drb-frontend/app/admin/page.tsx

@@ -1169,8 +1169,10 @@ function SttEvalTab() {
   // scanning", not "done", so this fires again on its own.
   useEffect(() => {
     if (queue.length === 0 && !exhausted) loadBatch();
+    // `cursor` is a dep so an empty page that advanced the cursor scans the
+    // next one; without it the tab sat on "Loading…" forever.
     // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
-  }, [queue.length, exhausted]);
+  }, [queue.length, exhausted, cursor]);
 
   useEffect(() => {
     setDraft(current ? (current.transcript_corrected || current.transcript || "") : "");
@@ -1309,7 +1311,10 @@ export default function AdminPage() {
   const wide = tab === "users" || tab === "audit" || tab === "replay" || tab === "cameras" || tab === "outages";
 
   return (
-    <div className={`space-y-6 ${wide ? "" : "max-w-2xl"}`}>
+    // The width toggle wraps the tab body only. It used to wrap the tab bar
+    // too, so the bar reflowed on every switch and left the cursor over
+    // whatever landed under it (e.g. Calls -> "Close calls").
+    <div className="space-y-6">
       <h1 className="text-white text-xl font-bold font-mono">Admin</h1>
 
       <div className="flex flex-wrap gap-1 bg-surface border border-line rounded-lg p-1 w-fit">
@@ -1326,6 +1331,7 @@ export default function AdminPage() {
         ))}
       </div>
 
+      <div className={`space-y-6 ${wide ? "" : "max-w-2xl"}`}>
       {tab === "features"    && <FeaturesTab />}
       {tab === "cameras"     && <CameraProvidersTab />}
       {tab === "outages"     && <OutageProvidersTab />}
@@ -1335,6 +1341,7 @@ export default function AdminPage() {
       {tab === "eval"        && <SttEvalTab />}
       {tab === "users"       && <UsersTab currentUid={user?.uid ?? ""} />}
       {tab === "audit"       && <AuditLogTab />}
+      </div>
     </div>
   );
 }

drb-frontend/app/globals.css

@@ -219,6 +219,14 @@ html:not(.dark) .border-indigo-800 { border-color: #a5b4fc !important; }
 }
 
 /* ── Form inputs ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
+/* Placeholders must read as hints, not values: Tailwind's default #9ca3af on
+ * the dark surface looked like filled-in text (e.g. /systems Local Area showed
+ * "Ossining / Westchester" next to "no area set"). Dimmer + italic in dark. */
+.dark input::placeholder,
+.dark textarea::placeholder {
+  color: #5F6B80;
+  font-style: italic;
+}
 html:not(.dark) input:not([type="submit"]):not([type="button"]):not([type="reset"]),
 html:not(.dark) select,
 html:not(.dark) textarea {

drb-frontend/app/incidents/[id]/page.tsx

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 import dynamic from "next/dynamic";
 import { useMemo, useState } from "react";
-import { useParams, useRouter } from "next/navigation";
+import Link from "next/link";
+import { useParams } from "next/navigation";
 import { useIncident } from "@/lib/useIncidents";
 import { useCallsByIncident } from "@/lib/useCalls";
 import { useAuth } from "@/components/AuthProvider";
@@ -21,9 +22,9 @@ const MapView = dynamic(() => import("@/components/MapView"), { ssr: false });
 
 const EARLIER_PAGE_SIZE = 8;
 
-function elapsedLabel(startedAt: string, active: boolean, updatedAt: string): string {
+function elapsedLabel(startedAt: string, active: boolean, endedAt: string): string {
   const start = new Date(startedAt).getTime();
-  const end = active ? Date.now() : new Date(updatedAt).getTime();
+  const end = active ? Date.now() : new Date(endedAt).getTime();
   const mins = Math.max(0, Math.round((end - start) / 60000));
   if (mins < 60) return `${mins}m`;
   const hrs = Math.floor(mins / 60);
@@ -33,7 +34,6 @@ function elapsedLabel(startedAt: string, active: boolean, updatedAt: string): st
 export default function IncidentDetailPage() {
   const params = useParams();
   const id = params.id as string;
-  const router = useRouter();
 
   const { incident, loading } = useIncident(id);
   const { calls, loading: callsLoading } = useCallsByIncident(id);
@@ -82,18 +82,23 @@ export default function IncidentDetailPage() {
   const unitsCleared = incident.units_cleared ?? [];
   const vehicles = incident.vehicles ?? [];
   const active = incident.status === "active";
+  // A manual resolve doesn't set resolved_at and updated_at can predate the
+  // last call, which showed "0m elapsed" on an 11-call incident — so a
+  // resolved incident runs to the latest of those and its newest call.
+  const resolvedEnd = [incident.resolved_at, incident.updated_at, newestFirst[0]?.ended_at, newestFirst[0]?.started_at]
+    .filter((t): t is string => !!t)
+    .reduce((a, b) => (b > a ? b : a), incident.started_at);
 
   const visible = newestFirst.slice(0, earlierShown);
   const remaining = newestFirst.length - visible.length;
 
   return (
     <div className="space-y-4">
-      <button
+      {/* A real link, not router.back(): arriving from Live or a shared URL,
-        onClick={() => router.back()}
+          "back" went to the map or out of the app. */}
-        className="text-xs text-ink-muted hover:text-ink-2 transition-colors"
+      <Link href="/incidents" className="text-xs text-ink-muted hover:text-ink-2 transition-colors">
-      >
         ← Incidents
-      </button>
+      </Link>
 
       {/* Header — glyph, severity chip, status, title at 27px, elapsed/path/count */}
       <div className="flex flex-col sm:flex-row sm:items-start sm:justify-between gap-3">
@@ -109,7 +114,7 @@ export default function IncidentDetailPage() {
             {incident.title ?? "Incident"}
           </h1>
           <p className="text-xs text-ink-muted font-mono">
-            {elapsedLabel(incident.started_at, active, incident.updated_at)} elapsed
+            {elapsedLabel(incident.started_at, active, resolvedEnd)} elapsed
             {path?.movement && path.lengthKm > 0 && <> · {path.lengthKm.toFixed(1)} km path</>}
             {path?.mayBeMerged && (
               <span title={`The calls' locations span ${path.lengthKm.toFixed(0)} km (over ${MAY_BE_MERGED_KM} km) — this may be more than one event`}>

drb-frontend/app/trips/[id]/page.tsx

@@ -484,15 +484,17 @@ function DayTimeline({
                   style={{ top, height, left: 60, right: 0 }}
                   className={`absolute rounded-lg px-3 py-2 overflow-hidden group transition-colors z-20 ${
                     isConflict
-                      ? "bg-red-950/70 border border-red-700/70"
+                      // Theme tokens: the old bg-indigo-950/60 had no light-mode
-                      : "bg-indigo-950/60 border border-indigo-800/50 hover:border-indigo-600/70"
+                      // override, so light mode got dark text on a dark block.
+                      ? "bg-sev-major/15 border border-sev-major/50"
+                      : "bg-accent/15 border border-accent/40 hover:border-accent/70"
                   }`}
                 >
                   <div className="flex items-start justify-between gap-2 h-full">
                     <div className="min-w-0 flex-1">
                       <p className="text-white text-xs font-semibold leading-tight truncate">{e.title}</p>
                       {height >= 44 && (
-                        <p className={`text-xs font-mono mt-0.5 ${isConflict ? "text-red-400" : "text-indigo-400"}`}>
+                        <p className={`text-xs font-mono mt-0.5 ${isConflict ? "text-sev-major" : "text-accent"}`}>
                           {fmtTime(e.start_time)}
                           {e.end_time ? ` – ${fmtTime(e.end_time)}` : ""}
                           {isConflict ? "  ⚠ conflict" : ""}

drb-frontend/components/NodeConfigModal.tsx

@@ -54,8 +54,12 @@ export function NodeConfigModal({ node, systems, onClose }: Props) {
       <div className="bg-surface border border-line-strong rounded-xl p-6 w-full max-w-md font-mono max-h-[90vh] overflow-y-auto">
         <h2 className="text-white font-semibold mb-1">Configure Node</h2>
         <p className="text-ink-2 text-sm mb-5">
-          <span className="text-indigo-400">{node.node_id}</span> connected for the first time.
+          {node.configured ? (
-          Assign it a radio system to begin monitoring.
+            <><span className="text-indigo-400">{node.node_id}</span>: choose the radio system it should monitor.</>
+          ) : (
+            <><span className="text-indigo-400">{node.node_id}</span> connected for the first time.
+            Assign it a radio system to begin monitoring.</>
+          )}
         </p>
 
         <form onSubmit={handleSubmit} className="space-y-4">

drb-frontend/lib/types.ts

@@ -487,6 +487,8 @@ export interface IncidentRecord {
   title: string | null;
   type: string | null;
   status: "active" | "resolved";
+  /** Set by the idle sweep; a manual resolve (PUT /incidents) doesn't set it. */
+  resolved_at?: string | null;
   location: string | null;
   location_coords: GeoPoint | null;
   /**