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Alex Vanderpot 83978609f0 ingest: meshcore MQTT->ClickHouse stack
Vendor the ingest service under ingest/ and move the web app under meshexplorer/.
The ingest builds the meshcoreingest daemon and the goose migration runner,
applies the meshcore ClickHouse schema (packets, adverts, unified node view),
and loads its MQTT broker list and ClickHouse settings entirely from environment
variables (MQTT_BROKERS as a JSON array, CLICKHOUSE_*). No credentials are baked
into the source.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-29 01:01:33 -04:00

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# MeshCore Ingest
A Go service that ingests MeshCore MQTT messages into ClickHouse, plus the
ClickHouse image and SQL migrations for the schema.
This directory is normally run as part of the full stack via the
[root `docker compose`](../README.md). The notes below cover running and
developing it on its own.
## Components
- `cmd/meshcoreingest` — the ingest daemon. Subscribes to MeshCore MQTT topics
and writes raw packets into the `meshcore_packets` table.
- `internal/ingestcommon` — shared MQTT + ClickHouse connection/daemon logic.
- `internal/migrate` — a [goose](https://github.com/pressly/goose) based
migration runner (ClickHouse dialect).
- `migrations/` — the ClickHouse schema: the `meshcore_packets` table, the decoded
`meshcore_adverts` / `meshcore_adverts_latest` / `meshcore_public_channel_messages`
views, and the `unified_latest_nodeinfo` view consumed by the web app.
- `clickhouse/` — a thin ClickHouse server image plus the read-only user used by
the web app.
## Configuration
All configuration is via environment variables (no credentials are baked into the
source):
| Variable | Description |
|----------|-------------|
| `MQTT_BROKERS` | JSON array of brokers: `[{"url","username","password","topics"}]`. `topics` defaults to `["meshcore/#"]`. Required; the daemon exits if unset. |
| `MQTT_CLIENT_ID` | MQTT client id prefix (default `meshcore-ingest`). |
| `CLICKHOUSE_HOST` / `CLICKHOUSE_PORT` | ClickHouse address (native protocol, default `127.0.0.1:9000`). |
| `CLICKHOUSE_DB` / `CLICKHOUSE_USER` / `CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD` | ClickHouse database and read/write credentials. |
## Building
```bash
go build ./...
go test ./...
```
## Running migrations
```bash
go run ./internal/migrate \
-host localhost -port 9000 \
-username default -password "$CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD" \
-path migrations -action up
```
Actions: `up`, `down`, `reset`, `status`, `version`.
## Running the ingest daemon
```bash
export MQTT_BROKERS='[{"url":"tcp://mqtt.example.com:1883","username":"u","password":"p","topics":["meshcore/#"]}]'
export CLICKHOUSE_HOST=localhost CLICKHOUSE_PORT=9000 CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD=...
go run ./cmd/meshcoreingest
```