RuView: Bug Fixes and Benchmark Launch

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Good morning, it's June first, 2026. Yesterday's development centered on launching AetherArena, the project's spatial intelligence benchmark, while resolving several production bugs that were preventing key features from working correctly.

The headline merge is pull request 874, implementing AetherArena as the official spatial intelligence benchmark. This introduces pose, presence, latency, and determinism metrics with a locked scoring formula and dataset compliance framework. The benchmark represents a significant milestone for spatial AI evaluation in the project.

However, the more immediate impact comes from three critical bug fixes that restored broken functionality. Commit a3f80b0 resolved issue 872 where MQTT publishing was completely non-functional. The flags existed but weren't wired to the actual binary, and the publisher never started. This fix enables Home Assistant integration and live sensor data streaming. Commits a933fc7 and 4007db5 tackled issue 803, where person counting was stuck at one regardless of actual occupancy. The aggregator was using activity scores instead of the count-aware estimates that individual nodes were already computing correctly. These fixes directly impact the accuracy of occupancy detection.

The signal processing components also saw important repairs. Two commits addressed test failures in the channel impulse response estimator by fixing how dominant tap ratios are calculated and removing circular delay grid artifacts. These changes resolved the remaining issues from ADR-134, bringing the CIR tests back to full passing status.

Looking ahead, these bug fixes should improve the reliability of real-world deployments, particularly for MQTT-based integrations and multi-person scenarios. The AetherArena benchmark provides a foundation for measuring and comparing spatial intelligence performance going forward.

That's your RuView update for June first.