STA - Smart Temperature & Appliance Control

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Web-based Modbus relay control system for managing 8-channel relay modules over TCP.

⚠️ Development Status: This project is in early development. Core features are currently being implemented following a specification-driven approach.

Overview

STA will provide a modern web interface for controlling Modbus-compatible relay devices, eliminating the need for specialized industrial software. The goal is to enable browser-based relay control with real-time status updates.

Current Status

Phase 1 Complete - Foundation

• ✅ Monorepo structure (backend + frontend at root)
• ✅ Rust web server with Poem 3.1 framework
• ✅ Configuration system (YAML + environment variables)
• ✅ Modbus TCP and relay settings structures
• ✅ Health check and metadata API endpoints
• ✅ OpenAPI documentation with Swagger UI
• ✅ Rate limiting middleware
• ✅ SQLite schema and repository for relay labels
• ✅ Vue 3 + TypeScript frontend scaffolding with Vite
• ✅ Type-safe API client generation from OpenAPI specs

Phase 0.5 Complete - CORS Configuration & Production Security

• ✅ T009: CorsSettings struct with comprehensive unit tests (5 tests)
• ✅ T010: CorsSettings implementation with restrictive fail-safe defaults
• ✅ T011: Development YAML configuration with permissive CORS
• ✅ T012: Production YAML configuration with restrictive CORS
• ✅ T013: From for Cors trait unit tests (6 tests)
• ✅ T014: From for Cors implementation with security validation
• ✅ T015: Middleware chain integration using From trait
• ✅ T016: Integration tests for CORS headers (9 comprehensive tests)

Key CORS Features Implemented

• Environment-specific CORS configuration (development vs production)
• Wildcard origin support for development (allowed_origins: ["*"])
• Multiple specific origins for production
• Credentials support for Authelia authentication
• Security validation (prevents wildcard + credentials)
• Configurable preflight cache duration
• Hardcoded secure methods and headers
• Structured logging for CORS configuration
• Comprehensive test coverage (15 tests total)

Phase 2 Planned - Domain Layer

• 📋 Domain types with Type-Driven Development (RelayId, RelayState, RelayLabel)
• 📋 100% test coverage for domain layer

Planned - Phases 3-8

• 📋 Modbus TCP client with tokio-modbus (Phase 3)
• 📋 Mock controller for testing (Phase 3)
• 📋 Health monitoring service (Phase 3)
• 📋 US1: Monitor & toggle relay states - MVP (Phase 4)
• 📋 US2: Bulk relay controls (Phase 5)
• 📋 US3: Health status display (Phase 6)
• 📋 US4: Relay labeling (Phase 7)
• 📋 Production deployment (Phase 8)

See tasks.md for detailed implementation roadmap (102 tasks across 9 phases).

Architecture

Current:

• Backend: Rust 2024 with Poem web framework
• Configuration: YAML-based with environment variable overrides
• API: RESTful HTTP with OpenAPI documentation
• CORS: Production-ready configurable middleware with security validation
• Middleware Chain: Rate Limiting → CORS → Data injection

Planned:

• Modbus Integration: tokio-modbus for Modbus TCP communication
• Frontend: Vue 3 with TypeScript
• Deployment: Backend on Raspberry Pi, frontend on Cloudflare Pages
• Access: Traefik reverse proxy with Authelia authentication
• Persistence: SQLite for relay labels and configuration

Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Rust 1.83+ (edition 2024)
• Just command runner

Development

# Run development server
just run

# Run tests
just test

# Run linter
just lint

# Format code
just format

# Watch mode with bacon
bacon          # clippy-all (default)
bacon test     # test watcher

Configuration

Edit backend/settings/base.yaml for Modbus device settings:

modbus:
  host: "192.168.0.200"
  port: 502
  slave_id: 0
  timeout_secs: 5

relay:
  label_max_length: 50

Override with environment variables:

APP__MODBUS__HOST=192.168.1.100 cargo run

CORS Configuration

Development Mode (frontend on localhost:5173):

# backend/settings/development.yaml
cors:
  allowed_origins:
    - "*"  # Permissive for local development
  allow_credentials: false  # MUST be false with wildcard
  max_age_secs: 3600

Production Mode (frontend on Cloudflare Pages):

# backend/settings/production.yaml
cors:
  allowed_origins:
    - "https://sta.yourdomain.com"  # Specific origin only
  allow_credentials: true  # Required for Authelia authentication
  max_age_secs: 3600

Security Notes:

• Wildcard "*" origin is only allowed with allow_credentials: false
• Production must use specific origins (e.g., https://sta.example.com)
• Multiple origins are supported as a list
• Credentials must be enabled for Authelia authentication to work

Hardcoded Security Defaults:

• Methods: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, OPTIONS (all required methods)
• Headers: content-type, authorization (minimum for API + auth)

Fail-Safe Defaults:

• allowed_origins: [] (restrictive - no origins allowed)
• allow_credentials: false
• max_age_secs: 3600 (1 hour)

See CORS Configuration Guide for complete documentation.

API Documentation

The server provides OpenAPI documentation via Swagger UI:

• Swagger UI: http://localhost:3100/
• OpenAPI Spec: http://localhost:3100/specs

Current Endpoints:

• GET /api/health - Health check endpoint
• GET /api/meta - Application metadata

Planned Endpoints (see spec):

• GET /api/relays - List all relay states
• POST /api/relays/{id}/toggle - Toggle relay state
• POST /api/relays/all/on - Turn all relays on
• POST /api/relays/all/off - Turn all relays off
• PUT /api/relays/{id}/label - Set relay label

Project Structure

Monorepo Layout:

sta/                          # Repository root
├── backend/                  # Rust backend workspace member
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── lib.rs           - Library entry point
│   │   ├── main.rs          - Binary entry point
│   │   ├── startup.rs       - Application builder and server config
│   │   ├── settings/        - Configuration module
│   │   │   ├── mod.rs       - Settings aggregation
│   │   │   └── cors.rs      - CORS configuration (NEW in Phase 0.5)
│   │   ├── telemetry.rs     - Logging and tracing setup
│   │   ├── domain/          - Business logic (planned Phase 2)
│   │   │   └── relay/       - Relay domain types and repository traits
│   │   ├── application/     - Use cases (planned Phase 3-4)
│   │   ├── infrastructure/  - External integrations (Phase 3)
│   │   │   └── persistence/ - SQLite repository implementation
│   │   ├── presentation/    - API layer (planned Phase 4)
│   │   ├── route/           - HTTP endpoint handlers
│   │   │   ├── health.rs    - Health check endpoints
│   │   │   └── meta.rs      - Application metadata
│   │   └── middleware/      - Custom middleware
│   │       └── rate_limit.rs
│   ├── settings/            - YAML configuration files
│   │   ├── base.yaml        - Base configuration
│   │   ├── development.yaml - Development overrides (NEW in Phase 0.5)
│   │   └── production.yaml  - Production overrides (NEW in Phase 0.5)
│   └── tests/               - Integration tests
│       └── cors_test.rs     - CORS integration tests (NEW in Phase 0.5)
├── src/                     # Frontend source (Vue/TypeScript)
│   └── api/                 - Type-safe API client
├── docs/                    # Project documentation
│   ├── cors-configuration.md    - CORS setup guide
│   └── Modbus_POE_ETH_Relay.md - Hardware documentation
├── specs/                   # Feature specifications
│   ├── constitution.md      - Architectural principles
│   └── 001-modbus-relay-control/
│       ├── spec.md          - Feature specification
│       ├── plan.md          - Implementation plan
│       ├── tasks.md         - Task breakdown (102 tasks)
│       └── research-cors.md - CORS configuration research (NEW in Phase 0.5)
├── package.json             - Frontend dependencies
├── vite.config.ts          - Vite build configuration
└── justfile                 - Build commands

Technology Stack

Currently Used:

• Rust 2024 edition
• Poem 3.1 (web framework with OpenAPI support)
• Tokio 1.48 (async runtime)
• config (YAML configuration)
• tracing + tracing-subscriber (structured logging)
• governor (rate limiting)
• thiserror (error handling)
• serde + serde_yaml (configuration deserialization)

Planned Dependencies:

• tokio-modbus 0.17 (Modbus TCP client)
• SQLx 0.8 (async SQLite database access)
• mockall 0.13 (mocking for tests)

Frontend (scaffolding complete):

• Vue 3 + TypeScript
• Vite build tool
• openapi-typescript (type-safe API client generation)

Testing Strategy

Phase 0.5 CORS Testing:

• Unit Tests: 11 tests in backend/src/settings/cors.rs
  • CorsSettings deserialization (5 tests)
  • From for Cors trait (6 tests)
  • Security validation (wildcard + credentials check)
• Integration Tests: 9 tests in backend/tests/cors_test.rs
  • Preflight OPTIONS requests
  • Actual request CORS headers
  • Max-age configuration
  • Credentials handling
  • Allowed methods verification
  • Wildcard origin behavior
  • Multiple origins support
  • Unauthorized origin rejection

Test Coverage Achieved: 15 comprehensive tests covering all CORS scenarios

Documentation

Configuration Guides

• CORS Configuration - Cross-origin setup for frontend-backend communication
• Modbus Hardware Documentation - 8-channel relay device documentation

Development Guides

• Project Constitution - Architectural principles and development guidelines
• Modbus Relay Control Spec - Feature specification
• CLAUDE.md - Developer guide and code style rules

License

This project is under the AGPL-3.0 license. You can find it in the LICENSE.md file.