From 6e1eb25bbc5c11684277a485a410ce22b504eae8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Otgaar?= <b.r.c.otgaar@students.uu.nl>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 14:01:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add robot connection

ref: N25B-400
---
 src/pages/MonitoringPage/Components.tsx       | 51 ++++++++++++++++++-
 .../MonitoringPage/MonitoringPage.module.css  |  5 ++
 src/pages/MonitoringPage/MonitoringPage.tsx   |  7 ++-
 3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pages/MonitoringPage/Components.tsx b/src/pages/MonitoringPage/Components.tsx
index 1e21eb1..81be8a9 100644
--- a/src/pages/MonitoringPage/Components.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/MonitoringPage/Components.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import React, { useState } from 'react';
+import React, { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
 import styles from './MonitoringPage.module.css';
 
 /**
@@ -154,4 +154,51 @@ export const StatusList: React.FC<StatusListProps> = ({ title, items, type }) =>
       </ul>
     </section>
   );
-};
\ No newline at end of file
+};
+
+
+// --- Robot Connected --- 
+export const RobotConnected = () => {
+
+  /**
+     * The current connection state:
+     * - `true`: Robot is connected.
+     * - `false`: Robot is not connected.
+     * - `null`: Connection status is unknown (initial check in progress).
+     */
+    const [connected, setConnected] = useState<boolean | null>(null);
+  
+    useEffect(() => {
+      // Open a Server-Sent Events (SSE) connection to receive live ping updates.
+      // We're expecting a stream of data like that looks like this: `data = False` or `data = True`
+      const eventSource = new EventSource("http://localhost:8000/robot/ping_stream");
+      eventSource.onmessage = (event) => {
+      
+        // Expecting messages in JSON format: `true` or `false`
+        console.log("received message:", event.data);
+        try {
+          const data = JSON.parse(event.data);
+  
+          try {
+            setConnected(data)
+          }
+          catch {
+            console.log("couldnt extract connected from incoming ping data")
+          }
+  
+        } catch {
+          console.log("Ping message not in correct format:", event.data);
+        }
+      };
+  
+      // Clean up the SSE connection when the component unmounts.
+      return () => eventSource.close();
+    }, []);
+
+  return  (
+  <div>
+    <h3>Connection:</h3>
+    <p className={connected ? styles.connected : styles.disconnected }>{connected ? "● Robot is connected" : "● Robot is disconnected"}</p>
+  </div>
+  )
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/pages/MonitoringPage/MonitoringPage.module.css b/src/pages/MonitoringPage/MonitoringPage.module.css
index 1d76c46..b4542cb 100644
--- a/src/pages/MonitoringPage/MonitoringPage.module.css
+++ b/src/pages/MonitoringPage/MonitoringPage.module.css
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@
   font-weight: bold;
 }
 
+.disconnected {
+  color: red;
+  font-weight: bold;
+}
+
 .pausePlayInactive{
   background-color: gray;
 }
diff --git a/src/pages/MonitoringPage/MonitoringPage.tsx b/src/pages/MonitoringPage/MonitoringPage.tsx
index e6dbd25..ae34fd8 100644
--- a/src/pages/MonitoringPage/MonitoringPage.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/MonitoringPage/MonitoringPage.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import React from 'react';
 import styles from './MonitoringPage.module.css';
 import useProgramStore from "../../utils/programStore.ts";
-import { GestureControls, SpeechPresets, DirectSpeechInput, StatusList } from './Components';
+import { GestureControls, SpeechPresets, DirectSpeechInput, StatusList, RobotConnected } from './Components';
 import { nextPhase, pauseExperiment, playExperiment, resetExperiment, resetPhase } from ".//MonitoringPageAPI.ts"
 
 type Goal = { id?: string | number; description?: string; achieved?: boolean };
@@ -126,12 +126,11 @@ const MonitoringPage: React.FC = () => {
               >
                 ⟲
               </button>
-          </div>
+          </div>  
         </div>
 
         <div className={styles.connectionStatus}>
-          <h3>Connection:</h3>
-          <p className={styles.connected}>● Robot is connected</p>
+          {RobotConnected()}
         </div>
       </header>