Modular Refactor, Multi-Client Support, and UI/Config Enhancements

[chvvkumar]

📋 Overview

This pull request introduces a significant refactoring of the codebase into a modular design, enhancing maintainability and scalability. It also adds robust multi-client support, improves the safety monitor's user interface with session tracking, uptime display, and implements persistent configuration options.

🔄 Changes by Category

• Features:
  • Major refactor of the code into a modular design with clear separation of concerns.
  • Implemented multi-client support in the safety monitor and updated connection status display in the UI.
  • Added tracking and display of the last session duration in the safety monitor.
  • Introduced Docker container uptime display to the safety monitor.
  • Added timeout handling and improved logging across various modules.
  • Implemented timezone handling for client connection timestamps and safety history.
  • Enabled displaying safety history in reverse chronological order.
  • Improved client list handling by filtering out currently connected IPs from disconnected clients and handling reconnections in the UI.
  • Reordered client table columns for improved readability and updated status indicators.
  • Added a persistent configuration option for the Docker container.
  • Enhanced configuration saving with detailed permission error logging.
  • Enhanced tag comparison logic to exclude dev tags on the main branch.
  • Enhanced system status display and improved client connection information in the safety monitor.
  • Removed deprecated management endpoints.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed layout issues in the system status section of the UI.
  • Updated a comment from "ASCOM Connection" to "Client Connection" in the setup_device function.
  • Updated the UI label for "connection duration" to "session duration" in the setup_device function.
• Refactoring:
  • Optimized Docker caching by changing the cache mode to min for faster exports.
  • Cleaned up and replaced the alpaca_safety_monitor.py.canbedeleted file, indicating a refactor of its functionality.
• Documentation:
  • Updated the readme.md with config directory permissions and usage instructions.
  • Removed an outdated setup image from the readme.md.
  • Updated the architecture.md document.
• Configuration:
  • Updated .gitignore to include new entries.
  • Modified Dockerfile and start_services.sh to support persistent configuration.
  • Added new configuration handling logic in alpaca/config.py.

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