---
name: verify
description: Drive the TeslaConsole WinForms app against vPOD to verify console changes end-to-end on this machine.
---

# Verifying console changes against vPOD

Build (Debug is what the exes below point at):

```
dotnet build Console/TeslaConsole.csproj
dotnet build vPOD/vPOD.csproj
```

Launch both (the machine's `C:\ProgramData\Tesla Console\local.siteconfig`
already has squad `bay1` with a provisioned `vPOD` pod at 127.0.0.1; vPOD's
session key persists in `%LocalAppData%\vPOD\TeslaKeyStore.key`):

```
Start-Process vPOD\bin\Debug\net40\vPOD.exe -ArgumentList "-app","bt"   # or rp
Start-Process Console\bin\Debug\net40\TeslaConsole.exe
```

(net40 since the XP11 port — both exes run on the machine's 4.8 runtime.)

Drive the UI with System.Windows.Automation (UIA) — WinForms exposes
menus, buttons, checkboxes, and DataGridView rows/cells as real UIA elements:

- Menus: ExpandCollapsePattern on "Games", InvokePattern on the item.
- Pilots grid cells are named like `Enabled Row 1`, `Pilot Row 1`; real mouse
  clicks at the cell's BoundingRectangle center behave exactly like a user
  (needed for CellEndEdit paths — programmatic value sets bypass them).
  Click another cell afterwards to commit a checkbox cell edit.
- Type into a grid cell: click it, then `[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait()`.
- The WeifenLuo dock tabs are NOT UIA TabItems; switch documents with
  Ctrl+Tab sent to the focused window.
- Screenshots: Graphics.CopyFromScreen of the element's BoundingRectangle
  (coordinates are physical pixels; fine to pass straight to SetCursorPos).

Observe behavior:

- Game connection endpoint: `Get-NetTCPConnection -OwningProcess <consolePid>
  -RemotePort 1501`. vPOD binds 0.0.0.0:1501, so any 127.x.x.x target lands on
  it — distinguish targets by the netstat RemoteAddress, not by whether vPOD
  answered.
- Mission content: vPOD's Current Egg pane shows the decoded egg (player IPs,
  pilots, map) after clicking Load; its protocol log timestamps connects,
  disconnects, and state transitions.
- Full lifecycle: enable a pod row + pilot name → Load → Run Mission → Stop
  Mission. With the watchdog checkbox on, vPOD drops the connection after a
  mission ends and comes back in WaitingForEgg — an observed reconnect there
  is normal.

Gotchas: enabling a pod row only requests the connection once the cell edit
commits. A helper script with these UIA primitives from a previous session:
scratchpad `uia.ps1` (Get-Window / Find-ByName / Click-Elem / Screenshot) —
recreate from this recipe if gone. Close both apps when done
(`CloseMainWindow`, then Stop-Process stragglers).