- Move incident panel to left side (was topright, conflicting with LayersControl)
- Move legend to bottom-right, raise auto-fit button to clear it
- Tighten fan card step 7→5px for closer grouping
- Geocoding: remove bounded=1 hard clip, widen bias radius 0.1°→0.5° (~55km)
so addresses like "34 Carlton Drive" resolve outside the node's immediate area
Correlator
- Raise fast-path idle gate 30 → 90 min (tg_fast_path_idle_minutes)
- Fix disambiguate always-commits bug: run _call_fits_incident on winner
before committing; fall through to new-incident creation if it fails
- Add unit-continuity path (path 1.5): matches all_active by shared unit
IDs with a reassignment guard, bridges calls past the idle gate
- Add tag-based incident_type inference (_TAG_TYPE_HINTS) as GPT fallback,
rescuing tagged calls that would have been dropped (616 observed orphans)
- Add master/child incident model: _create_master_incident, _demote_to_child,
_add_child_to_master; new incidents stamped incident_type="master"
- Add cross-system parent detection (_find_cross_system_parent): two-signal
scoring (road overlap=0.4, embedding≥0.78=0.3, proximity=0.3, threshold=0.5)
wired into create-if-new path; creates master shell on first cross-system match
- Add maybe_resolve_parent: auto-resolves master when all children close;
called from upload pipeline (LLM closure) and summarizer stale sweep
- Add signal-based auto-resolve via units_active/units_cleared tracking:
GPT now extracts cleared_units per scene; _update_incident moves units
between active/cleared lists and resolves the incident when active empties;
stored on call doc for re-correlation sweep reuse
- Add _create_incident initialization of units_active/units_cleared fields
Re-correlation sweep
- Add corr_sweep_count + MAX_SWEEP_ATTEMPTS=3: orphans get 3 attempts
then are tombstoned as corr_path="unlinked", ending the re-sweep loop
(previously hammering each orphan 29-31 times per shift)
Intelligence extraction
- Add cleared_units to GPT prompt schema and rules
- Extract and propagate cleared_units per scene; merge across scenes;
store on call doc for re-correlation sweep
Token management
- Fix token release bug: remove release_token call on discord_connected=False
in MQTT checkin (transient Discord drops were orphaning bots mid-shift)
- Add PUT /tokens/{id}/prefer/{system_id} endpoint: lock a bot token to a
system; pass _none as system_id to clear; stored bidirectionally on both
token and system documents
- discord_join handler resolves preferred_token_id from system doc and passes
system_name in MQTT payload
### Firestore read reductions
**1. `doc_get_cached()` in `firestore.py` — new 5-min TTL cache**
One place, benefits everything. System and node config documents almost never change during a monitoring session.
**2. System doc: 4 reads → 1 per call**
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| `upload.py` — `doc_get("systems")` for ai_flags | `doc_get_cached` |
| `transcription.py` — `get_vocabulary()` → `doc_get("systems")` | cache hit |
| `intelligence.py` — `get_vocabulary()` → `doc_get("systems")` | cache hit |
| `intelligence.py` — `doc_get("systems")` again for ten_codes | eliminated (reads same cached doc) |
**3. Node doc: cached in `_on_call_start` and `intelligence.py`**
The node is read every call event to get `assigned_system_id` and lat/lon for geocoding. Both now use the cache — node assignments and positions essentially never change at runtime.
**4. Node sweeper: 30s → 90s interval**
The sweeper was doing a full node collection scan 3× more often than necessary — the offline threshold is already 90s. Cuts sweeper reads by 66%.
**5. Vocabulary induction: scans all-time calls → last 7 days**
Previously fetched every ended call for a system (could be thousands). Now scoped to the last 7 days.
> **Note:** The vocabulary induction query `(system_id == X, ended_at >= cutoff)` needs a Firestore
> composite index on `(system_id ASC, ended_at ASC)`. When the induction loop first fires it will log
> an error with a Firebase Console link to create it in one click.
- *`correlate_call`* — added units and vehicles optional params; when provided (per-scene from intelligence extraction), they take priority over the merged call-document values, preventing multi-scene unit contamination
- *Cross-TGID correlation path (2.5)* — *new path between location and slow paths*: when a call shares 2+ unit IDs with a recent same-system, same-type incident AND embedding similarity ≥ 0.85, it links them — catches multi-talkgroup pursuits like the bicycle search that split across dispatch/tactical/geographic channels
# `app/internal/intelligence.py`
- *`reassignment` field* — added to the GPT-4o-mini prompt schema and rules; `true` when dispatch is actively pulling a unit to a new, different call (not a status update or en route acknowledgement); returned in every processed scene dict
- *Tag location rule* — added explicit instruction to the prompt: tags must describe what happened, not where; place names, road names, and talkgroup names are explicitly forbidden as tags
# `app/routers/upload.py`
- Both scene correlation call sites (`_run_extraction_pipeline` and `_run_intelligence_pipeline`) now pass `units=corr_units` where `corr_units = [] if scene.get("reassignment") else scene.get("units") `— suppresses unit overlap matching when a unit is being reassigned to a new call, preventing chaining into their previous incident
- Both sites also pass `vehicles=scene.get("vehicles")` (per-scene vehicles, from the multi-scene units fix)
# `app/config.py`
- `embedding_cross_tg_threshold: float = 0.85` — threshold for the new cross-TGID path
incident_correlator.py — full rewrite: always runs on every call, fetches all active incidents cross-type, fast path collects all talkgroup matches and disambiguates by unit/vehicle overlap → location proximity → embedding, new location proximity path, slow path requires location corroboration, "Auto:" stripped from titles, "auto-generated" tag added, units/vehicles now accumulated on update
intelligence.py — resolved field in GPT schema, returned as 5th value
upload.py — both pipelines unpack 5-tuple, always call correlate, auto-resolve on resolved=True
summarizer.py — stale sweep runs each tick, resolves incidents idle for 90+ minutes
config.py — correlation_window_hours=2, embedding_similarity_threshold=0.93, location_proximity_km=0.5, incident_auto_resolve_minutes=90
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