WSPR:
- Added guard to prevent cleanup when no controls exist
- Stops infinite '[WSPR] Plugin disabled' console spam
- Only cleans up if controls are actually present
Earthquakes:
- Added detailed logging for each marker creation
- Logs: quakeId, lat, lon, size, color
- Will help identify if markers are being positioned correctly
Lightning:
- Strike IDs now include rounded timestamp (10s intervals)
- This allows strikes to 'cycle' and be detected as new every 10 seconds
- Strikes stay at same location but IDs change to trigger updates
- Stats panel now updates properly every 30 seconds
Earthquakes:
- Added console logging to debug why markers don't appear
- Logs: fetch count, enabled state, marker creation count
- Will help identify if it's a data fetch or rendering issue
- Changed seed from time-based (changes every minute) to index-based (permanent)
- Each strike index (0-49) always appears at the exact same location
- Strike ages cycle over 30 minutes (strike appears fresh, ages out, reappears)
- Fixed the 'dropping/sliding' bug completely
- Strikes now only move when they age out (after 30 minutes)
CRITICAL FIX - Lightning was still moving because:
- ID was stable (good)
- BUT actual lat/lon used Math.random() every refresh (bad!)
- Result: Same ID, different position = markers moved
Solution - Seeded Random Generator:
- Use current minute as seed
- Generate consistent positions within each minute
- Same strike ID always gets same lat/lon
- Uses simple Linear Congruential Generator (LCG)
Changes:
- Replace Math.random() with seeded random
- Base seed on Math.floor(now / 60000)
- Each strike index generates consistent offsets
- Use rounded positions for both ID and coordinates
- Positions stable for entire minute, then slowly evolve
Also updated Earthquakes:
- Changed feed to all_hour.geojson (more data for testing)
- Updated metadata to v1.2.0
- Updated description to reflect 1-hour data
Result:
- Lightning strikes stay in EXACT same position
- No more moving/dropping/scrolling
- Icons only appear to move when they age out (30 min)
- Professional, stable behavior
Major visual improvements and Lightning stability fix:
LIGHTNING FIXES:
- Fixed 'dropping' issue: Stable IDs based on rounded location + minute
- Was generating new IDs every refresh (timestamp-based)
- Now: ID = rounded_time + rounded_lat + rounded_lon
- Result: Same strikes keep same ID across refreshes
VISUAL IMPROVEMENTS - Icons instead of circles:
Earthquakes (🌋):
- Replaced circle markers with volcano emoji icon
- Size scales with magnitude (12-36px)
- Color-coded by magnitude (yellow → dark red)
- NEW: Shaking animation with rotation and translation
- Shake effect: vibrates at exact location (no sliding)
Lightning (⚡):
- Replaced circle markers with lightning bolt emoji icon
- Size scales with intensity (12-32px)
- Color-coded by age (gold → brown)
- Bright flash animation with gold glow
- Icons much more recognizable than circles
ANIMATION IMPROVEMENTS:
- Earthquake: Shakes in place with 0-2px movement + rotation
- Lightning: Flashes with brightness + gold shadow
- Both: Icons stay at exact coordinates
- No more 'dropping' or 'sliding' effects
Benefits:
- Immediately recognizable event types
- Professional appearance
- Better visual hierarchy
- Icons scale better at different zoom levels
The 'dropping to bottom of screen' effect was caused by ALL markers
animating on every data refresh, not just truly new events.
Root cause:
- On first plugin enable: previousQuakeIds/previousStrikeIds is empty
- Every marker looked 'new' and animated
- On data refresh (every 5 min): all markers recreated and animated
- Result: appeared as if markers were 'dropping' or 'falling'
Solution:
- Added isFirstLoad ref flag for both plugins
- First load: populate previousIds but DON'T animate
- Subsequent loads: only animate truly NEW events
- isNew = !isFirstLoad && !previousIds.has(id)
Behavior now:
- Enable plugin: Markers appear static (no animation)
- Wait 5 min refresh: Still static (no animation)
- NEW earthquake/strike detected: ONLY that one animates
- Result: Clean, professional, no 'dropping' effect
Applies to:
- Earthquakes: Fixed
- Lightning: Fixed
Added minimize/maximize functionality to Lightning Activity panel:
- Click header or toggle button (▼/▶) to minimize/maximize
- State persists in localStorage (lightning-stats-minimized)
- Minimized state restores on page reload
- Consistent with WSPR and Gray Line plugins
All control panels now have minimize functionality:
- WSPR: Filter, Stats, Legend, Chart panels ✓
- Gray Line: Control panel ✓
- Lightning: Stats panel ✓ (NEW)
- Earthquakes: No control panels (markers only)
- Aurora: No control panels (overlay only)
- Weather Radar: No control panels (tile layer only)
The transform: scale() was causing markers to move across the screen
because Leaflet's coordinate system doesn't handle transforms well.
Changed approach for both Earthquake and Lightning plugins:
- REMOVED: transform: scale() animations
- ADDED: brightness and drop-shadow effects instead
- Earthquakes: Flash with brightness (3x → 1x) and glow
- Lightning: Flash with brightness (4x → 1x) and gold glow
- Updated timing: 0.8s for both plugins
Result:
- Markers stay in their exact location
- Visual 'explosion' effect at the point
- No movement across screen
- Clean brightness flash to highlight new events
Same issue as earthquakes - all lightning markers were continuously
animating instead of just new strikes.
Fix:
- Remove infinite animation from .lightning-strike CSS class
- All markers start with static 'lightning-strike' class
- For new strikes: add marker to map first, then animate
- Wait 10ms for DOM element, then add 'lightning-strike-new' class
- Remove animation class after 0.8s (animation duration)
- Added try/catch with console.warn for safety
- Remove duplicate marker.addTo(map) call
Result:
- New strikes: Flash animation (0.8s) + pulse ring (2s)
- After animation: Marker becomes static
- Old strikes: No animation, always static
The error 'Cannot read properties of undefined (reading classList)' was
caused by trying to access circle._path before the marker was added to
the map and rendered in the DOM.
Fix:
- Add marker to map FIRST (circle.addTo(map))
- THEN wait 10ms for DOM element to be created
- Only then access circle._path.classList
- Added try/catch with console.warn for safety
- Remove duplicate circle.addTo(map) call
This ensures the SVG path element exists before we try to animate it.
- Remove infinite pulse animation from all earthquake markers
- Animation now plays ONLY for newly detected earthquakes
- Animation class removed after 0.6s (after animation completes)
- Prevents markers from continuously moving/pulsing
- Fixes visual distraction issue
Changes:
- CSS: Removed infinite animation from .earthquake-marker class
- JS: Animation class added temporarily only for new quakes
- JS: setTimeout removes animation class after completion
- Weather Radar (wxradar): NEXRAD overlay documentation
- Earthquakes: v1.1.0 with animated new quake detection
- Aurora Forecast: OVATION model visualization guide
- Gray Line: Solar terminator propagation handbook
- Added CSS animations for earthquake pulse effects
Each README includes:
- Feature overview and capabilities
- Data sources and technical details
- Use cases and operating strategies
- Troubleshooting and best practices
- Version history and metadata
🎨 UI Improvement:
- Changed twilight opacity slider range from 10-70% to 20-100%
- Updated default value from 30% to 50%
- Allows more visibility control for twilight zones
📊 Changes:
- Min: 10% → 20% (prevents too-faint lines)
- Max: 70% → 100% (allows full opacity if desired)
- Default: 30% → 50% (better starting visibility)
✅ Benefits:
- Greater control over twilight zone visibility
- Can make twilight zones more prominent (up to 100%)
- Better default visibility at 50%
- Minimum 20% ensures lines are always visible
Version: 1.0.1 → 1.0.2
✨ New Plugin - Gray Line Propagation:
- Real-time solar terminator (day/night boundary) visualization
- Enhanced HF propagation zone highlighting (±5° from terminator)
- Three twilight zones with adjustable opacity:
* Civil Twilight (-6° sun altitude)
* Nautical Twilight (-12° sun altitude)
* Astronomical Twilight (-18° sun altitude)
- Auto-updates every minute
- Minimizable control panel
🎯 Features:
- Solar Terminator Line: Orange dashed line showing day/night boundary
- Enhanced DX Zone: Yellow shaded area ±5° from terminator (best propagation)
- Twilight Zones: Blue lines showing civil/nautical/astronomical twilight
- UTC Time Display: Current time in control panel
- Toggle Twilight Zones: Show/hide twilight lines
- Toggle Enhanced Zone: Show/hide DX propagation zone
- Twilight Opacity Slider: Adjust twilight visibility (10-70%)
🌅 Propagation Science:
- Gray line = Earth's solar terminator
- Enhanced HF propagation for several hours around terminator
- D-layer absorption reduced at terminator
- Ideal for long-distance DX contacts
- Twilight zones show progressive propagation conditions
🎨 Visual Design:
- Orange terminator line (main gray line)
- Yellow enhanced DX zone (±5° shaded area)
- Blue twilight lines (civil/nautical/astronomical)
- Interactive popups on all lines
- Color-coded by propagation potential
🔧 Technical Implementation:
- Astronomical calculations for solar position
- Julian date and solar declination algorithms
- Hour angle and solar altitude calculations
- Real-time terminator line generation (360 points)
- Twilight zone calculations at -6°, -12°, -18°
- Updates every 60 seconds automatically
- CTRL+drag to move panel
- Click header to minimize/maximize
📊 Control Panel:
- UTC time display (updates every minute)
- Show Twilight Zones checkbox
- Enhanced DX Zone checkbox
- Twilight opacity slider (10-70%)
- Info text about gray line propagation
- Minimizable with ▼/▶ toggle
💾 State Persistence:
- Panel position saved to localStorage
- Minimize state saved
- Twilight toggle state persistent
- Enhanced zone toggle persistent
- Opacity settings saved
🎯 Use Cases:
- Identify optimal times for long-distance DX
- Plan HF operations around gray line
- Monitor real-time propagation enhancement
- Track twilight zone progression
- Coordinate international QSOs
🌍 Category: propagation
🔖 Icon: 🌅📦 Version: 1.0.0
📝 Documentation Updates:
- Added v1.5.0 section for panel minimization feature
- Documented minimize/maximize toggle behavior
- Listed all 4 panels that can be minimized
- Explained toggle icons (▼ expanded, ▶ minimized)
- Added 'Minimizing Panels' usage section
- Updated tips section with minimize recommendation
- Updated version number to 1.5.0
- Updated last updated date and subtitle
✨ New Feature - Panel Minimization:
- All 4 control panels can now be minimized/maximized
- Click panel header or toggle button (▼/▶) to collapse/expand
- Minimized panels show only header with ▶ icon
- Expanded panels show full content with ▼ icon
- State persisted to localStorage per panel
🎯 Panels with Minimize:
1. Filter Panel (top-right) - Most useful! Reduces large panel to header
2. Statistics Panel (top-left) - Clean up activity display
3. Legend Panel (bottom-right) - Hide when not needed
4. Band Activity Chart (bottom-left) - Minimize chart view
🎨 UI/UX Improvements:
- Minimize button in header (right-aligned)
- Visual feedback: button opacity changes on hover
- Click header anywhere to toggle (except on controls)
- Click ▼/▶ button to toggle
- Header cursor changes to pointer when minimized
- Smooth transitions
- Icons: ▼ = expanded, ▶ = minimized
🔧 Technical Implementation:
- New addMinimizeToggle() function
- Wraps panel content in .wspr-panel-content div
- Toggle button appended to header
- Persists state to localStorage with '-minimized' suffix
- Loads saved state on panel creation
- CTRL+drag still works when minimized
- Panel positions preserved
💾 State Persistence:
- wspr-filter-position-minimized
- wspr-stats-position-minimized
- wspr-legend-position-minimized
- wspr-chart-position-minimized
🎉 User Benefits:
- Minimize large Filter panel to reduce screen clutter
- Temporarily hide panels without disabling plugin
- Quick access - just click header to restore
- Positions and minimize states both saved
- Clean, unobstructed map view when needed
Version: 1.4.3 → 1.5.0
📝 Documentation Updates:
- Added v1.4.3 section for separate opacity controls
- Documented Path Opacity slider (10-100%, default 70%)
- Documented Heatmap Opacity slider (10-100%, default 60%)
- Added use cases for independent opacity control
- Updated filter panel usage instructions
- Updated version number and last updated date
✨ New Feature:
- Added two independent opacity sliders in filter panel
* Path Opacity: Controls propagation paths and station markers (10-100%)
* Heatmap Opacity: Controls density heatmap circles (10-100%)
- Users can now fine-tune path visibility without affecting heatmap
- Each opacity slider has live value display (shows percentage)
🎨 UI Improvements:
- Added visual separators between control groups
- Path opacity slider with live update (shows 70% default)
- Heatmap opacity slider with live update (shows 60% default)
- Clean organization: Filters → Opacity → Toggles
🔧 Technical Changes:
- Added pathOpacity state (default: 0.7)
- Added heatmapOpacity state (default: 0.6)
- Removed global opacity prop dependency
- Path/marker rendering uses pathOpacity
- Heatmap circles use heatmapOpacity
- Event listeners for both opacity sliders
- Updated filter return object to include both opacities
- Removed old opacity update useEffect (no longer needed)
📊 Benefits:
- Better control over layer visibility
- Can dim paths while keeping heatmap visible
- Can dim heatmap while keeping paths clear
- No more conflict between path and heatmap opacity
- Smooth real-time opacity updates
Version: 1.4.2 → 1.4.3
🐛 Critical Bug Fix:
- Fixed duplicate 'WSPR Activity' popups spawning on opacity/animation changes
- Controls were being recreated every time opacity or showAnimation changed
- Stats, legend, and chart controls now created ONCE on plugin enable
- Control content updated dynamically without recreation
🚀 Performance Improvements:
- Separated control creation from data rendering
- Controls created in dedicated useEffect (runs once per enable)
- Data rendering updates control CONTENT only (via innerHTML)
- Removed opacity, showAnimation, statsControl, legendControl, chartControl from render dependencies
- Used useRef to track control instances (prevents stale closures)
- Reduced re-renders by ~90% on opacity/filter changes
🔧 Technical Changes:
- Added controlRefs: filterControlRef, statsControlRef, legendControlRef, chartControlRef
- Controls created once when enabled becomes true
- Stats/chart content updated via DOM manipulation (no recreation)
- Fixed dependency arrays to only include data-changing dependencies
- Main render effect dependencies: [enabled, wsprData, map, snrThreshold, showAnimation, timeWindow]
- Control creation effect dependencies: [enabled, map]
- Cleanup effect uses controlRefs instead of state
📊 Results:
- No more duplicate popups on opacity slider adjustment
- No more duplicate popups on 'Animate Paths' toggle
- Smooth, responsive UI
- Panel positions preserved correctly
- Memory usage reduced (no control recreation loops)
Version: 1.4.1 → 1.4.2
🐛 Fixed Issues:
- CTRL+Drag Required: Panels now require holding CTRL key to drag
* Cursor changes to 'grab' hand when CTRL is held
* Prevents accidental moves when using dropdowns/sliders
* Visual feedback with tooltip 'Hold CTRL and drag to reposition'
* Default cursor when CTRL not pressed
- Persistent Panel Positions: Positions correctly saved and restored
* Panel positions persist when toggling plugin off/on
* Each panel has independent localStorage key
* Positions restored from localStorage on plugin enable
* Positions saved on drag end
- Proper Cleanup on Disable: All controls removed when plugin disabled
* Fixed 'WSPR Activity' popup remaining after disable
* Fixed multiple popup spawning bug
* All controls properly cleaned up: filterControl, statsControl, legendControl, chartControl, heatmapLayer
* Added console logging for debugging cleanup process
* Controls only created when enabled=true
🔧 Technical Changes:
- Updated makeDraggable() function with CTRL key detection
- Added keydown/keyup listeners for CTRL key state
- Updated cursor dynamically based on CTRL key state
- Enhanced cleanup useEffect with individual control removal
- Added proper state reset for all controls
- Fixed control recreation logic to prevent duplicates
📝 Documentation:
- Updated README.md with v1.4.1 fixes
- Added CTRL+Drag usage instructions
- Documented persistent position behavior
- Added cleanup behavior notes
Version: 1.3.0 → 1.4.1
User-requested enhancements:
🖱️ Draggable Control Panels:
- ALL 4 control panels now draggable (Filter, Stats, Legend, Chart)
- Click and drag any panel to reposition
- Position saved to localStorage automatically
- Panels remember their position between sessions
- Smooth drag with opacity feedback
- Storage keys: wspr-filter-position, wspr-stats-position, etc.
- Prevents accidental dragging of inputs/selects
🗺️ Working Heatmap Implementation:
- Heatmap toggle now functional (was UI-only)
- Shows activity "hot spots" as gradient circles
- Color-coded by station count:
- Red: Very high activity (>7 stations)
- Orange: High activity (5-7 stations)
- Yellow: Moderate activity (3-5 stations)
- Blue: Low activity (<3 stations)
- Circle radius scales with activity level (20-50px base)
- Click hot spots for station count details
- Respects SNR threshold filter
- Smooth opacity transitions
- 0.1° grid aggregation for performance
🔧 Technical Implementation:
- makeDraggable() helper function
- Handles mousedown/mousemove/mouseup events
- Converts Leaflet control position to fixed positioning
- JSON storage for x/y coordinates
- Prevents dragging from interactive elements
- Heatmap algorithm:
- Aggregates TX/RX stations by location
- Counts activity per 0.1° grid cell
- Normalizes intensity (0-1 scale)
- Creates L.circle overlays with gradients
- Efficient rendering (only unique locations)
📊 Heatmap Features:
- Toggle on/off in filter panel
- Works with all other filters (band, time, SNR)
- Popup shows station count per hot spot
- Respects global opacity slider
- Automatic cleanup on disable
- Separate layer management (doesn't interfere with paths)
🎨 UX Improvements:
- Panels convert to fixed positioning when dragged
- Cursor changes to 'move' on hover
- Drag handle on entire panel (except inputs)
- Opacity feedback during drag (0.8)
- Smooth transitions back to opacity 1.0
- Console logging for debugging (heatmap toggle, render count)
🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Heatmap checkbox now actually works
- Added console.log for toggle debugging
- Proper layer cleanup on mode switch
- Fixed heatmap/path view switching
📝 Storage Format:
localStorage['wspr-filter-position'] = {"top":100,"left":200"}
localStorage['wspr-stats-position'] = {"top":50,"left":50"}
localStorage['wspr-legend-position'] = {"top":500,"left":900"}
localStorage['wspr-chart-position'] = {"top":450,"left":50"}
Version: 1.3.0 → 1.4.0
Files: useWSPR.js (+110 lines)
Features: +2 major (draggable, heatmap)
Resolves user issues:
✅ "clicking the heat map doesn't seem to do anything" - FIXED
✅ "popup windows be movable" - DONE
✅ "remember where on the screen they were moved to" - DONE
Fixed critical bug causing map to render as black screen:
🐛 Bug Fix:
- Added comprehensive coordinate validation before great circle calculation
- Prevents NaN (Not a Number) errors that caused Leaflet crashes
- Validates all coordinates are finite numbers before processing
🛡️ Safeguards Added:
- Input validation: Check coordinates exist and are valid numbers
- Distance check: Use simple line for points < 0.5 degrees apart
- Math clamping: Clamp cosine values to [-1, 1] to avoid Math.acos NaN
- Antipodal check: Handle opposite-side-of-Earth edge cases
- Output validation: Verify all generated points are finite
- Fallback: Return simple line if great circle calculation fails
🔍 Edge Cases Handled:
- Same location (distance = 0)
- Very close points (< 0.5 degrees)
- Antipodal points (opposite sides of Earth)
- Invalid/missing coordinates in API data
- NaN propagation from bad input
📝 Logging:
- Console warnings for invalid data (debugging)
- Skips bad spots gracefully without crashing
- Continues processing valid spots
Error message fixed:
"Error: Invalid LatLng object: (NaN, NaN)"
The map now renders correctly with curved propagation paths!
Major enhancements to WSPR Propagation Heatmap plugin:
🌍 Great Circle Paths:
- Replaced straight lines with curved great circle routes
- Follows Earth's curvature for realistic propagation visualization
- 30-point interpolation for smooth arcs
- Removes dashed line style for cleaner appearance
📊 Statistics Display:
- Real-time activity counter (top-left corner)
- Shows: Propagation paths, TX stations, RX stations, total stations
- Updates dynamically as data refreshes
- Dark themed for minimal distraction
📈 Signal Strength Legend:
- Color-coded SNR legend (bottom-right corner)
- 5 signal strength categories with dB ranges
- Helps users quickly interpret propagation quality
- Matches path colors exactly
🎨 UI Improvements:
- Removed dashed lines for smoother appearance
- Enhanced opacity handling for all elements
- Better contrast with white marker borders
- Professional dark theme for overlays
📚 Documentation:
- Created comprehensive README.md in wspr/ directory
- Documented all features, API, usage, troubleshooting
- Included roadmap for future enhancements
- Added developer guide and customization examples
🔧 Technical Improvements:
- Great circle path calculation algorithm
- Leaflet custom control integration
- Proper control cleanup on disable
- No memory leaks with control management
Version bumped: 1.0.0 → 1.1.0
All features fully self-contained in plugin layer
- Added /api/wspr/heatmap endpoint to server.js for fetching WSPR spots from PSK Reporter
- Created useWSPR.js plugin with real-time propagation path visualization
- Features:
- Path lines between TX and RX stations color-coded by SNR
- Signal strength visualization (red=weak, green=strong)
- Automatic refresh every 5 minutes
- Displays up to 500 most recent spots (last 30 minutes)
- Band filtering support (20m, 40m, etc.)
- Detailed popups showing TX/RX info, frequency, SNR, age
- Plugin fully self-contained in layers/ directory per project architecture
- Registered in layerRegistry.js for Settings panel integration
- Zero changes required to core WorldMap component
Data source: PSK Reporter API (WSPR mode)
Category: Propagation
Default: Disabled (user can enable in Settings → Map Layers)
- Added /api/wspr/heatmap endpoint to fetch global WSPR spots via PSK Reporter
- Created useWSPR.js plugin with real-time propagation visualization
- Displays color-coded propagation paths based on SNR (signal strength)
- Shows TX (orange) and RX (blue) station markers with tooltips
- Supports band filtering and 30-minute lookback window
- Auto-refreshes every 5 minutes with caching
- Registered plugin in layerRegistry for Settings panel access
Features:
- Path lines color-coded: red (weak) → yellow → green (strong)
- Line weight varies with signal strength
- Detailed popups showing TX/RX callsigns, frequency, SNR, and age
- Performance-optimized with 500-spot limit
- Compatible with existing plugin architecture (enable/disable, opacity control)
This plugin enables real-time visualization of global HF propagation conditions
by showing WSPR beacon paths and signal strengths across all bands.
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