tajniak81andClaude Opus 5
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01a8fecfixed the advice that led operators into this, but advice is not a guard: a stack still running PB_BOOTSTRAP=false gets no app_settings collection on upgrade, and the plugin panel sits at 503 while the retry loop reads a collection that does not exist. The fix is not to soften the reading. A missing collection stays "not ready" rather than "no plugins configured", because the alternative lets the first save write a fresh document over settings the server merely failed to find - the failure this whole line of work exists to prevent. Instead the server now fixes the cause: on a missing collection it creates that collection and reads again. Three pieces: bootstrap.EnsureCollection creates one named collection from the desired schema if absent, and nothing else. Deliberately narrower than Run - no field reconcile elsewhere, no super-admin - so it is safe to call on a deployment that turned the full bootstrap off. It creates the collection the server cannot start without, not the schema the operator declined. The store tells a missing collection apart from an outage. A 404 from a list means the collection itself is gone: an existing but empty one answers 200 with no items. That is tagged errNoCollection, which wraps errNotReady so every write is still refused, and IsMissingCollection narrows it. The distinction matters because the remedies are opposites - creating collections against a flaky database is exactly the wrong reflex, and a test pins that an outage does not trigger it. loadPlugins acts on the tag once, then re-reads. Failing to create is reported as the original read error rather than the repair's, so the log names the real problem. Six tests: the tag and its negative in internal/plugins, and three in internal/api against a fake PocketBase covering the collection being created exactly once, an existing collection not being recreated, and an outage creating nothing. Docs from01a8fecare corrected in the same pass - they said the panel would answer 503 forever, which is no longer true. They now say what still depends on the bootstrap (every other collection and field) and what does not (app_settings alone). go build, go vet and go test ./... pass; compose files still parse. Not verified: no Docker CLI here, so the repair has not been exercised against a real PocketBase, only the fake. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DriverVault
A car control & service-tracking system (originally "Car Control Project").
Built incrementally — starting with a car maintenance tracker (modeled on
Car Service.xlsx) and growing toward live integration with the car via a
cellular ESP32 device and third-party services (Toyota Connected, EV chargers).
Architecture
All clients communicate with the database only through the API Server — nothing talks to PocketBase directly.
┌──────────────────┐
Web App (Vue) ─────▶│ │
Phone App (Flutter)▶│ API Server │────▶ PocketBase
Home Assistant ────▶│ (Go, stdlib) │ (10.2.1.10:8027)
Car Agent (ESP32) ─▶│ │
└──────────────────┘
| Component | Stack | Status | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| API Server | Go (stdlib) | ✅ built, running, verified | API Server/README.md |
| Database | PocketBase | ✅ running, schema + seed done | — |
| Web App | Vue 3 + Vite + Tailwind v4 | ✅ full feature set (below) | Web App/README.md |
| Phone App | Flutter (Android) | ✅ web parity + biometric login | Phone App/README.md |
| Docker | Compose (multi-container / all-in-one) | ✅ deployment configs | Docker/README.md · Docker-AIO/README.md |
| Car Agent Device | ESP32 + SIM7600 (LILYGO TTGO) | 🚧 firmware in progress | Car Agent Device |
| Home Assistant Plugin | — | ⬜ later | — |
The Web and Phone apps are at feature parity (the phone omits only data export/import).
Features
- Maintenance tracking — cars, service history (date/odometer + which parts were changed), and a per-car parts catalog, with next-due date/km status from the spreadsheet formulas.
- Technical checks — the mandatory roadworthiness inspections (przegląd techniczny / MOT / TÜV): result, cost, station and the certificate's valid-until, which overrides the car's interval and drives the next-due date.
- Maintenance log — workshop visits and repairs outside the routine schedule: type/status, workshop, parts used, labour + parts cost, invoice, warranty-until.
- Fuel tracking — refills with derived efficiency (average / best / worst consumption, cost per km, price per litre). Consumption is measured between full tanks, so partial fills roll into the next full one.
- Documents — insurance, registration, road tax and the rest, each with a server-computed renewal/expiry state.
- Reminders — date- and/or odometer-triggered, one-off or recurring, plus read-only reminders the server derives from documents and service records.
- Attachments — one optional file (PDF or image) per service record, technical check, maintenance entry, refill, document and part; fetched back through the API Server, never a public URL.
- Accounts — PocketBase-token login, profile + appearance preferences (theme/locale/date format/currency/font), avatar, email verification, data export/import, and an account-deletion state machine.
- Organizations & roles — multi-tenant
user/admin/superadminroles; admins manage users within their own organization, superadmins span all. Any user without an organization can create one and becomes its admin. - Per-user ownership & sharing — each car has an owner and can be shared with other users as read or write; the UI mirrors the server's access checks.
- Integrations — per-user connectors under a superadmin → org-admin → user cascade. Built-in today: Toyota Connected (read-only vehicle data) and the Anker Solix V1 EV charger.
- Cars from the manufacturer's own service — import a car straight off a connected account (MyToyota today), choosing what to pull in, and read everything that service knows about it from a dedicated first tab on the car. Generic over providers: the next manufacturer is one adapter in the API Server.
- EV charging control — for Anker Solix chargers the API Server runs an OCPP 1.6J Central System; in own/proxy mode the charger dials back in and the owner can start/stop and set limits from the Charging screen.
- Translated UI — the interface reads its text from per-language files (English, Polish, Danish today), with English as the fallback for any untranslated string. See TRANSLATIONS.md.
- Phone biometric login & app lock — fingerprint / face sign-in with an app-lock that requires an unlock on relaunch. See the Phone App README.
Auth model
All apps share one auth model: authentication is PocketBase's own.
POST /api/auth/login is proxied to the PocketBase users collection and the
client keeps the token PocketBase minted — the API Server does not issue its
own JWT. Every protected request carries Authorization: <token> (both
Bearer <token> and a raw token are accepted) and the server re-resolves it
against PocketBase on each call, so a role change or a deletion takes effect
immediately. Tokens are stateless, so there is no per-device session list;
changing an account's password rotates its token key and invalidates every token
already issued. Access to cars/records is gated by per-user ownership and shares;
user management requires the admin or superadmin role. Creating an organization
is the one management action open to a plain user — it promotes them to admin of
the organization they just created.
Domain (from Car Service.xlsx)
- Cars — one per vehicle (was: one spreadsheet sheet), with spec fields (engine / transmission / differential oil, brake fluid, coolant, VIN, fuel type, build / first-registration dates, …) and configurable service intervals.
- Service records — date + odometer per service, plus which parts were changed (oil & oil filter, engine air filter, cabin air filter).
- Parts — per-car catalog of part numbers.
Key spreadsheet formulas, reproduced by the API Server on read:
Next Service Date = service date + serviceIntervalDays (default 365; Excel: =A+365)
Next Service Km = service km + serviceIntervalKm (default 15 000; Excel: =B+15000)
Intervals are configurable per car.
Getting started
Bring up the stack in this order — each app's README has the details:
- API Server — configure
.env, runsetup-pocketbase.mjs, start the server. This must be running for either app. - Web App —
npm install && npm run dev(proxies/apito the server). - Phone App —
flutter build apk/flutter runwith--dart-define=API_BASE=http://<server-ip>:8080/api.
Or skip all of that and bring the whole stack up with Docker, which runs the schema setup itself — see Docker (PocketBase + API Server + Web App as three containers) or Docker-AIO (all three in a single image).
Layout
DriverVault/
├── API Server/ # Go gateway to PocketBase (the only DB client)
├── Web App/ # Vue 3 + Vite + Tailwind v4 SPA + Go BFF
├── Phone App/ # Flutter (Android)
├── Car Agent Device/ # ESP32 + SIM7600 firmware (LILYGO TTGO T-SIM7600)
├── Home Assistant Plugin/ # later phase
├── Docker/ # Compose deployment (API Server + Web App)
└── Docker-AIO/ # single all-in-one image