Family-A wafers never send 0xAA 0x88 framing — _run() now routes
to _run_ascii() on first byte dispatch instead of treating the whole
stream as corrupt binary.
Binary path gets a 16 KB give-up cap (bytes, not attempts) so a
permanently-corrupt port can't stall the reader indefinitely. Raw
wire bytes go to DEBUG only; the ERROR line that surfaces in the
Activity Log is kept free of internal buffer content.
- add family_code param to StreamReader for ASCII decode routing
- add _run_binary give-up cap + DEBUG-only hex diagnostic
- fix stop(): close transport on wedged thread (binary + ASCII paths)
- refactor test_stream_reader: consolidate ASCII regression + resync
give-up + DEBUG-vs-ERROR log split tests; drop redundant parse_line
- extend test_session_controller: live-stream gate for non-X family
- StreamControlPanel.qml: thread-safe stop on tab leave
- Add automatic format detection (binary, ASCII hex dump, or text line) in StreamReader based on stream preambles.
- Implement fallback to 115200 baudrate when 888888 ioctl fails (critical for macOS PTYs).
- Parse binary streams (X family) with little-endian sequence/length headers and Modbus CRC-16 checks.
- Discover and prioritize virtual serial ports (from running socat instances) in enumerate_ports using lsof.
- Update FakeTransport to mock read() and readline() calls for unit test compatibility.
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