Network blip counts only connections the panel watches

At 07:45:55 the six tcp-HyperDeck helper connections (behind the 'reboot
all' button, watched by no tile) flickered together; each counted as its
own group, so NET showed a blip and auto-fix paused, though the real
HyperDeck connections and everything else stayed up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

status_panel.py

@@ -716,6 +716,7 @@ class Engine:
                 self.group_of[m] = t["id"]
         self.detail_ids = [t["id"] for t in cfg["tiles"] if "checks" in t or t.get("kind") == "network"]
         self.prev_conn_bad = {}
+        self.watched_conns = {c["conn"] for t in cfg["tiles"] for c in t.get("checks", []) if c.get("conn")}
         self.conn_good_at = {}      # connection -> last time it was "good"
         self.conn_drops = deque()   # (time, conn label, group)
         self.burst = None           # {"start", "conns", "cleared"}
@@ -780,6 +781,10 @@ class Engine:
         bad_now = set()
         if snap.conns_fresh(now):
             for label, c in snap.conns.items():
+                if label not in self.watched_conns:
+                    # Helper connections no button watches (the six tcp-HyperDeck ones behind the
+                    # "reboot all" button flickered together on 2026-10-11) are not the network.
+                    continue
                 bad = bool(c.get("enabled")) and c.get("category") == "error"
                 if bad:
                     bad_now.add(label)

tests/test_status_panel.py

@@ -541,6 +541,17 @@ class TestBehaviour(unittest.TestCase):
         engine.run_fixes("net", self.snap, None, t)
         self.assertEqual(engine.notes["net"]["text"], "NOTHING\nTO CLEAR")
 
+    def test_helper_connections_no_button_watches_are_not_a_blip(self):
+        engine = sp.Engine(CONFIG)
+        for i in range(1, 7):
+            self.snap.conns["tcp-HyperDeck-%d" % i] = {"id": "t%d" % i, "enabled": True, "category": "good", "message": None}
+        run_steps(engine, self.snap, SUNDAY, 2)
+        for i in range(1, 7):                                                  # what happened at 07:45:55
+            self.snap.conns["tcp-HyperDeck-%d" % i]["category"] = "error"
+        tiles, _ = run_steps(engine, self.snap, SUNDAY + 3, 4)
+        self.assertEqual(tiles["net"]["x"], "NET\nOK")
+        self.assertIsNone(engine.burst)
+
     def test_racks_powering_off_is_not_a_network_event(self):
         engine = sp.Engine(CONFIG)
         run_steps(engine, self.snap, SUNDAY, 2)